> > 2. Interruptible installations.
> Yep. I installed over a week or so, and there never was a need for a reboot.
> All I had to do was fire up YaST and tell it to continue from where it left
> off :-)
There seem to be some definite recurring problems with an installed
system of SuSE, compared to Red Hat. It is reasonable to assume that
power-supply in the hostels, if not erratic by itself, can be inturrpted
by students in the keeda-mood. To the best of my knowledge, the
incidences of power-tripping in hostels in IIT [and other institutes
also] are not uncommon. It happens here, once a week, at least.
Why it should happen is not clear to me and will take some time before I
can comment on this definitely. May be someone from the list would like
to put in some pearls. BUT, I believe that Red-Hat's Linux 6.1
[kernel-2.12-20] installations are more robust compared to SuSE.
When there is no one logged on and should the power trip, red-hat used
to restart and required at max an e2fsck -a /dev/hdaN and everything
went alright. For a use of period of more than 3 months, I had never had
to install the whole package once again due to unrecoverable
filesystems. Same is not what I can claim with SuSE.
Since last Friday, I will have to be reinstalling the whole thing for
the third time since there are unrecoverable errors [in automatic mode]
with the filesystem [so fsck had to be run manually] and after a manual
check, it became impossible for me to successfully start at least one
package [postgreSQL]. Here, uninstalling and then reinstalling with YaST
could not help anything.
Just summarising an experiences and with no wish to mud-sling SuSE.
Power tripping like this should be avoided etc.. it true, but when you
don't have a choice, I would prefer RHL 6.1 over SuSE 6.3. Could it all
have been a repeated coincidence?
Rohit
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