Re: [Scottish] Upgrade and file preservation
Robert Barbour wrote: Message Received: Jan 20 2006, 09:41 PM From: Alan Rutherford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], SLUG-list scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk Cc: Subject: Re: [Scottish] Upgrade and file preservation Robert Barbour wrote: If I upgrade SuSE linux from version 9 to version 10, will my data files be preserved, or do I need to copy them before the upgrade? Regards Rob ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish Would they be wiped if you were upgrading from Windows 2000 to XP?? I've no idea, the only upgrade I ever did was from windows 3. something to 98! Rob. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish Well, as a matter of fact, I updraded 9.3. to 10 just recently. It went ok, however after the upgrade (updated KDE from 3.3 to 3.4) the WIFI card didn't work and the sound card also stopped functioning. Back up all of your data. This can be found in your Home folder. Alan ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Upgrade and file preservation
Message Received: Jan 20 2006, 09:41 PM From: Alan Rutherford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], SLUG-list scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk Cc: Subject: Re: [Scottish] Upgrade and file preservation Robert Barbour wrote: If I upgrade SuSE linux from version 9 to version 10, will my data files be preserved, or do I need to copy them before the upgrade? Regards Rob ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish Would they be wiped if you were upgrading from Windows 2000 to XP?? I've no idea, the only upgrade I ever did was from windows 3. something to 98! Rob. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Upgrade and file preservation
Yep, I meant my home/blah... files, and I take your point about backing up before upgrading. Rob. Message Received: Jan 21 2006, 01:29 AM From: Billy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: slug scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk Cc: Subject: Re: [Scottish] Upgrade and file preservation On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 08:21:54AM +0100, Robert Barbour wrote: If I upgrade SuSE linux from version 9 to version 10, will my data files be preserved, or do I need to copy them before the upgrade? You should always backup your data before an upgrade... :-) But generally you should be ok. By my data files I'm assuming you mean your own /home/blah user files? The main problem you're liable to see in terms of your own desktop is that if you are leaping up a few KDE versions then there can be a few quirks. Billy. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Upgrade and file preservation
Robert Barbour wrote: If I upgrade SuSE linux from version 9 to version 10, will my data files be preserved, or do I need to copy them before the upgrade? Regards Rob ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish Would they be wiped if you were upgrading from Windows 2000 to XP?? ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Upgrade and file preservation
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 08:21:54AM +0100, Robert Barbour wrote: If I upgrade SuSE linux from version 9 to version 10, will my data files be preserved, or do I need to copy them before the upgrade? You should always backup your data before an upgrade... :-) But generally you should be ok. By my data files I'm assuming you mean your own /home/blah user files? The main problem you're liable to see in terms of your own desktop is that if you are leaping up a few KDE versions then there can be a few quirks. Billy. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Upgrade and file preservation
On Friday 20 January 2006 07:21, Robert Barbour wrote: If I upgrade SuSE linux from version 9 to version 10, will my data files be preserved, or do I need to copy them before the upgrade? I've not done a 9-10 upgrade. I've done a few 8.0-8.2 and 8.2 -9.0 all of which were painless but I know other people have been burnt on upgrades to 9.0. If possible I would definitely back up your home dir (I've kept mine on a seperate partition - often a seperate disk - for a long time) and anything modified in /etc if this is even remotely possible. And, of course, test your backups. ISR that there's several steps which are not intuitive (like NOT partitioning the disk) so keep your wits about you until the RPMs start rolling out to disk. HTH C. ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
Re: [Scottish] Upgrade and file preservation
Robert Barbour wrote: If I upgrade SuSE linux from version 9 to version 10, will my data files be preserved, or do I need to copy them before the upgrade? In my personal experience going from a .0 to a .1 or rc1 to rc2 etc seems to run smoothly but upgrading by a full number can go horribly wrong depending on your setup, probably best to take a backup of anything critical in case it goes pear shaped. Ive never used Mandrake again since that ill fated incident :o) Cheers Adam ___ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
