It told me I had to install in text mode, because I have less than 96MB RAM (I have 512MB) or that it cannot connect to X server, so I went ahead with that and walked away while it installed. When I came back, there was a login screen asking for username and password ???

I tried 'root' with no password, that didn't work. I tried 'root'-'root' of course that didn't work and I tried no name or password. How can it get to a login screen when I wasn't even there to set up a password, much less a username?

I am trying again, hoping something different might happen.

What is happening after the first initial reboot, is that it looks as though it is trying to start the configuration screen (the white screen with - back - abort - next - on the bottom, then all of a sudden it jumps to the login screen.

I am stumped. This is the same machine I was running 10.1 on with no problems at all.

Why can't it start the install in graphical mode? I guess it is just not recognizing my amount of memory.
Is anybody having good installs?

I had the same experience with a Mandriva-one CD. It could apparenty not recognize the onboard intel graphics card of my laptop. Woked fine on my Athlon box though. Looks like it is no use without having started an X server, no chance to login.

Well that must be it. I put in an Nvivida 64MB card instead of using the onboard intel video chipset, and I am now into graphical setup.

Updates to come.

You're getting further than me. For me the install hangs on my laptop which has 10.1 installed on it. I tried using all the different safe mode and doing a text install. Nothing works. Very disappointing. I might just go and install Arch, Slackware or Ubuntu.

I installed it last night and everything went smoothly. It took a while though for it to setup my online repos and I am not sure if this is because the mirror was overloaded. Anyway everything worked well out of the box for me (including package management) and it looks like a very good release.

Mine went in pretty smoothly. It's about a 2 or 3 year old machine, P4 3.2, 1GB DDR400, onboard sound & NIC, recently picked up an old (I guess) NVIDIA 6600 OC. The only thing that wasn't recognized was my monitor, which wasn't listed although it was in 10.1 and 10.2 betas. The online repo setup actually went pretty fast, updates installed correctly, added Mp3 & DVD support, and it even captured DV from my MiniDV camera via firewire. The NVIDIA driver can now be installed through YAST, just add the NVIDIA.com repo and select and then a quick config with sax2 -r. It's working well and it pretty quick.

10.2 GM
Perfect / Love it !!!
Now I can almost forgive Suse for 10.1.

I put in an older 64MB Nvidia card, and the install went into graphical mode installation. When it got all the way to hardware configuration, on video it said 'ERROR' no proposal. So I clicked on accept and it would not boot into graphical mode. I tried to start kde and got all kinds of errors. So I did a complete reinstall, and when I got to the hardware config page, instead of hitting accept, I hit 'skip' and then it booted into KDE. However the graphics are bad. I did everything to install the Nvidia drivers, following the instructions to the letter, which I did on my primary machine that worked perfect. Installed all necessary packages first, then went into init 3 mode to install drivers. It seemed like it went well, at least the machine told me it did, but the video is still awful. I guess the drivers didn't take or something, I can barely drag a window across the screen without it jerking all over the place. This is a Dell GX150 1Ghz 512MB RAM, 40GB and 10.1 installed like a breeze using the onboard video port, but 10.2 does not like this video card and will only do a text based install with it. I am in the process of one last ditch effort at installing this, at least on this machine. Maybe it will work better on my primary desktop or my laptop.

I got lucky with mine I guess. I installed it on 2 of my boxes so far but I couldn't install nvidia drivers from the yast installation source, I had to sh them.
Funny thing is, when I try to go to init 3 it puts me in init 5 but it dose take the driver in init 5???
Is that supposed to happen??
I'am very happy with this new distro but I'm a little confused about the init thing.

I got everything working including full multimedia except I can't find a repo for tuxracer like I had on 10.0.

Now if I can just figger out this D-Link 300 U print server. It's supposed to work in just Winderz only but I think it will work on Suse too after I get it set it up in winderz.

I just ghosted my WinXP partition to my server, wiped my drive and now restoring WinXP. Going to give the GM a try on my main box later tonight. I'll post results when I can.

Glad you got it working well.

Do you think your 10.2 GM iso download could be corrupt?
I haven't had Suse work this good since 10.0.

I don't think so, but we'll know in about 20 minutes !!!

Do you see any major difference from 10.2 RC1? Or did you even install it?

Yeah, for some reason I had 2 update icons on the panel with RC1.
GM seems to boot much faster than RC1.
On RC1 I couldn't sh an NVIDIA driver, I had to do the "installation source" thingy.
Yast is faster and works better in GM. (at least it is on my boxes)
I sh'ed my nvidia into GM seamlessly except that the text said I was in init 5 when I dun it???
I don't know what I'm doing with linux so maybe I misunderstood something.
BUT:
It works great > me happy!!

Yeehaw, I'm at the hardware config screen and it recognizes my Nvidia card.

I am on my way !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Be up late messing around I have a feeling

Funny, I never had my laserjet turned on during any other installations, but this time I did, and the test page printed perfectly