Ric Tibbetts <ric@chadera.net> writes:
Okay, I'm getting an odd feeling. I'm finding discrepancies between load media. Here's the situation. Two machines. A P4 at work An AMD64 at home.
A couple of weeks ago, I loaded both boxes via the internet available code (not the eval, but the full load). On both boxes, I had a problem printing. There was nothing wrong, and no errors, they just wouldn't print.
Then I bought the boxed set of Suse 9.2 Professional. (I like to do my part to support my distro of choice).
I grabbed the CDs and took them to work to load the P4. I loaded the AMD64 at home from the DVD.
The box at work now prints just fine. The box at home doesn't. It exhibits the same behaviour as it did from the net load.
I have also noticed differences in the packages included. Some seem missing from one media to the other (more oddness).
No - the CD is a clear subset of the DVD. Just do the maths yourself: 5 CDs a 650 MB vs. one DVD9 of 8.5 GB.
So, I got the thought that maybe, there's an odd problem with the DVD version, and thought I'd try loading the CD version on my AMD64. When the load first started it issued the warning: "You are about to load a 32 bit operating system on a 64 bit machine"
What's up with that?!?!
The CDs are only 32-bit. The DVD is both 32-bit and 64-bit.
I backed out of the install until I could research this a little further. Is it REALLY going to load the 32bit version, or can you select the 64bit version a little further into the load?
The former.
I have to admit that these kind of discrepenacies between media from the same disro/version/BOX is disturbing. I'm looking for any insights anyone can offer on this. Has anyone else had the opportunity to load from all 3 sources, and found differences?
What is the 3rd source for you? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126