Robert, On Saturday 23 April 2005 11:24, Robert Sweet wrote:
Hello All,
Just thought I would give my upgrade experience. It was horrible. The DVD/CD situation is not right. Packages are missing on the CD's.
As it has been for at least the last few releases containing both DVD and CD meida.
... If this is the way Novell is going to take SuSE....I think my next stop might be Debian.
Good luck with that. I'm sure it's utterly foolproof. At least you won't have to worry about having the latest versions of anything.
I have been running SuSe since the 5.x series, and I always buy the boxed set. I have upgraded various times, and only do clean installs on big changes. This is by far the worst update I have done. I am scared now to do an upgrade.
Live and learn. At best. Cautious users don't do upgrades. It's always more risky than a clean install.
I almost lost 4 years of mail.
Implying that this mail it is not backed up. As long as that's so, you can rest assured that eventually you _will_ lose it.
That would have really made my weekend! I was all excited last night when I got my boxed set at Fry's Electronics...yeah...upgrade time...new..new..new....BOOM!
Here is more broken stuff...I did the Multimedia update...NO MP3 now,
You're really not paying attention, either here on the list or to the updates offered during the installation process.
also USB is not working...I have a DVD/CDRW that I bought for my server, which worked under 9.2, now USB keyboard and mouse don't work, along with Sony USB DVD/CDRW. Very disappointed. Novell better let the folks from Germany do the work. Becuase 9.3 has some issues. Hope this doesn't sound too incoherent...rather frustrated and tired. Need some more coffee.
I don't believe there have been any large-scale staffing changes. Novell bought the company, they didn't replace the personnel.
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