Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2391 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Friday 2008-05-09 at 12:24 +0100, John wrote:

> I have had several really bad days getting this machine up and running. Rough
> history is as follows. Any comments? Going on web searches many people seem
> to have had the same sort of problem. In my case things seem to be worse
> following a change to none raid with xp is on disk 1.with an additional ntfs
> partion on disk 0.

There are not many details to bite on and try to solve, so I can't 
comment much.

> All in all it leaves me thinking that the installers assume a windows user
> trying linux with one disc in the machine - not raided. And that they don't
> look at the drives in the right way or take sufficient notice of what the
> user wants to do. Also why ask me to define a /boot when I've defined /.
> Seem's quote " I'm bound to have problems if I don't " No wonder suse is
> going down in the rankings.

Traditionally a separate boot partition is a good thing, and more so in 
special cases like raid or lvm. I'm not surprised that the installer asks 
for one. Maybe you can get along without it, maybe you can't... so better 
make it.

> Having used suse 9.?, 10.0 and now 10.3 it seems that this area is getting
> worse. 10.0 had no problems at all with intel raid and made it clear that it
> would pack of my existing installation into another directory. 10.3 did
> something different. Right at the end it noticed a home directory  with my
> user name and changed the ownership for me. Fine in this case but what if it
> had been 10.0. I might just be installing because I've re arranging or
> updating my machine. I was but I could equally well be updating everything.

It reads the passwd file from the old install and recreates it in the new 
one. I find that a nice feature.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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