Updating from 9.1 to 10.2

I purchased SuSE 9.1 a couple of years ago. I finally got brave and
installed it as a dual boot a few months ago. Do I really need to update
like that Windows product? and if so how do I do it?

Thanks,

John D.

johnd068@verizon.net wrote:
> I purchased SuSE 9.1 a couple of years ago. I finally got brave and
> installed it as a dual boot a few months ago. Do I really need to update
> like that Windows product? and if so how do I do it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John D.
>

Well, 9.1 is EOL since long, and you get no more patches, so it can be
problems to keep it alive (lot of your own work)

I don't think you should try to upgrade 9.1 to 10.2 .

Make sure you have /home on a dedicated partition, and make a backup of
everything.

Then install suse 10.2 without creating a filesystem on your /home
If you have your old /etc/password printed you can add your old users
with the same UID as before, or just copy the old users from
your old /etc/{passwd,shadow,group} , just make sure you don't mess it
up with multiple UID'd or GID's .

I have 2 root partitions, so I use can install the new version and keep
the current version using dual boot, and when the new version is
working, I make it the default, and can later install next version over
the old, and so on.

(I plan to try 10.2 any day now, hope it works,,,,,)

/Birger