Upgrade (clean Install) 10.2 To 10.3

Here's how i upgraded (clean install) from 10.2 to 10.3 KDE and NVIDIA graphics
This worked for me but i won't give any guarantee that it will work for you

First i did a BACKUP of all my data

You MUST have a separate home partition for this

Then booted from the DVD and selected install NOT UPGRADE
Also chose option to add repos

When I got to the partitioning option i chose expert and loaded the existing partition
configuration, marked root / and chose to format it left the rest.

Got the software I wanted (good idea to make a written note of your software before you upgrade)
Make sure you get the following needed to compile drivers in my case NVIDIA (see below)
gcc
make
kernel-source
kernel-syms
kdeadmin3
compat-expat1
expat

The system formatted / and mounted the rest

When I got to user settings i chose use existing settings

When asked to perform update chose NO easier to fix restricted formats
( First i tested on my laptop and the update caused problems with restricted formats)
When it got to hardware configuration it didn't recognize my monitor so i left it as it was.

The system started and presented the log on screen i chose console logon and logged in as root and installed the NVIDIA driver (here) which i had in my download in my home
The howto is here http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-...ler-HOWTO.html

When the installation finished I rebooted.

Back at the login screen logged in as myself and low and behold all my settings, hardware sound etc including theme were as I left them biggrin.gif Even my windows apps worked

Had to change my smart shortcut to /usr/bin/smart --gui

I went here and (one-click) installed the codecs etc http://opensuse-community.org/Restricted_Formats/10.3

In Yast ”Community Repositories” i added the following

http://download.opensuse.org/update/10.3/
http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...10.3/standard/
http://download.opensuse.org/distrib.../repo/non-oss/
http://ftp.skynet.be/pub/packman/suse/10.3/
http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...openSUSE_10.3/
Then did an online update

If you need to get access to your Windows partitions get the following packages and run ntfs-config
in a console as root
ntfs-config
ntfsprogs
ntfsprogs-fuse
ntfs-3g

Sorry Geoffro but think that title is a little mis-leading many of us would call that a clean install.

Upgrade implies you used the option during install I see this tripping up more new users/challenged than helping.

Now to be fair I'm seeing reports of successes but haven't tried.

I just think that title should reflect what you did which is a clean install whilst keeping home.

Sorry Geoffro but think that title is a little mis-leading many of us would call that a clean install.

Upgrade implies you used the option during install I see this tripping up more new users/challenged than helping.

Now to be fair I'm seeing reports of successes but haven't tried.

I just think that title should reflect what you did which is a clean install whilst keeping home.
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Ok changed the title

/Geoff