[Scottish] Upgrade and file preservation

2006-01-20 Thread Robert Barbour
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

Re: [Scottish] Upgrade and file preservation

2006-01-20 Thread Alan Rutherford
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

Re: [Scottish] Upgrade and file preservation

2006-01-20 Thread Billy
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

Re: [Scottish] Upgrade and file preservation

2006-01-20 Thread Colin McKinnon
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

Re: [Scottish] Upgrade and file preservation

2006-01-20 Thread Adam
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