On 12/02/18 10:09, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Sunday, 2018-02-11 at 23:44 +0100, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
Le 11/02/2018 à 22:22, Carlos E. R. a écrit :
upgrades the transferred system from 32 to 64 bit. That was with oS 11.2, 2010-09-21.
I heard it was not allowed :-(
No, not supported. It could work, or it could fail. I heard of people having success with it (I asked), so I went ahead.
anyway, I try to exclude this sort of procedure: first like this one lose the news defaults, also I like to test a lot of applications I don't use anymore after some time and forget, so my install because bigger
so A new install from scratch is often a good thing for me
I prefer not to have to configure again things, or having to remember what to install.
I have mentioned this before and now repeat...:-): I always have two (2) HDs in my system with one with the system installed [#] and the second HD having a partition which holds data/config files; I then symlink certain files/directories to this partition from the system on the first HD. Because I always do a clean install, so as to avoid accumulating "baggage" from the older OS, I only have to pay attention to creating the necessary symlinks -- which is a 'snap' when using mc (midnight commander), just 4 clicks of the mouse per symlink.
My current system installs about 20 GB of packages - I'm unsure if that's the compressed or the expanded size.
Good grief! 20GB of *packages*? :-) Here, the OS part of Leap 42.3 (on HD0) takes up only 3.7GB installed and the data part, sitting on HD1, is 4.5GB big (OK, this goes up when I download a copy of Leap or Tumbleweed or whatever) -- a total of 8.2GB. :-) [#] I normally create 4 or 5 30GB-sized partitions to be able to install versions of Linux distros if I want to experiment. At the moment I have Leap 42.3, Leap 15.0 and Tumbleweed installed. Creating 30GB partitions is an overkill I know, but it 'sounds' better than 20 or 40... :-) BC -- Always be nice to people on your way up -- you'll see the same people on your way down. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org