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2004-Oct-03, Sunday
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It typically helps....
2004-Oct-03, Sunday 09:24 pm...to RTFM. Or in this case, the release notes.
I tried to update my existing SuSE 9.0 Pro install up to the 9.1, by their upgrade in place tools. This failed. In a big way. Well, at least it failed for a goofball, psuedo-Linux guy like me. The kernel upgraded no problem, but X died, and many of the installed tools died too. Not good, and I had no idea how to get them back. So, having forseen these problems, I kept all the Linux stuff on its own partition, so it could be readily deleted and reinstalled.
The format and reinstall seemed to happen just fine, but I was trying to use XFS, since Reiser (the default FS) had given me no end of happy surprises when I upgraded the server last time. But now, it killed XP and the boot partition. This caused a great deal of rebuilding time when chkdsk ran automatically on an XP reinstall. And, I STILL couldn't get the GRUB loader to do its magic of handling dual booting boxes.
Come to find out that there was a problem with XFS and the latest kernel that happened in 9.1. This is what caused all the directory problems on drives other than C. GREEEAAAAAT. So now it's back to Reiser, and hope that now it's starting to develop a slightly better implementation. Also, found out that GRUB has a new and exciting problem whereby it fails to configure the loader correctly when Windows resides on a partition/drive that exceeds 8GB. At least there were fixes for both issues, once I'd read through all the read me stuff and the knowledge base on their website.
The moral of the story: Don't assume any company has fixed and retained the correct fixes to known problems. No matter how cool they were/are, there are always chances for fuckups that are highly unexpected. And thus, it always, always pays to read the readme files before putzing with new, shiny code.
I tried to update my existing SuSE 9.0 Pro install up to the 9.1, by their upgrade in place tools. This failed. In a big way. Well, at least it failed for a goofball, psuedo-Linux guy like me. The kernel upgraded no problem, but X died, and many of the installed tools died too. Not good, and I had no idea how to get them back. So, having forseen these problems, I kept all the Linux stuff on its own partition, so it could be readily deleted and reinstalled.
The format and reinstall seemed to happen just fine, but I was trying to use XFS, since Reiser (the default FS) had given me no end of happy surprises when I upgraded the server last time. But now, it killed XP and the boot partition. This caused a great deal of rebuilding time when chkdsk ran automatically on an XP reinstall. And, I STILL couldn't get the GRUB loader to do its magic of handling dual booting boxes.
Come to find out that there was a problem with XFS and the latest kernel that happened in 9.1. This is what caused all the directory problems on drives other than C. GREEEAAAAAT. So now it's back to Reiser, and hope that now it's starting to develop a slightly better implementation. Also, found out that GRUB has a new and exciting problem whereby it fails to configure the loader correctly when Windows resides on a partition/drive that exceeds 8GB. At least there were fixes for both issues, once I'd read through all the read me stuff and the knowledge base on their website.
The moral of the story: Don't assume any company has fixed and retained the correct fixes to known problems. No matter how cool they were/are, there are always chances for fuckups that are highly unexpected. And thus, it always, always pays to read the readme files before putzing with new, shiny code.