YAST->Software->System Update John Scott Raphael Leplae wrote:
Hello everybody,
I recently switched to Suse, starting with 8.0 and now I want to upgrade to 8.1. So I downloaded the CD image from the FTP server, burned it on a CD and booted with it. Setup for a network installation through FTP. The Yast2 GUI installer loaded properly but then, what a surprise when I reached the step to select the installation mode saying something like:
There is already a Linux installation. Do you want to: - Make a new installation. (and therefore loose the current one) - Boot the current OS.
So, where is the upgrade option? I found other messages asking that on this mailing list but no answer. The proposed suse_upgrade boot option is useless.
This is the first Linux OS that doesn't provide an upgrade feature (RedHat, Mandrake, ... always had that). Am I forced to buy the Suse OS to have such feature? Nothing is mentionned in the various manuals/help from the Suse web site too abut the upgrade.
So could someone please clarify this missing feature?
Thank you in advance.
Raphael