Hi Brian, I am having the same issue. I have tried with yast and under installation mode selected "update an existing system" and it works fine - that is, the disk partitions from SuSE 8.1 are preserved and the network static ip and fstab settings are preserved. However, I can't figure out how to do it with autoyast. In the DTD definition file /usr/share/autoinstall/dtd/general.dtd I do not see any options for updating an existing installation. Can someone please confirm if autoyast supports update installation from SuSE 8.1 to 9.2. Many thanks, Bis. Brian Childs wrote:
I'm trying to install SuSE 9.2 using autoyast.
I have a a cluster of SuSE 8.1 systems that were installed with a different installer. They each have one filesystem in an lvm1 logical volume that I really want to preserve.
If push comes to shove, I can restore the data, but it would make my upgrade very time consuming.
No matter what tags I set in the control file, my pv's,vg's,and lv's are erased and then re-created. Is there a way to prevent this?
Brian