So, no one has any idea how make the FTP upgrade work? Has anyone even had success with this? I bought SuSE 7.3 because I thought their upgrade utils were worth paying for. If I wanted to re-install every 6months I could use Slackware. Is the FTP upgrade a gimick; you get so frustrated trying to do the FTP upgrade that you eventually buy the disks? -j original post that no one answered follows: --cut-- I've searched the suse-linux-e archives from June 2002 through today, and I've found this question asked a few times with no response. If there's a FAQ file I'm missing on the please let me know: I'm trying to upgrade my SuSE 7.3 system to 8.0 though the use of a mirror of ftp.suse.com. I've downloaded the boot.iso. I run it. It loads the 38meg "root" file (thank goodness I'm not on a dialup). Then I get the upgrade choices screen. The first time I went through this I asked to just update all my current stuff and delete old non-supported stuff. The delete worked fine, but when it tried to update 600+ packages it suspiciously took less than 5 minutes. The progress screen just flew on by as if I all the RPMs were already in RAMdisk or something. Then it immediately booted my machine (I don't mean reboot, I mean it did something like init 5. I saw the kernel messages go by and then my KDM login screen came up. Checking uname -r I found that it was running the newer kernel 2.4.18, rather than the older 2.4.10. Unfortunately, my PCMCIA devices didn't show up. That is, eth0 didn't show up in ifconfig -a. pcmcia_core seems to be loaded, but no eth0. Nothing more happened after getting to the KDM login screen (which reports my distro is still 7.3). On my second attempt I decided to go with the "default with Office" installation. But had the same results except this time YAST2 seemed to think my system was already 8.0. In the update dialog it says "Update base system: no", yet if I check the packages (under details) I find that the aaa_base package is listed as needed to be upgraded. The installation went the same as the above, and still no IP. After booting up straight into my normal setup (rather than using the install CD), I tried using YAST2 to update the distro. I figured this really shouldn't work because the base system still needs to be upgraded. But I can't even find out. Using "System Update" I fill in the FTP site and after a long delay (loading something or other) it prompts me to enter "CD 1". Using "Online Update" all FTP addresses fail with either "Bad server response" or "Cannot find file". Note, these are servers that I can FTP to normally. So, I'm at a loss. What am I doing wrong? What can I do to Upgrade to 8.0? (Besides buy the disks) -j --cut--
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:09:18AM -0600, Jason Varsoke wrote:
So, no one has any idea how make the FTP upgrade work? Has anyone even had success with this?
I don't. And I haven't.
I bought SuSE 7.3 because I thought their upgrade utils were worth paying for. If I wanted to re-install every 6months I could use Slackware.
conceivably :)
Is the FTP upgrade a gimick; you get so frustrated trying to do the FTP upgrade that you eventually buy the disks?
That, or download the stuff/burn it to disks/ install from there... I've seen only a few reports of successful upgrades from 7.3 -> 8.0. I've seen *TONS* of reports on *un*successful attempts. I think the bottomline more or less goes like this: "Because of the *MAJOR* changes in 8.0 (the more or less complete abandonment of /etc/rc.config in favour of the /etc/sysconfig/ structure, as well as the putting to rest of YaST in favour of YaST2) there are about a gazillion things that may go wrong in an *upgrade*." IINM then more than 90% of the 7.3->8.0 upgrades performed have resulted in {non|dys|mal}functioning systems. Personally I'd be surprised to see a network upgrade do any better than CD/DVD one, under the circumstances. I should mention that I didn't read your initial post, just so's you know... But anyway: I'd suggest you backup your data, and do a clean (ftp)install of 8.0. It works, and I'm pretty sure it'd save you loads of post-upgrade headaches... Now about the *update* features of YaST2(YOU): I'm pretty well satisfied, although all the nice 'press' apt has gotten on ths list has me kind of curious to check that out. HTH Jon Clausen
On 10/10/2002 11:09 PM, Jason Varsoke wrote:
So, no one has any idea how make the FTP upgrade work? Has anyone even had success with this?
I did not upgrade via ftp, but I did, with very little problem, upgrade 7.3 to 8.0 via dvd.
I bought SuSE 7.3 because I thought their upgrade utils were worth paying for. If I wanted to re-install every 6months I could use Slackware.
Ah, the freedom of Linux. You may do as you prefer. SuSE doesn't force you to upgrade at all, and they DO even let you install via ftp. But, you are certainly free to use Slackware.
Is the FTP upgrade a gimick; you get so frustrated trying to do the FTP upgrade that you eventually buy the disks?
No, I don't believe SuSE operates that way (I've used SuSE since 6.2). But since I have always bought the CDs (and was thrilled when the dvd version came out), I have only updated packages via ftp. Have you checked out the support database? You may just find the answers there, especially since 8.0 has been out for quite a while. -- Joe & Sesil Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace God, I am what I am.
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