-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-10-02 at 09:48 -0400, Richard Creighton wrote:
Jonathan Arnold wrote:
For one, 10.3 is still in testing. For another, the drive renaming is mentioned in the Release Notes:
http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/10.3/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html#08
The release notes are displayed *after* a successful installation is complete. Perhaps they should be displayed BEFORE the installation starts.
It is no longer in testing, it is final already. There is another point during the installation where you can read the local copy of the release notes, hidden under something else. Can't be more specific, though, I forget where exactly... I think it is on the registration screen.
As a beta tester, I am willing to risk my machine and data and time to uncover bugs. I uncovered a major one here and it is directly related to the decision to absorb the IDE drives into the SATA/SCSI world without completely thinking through all the ramifications. Another side effect that is affecting more than a few is the fact that IDE drives can be partitioned up to 64 partitions. The limitation as a SDxx drive is now 16.
Less than 16, because number 0 is the whole disk, ie 15 numbers. Then, another number is wasted to the extended partition, so the final number of usable partitions is 14.
This makes conversion impossible for some people. How are they going to upgrade?
Exactly my case. When the pata driver gets removed in version 11, I will not be able to install any more.
I still don't get why the drive renaming is a big deal. I have virtually never had to deal with the actual name of the drive and don't see why I care what it is called.
Because it is not just the names that change. That just the unsubmerged part of the iceberg. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHAlAutTMYHG2NR9URArABAJ4oWf0nxfy/czTJiqQeJ8ksQV4dOwCgiXjN oaywGh4WM8zlftQW/CxhqB8= =h8ky -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org