HG wrote:
Hi!
I have an old server running 10.2. I'd like to upgrade that to 11.2 to be able to use some of the server software available only for the newer versions. The worry that I have is that there is a 4 x 500Mb RAID-5 which I obviously would not want to loose in any case. It has 2 additional smaller hard drives. One of those is the system drive and another pretty much not used. Otherwise, it only has CD-ROM, not DVD.
Should I try to upgrade the server or do a clean install?
Both have pros and cons. What I typically do is having a second identical partition to / (i.e., same number of sectors), then do a dd clone of the system on on that one (create grub entry and fix /etc/fstab), and try the upgrade. It will IMHO largely depend on the amount of local configurations which way is better. An update will (try to) keep the configuration which will normally get you a running system very fast if it is a short-distance update. Especially when going from 10.2 to 11.2 I doubt that this will give reasonable results - many things have changed, and old configuration files might be giving more trouble than speed things up. I'd go for the clean new install.
If clean install, can I install the new version to the other smaller drive so that I can select in the boot also the older version? And thus be sure that I can access the files on the RAID.
Yes. And the new installation should also recognize the RAID and offer you to mount it wherever you want... Pit -- Dr. Peter "Pit" Suetterlin http://www.astro.su.se/~pit Institute for Solar Physics Tel.: +34 922 405 590 (Spain) P.Suetterlin@royac.iac.es +46 8 5537 8507 (Sweden) Peter.Suetterlin@astro.su.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org