Bitter experience at home on the x86 and PPC boxes has shown that an upgrade route is sometimes more fraught with danger than a complete re-installation.
Without wishing to disparage SUSE too much (I use it on my server box), the times when I've tried the upgrade path there have not been very successful. These days I install to a separate partition and check it out before moving the appropriate configuration files over. Gentoo on the other hand (like Debian) has a reputation for being very good at upgrading in place. However a bunch of us at the end of last year had lots of problems with PPC Gentoo not working properly. We've worked out where the problems lie and how to get round them but we all wasted a lot of time trying to work out where the problems were. In short, whilst this isn't the exact same situation (it's SLES and not Pro), I would be wary of doing an in-place without trying it out on a duplicate copy first. And since my mate Rob says this: >Because of the UnitedLinux sidetrip, there is no supported upgrade >from SLES7 to SLES8 (other than re-install and copy the data). you're probably better off taking the plunge and doing a separate install. Rod (from the new e-mail account) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
