On 2013-10-30 18:45, John Andersen wrote:
You can certainly upgrade in place with OpenSuse, even skipping a couple releases without any ill effects.
Careful. If you are talking of "zypper dup", it certainly does not support skipping a single version (said by "the boss" in writing). The DVD upgrade does.
And there is no reason that you can't retain Reiserfs root partition, unless 13.1 forcefully deprecates Reiseerfs, which I have not heard anyone suggest.
Well, the 13.1 YaST partition manager module can no longer format nor modify reiserfs partitions. The section has been removed, silently and intentionally. If they have done the same removal on the grub packages, well... you have a problem. Apparently it is not the case, I see reiserfs modules there, but someone has to verify they work.
The suggestion that you have to delete a whole bunch of binaries to upgrade is ludicrous in this day and age. Its not the 1990s any more Felix.
He is talking of installing, not upgrading, without formatting. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar)