Folks:
I've now done a couple of OpenSUSE installs, previously having some difficulties figuring out the differences between how Gecko installs and how stable 42.2 installs . . . but, I like OpenSUSE enough on my '12 Mac Pro that I decided to try to run a Net install of what I'm assuming is "Tumbleweed" aka 42.3 "Alpha"?
So, I wiped one of the 10 partitions on my HD of another linux brand OS, and I planned on using that partition for the "/" filesystem and I would use the same "/home" partition that I have the other Open SUSE files installed to . . . but, ran into some "problems" that I couldn't figure out how to get around. Since I'm on a 1.5 MB/second DSL line it took perhaps a half an hour to "download" the 5 files before the Yast Net installer window formally opened" . . . and, as previously the "proposed" install seemed to pick every other partition, except the empty one I wanted to use.
When I selected "edit proposed settings" button for the sda6 that I wanted to use . . . the "mount as" button didn't offer any plain "/" as an option; it just showed /var, /opt, /srv /tmp, /usr/ . . . & one other one I can't read from my notes. I've done a substantial number of linux, ubuntu, and linux mint installs using GParted of various iterations, and usually I can figure out how to get a partition cut up or flagged, but the Yast installer seems "complicated" . . . . I started to click on the "Create new schedule"??? button, but I think it gave me some "warning" so I backed out of it, rather than doing something that I would regret. Is that what I'd want to use to get the empty "sda6" partition to list as where I want to install Tumbleweed?
Each of the various choices I made all seemed to pick the LEAP 42.2 stable partition as the intended install target, and I couldn't figure out how to flag the empty partition . . . . I have two large partitions with OSX versions, a LEAP stable, a Gecko, a /home for all of the linux OSs, and a Swap. The TW installer kept choosing the LEAP stable partition as "/;" I'd rather pick the empty partition up front rather than installing into LEAP, and then trying to install stable again in the place where I want TW to go????
TIA
n_s