Hi Larry, > After reading a lot of the failure reports and noise.
I agree you'll read a lot of "problems" people are having on this list, but that's typical as people wouldn't email noise to the list saying things work fine. For me, I had SL5.3 i386 crash the server (kernel panic) when running a BackupPC backup job, happened a couple of months ago, while it was working fine for many months on it. I updated to SL5.4 i386 on the weekend, and BackupPC works fine again on that same server (must have refreshed some perl modules or something). I have since update 90% of my SL5.3 servers to SL5.4 and have encountered no drawbacks from doing so. Regards, Michael. > Are the available distributions what we are going to live with for > the immediate future? > > When I read the release notes for SL 5.4 there is no mention of the > S ATA problem or it being fixed. > > NVidea problems I had with SL 5.3 can be taken care of by disabling > the video module at install and boot up and just set the desired > display resolution. Thank for tip from a SL user. > > When I tried to install SL 5.3 on 64 bit system with Serial ATA > disks. The installation just hangs. I have Suse 11. on this > system but really would like to use SL. Suse 11.1 - 11.3 has the > same NVidea problem. > > The ISO images for SL 5.4 were down loaded a few weeks ago and I > wonder if its worth the effort to make the disks and install SL 5.4. > since the release notes never said any thing about the SATA > interface or at least I didn't find it. > > Regards > Larry Linder ------- End of Original Message -------