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On 01/21/2016 02:40 PM, Bjoern Voigt wrote:
Warning: Do not skip a release when upgrading! Example: do not upgrade from 13.1 to 42.1. Instead, from 13.1 upgrade to 13.2, then from 13.2 upgrade to 42.1.
After you take your backup in preparation for any upgrade, its just about as easy to do one as the other. And regardless of that it says on that page many people get away with skipping one or more releases. I've done that in the past and it was fine. Its not supported.But then this is Linux, and you are pretty well on your own anyway, do don't let the fiction of "supported" slow you down. Its a myth. Don't hork over your ONLY computer. However there is usually so many more thing you want to do at upgrade time that a re-partition, maybe new drives, maybe new file systems, maybe a new distro, that there often good reason to start over. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org