I’m the happy owner of an Asus ROG G750jH running 13.1. I’d like to upgrade to 13.2 as it has support for the Atheros Killer N combo BT/WLAN card that comes with this laptop.
Specs of this lappie are: Intel i7 something or other, 16GB RAM, 2 x 128GB SSDs in Intel RST “fake raid” RAID0 configuration and 1TB spinning rust.
When I installed 13.1, I blitzed all the partitions that Asus had kindly set up for me and set the root partition on the RAID disk and /home on the spinning rust. The installer chose BTRFS for both of these (it’s been rock solid for the year or so I’ve been using it).
I remember a strange message about the RAID when I booted it first time after install, but a reboot sorted that out and it’s been an absolutely brilliant machine (apart from not be able to use KDE Connect because of lack of support for the card mentioned above).
When I try to upgrade, the installer cannot see the RAID at all and tries to put everything on the spinning rust. A fresh install has the same problem. A bit of searching on these forums leads me to believe that mdraid (or dmraid) hasn’t been included in the 13.2 installer, so it’s never gonna see that RAID. Not too bothered about losing everything on the RAID, all my work (this is a work laptop) is safely on the spinning rust (and backed up on a different drive too).
Should I just turn off RST (a.k.a.fake raid) and go with Linux software RAID? Is BTRFS the right choice for SSD’s in RAID? Should I go with XFS for my /home, rather than BTRFS?
This is a pure OpenSuse install, no other OS’s in sight, apart from Win8 in VirtualBox for connection to the company Exchange server :sick:
Hi Miuku - I didn’t realise that was a possibility! Thank you very much. I’ll give that a try when I’m away from the Winbloze lusers in the office.
In the meantime, I’ll do some reading up on zypper.
Just to say a big thank you (and have some more rep ;)). Worked like a charm and I now have Harlequin looking very pretty
Note to anyone else: Uninstall any non-standard apps (i.e. those not on the ‘official’ OpenSuse repos) - the only pain I got was from the Nvidia drivers (no surprise there really, and easy enough to tweak the conf files to get it into state where you can kill the old drivers and install the new ones), but VirtualBox is an ugly pig with badly applied makeup. Get rid of it before you upgrade, it plays hell with the ethernet settings and only judicious use of ‘ip ro del’ and ‘ip ro add’ managed to get me out the hole.
So, the love affair that started with a box set of SuSE 7.0 back in the 90’s continues.
