On Friday 25 April 2003 12:47, John Scott wrote:
I must admit, I did also have problems getting 8.1 set up right. My 8.0 installs went flawlessly. After testing 8.1 on 1 machine, I didn't upgrade the rest. It took 4 attempts to get an install I could boot. Printing and several of the yast modules have never worked and it locks up from time to time. Fortunately that system was good to use as a test. I've used it like that for a couple of months now simply because the things that are wrong are not a priority, and I thought I could probably fix them. I'm gonna nuke it this weekend though. Rather than downgrade back to 8.0, I'm going to try Mandrake on it. I might try 8.2 at some point, maybe on a different machine. 8.0 never gave me any problems though, so when I'm talking about things that work great, I'm usually referring to that version.
That is disappointing - the only symptom you describe with 8.1 that I did suffer from was the occasional locking, which was completely solved by the updated kernel rpm issued a few weeks after 8.1 was released - did that not work for you at all? Other than that 8.1 has been great for me on 2 machines and 8.2 has been even better as an install experience, with relative exotica such as parallel zip drives passing through to printers, firewire cards and associated disks, and USB scanners sorting themselves out beautifully. I know that doesn't help you that much right now, but perhaps you'd find a fully updated 8.1 on some of your other machines would be a better deal than you seem to have had with your testbed machine. Until now, I've generally manually downloaded and installed patches though, and perhaps that's actually made for an easier ride than the automated updates that do seem to annoy people quite a bit, though the during-install autopatching for 8.2 went swimmingly for me. Best Fergus
fwilde@chethams.org.uk wrote:
On Friday 25 April 2003 09:44, Basil Chupin wrote:
<some snippage> Don't want to add to your irritation, but I have to report it's working fine here. Hope you get it sorted, Best Fergus
Considering the stuffed YOU which was in v8.1 one would think that after all the months between 8.1 and 8.2 the problems in YOU would have been fixed. But no.
I am not going to waste any more (on-line) time with YOU but going to install fou4s which has worked flawlessly for me after I installed it on 8.1 months ago. Download and install one small RPM, get on-line, issue 2 simple instructions on the command line and the patch(es) are downloaded and installed.
-- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk