On Thursday 26 February 2009 23:11:53 Allen Zhu wrote:
http://en.opensuse.org/Update_SUSE_to_next_version [...] Anders, what about this method?
I have used it (or something similar to it) in the past. At one point, my server went from suse 8.something (8.1 or 8.2, can't remember) to 9.3 without ever booting from the cd. But it can present problems, and it's not a method I would recommend to someone who isn't highly experienced at solving sometimes critical problems. As a small example, at one update, rpm got updated to a version which was incompatible with the previous version of glibc, before glibc was updated, and then the update got interrupted. rpm then refused to start. It wasn't overly difficult to solve (rpm2cpio worked, so I manually unpacked the new version of glibc) , but I wouldn't recommend placing other people in similar situations, if you're not very sure of their competency level. I would make the warning at the top of that page bigger. However, in 11.1 I'm told zypper can handle this, so it may be something we can do when 11.2 comes out. Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org