Ray Madigan skrev:
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.
Hi Generally, a "clean new install" is (in my optics) preferable to any upgrade. It's easy to keep most settings, bookmarks and all if the existing install has a separate /home partition. This way, one may elect to new-install - reusing (i.e. NOT formatting) the /home partition. If one doesn't have a separate /home partition, you could "rsync -avz" the entire /home to some external storage, then new-install (partitioning with a separate /home for future installs...) and hence copy the home files back into place. Not elegant, but it has worked for me. Perhaps some others on the list?? -- ------------------------------ Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Novell Certified Linux Professional 10035701 ------------------------------ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org