Upgrade problem.

I have SuSE 9.0 installed. I have ftp'd and burned the openSUSE 10.2
CD's. How do I go about doing the upgrade? YAST refuses to use them.

Steve Thrasher wrote:

> I have SuSE 9.0 installed. I have ftp'd and burned the openSUSE 10.2
> CD's. How do I go about doing the upgrade? YAST refuses to use them.
Boot the 1st CD ( like for a new installation). At some point of the
installation process you will get the choice to make an upgrabe.

Markus Koßmann wrote:

> Boot the 1st CD ( like for a new installation). At some point of the
> installation process you will get the choice to make an upgrabe.

Yeah...that's the way the old RH installs worked (ages ago I did my
first install on Slackware on a machine dual booting Win3.11 and then
did a RH 3.* after discovering that SW was not upgradeable and the next
release of RH was supposed to be).

But, here's what happens...I boot the CD and ask for a "text" version of
install. It starts the task and the last thing it says is something
about network protocols 2 (my bad memory here) and then locks. I did
the text one because if I left it in the windows environment I could see
nothing...it just locked up. I rebooted into the old SuSE 9.0 and using
xcdroast took the CD and created an ISO image of it. Then I compared
the md5sum from it and the downloaded iso. I'd already run md5sum
against the downloaded iso's but I wanted to double verify that the CD
was a good burn.

Now I'm not sure what to do.

Steve Thrasher wrote:
> Markus Koßmann wrote:
>
>> Boot the 1st CD ( like for a new installation). At some point of the
>> installation process you will get the choice to make an upgrabe.
>
> Yeah...that's the way the old RH installs worked (ages ago I did my
> first install on Slackware on a machine dual booting Win3.11 and then
> did a RH 3.* after discovering that SW was not upgradeable and the next
> release of RH was supposed to be).
>
> But, here's what happens...I boot the CD and ask for a "text" version of
> install. It starts the task and the last thing it says is something
> about network protocols 2 (my bad memory here) and then locks. I did
> the text one because if I left it in the windows environment I could see
> nothing...it just locked up. I rebooted into the old SuSE 9.0 and using
> xcdroast took the CD and created an ISO image of it. Then I compared
> the md5sum from it and the downloaded iso. I'd already run md5sum
> against the downloaded iso's but I wanted to double verify that the CD
> was a good burn.
>
> Now I'm not sure what to do.

It's often a bad idea to do an "upgrade" from one version to a very
different one. From 9.0 to 10.2 there have been a lot of foundational
changes, and you're probably going to be forever fixing little things.
I upgraded from 7.3 to 8.2 to 9.0 and then lost it trying to go to 9.3.
Too many things broke.

If it is possible to back up your data onto another disk, I'd recommend
a re-install. Then restore your data, less the .kde directory (if
that's what you are using; I don't know about the other environments).

I also note that the 10.2 install defaults to a better way to lay out
the file systems, putting / and /home in separate partitions. That way
you can install a new system in / without needing the backup step. If
you already did this, then I'd just overwrite your old system with the
new, but first move .kde out of the way so the old settings don't get
used when the new system first boots up.

Just my $.02... Others will surely have more sage advice.

Greg.