Kevanf1 wrote:

On 4/13/05, Dan Am wrote:

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Hi all,

I decided to give a first idea of my 9.2 ---> 9.3 experience, so you know, what's cooming you way. Rants: - Upgrade flubbed with plenty of errors and manual intervention. Finally lost all my USB Support, I think due to heavy usage of udev in 9.3. - After this: Clean re-install went well. - My HP all-in-one stopped working. PTAL seems broken. Hmmm... - And, as now customary, all the interesting packages only on doublelayered DVD, which did not run in the install, only after. - Some issue with upgrade and crypto filesystem. They recommend some workaround on an errata-sheet. Raves: - Many new things included. Just a few that happen to be along my line of things: - Mondo backup software. - heartbeat 1.99 ! - Improved iSCSI support - KDE new look-and-feel just brilliant. - maybe it's subjective, but 9.3 seems to run faster. To sum it up: After a few hitches the system seems to turn out really cool. Have a lot of fun.

Regards Dan

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Sounds pretty well standard for an upgrade then :-))) I have no doubt that you can upgrade with everything going well. Why is it that all of my mates who go through this inevitably end up reformatting and installing from scratch? I now do this out of habit rather than try risking tears. I save all my important stuff to a second drive and go from there. I really should get around to creating proper separate partitions for certain files/folders such as home etc...

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Here we go again? All my clean 9.2 installs have gone OK, x86_64 didn't work, then after many retries, it did. On this x86 box I had to do a fresh install without reformatting the partitions. Once up it's been solid. For 9.3, I shall clone my HD and try upgrading it, if that fails, I'll go for fresh install without repartitioning. Looks like SuSE/Novell do not entertain upgrades any more. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks

On Thursday 14 April 2005 05:48, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

I always do clean install. Not only safer but faster as I have oldware a P3 and a P2. If the multimedia rumors prove false Ill buy otherwise ill mooch 9.2 from a friend and wait for 9.4 or 10.1

Rumors... The multimedia packages that allow mp3 playback with amarok and xmms are in YOU, easily installable. Look here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.3/rpm/i586/