On Wednesday, August 31, 2005 @ 5:08 Am, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 08:51 pm, Greg Wallace wrote:
I am in the process of upgrading my old 8.1 system to the latest version. I want to go through each version in order to minimize my chances of problems along the way (I have all of the boxed sets). So, I started with step 1 today -- upgrade 8.1 to 8.2.
Ah well..... even though it didn't go well just think: you only have 4 more "didn't go wells" to go through!
Just one more reason why doing fresh installs is the way to go.
Just my $.02
I can't do fresh installs because I have been unable to recover some of my software going that route. It's upgrade or nothing. Hopefully, I can get this CD problem resolved and move on. I actually was able to do 8.1->8.2, 8.1->9.0, and 8.1->9.1 some time ago (last year?), but I never could get a solid disaster recovery process in place. With 8.1, I can always get it back from YaST, but it's a real pain. I'm hoping Storix is going to give me the disaster recovery capability that I need. It seems to recover a system well, though I'm not sure if using it to recover my 8.1 before I moved to 8.2 had anything to do with my current problem (but I doubt it). One thing I did recently is swap CD devices between my Windoze machine and my Linux machine. The one that was on Linux didn't read DVD's. I thought being able to upgrade with DVD's would make things easier. Well, I couldn't get anywhere trying to read the 8.2 DVD and had to use the CD's anyway! Maybe I shouldn't have swapped hardware. But I was able to write CD's with this device before I went from 8.1 to 8.2, so it has to be fixable! Greg Wallace