On Thu, October 11, 2007 12:31 pm, Robert Fisher wrote: > I have tried and quite liked SuSe before 10.2 but now I am trying 10.3 an > a > laptop (and on VMWare) and I am frustrated. > > Hopefully it is something small/easy to change to make me like it better. > > It seems to take ages (maybe 10 minutes) to try "checking for updates" > then > failing and browsing seems very laboured. > > In desperation I even connected a different ADSL modem and took out the > IPCop > box and Wireless access point/router/dhcp server but that did not help. > > Have have the following repos added... > > Main Repository (OSS) > download.opesuse.org
spelling mistake there... opeNsuse.org > /repositories/openSUSE:10.3/standard/ > seems odd to have a colon in a directory name > Main Repository (NON-OSS) > download.opesuse.org ditto re spelling > /distribution/10.3/repo/non-oss/ > Even with the spelling mistakes fixed, I have never been quite sure about the format of SuSE's repo descriptions, and always seem to get it wrong. > Do I....... > > Add/change repos? > > Turn off Auto refresh? > > Take laptop to a SuSE guru's home for a lesson/play? Volker? > > Any CLUGers have ideas? > > Rob > > -- Nick Rout
