Poor form to reply to ones own posting, but in this case I hope forgivable. I just finished upgrading another laptop from 9.0 to 9.1 This one went beautifully. Everything migrated perfectly, no errors a simply perfect upgrade. An absolutely fresh install with a backup is a way to do it too... I guess. In my life, it's also a luxury. In a perfect world, I wouldn't need and upgrade. Someone tell me please where I can requisition a perfect world. After this last week I want one *really* bad :) P.S. The ultimate cause of the problem with the Dell upgrade was disk labels. The Suse upgrade process didn't want to upgrade an installed system using disk labels vs device names in /etc/fstab. Bruce Ferrell wrote:
I just did it last night. Dell 5100 Laptop with 9.0 pro to 9.1 pro I also tried the update from yast to start. It wasn't pretty. Not fatal just a pain. To add to my merriment I had quite a few customized packages installed and the supplemental KDE 3.2 packages.
It did upgrade, it took me a long time to get it straightened out (my fault for being too tricky) and I lost no data.
I do have one minor, nagging bug left. The KDE run command (alt-f2) keeps telling it can't run /opt/gnome/bin/mozilla when I enter mozilla in the box... Duh! Mozilla moved. This only happens with a pre-upgrade account. Accounts created after the upgrade work fine.
I guess I could blow .kde away and let the system fix it, but that strikes me as somehow inelegant. Thoughts anyone?
Jesse L. Purdom wrote:
Hello.
Has anyone had any experience performing an "upgrade of an existing system" with SuSE 9.1 Pro, rather than performing a new install? I am upgrading from v8.0 to v9.1 and was wondering if this method is safe.
Thanks.
Jesse