I am trying to install OpenSuse 11 on a second machine, but am having problems with what seems to me to be an excessively long download. The install wants to download ~2.5 GBytes, and initially predicts a time of 2 hours, but after 6 hours the download was less than 1/3 complete.
The only related thing I found by searching here was a suggestion that the repository the installer uses by default might be the problem, so I’m going to try to see if I can figure out how to set a different one. If that fails, can anyone offer any other suggestions?
As I said, this is the second 11.0 install I’ve done. I’m using the same install CD, and the machines are close to identical. (The first is a Thinkpad T61, the one I’m trying to install on a T60p.) The only difference that I can think of is that the first install was done at work, while I’m doing this one at home with a cable internet connection (which isn’t THAT slow). The first one took about two hours…
Second, is there some way to save the list of packages to install? I have to spend a half hour or so going through the package lists, because the default seems to leave out some very basic required packages like gcc. It would save time if I could just do this one time…
Just a suggestion.
My ADSL connection has a maximum download speed of
20 MBS , does he always do it with speed no
So what I do download the Live CD , cost less than a hour, burned as a iso image file.
Do a basic install , maybe half a hour and than add
all the other stuff a like to have.
The install DVD well I have it too, I download while I was sleeping because 4,5 GB that takes a long time
to download it
dobby9
But why download the live CD, and not just the basic network install one? It’s not as though I need to try out Linux before I install it or anything, just need to get the new machine up and running with a recent distribution.
Yes, I do understand that. The point is that I’d be downloading a bunch of extra stuff - remember that I already have a working network install CD, plus the live CD probably has many things on it that I wouldn’t install - and it would still not address the basic problem, which is that the default repository server is too slow.
I finally managed to change the repository, though I’m not entirely sure how. It involved aborting out of something, which dropped me out of the standard installer to a text-mode thing where I could enter a different repository. Once I got to that, the basic download and install took about half an hour, with download speeds around 400-500 kB/sec, rather than the 10 kB/sec (if that) I was seeing from the default server.
It would certainly improve things if whoever maintains the installer would just add an option to set the download repository.
But there is no such option in the installer - or if there is, I haven’t been able to find it, and I did spend more time looking that I would have liked.