On Friday 16 September 2005 10:18 pm, Trevor Batley wrote:
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 15:00 -0500, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
On Thursday 15 September 2005 02:36 pm, Eberhard Moenkeberg wrote:
Has anyone done an upgrade from SuSE 9.3 to 10 yet? How was the experience, did it work? do i need to watch out for anything?
How did you upgrade?
(Boot from the 10 CD and select upgrade, or run YaST from within 9.3)
I used YAST from within 9.3 to updrade both an AMD64 & 32 bit box.
Worked fine apart from the multimedia aspects noted in some other e-mails, the proprietary NVIDIA driver wasn't running + YOU did NOT recognise that I was running 10 (it thought I was still running 9.3). As per the support database http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/10/thallma_you_oldpatches.html
To fix the last problem I just copied /var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x00000001/DESCRIPTION/description to /var/adm/YaST/ProdDB/prod_00000001 and restarted (all OK).
But, as the support article says, it is probably smart to boot from the CD/DVD prior to running the upgrade.
OK, after MUCH struggling I could not upgrade to 10. Everything appears to go well, until the first real reboot, and it just craps out all over the place. RC1 appears to have problems previous Betas did not, but I can't figure out what it is. I can install, and all the hardware appears to be located and installed properly, but when I reboot for the first time after the upgrade is finished, things look horrible. for example, powersaved fails to load at all, and Xorg will even refuse to load, then if I log in at the shell, the whole PC locks up. This didn't happen with Beta4. -- See Ya' Howard Coles Jr. John 3:16!