David C. Rankin wrote:

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Sandy Drobic wrote:

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I can only recommend to have a Knoppix dvd present and better yet a test installation on a less important system before you jump on the band wagon of 10.3. It seems as if some raid controllers are still not correctly supported by newer Opensuse installers, even though they are working beautifully in older versions.

Sandy, if this happened to you, what can the rest of us expect? Just don't let your postfix knowledge become corrupt with the "blood pressure elevation." Good rule of thumb (thou shall not Upgrade). Back up home and data, fresh install, then reload data -- "The only way to fly."

Uhm, that would give you a non-working Cyrus imap server for example.

I am also pretty sure that it would have happened with a fresh install as well.

The point of my story was that it can happen to everyone of us and that everyone should take steps to anticipate trouble and have a concept ready how to repair a system and minimize downtime.

I personally subscribe to the rule of "Thou Shall not Upgrade" and "If it isn't broken, Don't fix it" I installed 10.3 on my laptop and wasn't sure it was going to survive but somehow it cleaned up its act and seems to be working okay. (On the first reboot, it did a lot of disk checking) I am still running 10.1 on my main desktop and it sits behind a firewall on my personal network so I am to concerned about having the latest security patches and updates although I do run the update manager, frequently holding my breath. I considered upgrading to 10.2 but it wanted to remove too much stuff that was installed in 10.1. I have too much stuff on the computer, big hard drive, and would not want to rebuild from backup, which would absolutely be required. Just do not have the time, what I have works! Clint -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org