On Friday 07 May 2004 13:06, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 07 May 2004 12.59, Frits Wüthrich wrote:
On Thursday 06 May 2004 13:21, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 06 May 2004 13.01, Wolfgang.Bauer@schoellerbank.at wrote:
After I copied all my /home-data to my windowspartition via text-console and freshly installed 9.1, I had a running linux-system again. But I really have to say: poor upgrade-system. It used to work better with older Suse-distributions...
I didn't try the upgrade feature where you boot from the CD, but I did use the "Upgrade entire system" feature in yast, where you upgrade from a running system, and so far I seem to have avoided all problems reported on this list. I even have a working XFS, which apparently is a problem for some.
On my 8.1 version YAST has under the software section 'System Update'. Is this the choice you mean?
Yes that's the choice I mean, but I'm not so sure about using it to go from 8.1 to 9.0 or 9.1. 8.1 used rpm 3.x, and 9.0 and 9.1 use 4.x, and when I upgraded to 9.0 I had a world of trouble. On one machine where I went from 8.2 to 9.0 I lost the entire rpm database and was forced to rebuild it from scratch. On another, where I went from 8.2 to 9.1, the database as a whole stayed intact but the packages that were upgraded at the same time as rpm were lost to rpm and had to be reinstalled. It was possible to do it and keep a running system, but it was a huge mess.
By contrast, the systems were I've gone from 8.1 to 8.2, or 9.0 to 9.1, have gone through painlessly
Two days ago I updated from 8.1 to 9.1 by booting from the 9.1 CD. It worked very well. I am a bit hesitant to follow the same path on this desktop, as I don't want to lose any data, it is also a dual boot with WinXP. On my laptop I didn't mind if I lost it all and had to install from scratch in case it got messed up What would be the best way to deal with this, without losing any data. I already started doing it from the 9.1 DVD, but I aborted the installation because I had first to delete my evolution version. -- Frits Wüthrich