Gustav Degreef wrote:
On 06/14/2014 06:35 PM, Tony Alfrey wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
Hello;
I found a mirror that downloaded in two hours and I then burned an image (on my Mac). So should I attempt an "upgrade" or a "new install"? I desperately want to keep my boot loader configuration (it loads an additional linux on another SATA drive or Windows on an IDE drive) which uses LILO. When I did a "new install" for 10.3, I was able to retain LILO (but I needed to add some lines from my archived script). I don't understand GRUB.
I have seen some posts that implied that an "upgrade" from 11.X to 13.1 failed.
Any suggestions? As I said, context is everything and the answer to many questions like
On 06/13/2014 06:22 PM, Tony Alfrey wrote: that is "it works for some of us and not for others" and the details of why are not completely determined or determinable.
I've done both that upgrade with no problem and I've done new installs without encountering any of the problems that Per Jessen mentions.
But obviously _some_ people have encountered those problems and hence the bug reports.
It occurs to me that if you have systems on distinct drives than the BIOS boot loader can differentiate. If I press F11 I'm offered a choice of booting from DVD, USB or any one of my connected SATA and IDE drives. I have older systems on IDE drives, one just to prove I *can* put all of Linux on a 30G drive :-)
The installation of 13.1 is a complete, broken mess. Supposedly everything went fine, but KDE is simply totally broken. It presents me with a screen with no taskbar, strange fragments of boxes that open sporadically as I try to create a panel or widget, strange blobs of stretched fonts. Stuff that appears and disappears on the screen at random.
There is no sense in spending any time with this whatsoever. There was a time long ago when I tried to convince Windows users that they should switch to linux and that installation and setup was transparent. That time has long since passed.
Thanks all for your help.
Very odd. I haven’t followed the thread closely, but 13.1 has been extremely easy to install, virtually problem free and overall an improved release. Did you check the installation media prior to install.
I did not. I am downloading a different image and will do that.
Is it possible you have some buggy hardware? Gustav.
I think not. I have a Fedora 10 partition on the same box on a different drive which does exhibit some well-known Fedora issues, but not a complete mess of KDE. And my SuSE 9.1 install was just fine until my graphics card failed (and the new card was not recognized by Sax from that vintage). Even the 10.3 install looked good (a disk I'd had around forever) but again, no support for gcc, BerkeleyDB and Netatalk rpms for that vintage. I would go back and reinstall the 9.1 disk, except that I can no longer find rpms for the version of gcc, netatalk, and BerkeleyDB that I had on that partition dating from roughly 2007. My advice to all of you: NEVER THROW AN RPM AWAY AFTER YOU INSTALL IT!! -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org