I'll second this approach. While YaST has a upgrade feature, you have the
ability to create machines on the fly and you're much less likely to have
problems with mixed code levels, etc by just building a replacement next to
the current system and then swapping the IP addresses when you're satisfied
with it. Gives you a trivial backout strategy as well.

(It also has the positive side effect of testing your DR documentation and
configuration management scheme).

-- db

David Boyes
Sine Nomine Associates


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
> Rich Smrcina
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 10:45 AM
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> Subject: Re: Upgrade path from SLES7 to SLES8
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> I've always done a fresh install.  There is no 'official'
> upgrade path.

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