So, I saved the essential bits of the configurations and did a clean install of 10.2 (with reformatting the partitions) with a minimal system. This worked fine. I have updated 10.2 to the latest versions of everything and am now trying to upgrade as explained here http://en.opensuse.org/Updating_SUSE_Linux. It's failing. When I try to run any of Software management, Update or Online update, yast2 complains that it can't read the package files from the cache directory and disables the 10.3 repositories.
Does anyone know how I can complete this upgrade, or do I have to stay at 10.2 for ever!
Particular method described in http://en.opensuse.org/Updating_SUSE_Linux is for those that can debug most of the problems and in the best case you have working system, but some leftovers from previous installation. I used it in the past only to update from development version (current 11.0 Alpha2) to Factory. Now I look if YaST module Factory Update is available, then install and use that one. Though, it is only for Factory, another set of packages that is not recommended to everyone.
It seems as fresh installation of 10.2, so nothing much to loose if you install 10.3 as new installation. Few words more about partitions on your hard disk, how they are mounted in 10.2, reasons why you go around (installing 10.2 and than upgrading), would be helpful to recommend some other solution.
This was described in my earlier (long) posting. For some reason, 10.3 won't install on my box (either from DVD or net-install CD) and it doesn't tell me why. 10.2 installs without problems.
Partition information (in console as root user): fdisk -l above is L not number 1
Mount points: cat /etc/fstab
3 relevant partitions. /dev/hda3 - 64MB ext3 - /boot /dev/hda9 - 1GB swap /dev/hda10 - 26GB reiserFS - / /dev/hdb1 - 250GB reiserFS - /home
Copy and post them here, please.
Can't do a copy & paste as the box has a minimal install (no X11, mail, browser etc.) David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org