Hi, > -----Original Message----- > From: Freek de Kruijf <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2025 1:06 PM > To: Mailinglist ARM <[email protected]> > Subject: Installation of openSUSE Leap 16.0 on a Raspberry Pi > > I have been trying to install Leap 16.0 on a Raspberry Pi 4B. I have a few > remarks. > > 1. The image is not usable on a headless system. After starting the image > from an > SD card you need to have a screen and keyboard attached to do some initial > configuration before access via ssh is possible.
Which image did you use? > > 2. The questions asked on the initialization screens about about root password > and ssh keys are unclear when you are used to previous installations of > Rasberry > Pi images. > 2.1 A better directive for the root password would be: Enter the root password > that will be used to login as root. > 2.2 A little more explanation on the setting of ssh keys is required. Somthing > like: To set ssh keys for access to root, we ask you make, from another > system a > connection to <the IP addresses of the Leap 16.0 system>. This enables access > to > public keys on that system which will be stored in the file: > /root/.ssh/authorized_keys . > > 3. U-boot still takes a lot of time to find a bootable image on the SD card. > After that, when grub is active the keyboard is not usable to shorten the > time to > start Leap. The 10 seconds delay take much longer than 10 seconds. IIRC, there was such an issue with previous Leap. But I though it was fixed in Tumbleweed, so I would expect to have it fixed for Leap 16.0. Guillaume > > -- > fr.gr. > > member openSUSE > Freek de Kruijf
