** Reply to message from David Benfell on Mon, 29 Jul 2002 05:07:03 -0700
**And as I posted before, I wasn't able to install 8.0 at all on a
**particular machine where 7.3 went in just fine. It happens that this
**was my first attempt at an 8.0 installation.
This is something I've wondered about in the past... Somewhere, no
doubt among the learned on the list, If you have a system runnning as
you wish , what is the reason to upgrade ? At least as long as your
version is supported , there isn't any crushing need to UG , is there ?
I wanted some of the functionality that is in 8.0,
and I had a couple of new boxen that could be happily running 8.0 ( and
they are) However, at least two of the older models had 7.3 and they
were happy ... the updates ( YOU) had given those boxen a lot of the
functionality of 8.0 , so I probably wont do an upgrade on them til 7.3
gets nearer obsolesence .... By then, I'm sure
there will be an update that will make those boxen happy ...
**One of the strengths of SuSE was that while YaST was a very capable
**tool, it didn't have to be perfect. It could have bugs and you could
**still get around them because you had enough tools to fix problems,
**one way or another.
Well, you still have the option of editing necessary files by hand...
In some cases it's the fastest way ... and there are all sorts of tools
on the cds... to do just about anything, it looks like.
I guess I don't understand what it is that yast2 doesn't do for you?
I had one old box I installed 8.0 on for the heck of it ( not a
production , nor even a testbed so , why not try it ?) Yast2 decided I
needed to have a text mode install ( I know you remember those from
7.2/7.3 <G>) but it installed enough stuff on hte default intstall to
have the box up and running , connected to the net , Dled my email
program and had my nice little gui running along .... The only problem
I have on that box , aside from it's needing a major parts transplant (
it's a cellery proc ) it it runs very slowly after it's been up and
running for a day or so.. ( I wonder if there is a memory leak there
somewhere ??? Or not... at this point it isn't worth getting all
lathered up about. )
I DO see that it can be a trial , if you are used to one way of doing
things.. but still, since yast one , nor the older yast2 can or will
run on the 8.0 code.. It's time for the older boxen to be happy w/ 7.3
and the YOU updates ... for now it is sitting in a corner "just in
case" My main box dies ( AGAIN! ) The main one is on it's umpteenth
hard drive ... they seem to last roughtly 3 months and die horribly,
and w/o warning <sigh> That is not an OS problem tho... as it's
managed to die w/ it's origional OS ( nt4) alone on it, linux
variations from Corel to the current Suse... <heavy sigh>
j
afterthought Seen on an old, beat-up car: This is not an abandoned vehicle.