Trane Francks wrote:
On 11/12/13 2:25 PM +0900, Dennis wrote:
Dennis wrote:
Trane Francks wrote:
On 11/12/13 8:10 AM +0900, goodwin wrote:
On 11/11/2013 09:54 AM, HilsB wrote:
HilsB wrote:
Yes it does - if anything a little faster.
A few bits of advice - 1) backup everything 2)Close down all
programmes 3) allow a few hours.
academic question only - what does allowing a few hours do and where
does it do it?
not a mac user nor SM...
Backing up your system and then doing an in-place upgrade will take "a
few hours", same as with Windows or Linux. That is, if Linux has
evolved
enough to actually do in-place upgrades. (Not that I'd do one; I always
do a clean install and then migrate my profile from the existing
backup.
That takes even longer.)
If "in-place upgrade" is supposed to mean an OS upgrade like say from
OpenSuse 11.4 to 12.0 or 12.0 to 12.1, then yes, 'linux' has been able
to do that for years! OpenSuse calls it a distribution upgrade. And it
surely doesn't take a few hours!!! With a good cable internet connection
it only takes 45 min to an hour. Download the DVD and it only takes
about 15 min for the upgrade then another 15 minutes for misc packages
not on the DVD. A clean install is even faster, just backup then keep
the same /home directory! Absolutely painless!
Dennis
make that "... 11.4 to 12.1 or 12.1 to 12.2 ..."
Dennis
You summed it up nicely. It all depends on the broadband connection
speed. That said, it takes me several hours to migrate my profile into a
clean install. Fifteen minutes? Hah! Yeah, I don't think so. With a
500GB profile, a migration takes several hours even with a gigabit
Ethernet connection. Fifteen minutes might be doable with a profile that
contains pretty much no data.
another example;
It took over an hour to move my mom's profile from SM 2.0.14 on OSX
10.4.11 on a PPC to a new Intel machine with OSX 10.8 and SM 2.22 over a
wireless Linksys. Finding the "hidden" Library folder in 10.8 was the
first challenge....but Google helped.
GW
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