[opensuse-factory] How-To: Alpha5 -> Beta1 Upgrade
Hi, I've never done an upgrade installation before on any of my SuSE installations. This time, because I installed Alpha5 on a brand new machine that is not (yet) mission critical, I was thinking of trying an upgrade. My question is: How do I do this? Do I use the YaST "System Update" from the running system? Do I boot from the Beta1 DVD and install over the existing system? Something else? Pointers to information resources are welcome, of course. Thanks. Randall Schulz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Hello again, On Thursday 26 October 2006 12:26, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
I've never done an upgrade installation before on any of my SuSE installations. This time, because I installed Alpha5 on a brand new machine that is not (yet) mission critical, I was thinking of trying an upgrade.
My question is: How do I do this? Do I use the YaST "System Update" from the running system? Do I boot from the Beta1 DVD and install over the existing system? Something else?
I launched the YaST "System Update" module with the Beta1 DVD in the drive. After moment of "analyzing..." it told me the product on the installation media was not compatible with the running system. I told it to continue and the initial installation proposal lists: - 1389 packages to update - 26 packages to install - 2 packages to remove On the "Update Options" page it says "Update from Non-Linux system to ? ?". (For the record, I have a mostly stock 10.2 Alpha5 installation running.) If I proceed with this, am I likely to have problems? Randall Schulz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> writes:
Hello again,
On Thursday 26 October 2006 12:26, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
I've never done an upgrade installation before on any of my SuSE installations. This time, because I installed Alpha5 on a brand new machine that is not (yet) mission critical, I was thinking of trying an upgrade.
My question is: How do I do this? Do I use the YaST "System Update" from the running system? Do I boot from the Beta1 DVD and install over the existing system? Something else?
I launched the YaST "System Update" module with the Beta1 DVD in the drive. After moment of "analyzing..." it told me the product on the installation media was not compatible with the running system. I told it to continue and the initial installation proposal lists:
- 1389 packages to update - 26 packages to install - 2 packages to remove
On the "Update Options" page it says "Update from Non-Linux system to ? ?". (For the record, I have a mostly stock 10.2 Alpha5 installation running.)
I would file this as a bug in bugzilla.
If I proceed with this, am I likely to have problems?
I hope not - but this is a path we do not test in general, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
Dne Thursday 26 October 2006 23:29 Randall R Schulz napsal(a):
If I proceed with this, am I likely to have problems?
I just did it, without any problems. You should now that updating from alpha or beta is unsupported and untested :) but it works. -- Pavel Nemec package-maintainer http://en.opensuse.org/Czech_Packagers_Team --------------------------------------------------------------------- SuSE CR, s.r.o. e-mail: pnemec@suse.cz Lihovarska 1060/12 tel:+420 2 9654 2373 190 00 Praha 9 fax:+420 2 9654 2374 Ceska republika http://www.suse.cz
Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hello again,
On Thursday 26 October 2006 12:26, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
I've never done an upgrade installation before on any of my SuSE installations. This time, because I installed Alpha5 on a brand new machine that is not (yet) mission critical, I was thinking of trying an upgrade.
My question is: How do I do this? Do I use the YaST "System Update" from the running system? Do I boot from the Beta1 DVD and install over the existing system? Something else?
I launched the YaST "System Update" module with the Beta1 DVD in the drive. After moment of "analyzing..." it told me the product on the installation media was not compatible with the running system. I told it to continue and the initial installation proposal lists:
- 1389 packages to update - 26 packages to install - 2 packages to remove
On the "Update Options" page it says "Update from Non-Linux system to ? ?". (For the record, I have a mostly stock 10.2 Alpha5 installation running.)
If I proceed with this, am I likely to have problems?
Randall Schulz ---------------------------------------------------------------------
I finished upgrade just over an hour ago from 10.2Alpha4 to Beta1 booting from the DVD (10.1Alpha5 DVD iso + delta remastered) and selecting the update route. The only problem I experienced was with autoyast cloning the system where the error was "/usr/bin/jing: no such file or directory". I forgot to note the bug id however. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> writes:
Hi,
I've never done an upgrade installation before on any of my SuSE installations. This time, because I installed Alpha5 on a brand new machine that is not (yet) mission critical, I was thinking of trying an upgrade.
My question is: How do I do this? Do I use the YaST "System Update" from the running system? Do I boot from the Beta1 DVD and install over the existing system? Something else?
Booting from Beta1 DVD/CD and choose "Update" (instead of new Install) is the best way. "System Update" is not so good tested but should work from Alpha5 to Beta1, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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