Bjørn Tore Sund wrote:
Having received the SuSE 7.0 professional in the mail on Tuesday, I've so far installed it twice, on two different machines, using the two different install programs (yast2 and yast1).
1. Yast2 is still relatively useless for anyone who fiddles with the package-configuration. In particular, I miss yast1's ability to detect package conflicts, and I found no function to save and load an established configuration. The excellent hardware detection helps when I install on laptops (which happens once per month or so, on average), but I'm forced to first do a minimal installation and then use yast1 to postinstall packages.
This means it's useless when I'm to upgrade my 30 desktop machines all in one go - I need to spend too much time in front of each machine.
You're using the wrong tool. If you do that many installations have a look at 'alice', a SuSE tool for automating a large number of installations. It's included in the Prof. Edition.
I dislike the fact that Tekram's driver for their 390U2W SCSI-card isn't included (it's been out for ages). Having to compile new kernels on a variety of different machines is a pain, but now it's got to be done. I'd hoped 7.0 would prevent the need. But there isn't even a precompiled kernel with both SMP and AMP support.
AMP or is it APM? Forwarded to the responsible person. 'Isn't even' is a litle tough, the number of SMP machines where you'd want to enable APM is tiny. I'd certainly NEVER add APM to a production system. And how many people have SMP laptops?
I have to postpone my upgrade at least until I see fixes to yast1 (or yast2). I may skip the upgrade completely, and I may go look for a distribution with installation software that works. But I have no intention of doing an upgrade with what SuSE has given me now. Too much work, too much wasted time.
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