My old, tired office computer has a lilo dual boot: 1. Suse 9.1, 2. Windows XP.
20G for each system. Does a new Opensuse11.0 allow for an update of the pre-Novell Suse?
I’m just a mathematician, so be nice.
I would recommend a clean install. Though I don’t know if openSUSE 11 can be updgraded from SuSE 9.1.
batmite3000 wrote:
> My old, tired office computer has a lilo dual boot: 1. Suse 9.1, 2.
> Windows XP.
>
> 20G for each system. Does a new Opensuse11.0 allow for an update of the
> pre-Novell Suse?
>
> I’m just a mathematician, so be nice.
>
>
heh, “upgrade” from 10.2 to 10.3 is a struggle…
i’m sure you need to do a new install…you CAN however, (if you
have hard drive space) spawn off a new partition and move /home to
it…then when you install 11.0 the install routine will see it and
probably offer to let you keep it, its user id and password, etc…
hmmm…i don’t remember, you may have to click the expert button on
the partitioning section to get to that fuctionality…but, it IS
possible to NOT format away your home IF it is on a different
partition…
however, i feel i need to also say this: considering the (probable)
age and capabilities of that computer (unless you installed an OLD
9.2 on it) i’m gonna predict you are gonna be a disapointed in the
speed 11 give you…ESPECIALLY if you elect to install KDE4 (avoid
it) and you will find it very necessary to find and kill the beagle!!
well, i GUESS you find 9.2 snappier than XP (if you keep that critter
slim and sleek), but i think you will find 11.0 slower than 9.2, but
much more capable and secure…if you have less than half a gig of
ram, avoid the upgrade or prepare for s l o w . . .
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That’s an enormous jump. You would have far less hassles backing up your personal files and doing a fresh install. But how much RAM do you have? If less than 256MB, your experience won’t be much fun, more like sluggish. Either put in more RAM or change to a lighter distro. While we are at it, what speed CPU?
Thanks to all. It’s 1GB RAM , 2.8Ghz Pentium 4 (no dual). I got a 8GB jump drive, and I think the clean install sounds right for me.