On Monday 30 January 2006 16:20, Martin Soltau wrote:
Well, given the effort of reinstalling, loading multimedia-addons and ATI drivers ... I am really considdering living with that system until 10.1 is finally available and then doing the upgrade in the right way. But I can tell you... it's not funny. Is this the same with ALL systems (Win, Linux (debian, ...), Mac...) or just a SUSE kind of problem?
Hi Martin, I learned a very long time ago to: - low level format - partition - high level (filesystem) format - activate - install I'd heard of the "ghost file" phenomenon before, but never experienced it... probably because I've habitually followed this procedure. In fact, I don't think I actually got "lazy" in this regard until I started using SUSE's GUI installer. :-) I can't explain the precise mechanics of it, but my guess is there is still an assumption built somewhere into the underlying software that the installation is occurring on a new (empty) or properly "low level" formatted drive. It *does* still make intuitive sense to me that skipping the first step is asking for trouble. And since the solution is familiar territory to me and has been foolproof, so far, I've had no need to dig deeper into the cause. As an alternative to reinstalling, if the two stage boot worked around the boot freeze and the system was running well, why not stick with that? If it eventually crashes and burns, I or someone else here can step you through the process at that time. regards, - Carl