I am about to upgrade my whole hardware configuration from P-IV (IDE HDD) to Core Quad 64-bit with SATA.
Now I have OpenSuse 10.3 installed.
What is the right way to do it?
I see the most easy way with clean 11.0 install and mounting my /home transferred to it’s partition on a new SATA drive. But it seems to be not a “true” way
If it was Gentoo, I would recompile kernel and replace grub after cloning drive with Acronis True Image, but I’m not sure about Suse with it’s proprietary configuration tools.
What tools exactly are proprietary? I hear that for the first time…
Why not simply replace the hardware, then upgrading SuSE? Or the other way around, makes no difference.
BTW, one must have some heck of knowledge to actually be able to configure more fitting hardware-configurations and optimizations for any machine than the ditributors… one should never expect too much from compiling a kernel (to name just one example) on a certain hardware. This used to make a difference some time, but with todays hardware these days are long gone.
I meant what Novell introduced into Linux - Yast etc. Maybe ‘proprietary’ is a wrong word no matter
Why not simply replace the hardware, then upgrading SuSE? Or the other way around, makes no difference.
BTW, one must have some heck of knowledge to actually be able to configure more fitting hardware-configurations and optimizations for any machine than the ditributors… one should never expect too much from compiling a kernel (to name just one example) on a certain hardware. This used to make a difference some time, but with todays hardware these days are long gone.
If I have no need to recompile kernel, it means that it already contains all hardware available including 32 and 64 bit arch… So why it takes so much time to install?..
no matter