Yellowdog installer just blew away my disk...

[Pete Peters]

John, I feel your pain and (basically) agree with you. OTH, I think I've
only read a couple posts of people successfully (i.e., minimal problems)
upgrading from 2.1 to 2.2. The best one was how-to save your existing
settings and data, then basically do a clean install.

I have read many, many posts of one problem after another. Can you upgrade
from 2.1 to 2.2? Yes. Good idea? From the horror stories that have been
posted, I don't think so. Again, that's my opinion.

Also, realize that no matter what PPC distros you try (Debian, MkLinux,
SuSE, Mandrake, Gentoo, Slackintosh, etc.), each of them is going to have
their own quirks and issues for you to deal with.

Are we having fun yet?


Pete
*** direct all flames to /dev/null ***



-----Original Message-----
From: yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
[mailto:yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]On Behalf
Of John Nelson
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 9:55 AM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: Yellowdog installer just blew away my disk...



Oh for crying out loud... I just tried to upgrade my old YDL 2.1 system
with YDL 2.2 and the disk partition editor just mangled my partitions and
trashed all the partitions on my disk.

Not only did it blow away my Linux partitions but I think it just
destroyed the disk label and the Mac partitions too... when I try to
reboot into Mac OS I get a floppy disk with a flashing question mark.

YDL's installer scripts have always been sensitive (bombing out with
errors on perfectly good file systems, inability to properly upgrade) but
now I've lost data that might not be recoverable (that's why I try to
keep good backups).

What pisses me off about this is there's really no reason for this.
Installation scripts shouldn't be rocket science.  I think it's time to
start looking at better PPC distributions...

-- John

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