Jake wrote:
On Saturday 13 November 2004 15:09, Preston Crawford wrote:
After seeing all the bug reports and problems people are having I'm starting to reconsider upgrading (I'm currently running SuSE 9.1). I generally do. Both to keep current and because I like giving Linux companies my business, but I don't want to break a system that works fine right now. Is it really that bad? Or is this just a squeaky wheel thing?
By definition we tend to only hear about the problems here. I'm loving my 9.2, best yet IMHO. There are bound to be *some* glitches. I don't have any SCSI devices, so can't comment on the problems people have been having there. Why don't you install 9.2 alongside 9.1 to evaluate it? The update edition is excellent value. I've taken to always having the previous and current versions bootable sharing /home on a seperate disk altogether.
Now it's up and running it's excellent, but I've had major battles just getting it installed. There is something about ATA100 disks it doesn't seem to like. Mysteriouly after a few hours of twiddling, I got x86_64 to install on my laptop ATA100, but the x86 was a sadder story, I had to rsync the ATA100 120G disk on to a 160G ATA133. With ATA100 it said it couldn't mount the disk, but I could go into VC02 and manually mount it and if I left it mounted, I got the same message, no way was it going to upgrade it. It's the most difficult version of Linux to upgrade/install I've encountered (for some of us), across distributions dating back to MCC, SLS, slackware, RedHat, Caldera, gentoo, Mandrake, etc. and since I downloaded the first version Linus ever put up for ftp. Pete even had problems installing it to a new hard drive I believe is ATA133, he had to start a XP install, crash it and the 9.2 install then worked, trashed the disk and started over again, wouldn't go until after XP went on partially. There is a gremlin in there somewhere and I'm going to have another go on another box, may be third try lucky. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====