On Friday 22 February 2008 14:44, Hans Witvliet wrote:
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When doing a manual installation, the very, very last question is wether to generate a XML-config file (for cloning).
I don't recall this, but then, I don't maintain a population of installations, just a couple of one-off systems (one still at 10.0, the other at 10.3), so such an option probably didn't attract my attention.
If you did this the previous time (when you installed the 32-bit system) It is merely making a backup of you precious data, and re-install the system with the 64-bit version, but this time feed the autoinstaller with the old xml-file.
Is this XML configuration file updated as you modify your system configuration along the way?
needles to say that that xml-file should be kept on a different media :-)) One might even tweak that xml-file (for adjusting partitionsize, other filesystems....)
If YaST doesn't keep it updated to reflect configuration changes made as the system's configuration evolves, it's of limited usefulness when upgrading months or years down the line...
BTW, if you don't have that xml-file, it is possible to generate it with YAST, (that one even includes all the additional changes you've done with yast)
OK. That's good. I looked around in YaST (on my 10.3 system) and didn't see this function. No doubt I just don't know what it's called. Where is it accessed?
remember all other (manual) changes, you have to replay manually again
Eh? By "manual" do you mean direct configuration file editing not mediated by a YaST module?
hw
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