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The Thursday 2007-03-29 at 13:03 +0100, G.T.Smith wrote:
> Sorin Peste wrote:
> > After running with SUSE 10.1 for a while I've decided it's time to
> > upgrade to openSUSE 10.2. What I'd like to do is a fresh 10.2 install
> Firstly, having experience of upgrading many different systems with many
> different OSs I would not even consider starting without thoroughly
> backing up configuration and user data.
I do a full backup as first step.
> An upgrade can be a very exotic
> way of turning your machine into a potential paperweight, and one should
> have a route to get back to where you were before you started before you
> start.
Absolutely. I only hosed one upgrade, from 7.3 to 8.1, because yast2 (7.x
used yast1) forgot to mount extra partitions (/opt, I think) and run out
of space in mid-upgrade. Disaster! Yast did not calculate the space
needed, gave no warning.
Next time I learned to check and mount manually if necessary.
> I admit to be being surprised about the partitioner attempting to
> rebuild the partitions. Did you select upgrade/update an existing
> installation? This usually leaves the current partitions alone. If it
> cannot find the existing installation there is something very wrong.
The thing is that, although he mentions "upgrade", he is in fact doing a
fresh install, wanting to leave /home unformated (I left the original
paragraph above: I guess you misunderstood slightly). This needs
entering the manual or expert partitioner mode.
> I am just going through the process of upgrading a box from SuSE 9.3 to
> 10.2 now....
I did the same. My 10.1 got trashed in a disk crash just before backing
up, so I restored 9.3 and upgraded to 10.2. Went fine O:-)
>
> I have so far found that the following got torched.....
>
> syslog (configuration file deleted)
Not really. There has been a change, and /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf.in
got removed, yes, but I think /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf remained.
Anyway, yes, a lot of configuration files get deactivated, renamed to
*.rpmsave or similar, and you have to check the output of
"rcrpmconfigcheck" run, or the output of and review one by one all
entries. I prefer that to doing a new install.
> Without such a backup in place this process of restoring functionality
> would be much more difficult.
Absolutely. It is a must, be it upgrade or fresh install.
> BTW I wish that a list of discontinued applications was available so one
> can access the impact of an upgrade beforehand.
Yes.
There is another problem, if you use the downloaded dvd versus the bought
one: there are many apps that are missing and you have to install from the
ftp repo. Theoretically, Yast should be able to add a secondary source
during the install/upgrade phase, but this fails: at that point of the
install/upgrade the network is down. Yast has not even loaded the ethernet
drivers. I typed the url to be told some crazy error, just because the was
no network. Too bad.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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