The Tuesday 2004-08-17 at 16:33 -0400, Jesse L. Purdom wrote:
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.
As safe as upgrades are :-) I have always upgraded. Usually it works, sometimes it doesn't. Therefore, I make a point of having a full backup previous to starting the upgrade: if all goes well, I just have a good backup, which always is a 'good thing to have'. If it bombs out, then I can start afresh, without loosing a single file. Problems you may have? If you have several partitions, some of them might not be detected (it happens to me); but they can be manually mounted. Also, having as much free space on the '/' partition comes handy. You will have to decide about a lot of packages that have disappeared or have new names or are incompatible. And after the upgrade, you will have to review many configuration files, but the system will tell you about them. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson