Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Philip Burness <pburness@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have read that a 7.2 -> 8.0 is not advised / supported by SuSE. For me this
is dreadful, I thought the whole purpose of rpms is to allow successful
upgrading.

I would like to support SuSE financially by purchasing 8.0, (I don't mind
paying for value, and SuSE has plenty of that), but I cannot afford to wipe
out my existing installation and perform a fresh install. The potential for
error is huge, not to mention the down-time.

This is a real problem SuSE! I guess future releases will be based upon the
8.0 version which means I can't upgrade to any future releases either!

What am I to do?

Phil

>Hello all,
>
>I'm running Suse 7.2 and some day I'll need to upgrade to 8.x . I have been
>looking at the
>mail list for informations and I'm getting mixed messages. I'm looking for
>detail documentation
>preferable from Suse shows all pre-install, install, and configuration of
>the migration process
>from 7.x - 8.0. I have a production system that runs critical apps and I
>can't afford to make a mistake in OS upgrade. Here is my configuration :
>/dev/hda1	/	ext2
>/dev/hda2	/boot	ext2
>/dev/hda3	/user	ext2
>/dev/hdb1	/home	ext2
>/dev/hdb2	swap	swap
>So if you have information on how to move to 8.0 without any loss of data
>with the above configuration, Please send them my way.............
>
>
>Thanks in advance
>~mn

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