-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-03-29 at 13:03 +0100, G.T.Smith wrote:
Sorin Peste wrote:
After running with SUSE 10.1 for a while I've decided it's time to upgrade to openSUSE 10.2. What I'd like to do is a fresh 10.2 install
Firstly, having experience of upgrading many different systems with many different OSs I would not even consider starting without thoroughly backing up configuration and user data.
I do a full backup as first step.
An upgrade can be a very exotic way of turning your machine into a potential paperweight, and one should have a route to get back to where you were before you started before you start.
Absolutely. I only hosed one upgrade, from 7.3 to 8.1, because yast2 (7.x used yast1) forgot to mount extra partitions (/opt, I think) and run out of space in mid-upgrade. Disaster! Yast did not calculate the space needed, gave no warning. Next time I learned to check and mount manually if necessary.
I admit to be being surprised about the partitioner attempting to rebuild the partitions. Did you select upgrade/update an existing installation? This usually leaves the current partitions alone. If it cannot find the existing installation there is something very wrong.
The thing is that, although he mentions "upgrade", he is in fact doing a fresh install, wanting to leave /home unformated (I left the original paragraph above: I guess you misunderstood slightly). This needs entering the manual or expert partitioner mode.
I am just going through the process of upgrading a box from SuSE 9.3 to 10.2 now....
I did the same. My 10.1 got trashed in a disk crash just before backing up, so I restored 9.3 and upgraded to 10.2. Went fine O:-)
I have so far found that the following got torched.....
syslog (configuration file deleted)
Not really. There has been a change, and /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf.in got removed, yes, but I think /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf remained. Anyway, yes, a lot of configuration files get deactivated, renamed to *.rpmsave or similar, and you have to check the output of "rcrpmconfigcheck" run, or the output of and review one by one all entries. I prefer that to doing a new install.
Without such a backup in place this process of restoring functionality would be much more difficult.
Absolutely. It is a must, be it upgrade or fresh install.
BTW I wish that a list of discontinued applications was available so one can access the impact of an upgrade beforehand.
Yes. There is another problem, if you use the downloaded dvd versus the bought one: there are many apps that are missing and you have to install from the ftp repo. Theoretically, Yast should be able to add a secondary source during the install/upgrade phase, but this fails: at that point of the install/upgrade the network is down. Yast has not even loaded the ethernet drivers. I typed the url to be told some crazy error, just because the was no network. Too bad. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGC7KptTMYHG2NR9URApchAJ9GWgK5b7vP8iX+o2B5rs+VpeXL2ACghuCQ JLSDgPo4AZ559IuMA9esfA8= =tX7Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org