Rainer Koenig <Rainer.Koenig@fujitsu-siemens.com> writes:
Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
If you have experienced installation problems with our 9.2 DVD, then download this CD and boot from it. It will ask you then for "CD1", and just insert the DVD at that point. During installation it will load packages from CD1 several times...
This PatchCD has two advantages:
* Installation with a new kernel. If you had problems installing with the DVD, please try it this way.
Yes, it solves the problem that we have on 64-bit systems with SATA hard disks. The installation kernel from the original DVD fails to detect SATA hard disks under some circumstances, but the patch CD does the job well.
Are there any objections if I burn those CDs and send them to our customers that are experiencing problems? Or do they have to get their own image and burn it?
Go ahead and distribute the CD.
* All the updated packages are installed directly.
This is only half an adavantage. I tried the installation last week and if I select a bit of more software packages during installation, then I have to change between the patch CD and the DVD1 quite often. :-)
Yes, this is rather unfortunate. 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