Well, I finally received 7.2, and I tried two types of installation. First, an upgrade from 7.1 and then a clean install. Strangely, this time, the upgrade went better :) The clean install never asked me what kernel I wanted to run, which the upgrade did. A bit odd, but no big deal for me. The default kernel worked, which is all that matters at this stage. Optimizations can come later When I first booted the clean install, the mouse wouldn't work, it just went and hid in the corner and wouldn't respond to mouse movements. I've had this before and it means that it hasn't been correctly identified as imps/2. I decided to reboot and try the text install, but I forgot to enter 'manual' at the prompt so I got right back into yast2. Imagine my surprise when the mouse worked this time. hm. The rest of the install went without problems (although my printer still isn't supported :() The upgrade worked at the first attempt, without any issues at all, I'm glad to say. This is wonderful :) The rest of the weekend will be spent trying to find differences from 7.1. On the surface there doesn't seem to be much, but I'm sure there's a lot if I dig deeper. Regards Anders
On Saturday 30 June 2001 11:43, Anders Johansson wrote:
Well, I finally received 7.2, and I tried two types of installation. First, an upgrade from 7.1 and then a clean install. Strangely, this time, the upgrade went better :)
The clean install never asked me what kernel I wanted to run, which the upgrade did. A bit odd, but no big deal for me. The default kernel worked, which is all that matters at this stage. Optimizations can come later
When I first booted the clean install, the mouse wouldn't work, it just went and hid in the corner and wouldn't respond to mouse movements. I've had this before and it means that it hasn't been correctly identified as imps/2. I decided to reboot and try the text install, but I forgot to enter 'manual' at the prompt so I got right back into yast2. Imagine my surprise when the mouse worked this time. hm.
The rest of the install went without problems (although my printer still isn't supported :()
The upgrade worked at the first attempt, without any issues at all, I'm glad to say. This is wonderful :)
The rest of the weekend will be spent trying to find differences from 7.1. On the surface there doesn't seem to be much, but I'm sure there's a lot if I dig deeper.
Regards Anders
I had a similar experience, the install did not go smoothly and at the end when I rebooted it would not give me the graphical screen and just went straight to SuSE. I dula boot with w98 (work and games for the kids means I have to. I tried to hand edit etc/lilo/conf but nothig I tried would work. Luckily the install was a test so I still had 7.1. So I decided to do the upgrade, which worked faultlesly and gave me back the dual boot.. I haven't noticed anybody else report this problem so perhaps I've just been unlucky. I've used SuSE since 6.0 and it is without doubt the finest OS I have used, and I have tried most of the other distros, BEOS and various version of windoze. So if this does turn out to be a common fault I suspect it is going to be very damaging if it happens to newbies attracted to Linux who need to run dual boot systems. I'll report it as an installation problem and see what SuSE say. I also have to say that as far as I can see, and I only got it on Thursday, that this new release is the least significant improvement on the previuos version that I have used. (I am using the pro update). I don't mind the cost but I think I'll consider carefully how quickly to move to the new veresion next time. What do others feel ? Mike
michael norman (micnorman@lineone.net) [010630 09:22]:
I also have to say that as far as I can see, and I only got it on Thursday, that this new release is the least significant improvement on the previuos version that I have used. (I am using the pro update). I don't mind the cost but I think I'll consider carefully how quickly to move to the new veresion next time.
What do others feel ?
Although at the surface there are not a lot of *huge* improvements, on the kernal level, this release of SuSE fixes a lot of problems. Also, some bugs in YaST 2 like smp autodetection, etc, have been fixed. I would consider, in my experience working with the two, that 7.2 is a good deal more stable than 7.1, when it comes to a smooth install and operating environment on servers. At home, I went straight from 7.0 to 7.2, as I tend to update ever other release, and fix small issues manually. -- I can't believe it's not UNIX!!! ------------------------------------------------------------ Leah Cunningham | www.heinous.org | Linux geek, et al.
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