Re: [SLE] upgrading 8.0-pro to 9.1-pers
Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
Please consider the pro even if you only get the update box (no bookx) It will save greif later. Simplest approach is to use a second drive and store your /home there in tar gz format. borrow one from a friend if you must.
Thanks for your reply. Of course, the pro version will do. But unlike with past versions, the personal version is not the same price as the pro-upgrade. In fact, the pro-upgrade is twice as expensive as the personal version. That makes it worth to figure whether the personal version might do the job as well. So, my actual question remains, is it possible to install old compilers from my 8.0 pro-upgrade cd's on a system with 9.1 personal installed. If not, is there another way to make the personal version compile stuff? Thanks as well for your tip on storing on a second drive. It might be something to consider, though I'll have to figure out how to do it. If it is just as much work as getting the cd-writer to write, I'd just as well do that. Thanks anyway, Vinay
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 12:29, Vinay Ramnath wrote:
Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
Please consider the pro even if you only get the update box (no bookx) It will save greif later. Simplest approach is to use a second drive and store your /home there in tar gz format. borrow one from a friend if you must.
Thanks for your reply. Of course, the pro version will do. But unlike with past versions, the personal version is not the same price as the pro-upgrade. In fact, the pro-upgrade is twice as expensive as the personal version. That makes it worth to figure whether the personal version might do the job as well.
So, my actual question remains, is it possible to install old compilers from my 8.0 pro-upgrade cd's on a system with 9.1 personal installed. If not, is there another way to make the personal version compile stuff?
Thanks as well for your tip on storing on a second drive. It might be something to consider, though I'll have to figure out how to do it. If it is just as much work as getting the cd-writer to write, I'd just as well do that.
for the second drive all you need do is install it and use or make a partition on it. Then you can mount that drive and tar /home and mv that tar to the second drive. The old compilers will need the older librarys and what ever is compiled may not accept the new librarys on the 9.1 system. IMHO borrow some pro disks from a friend if you must. CWSIV
Yo, thanks. Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
for the second drive all you need do is install it and use or make a partition on it. Then you can mount that drive and tar /home and mv that tar to the second drive.
Ok, if I can borrow a drive from someone, I'll try that
The old compilers will need the older librarys and what ever is compiled may not accept the new librarys on the 9.1 system.
Ok, thanks. That's the info I needed. From the SuSE site you can get, among others, libraries for GNOME and KDE and such. Are there also compilers there?
IMHO borrow some pro disks from a friend if you must.
Well, in that case I might just as well get the pro-upgrade indeed. If I need those to get the compilers, I'll either get those, stick to my current installation (it still works fine, I was just curious) or perhaps try another distro like gentoo for a change. Well, thanks a lot. This solves my question. Vinay
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Carl William Spitzer IV
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