Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (905 mails)

[Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx>]

* Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx> [2008-06-07 12:05]:
> Currently I have only two options: delay 11.0 or close the
> bug as WORKSFORME.

I think both options are not good. If the bug cannot be fixed, there
should be a detection of Vista in YaST and if Vista is detected, then a
warning should pop up that the installation of openSUSE may break the
booting of Vista. With a hint how to fix it afterwards. Maybe a link to
the openSUSE Wiki where additional information can be added afterwards.

Then the *user* can decide if it's worth the risk. But we should be
honest to our users! A user that installs openSUSE 11.0 the first time
and gets a broken Windows with all the data lost (for him in the first
place) -- such a user will never ever install Linux (and not only
the SUSE flavour) next X years.

I just remember when I installed SUSE LINUX 6.3 the first time. I
read the manual before installing anything. I didn't install the boot
loader to MBR because that was considered as "dangerous". I installed
the bootloader to a floppy disk and each time I wanted to boot Linux, I
moved that disk into my floppy drive. I took 2 month after I installed
LILO in MBR. And it worked. My Windows 98 never stopped working. And
that was important for me.


Bernhard (that's my private opinion, not as SUSE/Novell employee)
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Bernhard Walle, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Architecture Maintenance