-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2010-07-17 21:39, James D. Parra wrote:
Hello,
Wishing to try out an upgrade of 11.0 to 11.2. Usually I just do a fresh install, but after all the little tweaks I've made on my system I am too lazy to start over. Any advice about upgrading from one version to another, other than backing up the home directories?
First: My main system has been updated from 6.2 up to 11.0 (11.2 pending), during all these years. So it is possible to update successfully, contrary to popular wisdom that it is better to install fresh. Main Advice: Do a full backup first, regardless of choosing upgrade or fresh install. Before that Main Advice: Test the new version on a spare partition of the same computer. If it doesn't work, don't upgrade nor install. Wait. Make sure you have enough time at your disposal. The process can be slow. That done, go ahead. Just try the upgrade. If it fails, you can: 1) restore and retry; 2) install fresh; 3) restore and do nothing (ie, wait). I say the point "1" to restore and retry, because when it fails you learn the reason and can avoid the problem on a second attempt. For example, one of my upgrades failed because one of the used partitions had not enough space. The install system (the DVD) only mounted root, but failed to mount /usr, so the root was filled up and the upgrade failed calamitously. And I did not have a recent full backup. Thus, now I check that all needed partitions are mounted using one of the VTs. After the upgrade is done, you have to pay attention to all the systems services you configured. Some will retain old coniguration and have to be adapted manually, some will have a new default configuration with the old one disabled. There is a system service that runs at boot that catches them: "rcrpmconfigcheck". Even during normal use of the system, it finds things: Elessar:~ # rcrpmconfigcheck Searching for unresolved configuration files done Please check the following files (see /var/adm/rpmconfigcheck): /etc/amavisd.conf.rpmsave /etc/checkinstallrc.rpmsave /etc/samba/smb.conf.rpmnew /usr/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir.rpmorig /usr/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.scale.rpmorig Elessar:~ # The ".rpmsave" files contain old configuration files, saved. The "rpmorig" is the original, and "rpmnew" is the one that comes with the package, because the old one was left in place. So you have to print that list and check all those config files one by one. It is entertaining :-) It is faster than installing fresh, for me at least. Plus, you have your backup to look at how things were before, plus the fresh install done in the spare test partition I told you about, where you can look at how things are done now, if they differ too much. HTH. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxCFLwACgkQU92UU+smfQXVsQCdFsToofrsOnWkstpUlb+r0P8P UaUAoIoRyrPrIDwwxYo2kUlBsZ1MQj6b =lCJd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org