Just wanted to show the other side of the coin. Two days ago I upgraded my development workstation from 9.0 to 9.1 and the process couldn't have been smoother. I'm sorry that you had trouble, Gery. I would imagine that the majority of users will not experience the same problems you did. Just the same, if anybody else has bad experiences, please publish them so the underlying issues can be addressed. Cheers!
<Wolfgang.Bauer@schoellerbank.at> 5/6/2004 1:26:18 AM >>> Hello everybody,
I tried to install SuSE 9.1 yesterday by trying to Upgrade my 9.0-installation. The nightmare was as follows: The first problem I encountered was that yast was not able to mount my root-partition (reiserfs) although my 9.0-installation worked properly... After a few tries, I used the "Auto-Repair Installed System"-feature (if you still use 9.0 - DONT USE THIS FEATURE!!!). First it worked very nicely until it got to the point where it checked the installation. The repair-function noticed that the 9.1-installation was faulty (right, as it was a 9.0-installation) and upgraded some packages. After a reboot the system did not come up (could not find kernel). Well, yast-installation again - could not mount root-filesystem. Damn. I tried many things but when I used "Reset Options" from the menu on the bottom YAST COULD MOUNT MY PARTITION - there were no other settings but (by magic) now it worked (could this be a bug?!). But as the repair-system changed my old 9.0-installation "There was an error upgrading your system". After I copied all my /home-data to my windowspartition via text-console and freshly installed 9.1, I had a running linux-system again. But I really have to say: poor upgrade-system. It used to work better with older Suse-distributions... Btw. I'm not a Linux novice (I use Linux since 1994) but it seems that you must not rely on "automatic upgrade functionalities"... Sad, sad. Gery ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Gernot Bauer, Leiter Internet Schoellerbank AG, Sterneckstrasse 5, 5024 Salzburg, Austria/Europe Tel.: ++43-662-8684-364, Fax.: ++43-662-8684-44364 Email: mailto:wolfgang.bauer@schoellerbank.at, WWW: http://www.schoellerbank.at Diese Nachricht dient ausschließlich zu Informationszwecken und ist nur für den Gebrauch des Empfängers bestimmt. This message is only for informational purposes and is intended solely for the use of the addressee. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help@suse.com