On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Kester Clegg wrote:
Could anyone from SuSe advise me (and probably hundreds of other users in the UK) about upgrading versus buying the complete version of SuSe 6.0 at the end of Jan 1999? I have just bought a brand new machine with nothing on it but with, naturally enough, things like a Matrox Productiva G100 card and a UDMA hard drive that are not particularly well supported by older versions of the kernal. I have the cover CD of PC Plus which featured a 'cut down' version of 5.3. Should I :- a) install 5.3 from this single cut down CD and then buy an upgrade version of SuSe 6.0?
Isn't the PC Plus CD a single disk version of 5.2?
b) buy and install a complete (ie 5 CD) version of 5.3 and then upgrade as in (a)? c) wait until 6.0 becomes available and buy the full (ie non-upgrade) version at the end of Jan? It would be particularly galling for me to have to take (c) as the safest 'sensible' option, as I want to start using my beautiful new machine a.s.a.p... :-)
Well, the "upgrade-version" and the full version are identical, it's just that you get a discount on the purchase price of a new version if you have previously bought and registered a full disk set of SuSE, so... Unless PC Plus are doing a special deal with SuSE, you won't be eligible for an upgrade price on 6.0 as a result of having the PC Plus CD, although you should be able to physically upgrade your system from the 6.0 install, rather than having to wipe it and start again. If you're a first time user I'd recommend buying the full disk set and manual from SuSE or a local distributor [1]. The manual is worth its weight in gold if you're not absolutely sure what you are doing, or you hit a problem, and you'll get more software than you know what to do with included in the disk set :) So I would either install the PC Plus version now and buy the full 6.0 disk set in January, or buy 5.3 now and buy 6.0 at the discount price later. [1] I know the manual is included on the PC Plus disk, but I always find online manuals difficult, and no substitute for a hard copy, especially when you're trying to sort out problems in front of your machine. See <A HREF="http://www.polo.demon.co.uk/"><A HREF="http://www.polo.demon.co.uk/</A">http://www.polo.demon.co.uk/</A</A>> or <A HREF="http://definite.ukpost.com/"><A HREF="http://definite.ukpost.com/</A">http://definite.ukpost.com/</A</A>> for a couple of UK distributors, there may be more. Phil -- Philip Stokes Email: phil@stokes.demon.co.uk Fax: +44 (0)870 164 1242 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>