Traps and tips for upgrading to Suse 9.3
* Backup /home and other vital data OK. I usually have my Data as a separate mount in my home directories (e.g. /home/user1/Data). I have tried using the old /home/user1 mapped on a separate partition on the new installation, but many applications
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 16:36 +0200, Jos van Kan wrote: Hi Jos (dank u wel), Stephan and Kai, then have some problems with the configuration. Evolution in my case did not like the old /home/user1/.evolution of the previous installation. I ended up having to import everything by hand and soft link my default /home/user1/Documents to the /home/user1/Data/Documents. I would have liked to keep all the setup info in my applications after a new install. Is there a way to do that with a new installation?
* Never ever leave a conflict unresolved. In principle unprotect rather than remove. OK
* After installation install all on-line updates including the multimedia patches. * If you want all video codecs still get libxine1 from packman. If you don't, DivX 5 doesn't work and maybe more. Have you heard of this script? http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=43378
It is a RPM, which gave some dependency error if I can remember rightly, but I have used the earlier script version 43378-convienientsuse.kmdr (attachment didn't go through, max is 30k - I can PMail it to those interested). It worked very well on my home system (Purchased Novell SUSE 10.1) for DVD and general multi-media functions.
* Reconfigure your sound card. OK
* If you upgrade from a 2.4 kernel run /sbin/lsusb. OK
If nothing shows up whereas you have some peripherals on usb ports, check fstab for a line containing usbdevfs. Replace it with: usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0 OK
* Run /etc/init.d/rpmconfigcheck and update config files if necessary (Admin guide pg 128-129) OK
* Remove /var/lib/pin/ARCHIVES.gz and rerun pin. OK
Since 9.3 has been rock solid and I haven't obtained any new hardware recently I haven't upgraded since. So I can't tell you about the idiosyncrasies of 10.0 and 10.1.
OK My problem is that my brand new hardware's MoBo chipset and 2 onboard NIC's have problems with SuSE 9.3 that I used for a while on older hardware. With the installed 10.0 there are no problems at all, but I'd like to upgrade them 4 systems to at least 10.1 (because it should be more stable, as it apparently is the SLES 10 base). I will try your suggestions next week. First I will try an update from a system that is quite standard. I will pass on my experiences about an OpenSuse 10.0 downloaded version update to a Novell original purchased SUSE 10.1. On the side: Is it perhaps better to wait for 10.2? I have read many posts that had a thumbs down for 10.1. The systems must be done by the end of Dec. Then I want to go live with a new ERP on them as 2x2 HA (drbd & heartbeat) clusters in the first quarter '07. drbd runs faultlessly on two 10.0's since Feb '06. :-) Al