How about going from 7.2-7.3 then to suse 8? the key here is a successful migration without loss of data or system configuration. Do we have a detail migration process from Suse for 7.2-7.3? -----Original Message----- From: Philip Burness [mailto:pburness@btinternet.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 11:34 PM To: MNaser Subject: Re: [SLE] Upgrade Suse 7.2 to 8.0 I have read that a 7.2 -> 8.0 is not advised / supported by SuSE. For me this is dreadful, I thought the whole purpose of rpms is to allow sucessful upgrading. I would like to support SuSE financially by purchasing 8.0, (I don't mind paying for value, and SuSE has plenty of that), but I cannot afford to wipe out my existing installation and perform a fresh install. The potential for error is huge, not to mention the down-time. This is a real problem SuSE! I guess future releases will be based upon the 8.0 version which means I can't upgrade to any future releases either! What am I to do? Phil

Hello all,

I'm running Suse 7.2 and some day I'll need to upgrade to 8.x . I have been looking at the mail list for informations and I'm getting mixed messages. I'm looking for detail documentation preferable from Suse shows all pre-install, install, and configuration of the migration process from 7.x - 8.0. I have a production system that runs critical apps and I can't afford to make a mistake in OS upgrade. Here is my configuration : /dev/hda1 / ext2 /dev/hda2 /boot ext2 /dev/hda3 /user ext2 /dev/hdb1 /home ext2 /dev/hdb2 swap swap So if you have information on how to move to 8.0 without any loss of data with the above configuration, Please send them my way.............

Thanks in advance ~mn