I was very excited to try out Suse.  The live CD I played around with detected more hardware and was a joy to work with.  I've tried installing suse twice now, once by just installing everything and once with this howto.  Both times Yast died when trying to add mirrors.  The first time I just thought yast was locking up.  On top of that, adding a mirror is unintuitive to someone who isn't familiar with the system.  This time, I read the author's comments on the 10 minute wait.  Okay, I said, I'll wait this time.  I waited for 8 hours.  I left the setup running in the morning and when I came home from work it was still at the same screen.  So that's it, no three strikes and you are out.  I'm done after two attempts.  I'm going back to Redhat and yum.  Thanks to the author for this howto.