Yesterday, I tried to update my SuSE 8.2 machine to SuSE 9.0. It was a complete disaster. The machine is a dual boot, Win2K on hda and Linux on hdb (well, /usr is also on hda).
I first tried to do an Update Existing System. I couldn't get it to boot. This didn't bother me, as I've read of others with this problem.
Then I tried doing an initial install without reformating /home. No good. I could get it to boot, but nothing would run. OK, I thought, version conflicts in configuration.
I then did another initial install, this time reformatting all Linux partitions. The install procedure reached the point of setting up the boot configuration, and went into a loop displaying "Error in writing boot configuration" ... I'd answer OK, then this message would come up again ad infinitem. No way to continue the install.
At this point, I reinstalled SuSE 8.2. I doubt that I'm EVER going to try updating to 9.0 again, but I'd like some idea what might have happened so that I might be able to fix it at 9.1 or whatever. Does anyone have any ideas? Yes,but I am afraid it is not going to be one you like :) I have seen repeatedly on this list the errors reported by people who
Michael Satterwhite wrote: try and upgrade to a new version as opposed to installing from scratch. A friend of mine tried the same idea to upgrade from 8.1 to 9.0 and it took her about a week to realise I was right and that she should have done a clean install of the new version as opposed to trying to upgrade from an older version. DO NOT try and update to a newer version, rather do a clean install of the new version. My advice is therefore to leave your existing partitions as they are and do a clean install of the new version. During the install you will have opportunity to format the partitions. HiH -- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Licenced ex-Windows user (apart from Quicken) Registered Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Using SuSE 9.0 with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================