When going to SLES 9, would you recommend upgrading from 8 to 9, or backing up data files, then restoring on a fresh copy of SLES 9. For upgrading, is there a document from SUSE that lists the steps for doing this? Thanks, Ryan
Ryan McCain wrote:
When going to SLES 9, would you recommend upgrading from 8 to 9, or backing up data files, then restoring on a fresh copy of SLES 9.
For upgrading, is there a document from SUSE that lists the steps for doing this? ALWAYS do a fresh install after you have done a complete backup. I have seen so many horror stories unfold on this list and with my friends who decided to do upgrades and not fresh installs. Granted it was from SuSE 8 -> 9 and not SLES but I would think the logic holds.
-- The fresh install Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================
ALWAYS do a fresh install after you have done a complete backup. I have seen so many horror stories unfold on this list and with my friends who decided to do upgrades and not fresh installs. Granted it was from SuSE 8 -> 9 and not SLES but I would think the logic holds. In the past, my experience is that SuSE upgrades are generally good, but I also agree with Hylton and I recommend this for every OS, . I also set up my file systems so that the stuff that crosses releases remains on a separate file system, such as /home, /usr/local. This depends on your specific installation. One of the problems tends to be locations of various configuration files. For instance, smb.conf used to be located in /etc, but now is in
On Sunday 07 November 2004 4:44 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: the /etc/samba directory. -- Jerry Feldman <gerald.feldman@hp.com> Partner Technology Access Center (contractor) (PTAC-MA) Hewlett-Packard Co. 550 King Street LKG2a-X2 Littleton, Ma. 01460 (978)506-5243
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