David Jacovkis Halperin
I need some advice on upgrading a SuSE7.3 box. The system delivers mail and files to a few users, and I wonder which is the fastest/easiest/safest way to do this. I have /home and a root partitions, and I'd like to leave /home alone and format root in order to install SuSE9.
I keep both the old and new versions of the OS on the computer. When the configuration of the newly installed OS is ready (it may take several days) then I only change the bootloader configuration to boot the new OS by default. I use this system both on production systems at work and at home. It makes upgrades less stressful, moreover, all configuration files in /etc are easily accessible. Approximately 10 GB for the old system partition is not a big problem nowadays when disk sizes are about 160 GB. -- A.M.