On Friday 24 April 2009 05:04:15 am Stan Goodman wrote: ...
2) Working from the existing v10.3, I would install ext3 on the home partition and mount that partition v10.3.
New created ext3 mounted on /home will mask existing files, so you want to mount it to /mnt or any other directory created for that purpose.
3) As though I were backing up the v10.3 home partition, I simply copy it in toto to the partition newly made to be the v11.1 home partition.
4) Finally I install v11.1 on the root partition prepared for it, defining the newly populated partition as it /home, and instruct that this /home partition not be formatted.
To me, this looks like the perfect way to proceed, and it should leave me with a new system very much like the old one, although there would no doubt be a few apps that need to be replaced. Is there any problem with this? Have I overlooked something?
From safety point of view it is OK. From usage point it is a hassle. All your communication and bookmarks will be obsolete very soon, so if you need to go back you will miss all new stuff. Although, I don't think that you will go back without major breakage in anew system. In that case some obsolete communication stuff is of no concern anyway. -- Regards, Rajko http://news.opensuse.org/category/people-of-opensuse/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org