-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2006-02-01 at 16:11 -0000, Brian Green wrote:
1) I'm really troubled by your "... moved to 10.0 from 9.3, ..." comment.
Must I expect to do a repeat clean install when I move from 10.X to 11.0 followed by a tedious rebuild of all the functionality I've grown accustom to in the interim and just deleted? Is there no short cut? Some reference table of installed packages that can be archived before a format/clean install? Ditto, some reference table that might aid a roll-back (i.e. solution to my original problem) to some earlier working state?
You can update the system, instead of doing a new install. Carl comment refers to a new install he did over a 9.3 one that failed because the quick format did not erase everything - that's what I understood, at least. An update does not format the filesystem. It updates package by package to the new version, running from the CD, with your system stopped. Many people do not like it: you may have dependency problems about which Yast will ask you what it should do, it is slow, you have to manually tweak many things later, and sometimes it fails. I must say that I always try the update route - but I always do a full backup of the system, just in case. It only failed me on the 7.3 to 8.1 update. This system has gone 8.1 -> 8.2 --> 9.1 --> 9.3. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFD4RkQtTMYHG2NR9URApm3AKCMmTczJoYkhsLGjefOZt9XrQoCgQCfXCFN KQBuxfZNjvWjyM/u55zhL8s= =QbL+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----