Re: [SLE] Managing Upgrade from 9.2 to 9.3

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:55:31 +0100
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Michael Nelson wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 05:43:24PM -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>
>
>>Don't blame the product.... Upgrading is a complex issue.
>
>
> I know that.
>
> But I did a clean (format / and /boot partitions) install, and alsa STILL
> cannot find my SB Audigy card, and hotplug/coldplug/lukewarmplug STILL can't
> get anything on my USB going (most notably, my printer).
>
> ALL of that stuff worked in 9.2 yesterday and in all versions of Linux I
> have tried since installing the hardware several years ago, and it all still
> works in WinXP when I dual boot into that particular septic tank of an OS.
>
> It does NOT work in SuSE 9.3.
>
> BTW, I'm not a newbie. I have been running Linux since I downloaded
> 0.98-something on floppies quite a few years back. I have seen a LOT of
> distributions and done a LOT of installs, and SuSE just keeps getting worse.
>
> Michael
>

Many of us hit problems upgrading and installing 9.2, including a friend
who could only get a fresh install on a new HD going by partially
installing XP, killling the install and then 9.2 went OK, this was
repeatable. I had my problems upgrading, x86_64 laptop went through OK
after many retries, x86 on this Athlon box just wouldn't, so I had to do
a fresh install without reformatting the partitions. x86 on the other
laptop, fresh install was OK. Since then I had to do a fresh install on
this Athlon box, also OK. Basically SuSE upgrades don't seem to be the
smooth operation they used to be.
I missed delivery of my 9.3 today, so my plan is to clone my drive and
upgrade/install to the clone, whichever works. On the x86_64 latop my
options are fewer, so I shall back up stuff to the USB IDE drive, then
have a go upgrading, if that fails, do a fresh install without
reformatting and restore stuff from the USB drive once I have a basic
working system.
Likewise, I started with the first version Linus put up for ftp, booting
from floppy, then on HD with bootlace and shoelace from Minix which I
was very familiar with, though SLS, MCC, Caldera, RedHat and finally
SuSE, Mandrake and gentoo, installed RedHat on SPARC and SuSE on
zSeries mainframes/clones, but I never had the sort of trouble I had
with 9.2 (upgrade), handled big Solaris installs and upgrades all
smoothly - if ever you can imagine a smooth Solaris install, but 9.1 -->
9.2 did bring out the frustration and that was the first experience of
its kind with Linux and it gets to you - the lid is very likely to BLOW!
- much like with a smooth Solaris upgrade/install.
Regards
Sid.

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