On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Mike wrote:- >It was an older machine that I had just migrated off of so I didn't loose >anything, but it was not able to complete. Just getting a report out in case >anyone else is wondering if it might work.
As a counterpoint, I very recently (yesterday) upgraded a 9.3 system to 10.3 and it did work. However, I did take some precautions while performing the install, including manually editing /etc/fstab to handle the changes from hdx to sdx, and the remapping of what were sda and sdb onto sdc and sdd. For the curious, I even wrote about it here: <URL:http://www.davjam.org/lifetype/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=17&blogId=1> <URL:http://www.davjam.org/lifetype/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=18&blogId=1> <URL:http://www.davjam.org/lifetype/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=19&blogId=1> >It did not accept the password on the encrypted partition That I don't have, so can't say whether it would have worked or not. >it did not recognize /boot as ext2 Whereas it was recognised on mine. The only problem I found was when it came to mount the different partitions, I had to tell the installer that the /boot partition was on /dev/sda1 and not on /dev/hda1 where it thought it was. It also required changing the mount points for partitions on /dev/hdb to /dev/sdb. >it did not recognize the /opt /usr /tmp /var that were reiser I didn't have any separated partitions, apart from /boot and the Windows partitions, so can't say if they would have been recognised. >it was unable to resolve numerous packages, it recommend deleting them That I noticed as well. When I performed my upgrade, there were a total of 480 packages to delete. Despite this, the only package dependency problem I had was with the upgrade of the libpano packages, where the dependency checker couldn't sort the dependencies out. Eventually, I just deleted the libpano12, libpano-devel and libpano-tools packages, and there were no dependency problems. >it was unable to update the grub boot menu on /boot Again, I didn't have a problem here. This could have been because, during the installation I edited /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/device.map to correct the device names, or the editing may have been unnecessary. I don't know either way. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: http://www.distributed.net/ OGR-P2 @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~15Mkeys | SUSE 10.1 32bit | openSUSE 10.2 32bit | openSUSE 10.3 32bit SUSE 10.0 64bit | SUSE 10.1 64bit | openSUSE 10.2 64bit | RISC OS 3.11 | RISC OS 3.6 | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 10.3 PPC -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
