RE: [SLE] How to upgrade from 7.3 to 8.1
SuSE recommends that you upgrade to 8.0 first. If you don't have a copy of it, then that makes matter more complicated. A clean install is always best, but that can be a pain. It all comes down to how much you customized your install of 7.3. If you only use it for desktop stuff, you might get away with just keeping your /home and /root and replacing everything else, but if your on a network and your box is setup as a file/print or web server then you definatly can't get away with dumping your configuration files. If you could provide more details I'd be more than happy to offer additional suggestions. Things that would be helpful to know: How much Linux experience do you have? How much time do you want to spend on this upgrade? How many people are effected by this machine and how important is it? ... I have a machine at home that has been upgraded from 7.2 -> 7.3 -> 8.0 -> 8.1, and it appears to be working fine. On my personal machine, I decided to do a fresh install at version 8.0, since there was a big change in the /etc layout (e.g. the 'plumbing' changes mentioned earlier). Oh, make sure that you do a FULL SYSTEM BACKUP, before you start the upgrade. This has saved by butt on a number of occasions... believe it or not, most installers just can't cope once you run out of disk space...lol, I'd call myself an experienced computer user, but I've fallen into this several times... Hope that helps, - Lowell
-----Original Message----- From: Christopher D. Reimer [mailto:creimer@rahul.net] Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 4:36 PM To: Robert Pollard Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] How to uprade from 7.3 to 8.1
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Robert Pollard wrote:
Where do I get started? I need the files to download to totally upgrade the system and how to do it.
You might find doing a fresh install is better. While 7.3 and 8.1 look similar on the surface, the plumbing in 8.1 is a tad bit difference. Of course, if you're not prepared to do a fresh install before hand, a fresh install may not be practical.
Christopher Reimer
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On Friday 31 January 2003 02:28, Alleman, Lowell wrote:
SuSE recommends that you upgrade to 8.0 first. If you don't have a copy of it, then that makes matter more complicated. A clean install is always best, but that can be a pain.
It all comes down to how much you customized your install of 7.3. If you only use it for desktop stuff, you might get away with just keeping your /home and /root and replacing everything else, but if your on a network and your box is setup as a file/print or web server then you definatly can't get away with dumping your configuration files.
I haven't done hardly any customizations. It's just a desktop system that I'm using to learn more Linux with.
If you could provide more details I'd be more than happy to offer additional suggestions. Things that would be helpful to know: How much Linux experience do you have? How much time do you want to spend on this upgrade? How many people are effected by this machine and how important is it? ...
I have a lot of Solaris experience (7 years). I have worked with Linux off and on for about 2 years. Time is no issue. I am not in a hurry. I would like to know what the typical sys admin would go through if they had a file/print server they were maintaining. I make it a goal to know as much as possible about system administration so I can use it on my resume and in the real world.
I have a machine at home that has been upgraded from 7.2 -> 7.3 -> 8.0 -> 8.1, and it appears to be working fine. On my personal machine, I decided to do a fresh install at version 8.0, since there was a big change in the /etc layout (e.g. the 'plumbing' changes mentioned earlier).
Oh, make sure that you do a FULL SYSTEM BACKUP, before you start the upgrade. This has saved by butt on a number of occasions... believe it or not, most installers just can't cope once you run out of disk space...lol, I'd call myself an experienced computer user, but I've fallen into this several times...
I could NFS mount my Sun machine onto the Linux system and do a backup of anything I need. I do have some mail I would like to keep. I'm using KMail.
Hope that helps,
- Lowell
Thanks for your valuable time.
-----Original Message----- From: Christopher D. Reimer [mailto:creimer@rahul.net] Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 4:36 PM To: Robert Pollard Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] How to uprade from 7.3 to 8.1
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Robert Pollard wrote:
Where do I get started? I need the files to download to
totally upgrade the
system and how to do it.
You might find doing a fresh install is better. While 7.3 and 8.1 look similar on the surface, the plumbing in 8.1 is a tad bit difference. Of course, if you're not prepared to do a fresh install before hand, a fresh install may not be practical.
Christopher Reimer
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The 03.01.31 at 17:28, Alleman, Lowell wrote:
Oh, make sure that you do a FULL SYSTEM BACKUP, before you start the upgrade. This has saved by butt on a number of occasions... believe it or not, most installers just can't cope once you run out of disk space...lol, I'd call myself an experienced computer user, but I've fallen into this several times...
Absolutely true!!!! I tried to upgrade from 7.3 to 8.1. Al went well, apparently; but yast forgot to mount my /opt partition and run out of space at mid-install... without saying a single word of warning. So, when it tried to reboot, it failed, there were so many things missing :-( I had to do a clean install then. My other option would have been to restore my system and retry the upgrade, but my type of backup involves installing first Linux (7.3), and then copying every modified file (a script similar to what yast1 did as backup). So... if I had to do it again, I would try the upgrade, after having a good backup - and have a very close look at the partitioning scheme -. If it works, there should be much work saved in configuring again the system, yast should be able to cope with it - I hope. If it doesn't work... well, then try the clean install, it's only time you expend :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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