On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Ralph Clark wrote:

Philip Stokes wrote:

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I'd go for the upgrade. A couple of minor glitches as I've detailed in other posts to the list, but all in all it went remarkably smoothly, and certainly a lot less hassle than blowing everything away and starting again from scratch.

I've always been wary of upgrades. What if they quietly screw up over some subtle little misconfiguration on your system? When you do the full re-install you blow away all those little misconfigurations you introduced over the lifetine of the previous version. Then you can re-apply your customisations in /etc and your home directory from a backup diskette by hand, one by one. Call it revision.

Well I backed up my whole system before I upgraded, just in case :) But in fact most of my configuration subtleties seem to have been carried over. Where I had altered files and they were replaced, the original files were kept in place with an .rpmsave extension, as well as being backed up to /var/adm/backup, and I was mailed notification of the changes as well, which made it easy to go through the new system checking that everything was as I want it.

Can someone who's already done it please mention whether we need to download any patches _before_ installing/upgrading?

You shouldn't need to. Anything that's been updated can be fetched from SuSE's server and replaced using YaST after you've upgraded. Phil -- Philip Stokes Email: phil@stokes.demon.co.uk Fax: +44 (0)870 164 1242 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>