Re: final suse 10.1 - any news please?

Snorkelson MacBurp wrote:

Harold Stevens said the following on 04/05/06 05:41:
In <e3br5m$274$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Snorkelson MacBurp:

[Snip...]

Backup everything that you want to keep and do a clean install.

I agree completely; I tried "Upgrading" across SuSE versions, and it
never did well for me (one, in the 8.x series IIRC, was a complete
disaster).

As you mention, restoring user archives to the new install has just
worked better for me--YMMV, HTH...

FWIW, in this thread, Chris Cox <125irm4dbk54967@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

YOU is dead... just when I was beginning to like YOU,
it has totally been replaced and it's pretty buggy
so far. Though they are supposedly working on it.
But this may greatly impact online updates as well
as simple upgrades to existing installations.

Yast Online Update is one of the features that makes SuSE my choice. If
it gets hosed for buggy Zenworks or whatever I won't be happy. But if I
still supported commercial enterprise(s), and YOU got hosed, I'd be
livid.

Anyway, yet another reason to find a beater box for a testdrive before
the production gear and jobsite is sent out into the weeds with betaware.

I upgraded 9.0 to 9.1 with relatively little pain, but a clean install
of 10.0 worked much better.

I did an update on a machine with 10.0 installed and it worked flawlessly.
Then i tried it on another machine with dual drives and it failed.
Apparently, when you have a complex partition setup it gets confused. I
tried several times and it just would not take any of the various boot
loader configurations I tried.....Since the 10.0 install was new and I
didn't like the partitions I had assigned I just hosed it and started over.
The new install did recognize my older (other drive) install and now I have
9.1 and 10.1 working o.k.

So, I guess if you have a single drive with a single installation an upgrade
may work quite well !!
.

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