Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3666 mails)

[Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 13 March 2005 2:43 pm, pburness wrote:
> I have an up-to-date 9.0 system and am looking to go to 9.2 but am
> nervous as I have lot's of data I don't want to lose. Anybody had any
> experience with this upgrade?
IMHO: I always prefer a clean install. On my system, I have one partition 
with 9.0 and another with 9.2. This way, if I forgot something, I might 
have it online. 
Additionally, I generally set up my systems with a separate /home 
and /usr/local. This way when you upgrade, you don't affect user 
directories or locally installed elements. 

When I set up 9.2, I found that my email program, sylpheed claws would 
neither buil;d from source nor run. So I simply symlinked the 2 libraries 
to point to the older SuSE 9.0 libraries. This gives me some time to figure 
out why I am unable to build it. 

If you do not have a separate /home (I consider this very important), you 
can use GNU Parted (YaST/System/Partitioner) to resize existing partitions, 
and add more. 

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Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
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