On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 13:57 -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
Roger Oberholtzer escribió:
Has anyone done this specific upgrade of openSUSE? If so, any pitfalls? I am hoping to avoid having to do a new install on this type of machine.
Yes, I did it with zypper once, and it worked, not without glitched though.
a) add 11.1 repositories, remove the old ones b) upgrade rpm using either yast or rug(cough, cough) c) install zypper and all its dependencies, do not mess with dependencies manually, let the system to decide. d) run zypper ref and then zypper dup, of course, before that, add the repos to zypper if not there. e) once complete, update fstab and grub boot menu to use /dev/sdX instead of /dev/hdX if needed. f) remove package "devs" if installed e) prey to your favorite $DEITY heh :P f) reboot
warning: this procedure is absolutely unsupported, if it eats your babies, you are on your own.
I do not need to do it on the running system. I was thinking of booting with the 11.1 DVD and choosing to do an update rather than an install. That is of curse if such an option will be given. I have not tried yet - the system is across the country. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- "On two occasions I have been asked (by members of Parliament!), 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage 1791-1871) English computer pioneer, philosopher And remember: It is RSofT and there is always something under construction. It is like talking about a large city with all construction finished. Not impossible, but very unlikely. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org