I have SuSE8.2 Professional. When the time comes, what does one have to do in order to upgrade to SuSE 9.X? Am I required to go shopping for a full version again? Do i purchase a Patch? Can I just download whatever I need seemlessly and continue on with my existence? What happens if I don't want to upgrade for an additional 2-4 years? Obviously I'm rather new to SuSE.... -- It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered. -- Larry Wall in <199709041935.MAA27136@wall.org>
On Monday 15 September 2003 6:36 am, Tom Allison wrote:
I have SuSE8.2 Professional.
When the time comes, what does one have to do in order to upgrade to SuSE 9.X? Am I required to go shopping for a full version again?
They sell a "upgrade" version, which is the professional version without the documentation. I think it was $40(?) or basically the same as the personal. It's available through the online SuSE store.
Do i purchase a Patch? Can I just download whatever I need seemlessly and continue on with my existence?
Don't know. Do you want to risk it? Since it may be a renamed 8.3 you might be able to get away with it. IMHO starting fresh seems to be the best way to go.
What happens if I don't want to upgrade for an additional 2-4 years?
There's still people running 7.3 and earlier. You'll just be behind :-) -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.2 Pro
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 06:36:56 -0400 Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net> wrote:
I have SuSE8.2 Professional.
When the time comes, what does one have to do in order to upgrade to SuSE 9.X? Am I required to go shopping for a full version again? Do i purchase a Patch? Can I just download whatever I need seemlessly and continue on with my existence?
What happens if I don't want to upgrade for an additional 2-4 years?
Obviously I'm rather new to SuSE.... -- It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered. SuSE offers an update version. This has all of the media, but not as many books.
Also, when upgrading from one release to another, I generally install the new release into a separate file system and maintain the old release just in case I need to roll back. My /home and /usr/local are separate file systems so that they remain in tact accross upgrades. The only problem I had from 8.1 to 8.2 was with KDE. KDE 3.1 upgraded fine from KDE 3.0, but when I rebooted into SuSE 8.1, my menus were hosed. I finally got that corrected. - -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Zg9W+wA+1cUGHqkRAqomAJ90+cpDP9B3n/WP55X46gsC2V3a3wCeMbvE iUT5+nPc2r/p6Hvxm0czVYA= =7gZF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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