Linda A. W. wrote:
A great boon to the SuSE release process would be for an upgrade to be able to upgrade from multiple prior releases just as on Windows.
It does work pretty well, depending on how much updating and installing of packages you have done (and how). I have done upgrades with very few problems with skipped versions (i.e I skipped 8.1 and 9.0). To say this is a SuSE limitation is just wrong, and to say it is no problem with Windows is totally false. I'd do an update with Linux any day of the week (across multiple releases or not) vs Windows, especially if you have updated much of the embedded problems/programs of MS (ex. IE or Office).
With SuSE, if you miss 9.2 because it hoses your system, don't expect to be able to cleanly upgrade to 9.3 from 9.1.
That may be your experience but it certainly isn't mine.
You have to go through each intermediate release no matter how bad they are and no matter how badly they may not work on your computer in order to be able to do the update/upgrade feature in Yast[2].
If you are updating your running system via the system update feature of Yast rather than booting from the DVD/CD and upgrading that way, that may be your problem. I have always upgraded via booting from the newest versions media. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871