On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:09 AM, manou
The server has 512MB of ram for the moment. I think there is no problem for the hardware if we want to install 11.0 on it.
I have 11.0 installed on a Dual P3/500Mhz HP server with 256MB RAM on a text console. Currently has 17 days uptime(had to move it recently). It's just an NFS/Samba server tho.
But the problem is that I cannot have console access to the server as it's located in an another country and I think in a datacenter :-(
It may be difficult to start the upgrade in that case. You could do a network install probably by adding the install kernel/initrd into the Lilo or Grub command time and doing a network install, but someone would have to be there. As for starting the install/upgrade from a running system, I'd say it's probably not possible on that much of a jump. The new zypper package manager can upgrade a system, but it didn't come out until recently. I was able to update several systems from Betas and RCs to 11.0 Release with no issues and I look forward to doing it with 11.1 from 11.0.
So, you're right, it's better if I clone this system first and try the upgrade locally.
Very good plan. If you have someone onsite that can do the upgrade with you maybe on phone or video link, that would be the best way(other than going there). But proving it will work first is the challenge. What type of services are you running? NFS, Print, Samba, etc? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org