First, 11.1 runs like a top.

No matter which source I have for 11.2, be it CD download, Net download, or commercial DVD reprint, I get to a point in the install where I get error messages about not being able to download a repository....OR...on another machine I can install but the update applet, after installation, shows errors. When queried, it says it cannot find repositories.

On the second machine, I remove the update applet from the installation using yast and then go to zypper and zypper says it cannot find the repositories. Yet, Yast will show the repositories as being in existence.

Before installation the hard drive is wiped clean and is ready for any OS.

I've taken these same installation media to a friend, he has provided a clean drive, and the same problem occurs on his machine no matter which type of installation is tried. (We both use removeable drives - not USBs).

I try to take my errors and my usage out of the problem before I comment on an OS. But I am starting to believe that 11.2 isn't clean and the same but has been ported to 11.3.beta.

Ideas? Thanks.

Are you talking about finding internet repos ?

Some Suse repos use non standard (read 'random') tcp ports. If your system has not a full access to internet, you are stuck.

Hmm. I get an error on installing kernel(!) updates, now for the third step of version. I don't want to hijack this thread, I'll post more fully in my own thread later on.