ken wrote:
On 8/8/20 9:52 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
ken wrote:
On 8/7/20 4:01 PM, Per Jessen wrote:
ken wrote: I have to say that opensuse has the suckiest install and update procedures of any Linux system I've installed since SLS (Soft Landing Systems) in 1992.
Really ?? Maybe you just need to get used to it.
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 procedures :-) They both work very well, but I could imagine they still take some getting used to when you're coming from other distros. 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.
I've done two or three installs and two updates with opensuse and all of them have been disasters, at the end of each one unable to boot at all.
That's definitely bad luck, but does in no way correspond to my experience. I've done a bit more than 3 installs and 2 updates, on loads of different hardware (intel, arm, ibm)
I was guessing that it wasn't a universal problem. If it were, it would never get past the devs and become a distro.
Not to mention our automated QA.
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. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (29.8°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org