Randall R Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello again, > > On Thursday 26 October 2006 12:26, Randall R Schulz wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've never done an upgrade installation before on any of my SuSE >> installations. This time, because I installed Alpha5 on a brand new >> machine that is not (yet) mission critical, I was thinking of trying >> an upgrade. >> >> My question is: How do I do this? Do I use the YaST "System Update" >> from the running system? Do I boot from the Beta1 DVD and install >> over the existing system? Something else? > > I launched the YaST "System Update" module with the Beta1 DVD in the > drive. After moment of "analyzing..." it told me the product on the > installation media was not compatible with the running system. I told > it to continue and the initial installation proposal lists: > > - 1389 packages to update > - 26 packages to install > - 2 packages to remove > > On the "Update Options" page it says "Update from Non-Linux system > to ? ?". (For the record, I have a mostly stock 10.2 Alpha5 > installation running.)
I would file this as a bug in bugzilla. > > > If I proceed with this, am I likely to have problems? I hope not - but this is a path we do not test in general, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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