-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2008-09-27 at 11:33 +0100, G T Smith wrote:
I would second the upgrade root, the backup is essential in either case,
You mean 'route', surely? :-)
and it is occasionally useful to have partioning, /etc/fstab and GRUB info to hand on paper if upgrading.
Of course, I forgot to mention that. For any system install/upgrade it is better to have that pritned info.
Though if you have an absolutely SuSE vanilla install there is probably not much difference in the options... so YMMV.
I dont have such a setup and a clean install would be for me a royal pain. Fixing the things which did not make the upgrade is usually a lot easier than rebuilding all of the non standard stuff from scratch.
Just my case.
I would regard a clean install and restore as an act of last resort (things are so SNAFU'd from an upgrade to the extent there is no easy way back), and in recent time only had to resort to it due to hardware problems and in one case a power cut during the install process that left machines concerned in a bit of mess.
Yep. The upgrade broke for me when I tried 7.3->8.1, at the time the switch from yast to yast2 was being made. Yast failed to mount all the needed partitions, and too many packages went to the filesystem root instead of /usr or /opt, filling it up and crashing the upgrade. To compose the damage, instead of a full backup I had made a yast backup, which only saves modified system files. So I had to install fresh and then configure everything again from scratch. Now I always make sure the partitions are mounted, and if not, I mount them manually. So the first recomendation is make a full backup, in all cases, because: - If you do a fresh install, you can retrieve any of the old configuration files. - If the fresh install doesn't work, you can go back to the old version exactly as it was. - If you do an upgrade and it fails, you can restore the backup and try again, knowing what the problem was. Or you can abandon the upgrade and install fresh, having all the configuration files saved. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjeKDkACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VAPQCggkWeoTkZHYc4y8YZ7/4medww XEEAoISASTksFwjlrM+j1D5QqJn6UDro =PfpO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org