What I'm looking for here are some experiences upgrading from 7.1 to 8.1. What can go wrong (especially on remote machine which I can only access through ssh) ? You can't update remote, because the system must not be active while the
On Jan 2, Daniel Nilsson
Can I still use SuSEfirewall or do I need to convert to SuSEfirewall2 ? You will have to convert to SuSEfirewall2, because fw1 doesn't support iptables, I think.
If I were you, I'd setup the new system on a new Harddisk (machines with SuSE 7.1 don't have new hard disks anyway, so it's time to change ;) and when everything is configured, change the disks (or copy the partitions, if the old HDD is good enough). I won't have to tell you about backups, do I? At least make a copy of /etc, /var and /usr/local. In general, updating from 7.1 to 8.1 probably won't work very good because they differ far too much. A firewall doesn't have much config on it anyway, so it is easier to start with a fresh installation. kind regards, Markus Gaugusch -- _____________________________ /"\ Markus Gaugusch ICQ 11374583 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign markus@gaugusch.at X Against HTML Mail / \ Linux 2.4.19-4GB * Now playing Disturbed - 03 - Stupify