[ltp] SuSE 8.0 on TP 600E *beware*

[philippe.corboz]

Greetings,

I just went thru the unpleasant experience of re-installing W98SE which I had on my
dual-boot SuSE / W98 system. Cause: the "upgrade" from SuSE 7.2 to SuSE 8.0 had
clobbered the MBR in a way that made the hard disk unbootable, I had to do all the
recovery activities via floppies and CD's. Not even 'format /MBR' worked.

A special mention goes to mondo/mindi here, sadly, I had been lazy a while, and had
only 'oldish' backups available.

IMHO, stay away from SuSE 8.0 unless (a) you do an all new installation of Linux on
its own disk, and (b) never plan to change the hardware, the detection of new
hardware (try adding an USB mouse!) does definitely not work properly, either.

- Philippe


Emilio Recio wrote:

> walt wrote:
> > This has not been fun.
> >
> > 1)  Upgrade from 7.3 to 8.0 went smoothly, except that my wireless card would
>
> You should know never to run *.0 releases ;) especially SuSE's, they're real
> bad. In fact suse's been nothing but headaches for me from the get go. Did you
> try RH 7.3?
>
> -Elmo
>
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