[opensuse] Suse 9.2 need upgrade
I have installed on a machine still SuSE 9.2 I tried You to upgrade, but gives me just an error not found. How can I upgrade? To what should I upgrade? .... bye Ronald -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 01/26/2008 09:46 PM, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
I have installed on a machine still SuSE 9.2
I tried You to upgrade, but gives me just an error not found.
How can I upgrade? To what should I upgrade? ....
Upgrade to 10.3, 9.3 is already end of life, 9.2 has been for some time. You can download or buy the install discs from http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org HTH -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2008-01-26 at 21:46 +0800, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
I have installed on a machine still SuSE 9.2
I tried You to upgrade, but gives me just an error not found.
As 9.2 has finished its life period, the maintenance update servers are no longer available, and YOU will fail.
How can I upgrade? To what should I upgrade? ....
You have to upgrade the entire thing: get the DVD from the current version, boot it, and choose upgrade, or install new. Make a backup first. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHm1Q3tTMYHG2NR9URAlAyAJwJQsbF5HsXmPv64iFdx5nMPpU6PgCgl/1x HzKduWcREPBl9VNi7J4c3P4= =uNlA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
I have installed on a machine still SuSE 9.2
I tried You to upgrade, but gives me just an error not found.
How can I upgrade? To what should I upgrade? ....
9.2 is obsolete and unsupported for some time - perhaps the repos were not found, that would not be surprising. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
I have installed on a machine still SuSE 9.2
I tried You to upgrade, but gives me just an error not found.
How can I upgrade? To what should I upgrade? ....
Save the contents of /home, /opt, and /etc on DVD or something. If you have a /usr/local, save that too. Do a fresh installation, subject to the following advice: For ease of upgrading in the future, put /home and /opt on their own partitions. You can make /usr/local a symbolic link onto the /opt filesystem On all future upgrades, do a fresh installation, making sure to NOT format the /home and /opt filesystems. It's also advisable to put /tmp on its own filesystem (to minimize the chance of corruption on the root partition). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2008-01-27 at 02:18 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
How can I upgrade? To what should I upgrade? ....
Save the contents of /home, /opt, and /etc on DVD or something. If you have a /usr/local, save that too.
I save everything >:-)
Do a fresh installation, subject to the following advice:
For ease of upgrading in the future, put /home and /opt on their own partitions. You can make /usr/local a symbolic link onto the /opt filesystem
I believe in linux, or in suse, /opt is not required for that purpose, as it is only populated with files from rpms. But instead, /usr/local is not.
On all future upgrades, do a fresh installation, making sure to NOT format the /home and /opt filesystems.
It's also advisable to put /tmp on its own filesystem (to minimize the chance of corruption on the root partition).
Have you noticed that opensuse 11, and probably most distros, will only allow us to use up to 15 partitions? It is a side effect of libata using the scsi device name convention. In the past, even two weeks ago, having a disk divided into several partitions, has saved my butt, by limiting unrecoverable disk damage to a single partition. But the developers want us to put every thing into a few huge partitions. And huge could mean half a terabyte. That's a lot of data to have on a single partition. For testers like me having several bootable systems, this is a blow. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHnbVVtTMYHG2NR9URAjDWAJ49Nz2HW2toeYYH3ULSC6QT/S0R5QCggwIg 9nFAZkPEsPLamvP0lj3zgag= =Giv7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. schreef: | | | | Have you noticed that opensuse 11, and probably most distros, will only | allow us to use up to 15 partitions? It is a side effect of libata using | the scsi device name convention. | | In the past, even two weeks ago, having a disk divided into several | partitions, has saved my butt, by limiting unrecoverable disk damage to | a single partition. But the developers want us to put every thing into a | few huge partitions. And huge could mean half a terabyte. That's a lot | of data to have on a single partition. | | For testers like me having several bootable systems, this is a blow. | | -- Cheers, | Carlos E. R. Ofcourse. But maybe it is meanth for simple users? I myself *need* more partitions, to test also. Now i want to see how the new 11.0 installs, but i have an updated factory. I do not want to overwrite that, nor the working 10.2, that is around, and can be used if all others fail, which sometimes happens... /boot i have seperate, and that keeps all the nessesary files for all the platforms...(until now, this saved me lots of trouble..) /home can also be mounted to several platform versions, if one does not have the space for seperate different /home partitions...(having a recent back-up, just in case, might sometimes not be such a bad idea afterall..:) - -- Have a nice day, M9. Now, is the only time that exists. ~ OS: Linux 2.6.24-rc8-git2-3-default x86_64 ~ Huidige gebruiker: monkey9@tribal-sfn2 ~ Systeem: openSUSE 11.0 (x86_64) Alpha1 ~ KDE: 3.5.8 "release 36" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAked0hcACgkQX5/X5X6LpDh0NgCeNzT+QCohtjfhRprIfc4RWESQ AswAmwT7K6cF1kpG6VBfR86QWkTFA3aR =/xVn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2008/01/28 14:01 (GMT+0100) M9. apparently typed:
Carlos E. R. schreef:
| Have you noticed that opensuse 11, and probably most distros, will only | allow us to use up to 15 partitions? It is a side effect of libata using | the scsi device name convention.
| In the past, even two weeks ago, having a disk divided into several | partitions, has saved my butt, by limiting unrecoverable disk damage to | a single partition. But the developers want us to put every thing into a
It isn't any fault of SUSE distro developers. The kernel developers are the perpetrators of the SCSI partition limit in libata.
| few huge partitions. And huge could mean half a terabyte. That's a lot | of data to have on a single partition.
| For testers like me having several bootable systems, this is a blow.
Ofcourse. But maybe it is meanth for simple users? I myself *need* more partitions, to test also. Now i want to see how the new 11.0 installs, but i have an updated factory. I do not want to overwrite that, nor the working 10.2, that is around, and can be used if all others fail, which sometimes happens... /boot i have seperate, and that keeps all the nessesary files for all the platforms...(until now, this saved me lots of trouble..)
Even in current 11.0 Factory you can still have up to 62 partitions per HD just as before if you follow the instruction in the 10.3 release notes. http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/10.3/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html#09 Over the past few days I added 10.3 and Factory to a system already having 10.0, 10.1 & 10.2 and 19 partitions. http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/dfsee/gx260L05.txt Of several systems I have Factory installed on only one is using libata, and I did that only to experiment with LVM. -- "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." John 1:1 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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The Sunday 2008-01-27 at 02:18 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
How can I upgrade? To what should I upgrade? ....
Save the contents of /home, /opt, and /etc on DVD or something. If you have a /usr/local, save that too.
I save everything >:-)
Do a fresh installation, subject to the following advice:
For ease of upgrading in the future, put /home and /opt on their own partitions. You can make /usr/local a symbolic link onto the /opt filesystem
I believe in linux, or in suse, /opt is not required for that purpose, as it is only populated with files from rpms. But instead, /usr/local is not.
kde3 and gnome both install in /opt, as wll as some other software.
On all future upgrades, do a fresh installation, making sure to NOT format the /home and /opt filesystems.
It's also advisable to put /tmp on its own filesystem (to minimize the chance of corruption on the root partition).
Have you noticed that opensuse 11, and probably most distros, will only allow us to use up to 15 partitions? It is a side effect of libata using the scsi device name convention.
I've heard about that...but until 2003, my Linux desktop machine was 100% SCSI, and my laptop here is SATA, which I understand follows a lot of SCSI conventions, even on non=Linux machines. I've never come close to 15 partitions on a disk So, no, I've not personally noticed it, but on the other hand, I haven't had a reason to notice.
In the past, even two weeks ago, having a disk divided into several partitions, has saved my butt, by limiting unrecoverable disk damage to a single partition.
Yep. If the root partition has to be fsck'ed, I'm already on "Plan B"..and it's very easy for it to quickly progress to "Plan C" (root partition repair) which can easily turn into "Plan D" -- reinstalling the whole OS... And if the original fsck were caused by a corrupt file in a directory that doesn't need to be on the root filesystem, well then, I've gone from an easily manageable problem to Plan B, C or D for...no good reason at all. That's why I keep as little as possible on the root partition -- if the OS or its configuration isn't being modified, then I don't want ANY writes going to the root partition (except /etc/mtab). Here's the partitioning on my laptop: akulkis@kulkix:~> df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 1012M 463M 498M 49% / udev 1013M 172K 1013M 1% /dev /dev/sda6 9.0G 4.8G 4.3G 53% /usr /dev/sda7 6.0G 1.2G 4.9G 19% /var /dev/sda8 10G 2.6G 7.5G 26% /opt /dev/sda11 64G 47G 17G 74% /home /dev/sda9 2.0G 804M 1.3G 40% /tmp /dev/sdb1 79G 21G 58G 26% /windows/c akulkis@kulkix:~> Significant Symbolic links: /var/tmp -> /tmp /usr/local -> /home/local /local -> /home/local But the developers want us to put every thing into a
few huge partitions. And huge could mean half a terabyte. That's a lot of data to have on a single partition.
For testers like me having several bootable systems, this is a blow.
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux)
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Aaron Kulkis -
Carlos E. R. -
Felix Miata -
Joe Morris (NTM) -
Joe Sloan -
M9. -
Ronald Wiplinger