-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 2008-10-02 at 20:33 +0930, Rodney Baker wrote:
Not true if you have a number of system configurations: postfix, amavis, mysql, apache... I find an upgrade preferable.
Personally, I would be backing up /etc, /home and perhaps /usr/share (some apps keep config files under that path).
I'd do a full backup in any case. For instance, if it happens that the new version doesn't work on your machine, you can go back to the old version easily.
Format and do a clean reinstall, then restore app-specific configs from the previous version. I wouldn't blindly copy /home back - just the data files. Some of the config files are likely to have changed between 9.x and 11.x so it is safer (IMHO) to allow 11.0 to recreate all the user-specific configs (all the dot directories).
That is just my preference. I did this recently from 10.3 to 11.0 on my work laptop with zero major problems and just a couple of minor glitches that were easily resolved (so minor that I can't even remember specifically what they were).
I upgraded from 10.3 to 11.0 without any major glitches :-) However, I would hesitate to do 9.1->11.0, even in steps: Not in one jump, because it would be surely problematic. Not in steps, because it would take days. As an experiment, yes, of course. Or if bored. Or if there are too many configurations (a server). It is certainly possible in steps: my machine has been upgraded from 8.x upwards. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjkrd0ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9V1dACfWnkCmLd1LR7VSx1nYBm1HhSr 9NgAniglFeIKSg8iDIZcp+63zk8tVn7T =WA9B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org