Unable to install

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When I try installing Opensuse Tumbleweed using the NET installer, instead of showing the Installation page as shown here, it takes me to a page showing:

GNU GRUB Version 2.02~ beta 3

Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible 
device or file completions.
 grub>_

I’m trying to move from a Ubuntu 16.10 system to an Opensuse one.

How do I proceed?

Thanks.

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Are you using a CD or an USB stick?
If the latter, how did you transfer the ISO?

There are some tools that try to make it bootable. But openSUSE’s images are already bootable. And the modifications may break them.

Try to use something like “dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdc” to write it unmodified.
If that doesn’t help, I’d say your download got corrupted somehow, try to download it again.

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Thanks, I used

dd if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdc1

. When I removed the partition option 1 from the command, it worked.

However, I then face the problem of being unable to enter the proxy for the internet connection. As I am behind a university network, I need to be able to enter the proxy. However, unlike the steps shown in the link above, the installer for tumbleweed seems to not respond to F4, and I am unable to click on the boot screen.

Thanks.

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Yes, /dev/sdc1 means the first partition on /dev/sdc, not the whole stick.

However, I then face the problem of being unable to enter the proxy for the internet connection. As I am behind a university network, I need to be able to enter the proxy. However, unlike the steps shown in the link above, the installer for tumbleweed seems to not respond to F4, and I am unable to click on the boot screen.

The F-Key options are only available with legacy boot, not EFI. So disabling EFI for the installation may be an option.

It should be possible to somehow set a proxy via the kernel command line (i.e. press ‘e’ in the boot menu and add an option to the line starting with ‘linux’/‘linuxefi’), but I have no idea how exactly.

OTOH, if a server is not reachable, you should get a text mode menu where you can adjust the network settings.
Is that not the case?

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Yes. Thank you.

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For anybody accessing this later:

To enter the proxy, continue with the installation till it inevitably fails. Then, when it fails, it will lead you to a menu. Click the “Installation” option. When asked for the source of the installation, click “Network”. In “Network”, click http. Then, it asks you for the proxy.