How can I upgrade a system from 7.3 to 8.0 professional, without loosing the old settings. bye Ronald Ronald Wiplinger (ÃQ¤¯¯Ç), CEO, ELMIT - THE Internet Solution Provider Tel. +886 2 8809-7680, Fax. +886 2 2809-9158, Mobile: +886 915 653-452 Net2Phone:8869550066, ICQ: 111651169 http://www.elmit.com http://www.wiplinger.org
Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
How can I upgrade a system from 7.3 to 8.0 professional, without loosing the old settings.
Boot from CD1 and just choose the obvious: install. After that, you can choose "upgrade existing installation", or something similar. Have you even tried *anything* before send mail to this list??? Paul.
Answer is OK, but please don't scare away the newcomers. Haven't we had enough arrogance on this list lately? lördagen den 27 april 2002 11.48 skrev Paul Uiterlinden: :: Ronald Wiplinger wrote: :: > How can I upgrade a system from 7.3 to 8.0 professional, without loosing :: > the old settings. :: :: Boot from CD1 and just choose the obvious: install. After that, :: you can choose "upgrade existing installation", or something :: similar. :: :: Have you even tried *anything* before send mail to this list??? :: :: Paul. -- San Francisco, n.: Marcel Proust editing an issue of Penthouse.
* Anders Dahlqvist (dahlqvist@sundsvall.mail.telia.com) [020427 10:01]: ::Answer is OK, but please don't scare away the newcomers. ::Haven't we had enough arrogance on this list lately? Oh come now. Beating down someone who keeps smacking himself with a hammer isn't arrogance. It's sad..and sometimes fun. ;) But yes..lets not scare of the newbies. ::lördagen den 27 April 2002 11.48 skrev Paul Uiterlinden: :::: Ronald Wiplinger wrote: :::: > How can I upgrade a system from 7.3 to 8.0 professional, without loosing :::: > the old settings. Answer is from my experience. When you boot off the 1st CD you will come to a choice that lets you "update only installed packages". You should choose this. Then later you can go in via YaST2 and add things that are new. It will upgrade the pkgs you have installed and take care of any pesky deps that might have changed. It will save all the new .conf files and other such things with a .rpmnew extention so that your old config files in /etc and other places don't get smoked. The config files in your home directory will be largely unaffected. Note that if you are using kde2 and not 3..then you will find it's new configs in .kde not .kde2. You can migrate those over as you see fit. When I installed KDE3 it asked me if I wanted to import the settings. For the most part I would do this. tar up /etc and move it to your personal home directory. Since it's most text files this shouldn't be that big of a tarball. So as root do this... cd / tar cvf etc-backup.tar /etc mv etc-backup.tar /home/<user> <user> = you :) And do the upgrade. I went from 7.1 - 7.3 without a hitch. Yesterday my office mate took 7.3 to 8.0 and it worked fine. -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. -GC --=====-----=====--
Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* Anders Dahlqvist (dahlqvist@sundsvall.mail.telia.com) [020427 10:01]: ::Answer is OK, but please don't scare away the newcomers. ::Haven't we had enough arrogance on this list lately?
Oh come now. Beating down someone who keeps smacking himself with a hammer isn't arrogance. It's sad..and sometimes fun. ;)
But yes..lets not scare of the newbies.
Okay, okay, I was a bit blunt. Perhaps because my upgrade was not what you would call "smooth sailing".
::lördagen den 27 April 2002 11.48 skrev Paul Uiterlinden: :::: Ronald Wiplinger wrote: :::: > How can I upgrade a system from 7.3 to 8.0 professional, without loosing :::: > the old settings.
[snip very constructive description by Ben]
And do the upgrade. I went from 7.1 - 7.3 without a hitch. Yesterday my office mate took 7.3 to 8.0 and it worked fine.
And now some ways to make it work less fine: ;-) 1) Have your /boot partition mounted read-only (/etc/fstab) 2) Have your own compiled kernel installed 3) Have "hda=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" in /etc/lilo.conf The first issue gives a puzzling error about not being able to mount the boot partition. Initially, I thought it had to do with my root partition being a software RAID device. Took me quite some time to figure out it was the "ro" in fstab for my boot partition. After solving the first issue, updating the base system finally went okay. Then the system reboots to start the upgrade of the remaining packages. First thing I noticed is that no new kernel was installed, and my own kernel was not there anymore. I still wonder why this should have happened. Luckily, I had some othere kernels still lying around, including the original SuSE 7.3 kernel. So I booted that kernel, and next thing I saw my CD drive was not recognized anymore! After some head-scratching, I realized it had to be the "hda=ide-scsi" in /etc/lilo.conf (which I need for the SCSI emulation for my ATAPI CD-RW). After rebooting for the zillionth time, finally the CD drive was recognized again and the upgrade finished. Oh joy! Morale: once you start fiddling, you keep on fiddling. Still, I'm quite happy with the upgrade. Despite the issues as mentioned above, I was able to pull myself by my boots out of the swamp. And most settings have been preserved. Those that haven't can easily be restored by using the saved files (such as /etc/modules.conf.rmpsave). Paul.
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