From: Alexei_Roudnev (Alexei_Roudnev_at_exigengroup.com)
Date: Thu Jul 05 2007 - 23:00:44 CEST
Message-ID: <076601c7bf47$8e193b70$7331a8c0@sjc.exigengroup.com> From: "Alexei_Roudnev" <Alexei_Roudnev@exigengroup.com> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 14:00:44 -0700 Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Installing SLES10 SP1
Hmm; does it looks as 'SP1 release was open beta'? I think so -:). And why
to make people confusing and force OEM-s to install un-tested
SLES10-de-facto-Openbeta instead of tested and very stable SLES9 SP3?
(SLES10 could cause a huge ## of problems; I found 4 many, just running few
simple installations and not
going too deep inside. For example:
- OCFSv2 problems all the way, as I know;
- No RAC cluster installation for it (at least it is not documented on
Novell, cause many questions, and more likely it dont work at all);
- Physical standby - Oracle lost TCP/IP log shipping connection under heavy
system load; reason unknown, problem don't exist in SLES9 or RHEL4.4;
- NFS - few glithces in SLES10 (I decided don't test it futher - after
having Oracle failures on backup few times);
- YOU system - no any censored words at all; broken and never fixed
properly;
- iSCSI - no multiport support, use experimental driver; no way to mount
iSCSI disks without hacking installation scripts (at least in case of
multipath); multipath, lvm and iscsi are not integrated together;
- _netdev option (in fstab) documented but don't work because service
removed;
- hotplug option (in fstab) don't documenetd properly and don't work
properly anyway;
- Installation problems on some CD's caused by driver reading wrong data
from the device. /I never ever saw anything like this/
)
SLES10 SP1 is totally new system, in reality. At least it looks as a new
system. And who need this rush and lost of customer's confidence because of
a poor SLES10-release quality (forgiven for OpenBeta but not for Release)?
The wost thing is that you can't get SLES9 preinstaled anymore, and that
SLES9 was frozen on a low point (compare with RHEL4.4 which have better LVM,
better heartbeat2, and some other important benefits).
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> By-the-by, you can use the CD's or DVD to simply do an upgrade on a
> existing SLED/SLES system - just choose upgrade rather than a new
> install during the instillation process after booting from the SP1 DVD
> or CD #1 -
>
> Works like a charm -
You can even do it within the "living" system:
YaST2 -> Software -> System Update
(of course only after changing the installation sources properly).
But after upgrading to SP1, "System Update" is no longer available.
BTW: did all of you realize that since SP1 appeared no more updates for GA
will be published (not even security updates)?
Viele Grüße
Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)
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