On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Patrick wrote:
Shinichi, I think everyone here would agree that updating is not a good idea at all on your system. A clean install from scratch would be your best course of action moving to 8.1 setup. There have just been way too many changes to even consider just an update on your machine. Do a fresh install and start new with 8.1, you will be pleased you took that route.
Backup your files, but not your settings as most probably won't even work in the new 8.1 install.
I aggree with the rest Patrick said, but I would really suggest taking a backup of settings as well. (Especially if you have manually tweaked something.) When you have installed the new version, then you should not simply copy the backed-up settings back, but use them as reference. If you use some sort of dialup to connect to the internet, the settings for this are especially nice to have even if the new SuSE-version uses some different way of connecting. Some settings can be copied to a new installation without problem. I always just copy .fetchmailrc, .procmailrc, .pinerc to my new system. This also works across different distros. In some situations, I have been really happy to have an old working XF86Config file at hand. Regards Ole