Hi again, to my help request:

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Hello everybody,

I recently switched to Suse, starting with 8.0 and now I want to upgrade to 8.1. So I downloaded the CD image from the FTP server, burned it on a CD and booted with it. Setup for a network installation through FTP. The Yast2 GUI installer loaded properly but then, what a surprise when I reached the step to select the installation mode saying something like:

There is already a Linux installation. Do you want to: - Make a new installation. (and therefore loose the current one) - Boot the current OS.

So, where is the upgrade option? I found other messages asking that on this mailing list but no answer. The proposed suse_upgrade boot option is useless.

I thank all those that proposed solutions but I couldn't get a proper one. It has been proposed: - to use the apt-get utility but it seems a bit risky, I am keeping it as a 'last chance' option. - to use the YAST update tool but that doesn't upGRade. And for:

This is the way upgrading works :

1) Boot from install cd, dvd, etc 2) Choose INSTALLATON option 3) Select the language 4) The next screen will detect a previously installed version of Linux, giving the option of upgrading to the newer version.

It doesn't work that way for me :( Here are the details of what I am going through, hope someone will spot the problem, if any: 1) Downloaded ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/8.1/boot/boot.iso 2) Made a CD with it. 3) Booted my Suse8.0 machine with the CD. 4) From the startup menu, selected 'Installation' option. 5) The linux kernel loaded ok. 6) Got the message 'Please make sure that CD number 1 is in your drive!'. Selected 'Ok' and got the message 'Could not find the SuSE Linux Installation CD. Activating manual setup program'. (I also tried the 'Back' option that leads anyway to the manual setup) Since this is not an install CD from a comercial version of Suse, I assume this is normal and therefore the manual setup must be the normal procedure. 7) Selected language (English) 8) Selected keyboard (US) 9) Entered the main menu consisting of the options 'Settings', 'Sys. info', 'Kernel modules', 'Start installation/system', 'Exit' and 'Power off'. 10) I loaded the kernel modules for the network card and those for the ReiserFS where my / is and XFS where my /home is, just to be sure the installer doesn't miss anything but with or without, it doesn't change the problem. 11) Selected the 'Start installation/system' option. 12) Got the menu 'Start installation/update' (-> here there is the term 'update'!), 'Boot installed system', 'Start rescue system', 'Eject CD'. So I selected 'Start installation/update'. 13) Got the 'Source medium' menu, I configured the network option. Once done, the installer is loaded into the ramdisk properly. 14) Got the YaST2 GUI -> selected language, again 'English' 15) And here, sadly, I got the only 2 options: 'New installation' and 'Boot installed system' but not an upgrade option. Does others got the same problem? I don't think I am doing something wrong but hope so ;) I can see only two reasons: could be the fact that my / partition is ReiserFS or that the boot.iso provided by SuSE doesn't allow to upgrade. In both cases, this is quite bad... Thank you in advance for any extra help. Cheers, Raphael -- ________________________________________________________ Raphael Leplae, Ph.D. Research Scientist SCMBB - ULB Plaine, BC6 Tel: +32 2 6505499 Blvd du Triomphe Fax: +32 2 6488954 B-1050 Brussels raphael@scmbb.ulb.ac.be Belgium http://scmbb.ulb.ac.be ________________________________________________________

Thanks a lot Togan! That works. Togan Muftuoglu wrote:

* Raphael Leplae; <raphael@scmbb.ulb.ac.be> on 30 Dec, 2002 wrote:

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1) Downloaded ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/8.1/boot/boot.iso 2) Made a CD with it. 3) Booted my Suse8.0 machine with the CD. 4) From the startup menu, selected 'Installation' option.

type suse_update then it should do upgrade (do not select)