Dominic MacDonald Aveyard wrote:
> Whats the easiest thing to do? Is there an easy way to upgrade those
> isolated bits? or should I just reinstall?. I think the version of K
> with 5.3 is the same as the version with 6... or is the 6 K a good
> upgrade? I am concerned about reinstaling completely since ppp works
> right now, and I know that some of you have had problems with that
> since installing 6.
>
The problem with reinstalling is that you run the risk of losing
important configuration files, not to mention any personal files that
you've not backed up. SuSE is designed to be upgraded and I've always
found the process easy (at least from 5.2 to 5.3 and then 5.3 to 6.0).
Basically you have to start by booting from the CD (best) or if that's
not possible then using the boot disk. This will eventually put you
into YaST. Choose "update existing system" and just follow along. It
should first update your base system then if allowed it will update any
other packages that have newer versions. You might want to make sure
you have the package shlibs5 installed in case you still have any libc5
programs on your system that weren't upgraded to glibc.
I've never had any problems, but it seems like some people on this list
have, so I guess your mileage may vary.
In any case you should really upgrade the system (by whichever method
you prefer), this will allow you to use the newest kernel (2.2.2 - I
believe) and KDE 1.1 (which is a nice improvement) as well as a few
other things.
David Bellows
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