Problems installing 12.3

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I succeeded but ran into several problems. So seeing how many others are having the same problems

I decided to install via the KDE live on a USB stick. Video is an old NVIDIA 6800+ clean install i a partition I reserve for rotating versions. ie at any one time I may have 2 version on the drive. Installed not mounting my home partition. If all goes well I’ll mount it later.

  1. Had to use no KMS option to load the kernel ie it locked up after any first menu selection. This is the first time I had a problem at install but I skipped 12.1 and 12.2

  2. Installer want to install to the USB took me a couple of minuets to realize what it was trying. So you must manually adjust partition location if installing from a stick

  3. No Internet on first boot. ifup was selected but did not work. selecting Network Manager worked . I’d have not known this except I follow this board and have seen others with this problem.

  4. community and thus the NVIDIA etc repos not shown. Once update was done it was there. But if someone never got their network up this would have left them pretty much in the cold.

  5. boots too fast I no longer can get a cup of coffee…ok a joke I like it.

Any one of the first 4 above could kill the experience for a new user. I hope they do far better for 13.x

So I know that NVIDIA cards seem to be a trouble spot. But the other items are a major problem even if they are not hard to fix.
Once installed and NVIDIA driver installed things seem very good and faster then 11.4.

So any others seeing the same problems. Or it might have fewer posts if just those that did not see the above problems post LOL

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Hi !

This is special. I’ll try that.

I think this relates to the sticky by caf4926 in this forum.

But you’re right, not being able to use internet on first boot means another setback for new openSUSE users.

Mike

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On 2013-03-16 01:06, ratzi wrote:
> But you’re right, not being able to use internet on first boot means
> another setback for new openSUSE users.

It also means that remote installations are impossible. Dunno upgrades.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))

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To share the experience, I tried to install it on one of the machines on which I had major problems to install 12.2.
As gogalthorp, I also tried to install it on couple of partitions I have for testing just to see how it goes.(I removed the mount option for the /home and / for 12.2 and mount the 2 new partitions I have free).

  1. Tried from usb but was not able to get to second stage, well the bios is not that flexible on this machine(Dell PowerEdge 2850) so I decided to go to DVD installation.
  2. I installed it and got into emergency mode, (same as with 12.2) but now I corrected fstab and was able to get a bit further. No X mode, as in 12.2, so decided to update via yast2 from the non-graphical interface.
    Network was not available as none of the cards(wired and wireless) were installed to confirm the network issue. In yast I was able to install the wireless card and do the updates recommended using Network Manager. With and w/o nomodeset tried to boot and I get no errors but a garbled screen.
    I can connect to it via ssh but not sure what to do. As I said this was a troubled hardware which gave me grief trying to install 12.2. At the same time I learned few things but I’m still not able to get it run.
    I will try on few more machines to see how that works out.
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Video card dmera? Try installing the propritary driver is NVIDIA or AMD

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openSUSE 12.3 Release Notes

Section 2.2.: No Network after Installation

A reboot would help, following the release notes.