Op maandag 17 november 2025 09:26:22 Midden-Europese standaardtijd schreef Guillaume Gardet: > 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?
Image Leap-16.0-Minimal-Image.aarch64-RaspberryPi-Build16.2.raw.xz from https://download.opensuse.org/distribution/leap/16.0/appliances/ > > > > > > 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. It is not fixed in Tumbleweed either. Image openSUSE-Tumbleweed-ARM-JoeOS-raspberrypi.aarch64.raw.xz taken from https://download.opensuse.org/ports/aarch64/tumbleweed/appliances/ > Guillaume > > > > > > -- > > fr.gr. > > > > member openSUSE > > Freek de Kruijf -- fr.gr. member openSUSE Freek de Kruijf
