[ale] SUSE 9.2

[James Taylor]

I've upgraded a number of times, and it usually is not a problem.
The biggest factors I've run into are:

It takes a *lot* longer to upgrade than to reinstall.

If I have a lot of non-original software installed, SuSE may want to
remove it.  So I have to reinstall, usually with a newer version
anyway...

The upgrade has always worked.

-jt

James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
678-697-9420

>>> james at sumners.ath.cx 01/15/05 11:07 AM >>>
I seriously hope that is not the established method for upgrading SuSE
without
problems. I want to upgrade my grandfather's installation and I
certainly won't
do all that.

Does anyone else have any experiences with updating SuSE?

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:58:44 -0500
Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:

> I generally do a re-install, although I've done a couple of upgrades 
> with 9.2 that were quite successful.
> 
> Since I generally need everything working on my boxen, I historically 
> keep a dual boot environment so that I can build a new install while 
> retaining my previous instance.  Once I get the new install working 
> completely, I move to it full time.

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