Re: [LUG] SUSE Upgrade madness

[Rick Timmis <rick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So far I have done a few upgrades and swops with RH.

7.2 and 7.3 don't run correctly on this machine, but 7.1 is fine. But 
this is a Hotch potch of Hardware bodges and CPU upgrades etc.

Have put 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 on my laptop win no traumas

put 7.1 on the work server, then 7.2 and then ran the upgrade to 7.3 in 
between shifts on the Live system with only a couple scripts in Xinet.d 
being effected. Have not tried 8.0 but Tom from Ylem has and didn't seem 
to think it was really up to spec. 8.0 got a good review in LF but SuSe 
did much better.  Give 7.3 a go on your laptop it should be OK. If you 
need Copies of the Ditro CD's let me know I will burn you a set off and 
post them

Thanks Rick

Simon Waters wrote:

> Decided to sort out my laptop support for SMC2632W Wireless
> PCMCIA adaptor, previously I have used it happily without
> encryption, but now I want to support it fully.
>
> It is running SuSE 7.2.
>
> Tried PCMCIA_CS version 33. Installed kernel sources, and it
> fails.
>
> Seems SuSE mess around with the internals enough to break
> PCMCIA_CS build ;-(
>
> Found a source RPM for pcmcia_cs version 3.1.31 from SuSE, but
> that fails halfway through complaining about a missing cardinfo
> file. Although it looks promising and seems to have built most
> of the files I need.
>
> Anyway - what is the upgrade pain like going from 7.2 to 8, or
> are there other sensible options?
>
> If it is non-trivial I may reinstall a distro that doesn't mess
> around with the kernel so much.
>
> Simon
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