On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Koushik Kumar Nundy <kknundy@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7 February 2012 02:26, Jos Poortvliet <jos@opensuse.org> wrote:
If I don't reply to mails in the next hours - I'm attempting an in-place upgrade of my 32-bit system to 64. Just to see if Zypper et all. like me :D
Please document the process. I would like to do something like that on my Li-f-e box too.
My advice: don't. Ok, I managed, but only with an openSUSE DVD and quite a few hours of un-breaking my system ;-) The idea is that you first do the kernel, than reboot, do zypper/rpm/etc and the rest. But after doing the kernel it missed the modules to mount my root so game over there... I then used an openSUSE DVD to do the 'upgrade'. It worked but installed outdated packages as I couldn't add the repo's I have while upgrading with the DVD, it timed out on the (perfectly valid) URL's... And it left a broken system, giving some errors of missing stuff after rebooting so I spend quite some time fixing that one too. Then I had to re-install quite a few packages and - now it works again. Not something I'd recommend for somebody not experienced with quite some reasonably hard-core stuff (chrooting, wgetting rpm's and forcibly installing them, all not horribly complicated but not something an 'average' user would be able to do). /Jos
(I still have my laptop, don't worry. And I've got a 12.1 DVD Ready To Rescue as well)
/Jos
-- Koushik Kumar Nundy
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