On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 23:01:29 +1100 Andrew Greig via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote:
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?
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I have not tried ROSA for a while. At the time I thought it would become interesting. Maybe I should leave it 6 months... re the partition. I have been noticing that a number of linux distros, on setup, want a partition for the boot loader. My guess is that it could be that. I normally use the "expert" partitioning option in the setups to control '/' and '/home'. Frequently I get messages telling me I have forgotten to provide a boot partition. This is just my observations, I know nothing of the mechanics of this and would be interested to know. H