Bug 1214373

Summary:	Network installer image's "Loading Installation System" does atrocious job at loading it for me
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution	Reporter:	ell1e <el>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Leap 15.5
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Description ell1e 2023-08-17 18:02:26 UTC

Network installer image's "Loading Installation System" does atrocious job at loading it for me on a slow internet connection. It seems to have zero concept of resume which for a downloader in 2023 I just don't understand. Any hiccup and it starts over. I have now been trying for like 10 times to get past this step, and the particularly damning part is I just downloaded the image itself over the same wifi and that went fine. Also, I needed to hard reset because after some retry an attempt got fully stuck and no key press I could find made it abort or resume. All this while I'm using the very same wifi to file this bug report.Please don't just test a network installer on pristine data center networks. I'm picking severity critical because so far it literally didn't let me install.

PS: opensuse version might be specified wildly wrong becaude despite the giant screen space, it doesn't say that one anywhere at this stage and I don't fully remember from boot.

Comment 1 ell1e 2023-08-17 18:04:33 UTC

Oh and sometimes it just says "An error occurred during the installation." with zero context, explanation, or anything really.

Comment 2 ell1e 2023-08-17 18:10:37 UTC

Noe it just said "No repository found." which makes no sense given it just used the default mirror url, unless I guess opensuse repos really are fully down in this very moment which I assume they're not. So it probably had  some network interruption again instead and no sense of handling it properly or giving me a more correct message about that.

Comment 3 ell1e 2023-08-17 18:23:01 UTC

Another error that I don't fully understand: "error 18: transfer closed with 28209660 bytes remaining to read". Okay so why not reopen it and resume instead of showing me this error?

I could just download the offline image, but the network installer actually is particularly enticing on slower, shakier connections simply because it might download less and therefore finish faster, I mean if it actually operated fine. Your download page even seems to praise that quality specifically. But then surely it should also expect to be used on spottier networks? And this one isn't unusable mind you, I'm still using this wifi right now for all these comments and that works fine.

Comment 4 Steffen Winterfeldt 2024-07-02 16:35:02 UTC

The linuxrc/YaST based installation will soon be replaced by the new Agama
installer. Optimizing for these edge-cases will not happen anymore, sorry.

Comment 5 ell1e 2024-07-02 17:16:28 UTC

That sounds promising, I'm curious if that one will cover this use case better. I'm hoping you're not dropping the network installer altogether, it is useful. I'd be interested in testing once a new network installer is available.