I’ve been trying to install Milestone 3 and it hasn’t been working out great (not openSUSE’s fault entirely either… just trying to use a USB stick instead of lugging out the external CD-Rom and burning the milestone to a CD which I will never use afterwards).
I looked and Milestone 4 is supposed to come out
between Jul 7 and 31 openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 4 release
I know there’s 10 days left in that time frame, but I don’t want to bother downloading Milestone 3 if I get it installed and Milestone 4 comes out. That wouldn’t be helpful reporting buts for M3 if there is the potential they are fixed in M4, right?
On the one hand, I would rather have kept my M3 with relatively stable kde4 beta2 until M4, and avoided spending hours on recovery. On the other, I may not have learnt how to get at and repair a borked system. The rather less stable kde4 rc1 is the price. I won’t be updating M3 again - waiting for M4.
Actually, reading that it sounds like a dumb idea anyway.
I’ll probably wait. I just hope it’s soon, before I get that itch to install something else in the meantime
Best bet would be if I could get it to install via USB stick (I do the LiveCDs) by UNetbootin. Then I would have no problems downloading the latest one and installing it since it wouldn’t cost me a CD each time.
Err, well using zypper dup with just two repos enabled, Factory Oss and Non-Oss, I made it from M1(dvd)->M2->M3. The problem comes if you update between milestones when some packages have been updated and not others (e.g. kde4), and that can change on a weekly basis. Doing that, I screwed up kde4 between M2 & M3 but luckily I was able to restore kde4 by updating from the KDE4 Factory repo. That’s ok if that repo happens to contain a reasonably stable kde4.
The more recent problem convinced me not to bother to upgrade the whole distro between milestones. I might update individual or groups packages though. Of course zypper dup is not actually supported as a “will work” method right now. IIRC the “plan” is to support it from 11.2 final release. But, hell, we are only testing here and expect disasters.
@Cloddy an interesting point, unless M4 is the stable end of a phase with M5 an unstable beginning of one maybe…:\
Do the Milestones facilitate booting from ext4 without having to do anything funky during the installation?
Usually I make a /boot partition ext2 and everything else ext4 but I’d rather include the /boot into the /{root} but I couldn’t do that before without making it all ext3 or less.
dragonbite wrote:
> Do the Milestones facilitate booting from ext4 without having to do
> anything funky during the installation?
I installed my M3 test system in a single ext4 partition. The
installer even suggested that it be ext4. Nothing funky except that I
had to reconfigure my kernel in 11.1 to handle ext4. I don’t use the
standard kernel.
Indeed you can, also from M4 to M5. However given you said this:
I’m also waiting for M4 which i’ll install as my full time OS
Given “full time”, I thought you could be going for a clean install of M4, so for a few days wait you could start with a clean install of M5. Not everything is in the Factory repos that’s on the DVD.
I’m not on 11.2 at the moment, but IIRC a package called SDL was installed by M1 and I couldn’t see it in Factory at M2, and i think I noticed same for 11.1 but that was 6 months ago(?). Could be others, very few I grant you.
