Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4417 mails)

[Doug Glenn <dglenn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please take a moment to check your disks (CD & DVD) before attempting 
the upgrade. I recieved my boxed set the other day and only discovered 
both sets were bad after I began the install and had it lock up or fail 
to unpack RPMs. Even the DVD was affected.  

The scratches are about 1 inch wide (or 2.7cm) and about the same 
length. They vary from deep to almost invisible starting at the inner 
hold.  The marks on the DVD were literally invisible and I could only 
see them after I tried wiping it with a clean cloth.

By all appearances this was caused by the packaging processer that Suse 
used. I don't blame Suse for the problem, but poor QC on the part of 
the packager.

Because I did not discover the faults until after I started the upgrade 
process, it left the system in a unbootable or recoverable state. I 
recovered by reinstalling 8.2 (I never overwrite or format my /home 
partition).

This probably only affects those getting the update 9 Pro packaging and 
only a small subset. Or I may simply be the only 'victim'.  So please 
take a moment to check your disks before starting the update and save 
yourself the problems I ran into.

-- 
Doug