On 09/08/2020 00.33, ken wrote:
On 8/8/20 12:27 PM, Per Jessen wrote:
ken wrote:
ken wrote:
It's a little hard to get used to the system failing to boot after either an install or an update. Yes, I would agree. I meant get used to the install and update
On 8/8/20 9:52 AM, Per Jessen wrote: procedures :-) Going through the install or update procedures is not at all difficult in suse. They're basically the same for every distro I've installed or updated in the past twenty-five years. So that part is no mystery at all. I would say, though, that opensuse provides noticeably less information about what it's doing than other distros I've installed.
They both work very well, but I could imagine they still take some getting used to when you're coming from other distros. I didn't find that at all... well, except for the lack of information about what it's doing. For example, other distros show, often graphically which partitions are available, names them, shows their sizes, etc., and clues the user into where it will install the new software. All that was a black box with the suse installs and updates.
openSUSE does display a very detailed disks and partition information, but not if you simply accept the default offering. You have to click somewhere.
You should also consider that Tumbleweed is bleeding edge and might require some fiddling. If you want stable and conversative, go for Leap 15.2.
:) That's what I was coming from, what was previously installed.
And if it was a common problem, I would have read more about it in this list. My guess at this point is that opensuse can't deal for some reason with the previous (CentOS) distro installed on this machine... as shown in my email prior to your reply. I don't know why a previously installed distro would screw up an opensuse install. Shouldn't it overwrite the previous boot sector... or at least ask me during the install process whether I want it or not? If YaST finds traces of another distro, it will likely to try accommodate it in the boot-setup. Just guessing - I never do multi-boot installations myself, but I'm sure we have many users here who do. They might be able to help. I wasn't trying to do a multi-boot install. When I did the install some years ago, I was replacing one Linux distro with another.
Now that you mention it, I didn't see anything in the opensuse install procedures which offered the option of doing a multi-boot. I've done a lot of those in the past with other distros and it was a dirt-simple thing to do.
I have done multiboot installations with openSUSE, no problem. In my case, Windows and other openSUSE systems. You will not find a menu labelled "multiboot". You have to decide how to do it in your head. What it does do is trying to keep other systems intact, which is not trivial and some times fails. It is easier with UEFI, which is actually born multiboot. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)