When upgrading from SLED10 to OS10.2 using the 45-meg network install disc, the installer downloaded many pointless files. After selecting English as the language to use, and well after the system could run uname -r, the installer downloaded french, german, slovakian, 'du', and other package descriptions. The installer also downloaded x86_64 and PPC "selections" descriptions, even though my system is an x86. On a connection with some level of latency, all the extra downloads add up to a minute or two of completely pointless downloading.