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