Attemping a network installation of 10.1 final using the mini ISO inside of VMWare Workstation 5.5.1-build-19175. Connection is established and it finds, downloads, and loads the network image (about 70MB) just fine. However, After Selecting language and leaving "Install Add-On's" unchecked and clicking next, the system will go to "Initializing Catalogs" for about 3 minutes and then completely lock up. When done through VNC, the VNC session gets killed and the system returns to the linuxrc screen with "An error has occured during installation". No other errors found.

Tried the following combinations:

* Using boot.iso file from the /boot directory (MD5SUM: c6d4ab88946ada7d16b22c00bf6e8f63)
* Using SUSE-Linux-10.1-GM-i386-mini.iso (MD5SUM: 48da4c0b94501f3bdeb830e7c6fd0c09)
* Using the ftp.osuosl.org mirror via HTTP (http://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/)
* Using the ftp.osuosl.org mirror via FTP
* Using VNC-based installation rather than local desktop
* Using the mirrors.kernel.org mirror via HTTP (http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/inst-source/) 
* Using the mirrors.kernel.org mirror via FTP

CD-based install worked just fine. This problem can be replicated and demonstrated if necessary.

Thanks,

-Justin Grote