On Wednesday 01 June 2005 14:07, Hartmut Meyer wrote:
Hi,
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 14:51, Jon Nelson wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Hartmut Meyer wrote:
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 14:06, Jon Nelson wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Hartmut Meyer wrote:
http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/10/thallma_you_oldpatches.html
Yeah, that sounds like it, but here are some points:
1. if you can't upgrade a running system (Debian can, most others can) without BOOTING FROM THE CD or DVD, then why does YaST have the option available?
You can add other installation sources that provide newer (but non-core) packages like
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_9.3/yast- source
And than use this YaST2 module to update all available packages.
That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the "System Upgrade" option/component of YaST. It's sole purpose is to upgrade the entire system (say, from 9.2 to 9.3), and despite no warnings or problems encountered along the way, apparently, it doesn't /quite/ work.
That's the one I meant.
I know it is confusing and many people belive that this module is meant to do an update of the running system from one release to the next, but it is not.
Did you read the manual? It's chapter 2.3.4 "System Update" (SUSE Linux 9.2) in the big Admin manual.
Thanks everyone. By booting with the SuSE dvd and doing an install I solved by problem - strange tho that it did not seen to recognise that I had installed almost all 9.3 packages already. Also it did not reinstall the nvidia drivers :( Also I've used Yast for quite a few years and there is no way I would have thought to check in the printed manual to see if the tool labelled "System Update" did something other than update the system!! Please either rename this tool to "partial system update - read manual first" or add a new warning message when that app is started ! Please. Thanks CPH