On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 06:30 +1000, Registration Account wrote: > For those people out there testing the next version of open suse 10,3 - > could some great degree of testing involve testing the Product in a > upgrade situation rather than a New installation. > After I upgraded 10,1 to 10,2 RC I came across more bugs to the extent > that the upgrade ability could only be rated as beta. I begin reporting > upgrade bugs, however due to the enormity and frequent comment by > suse.de (Then you should not buy new software). I was not prepared to > waste more of my time. > I always buy boxed software and my only plea for Alpha 10,3 that a great > deal of testing is done via an upgrade (not clean) installation > I have been testing software (given most of my earlier life's experience > was with large Main Frame installations), and latter PC operating systems. > The upgrade path for all New software application development is always > the most difficult to achieve. > As an active tester of RC software I need to gain some personal > confidence that upgrade-ability has been tested by a few more dedicated > other > > Kind Regards and > Good Morning 06:30 GMT+10 > Scott >
This is what I'm doing with my laptop, going through the upgrade cycle and reporting problems. The main problem I have reported is the upgrade _not_ ising mt /boot partition during the upgrade process and leaving me with a system that cannot boot without manual intervention. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
