On Saturday 10 February 2007 13:45, Rami Michael wrote:
Hi All,
I know many threads have talked about this before, but I was wondering if there was a definitive thread that is considered the ANSWER or best of breed for this topic. My questions and scenarios are this.
#1. For example, if you install opensuse 10.0 and only use the Novell based openSuse repos then you can pretty easily upgrade to 10.1 or 10.x. However, lets say you use 10.0 and you install smart and some other common repos like jenglh. Now you are outside of the "known" packages. Are you now unable to do a regular update using the new openSuse DVD?
#2. Is there a common way or is it even possible to upgrade between 10.x and lets say an 11.x ? Is this supported at all? I only heard horror stories from people going from 9.3 to 10.x
As always, thanks for any help/opionion.
Regards
Ok, here's my definitive answer to this: If you BACK UP your system before doing anything, then you are free to try to upgrade from x to y whatever that may be. If you like what you get, you are fine. If you don't like it, just restore and nothing lost. If you don't back up your system, you are leaving yourself open to a world of hurt if things don't go right. And someday they won't go right. Additionally, if you do an upgrade and have some problem, whether minor or major, you're not going to know whether it is something that crept in while doing the upgrade (maybe an incompatibility) or a new bug within the upgraded system. Kinda leaves you wondering what to do about it.. I once upgraded from SuSE 8.0 to 8.1, didn't have a back up, and it barfed all over the place. I ended up doing a fresh install of 8.0 and never did go to 8.1 Since that time, I ALWAYS do fresh installs, leaving the previous system intact in it's own partitions. Works well. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org