Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

["Greg Wallace" <jgregw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, August 31, 2005 @ 5:08 Am, Bruce Marshall wrote:

>On Wednesday 31 August 2005 08:51 pm, Greg Wallace wrote:
>> I am in the process of upgrading my old 8.1 system to the latest version.
>>  I want to go through each version in order to minimize my chances of
>> problems along the way (I have all of the boxed sets).  So, I started
with
>> step 1 today -- upgrade 8.1 to 8.2.

>Ah well.....  even though it didn't go well just think:  you only have 4
>more 
>"didn't go wells"  to go through!

>Just one more reason why doing fresh installs is the way to go.

>Just my $.02

I can't do fresh installs because I have been unable to recover some of my
software going that route.  It's upgrade or nothing.  Hopefully, I can get
this CD problem resolved and move on.  I actually was able to do 8.1->8.2,
8.1->9.0, and 8.1->9.1 some time ago (last year?), but I never could get a
solid disaster recovery process in place.  With 8.1, I can always get it
back from YaST, but it's a real pain.  I'm hoping Storix is going to give me
the disaster recovery capability that I need.  It seems to recover a system
well, though I'm not sure if using it to recover my 8.1 before I moved to
8.2 had anything to do with my current problem (but I doubt it).  One thing
I did recently is swap CD devices between my Windoze machine and my Linux
machine.  The one that was on Linux didn't read DVD's.  I thought being able
to upgrade with DVD's would make things easier.  Well, I couldn't get
anywhere trying to read the 8.2 DVD and had to use the CD's anyway!  Maybe I
shouldn't have swapped hardware.  But I was able to write CD's with this
device before I went from 8.1 to 8.2, so it has to be fixable!

Greg Wallace