-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2008-09-23 at 19:07 -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote:
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:27 PM, David C. Rankin <> wrote: <snip>
The point being, a simple backup/restore will allow you to do a fresh install and eliminate any and all lingering 'upgrade' issues.
David ...
that is a handy looking little script, and I am quite sure I will avail myself of it to test an "upgrade" process myself.
I've been told before that this is a "better" upgrade procedure, and have done it once going from Sled 10 to SLED 10 sp1 and all seemed to go well ... but a nagging doubt lingers:
I personally prefer doing an upgrade by, er... doing an upgrade :-)
This system I'm using has been upgraded several times, in steps, from 8.1 to 11.0, without major hurdles. It can't be so bad.
In any case, a full backup is always a good thing.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
I would second the upgrade root, the backup is essential in either case, and it is occasionally useful to have partioning, /etc/fstab and GRUB info to hand on paper if upgrading. 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. 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. - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjeC+MACgkQasN0sSnLmgKcNQCdH4QA0OWIToYYukle9otqH6RO OyUAn3klLEwN9RQXkVPSrDJAK+CktULb =xehO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org