Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (144 mails)

[Jay Smith <susedevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

THanks. I think I'll try it just for the sake of pure curiousity. LOL, I'll also
download 10.2 when the final stable release is done. 

On Sat Nov 25  0:59 , Darryl Gregorash  sent:

>On 2006-11-23 01:04, jdd sur free wrote:
>> Jay Smith a écrit :
>>> Hey, with the upcoming arrival of OpenSuse 10.2, I was wondering, can
>>> anyone tell
>>> me how to upgrade from one suse to a higher version w/o having to use
>>> a CD/DVD? I
>>> am imagining that there must be some way to upgrade from OpenSuSe
>>> 10.1 itself or
>>> online or something. Let me know if anyone has any idea. Thanks
>>
>> this is explained on the wiki
>> jdd
>>
>>
>Which you have to dig a lot in to find :-)
>
>Since the OP doesn't appear to subscribe to opensuse (at least he
>doesn't post there), here's my reply from there (with caveat spelled
>properly this time):
>
>http://en.opensuse.org/Updating_SUSE_Linux
>
>Essentially you are just adding the new version's installation
>repository as an installation source, and updating everything for which
>a newer version is available (which of course will be everything you
>have installed already). If you have installed anything from an external
>repository, eg. from Packman or the opensuse "additional" repositories,
>you will also have to amend those entries to point to the new version's
>packages. Anything which cannot be upgraded must be removed.
>
>Caveat emptor -- there is a strong warning at the top of the page that
>this procedure is not supported, and I suspect the overwhelming majority
>of the list's members would strongly recommend against it.
>
>-- 
>The best way to accelerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s²
>
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