On Tuesday 05 December 2006 13:48, Sorin Peste wrote: > I was wondering how many people tried upgrading their Suse 10.x to 10.2 RC1 > since it came out (as opposed to doing a fresh install). I'm thinking of > doing the same but after botching the upgrade from 10.0 to 10.1 I'm a > little circumspect. > > Anyone got success / horror stories they want to share? > > Thanks, > Sorin
I'm always inclined to do a fresh install, but whether you go with a fresh one or an upgrade I would put your data somewhere else first. In my case, for example, I do indeed have a separate /home partition, but because many of the dotfiles change, and because of various arcana concerning dcop and mcop, I find it handiest to have another nice big partition called something like /data where I can keep everything I am actually bothered about. An initial install of SuSE is very capable of leaving such a partition completely alone (best to check the device number and be careful about the F for format in that screen) while I can reformat /home and thus make sure any old cobwebs are cleaned away. You need to back up stuff like your email too, and naturally that /data partition had better be backed up too. All best Fergus -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: 0161 834 7961 Fax: 0161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
