Hi All,
I believed the stuff on the OpenSUSE website, so I decided to run the
Tumbleweed upgrade of my OpenSuse 13.1 distro. Followed the
recommendations that it be fully updated prior to the upgrade, and then
started. The process was incredibly long, but eventually I was
presented with a highly coloured KDE screen. After I loaded the panel
with necessary apps I tried to do some work, but something was wrong.
Dolphin was a dog (or a hog) Create New>Folder took 45 seconds to
present the dialogue box. Trying to close an app would take the same
amount of time. I had read a good review of an RPMbased distro called
ROSA, so I created a USB image to install it. The installation crashed
at the "load software " stage with an error message quoting an rsync
failure. My dreams of a fast KDE desktop evaporated. More work needed,
so I dropped the OpenSUSE 13.2 DVD in the slot - where things were going
well until the partitioning stage, where, because a GPT partition table
had been built by the Russians(ROSA) I could\d do nothing with it.
Dirty shut down, and then select the Rescue section of the install
disk, and using parted I was able to remove the partitions by number.
Parted picked up the problem with the GPT setup. I obviously answered
the question correctly because on the next boot up with the Install disk
everything was clean. 13.2 is installing now, so far so good.
(Interval of 30 minutes)
I now have a functioning system again.
Maybe I will wait a little while before attempting Rosa again.
Qusestion: Why would Rosa create a partition of One Kilobyte?
Andrew Greig
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