ppmoore wrote: > Hello, > > I've been running slimserver on SuSE 10.1 for a while now and it works > great. I decided to upgrade to 10.3 because the suspend/WOL wasn't > working on the HP machine, and I noticed that there is a newer version > of Kpowersave available. I did an upgrade install from the openSuse > DVD. On the first reboot, the system hangs on the line "Setting up > service network: done". > > I've since read that the 10.1 to 10.3 was a major distribution change, > and that a fresh install would have been better. If I do this without > reformatting the partition, will slimserver still be available, or > would I have to completely reinstall slimserver, alienBBC, etc? > > Or, if a fresh install would remove slimserver, can I revert back to > 10.1, without affecting slimserver? > > Can anyone advise what to do? > Paul > > > If you upgrade from 10.1 to 10.3 slimserver SHOULD still be available to run, but I've never done an upgrade. If you do a fresh install of 10.3 on a different partition than 10.1, you can then install slimserver on 10.3. The opensuse 10.3 installer should detect your existing 10.1 install and make a line item in grub so you can then boot into one or the other. Slimserver will still run fine in 10.1 in that case. I did install slimserver on a new 10.3 install and it works fine. You just have to point it to your music and playlists files. (I'm assuming you have your music files on a different partition than your 10.1 install. If it is on the same partition, don't wipe out your 10.1 install or that will wipe out your music).
If things do get screwed up, you can always run slimserver off of the slimCD. This is a free download and it boots off a CD that you will burn. That works fine too, but you will have to point it to your music files each time you boot. This is a good option if you want to run slimserver temporarily on a messed up box, or from a lightweight slimserver only box. When you install slimserver on opensuse 10.3, the startup script for 10.2 (from the slimdevices support site) works well, but remember to set the script as "executable". Good luck. Jim F _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
