With 9.1 on the way, what have most of you found to be the best way to install it? Simply upgrade via YaST or a completely fresh install (wiping out 9.0 and reformatting, etc.)?
On Sunday May 23 2004 9:25 pm, Jack Brooks wrote:
With 9.1 on the way, what have most of you found to be the best way to install it? Simply upgrade via YaST or a completely fresh install (wiping out 9.0 and reformatting, etc.)?
I've done a number of upgrades with NO major problems. Fred -- "The only secure Microsoft software is what's still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..." (Forno)
Jack Brooks wrote:
With 9.1 on the way, what have most of you found to be the best way to install it? Simply upgrade via YaST or a completely fresh install (wiping out 9.0 and reformatting, etc.)?
I've never tried upgrading via YaST and recent posts here suggests it's not the way to do it, I gather it does not get recognised as 9.1. The favoured method is to boot from CD/DVD and chose the INSTALL/UPGRADE option, making sure you do not reformat your partitions. I've always used this method and most recently to upgrade 3 boxes from 9.0 to 9.1 (both x86 and x86_64). Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.
On Monday 24 May 2004 04.17, Sid Boyce wrote:
Jack Brooks wrote:
With 9.1 on the way, what have most of you found to be the best way to install it? Simply upgrade via YaST or a completely fresh install (wiping out 9.0 and reformatting, etc.)?
I've never tried upgrading via YaST and recent posts here suggests it's not the way to do it, I gather it does not get recognised as 9.1.
Explain please? I must have missed those posts. You're not referring to the old bug where after some upgrades, YaST doesn't properly update /var/adm/YaST/ProdDB/prod_00000001 so you have to edit that file manually, replacing the old version number with the new in a few places? Aside from that, the 'running' upgrade using yast had no problems at all for me.
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 24 May 2004 04.17, Sid Boyce wrote:
Jack Brooks wrote:
With 9.1 on the way, what have most of you found to be the best way to install it? Simply upgrade via YaST or a completely fresh install (wiping out 9.0 and reformatting, etc.)?
I've never tried upgrading via YaST and recent posts here suggests it's not the way to do it, I gather it does not get recognised as 9.1.
Explain please? I must have missed those posts. You're not referring to the old bug where after some upgrades, YaST doesn't properly update /var/adm/YaST/ProdDB/prod_00000001 so you have to edit that file manually, replacing the old version number with the new in a few places?
Aside from that, the 'running' upgrade using yast had no problems at all for me.
OK, now you mention it, that was the problem that was reported, however, no problems with the other way I suggested. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 21:25, Jack Brooks wrote:
With 9.1 on the way, what have most of you found to be the best way to install it? Simply upgrade via YaST or a completely fresh install (wiping out 9.0 and reformatting, etc.)?
If the upgrade does not spit out a lot of errors then go with that (only used YOU to update/upgrade). If you have installed a lot of programs using tgz files or used apt then you will have a lot of problems and probably should use a clean install. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)
On Monday 24 May 2004 18:17, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 21:25, Jack Brooks wrote:
With 9.1 on the way, what have most of you found to be the best way to install it? Simply upgrade via YaST or a completely fresh install (wiping out 9.0 and reformatting, etc.)?
If the upgrade does not spit out a lot of errors then go with that (only used YOU to update/upgrade). If you have installed a lot of programs using tgz files or used apt then you will have a lot of problems and probably should use a clean install.
And how about a parallel install, 9.1 besides 9.0? Do not know how it works but it seems a nice solution, having a proper working system and a possible working new install which needs under circumstances some extra work before everything works properly.
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