-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 2008-10-02 at 00:13 -0700, Ray Madigan wrote:
I had a machine hard drive go south so I upgraded that machine to opensuse 11. I have other machines in my lab and I want to upgrade them from 9.1 to 11.0. I have tried to find some information in the documentation, but I couldn't find a thread. My highest priority is to have smooth running machines.
Is it better to start from a bare hard drive and reinstall everything or to upgrade the current installation if this is even possible?
Will it keep all/some of my applications/settings?
If the answer is written somewhere point me near it and I will ferret out the answer myself. I appreciate your help.
I don't think you can upgrade on one step, nor easily. You will have to go by jumps or one, two, perhaps 3 versions. As the distance increases so does "glitches". On the admin book of each version you can read the known issues when upgrading to that version. And after each jump, you have to review the resulting system, specially the *rpm* config files. Get a full backup done first. Ah! Notice that on an upgrade, if the onlines repos are not found, any package that was previously installed and is not found on the dvd, is removed from the resulting system. And 9.x I think could not use both the dvd and the online repo. For instance, mysql is removed, and you have to install it again; luckily, the configuration and databases are not removed. So you should save a list of installed rpms and review the final result manually. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjkf10ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9U9lQCdHltZs52vPjPVcw2SMJ2SY5Pu rZwAnjvmWZNHIB37nfa69uBNsqCpiTDg =3GaT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org