Don Werts wrote:

Hi all, I know this has been asked previously but I can't find it in my archives. I'm currently running SuSE 5.3 and just rcv'd. the subscription of 6.1. I intend to backup all the 'config' files and am asking would it be better to do a clean install or just the upgrade? I'd appreciate any feedback. I have visited the suse.de/Support/ site and found it very informative and a lot of 'look out for this', good stuff!

On a different note. Is the same crowd who was complaining about 'too much packaging' the same group that's having problems with the SuSE subscription program? one wonders.........

TIA, Don

Most of the time the upgrade works. For me it failed completely. So make sure you move all critical files to another partition or backup first. So, if the upgrade fails, you can do a clean install. Bill -- 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 archive 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>>

Hi, On Tue, Jun 01, Don Werts wrote:

Hi all, I know this has been asked previously but I can't find it in my archives. I'm currently running SuSE 5.3 and just rcv'd. the subscription of 6.1. I intend to backup all the 'config' files and am asking would it be better to do a clean install or just the upgrade? I'd appreciate any feedback. I have visited the suse.de/Support/ site and found it very informative and a lot of 'look out for this', good stuff!

If you back up all your configuration files and are ready for a fresh install, you can as well try an update and let us know if it works (no problem doing the fresh install afterwards ;) FWIW: I updated my home machine from 4.3 to 6.0 and further to 6.1. I always let YaST write backups of the configuration files and didn't have major problems except it broke UUCP. My biggest problem was harddisk space. I needed to delete stuff on console 2 whilst YaST was installing on console 1. Seems I need a new machine ;) [...]

TIA, Don -o) Hubert Mantel Goodbye, dots... /\\ _\_v

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