Hello All,
Just thought I would give my upgrade experience. It was horrible. The DVD/CD situation is not right. Packages are missing on the CD's. My server (Dell Poweredge 2600) does not have a DVD, so I did my usual upgrade not thinking anything, well upgrade went along, a couple of errors and I got a list of packages to remove, I scanned through them, pushed okay, I didn't see anything that I didn't mind losing. Well after upgrade, Cyrus IMAP was not there! It installed WU-IMAP! WTF I thought, then I noticed CLAM-AV was gone...amavis...etc. I looked on the CD's. Not there. Mounted DVD on laptop and reinstalled...now Cyrus has DBERROR and won't run! Ack...DLT is broken, I am up poo-poo creek now! Mail configuration is all jumbled, reconfigured, can't connect to LMTP socket....ack! Well after 5 hours everything is back up...without amavis. If this is the way Novell is going to take SuSE....I think my next stop might be Debian. I have been running SuSe since the 5.x series, and I always buy the boxed set. I have upgraded various times, and only do clean installs on big changes. This is by far the worst update I have done. I am scared now to do an upgrade. I almost lost 4 years of mail. That would have really made my weekend! I was all excited last night when I got my boxed set at Fry's Electronics...yeah...upgrade time...new..new..new....BOOM! This is because not all of the software is on the CDs, it won't fit. Why SuSE doesn't include a sixth cd is beyond me. Surely they must realize
On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 11:24 -0700, Robert Sweet wrote: that a lot of people install the PRO version on servers that don't come with a DVD and need the software that is missing. Your only recourse is to set up the DVD on another machine that has a DVD and share it as an ftp source or copy the contents to the server and add it that way. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge