At your web site your coming new version is advertised as coming in 20 days. When this is released, can I install the new version on top of the old, effecting an upgrade without loosing my customizations, or do I have to start over from scratch, personalizing and customizing all over again?
Thank you
Dan
This has been asked many times.
You can upgrade. But I advise you backup (always the recommendation)
Success with upgrades can be influenced very much by the complexity of your current install and number of enabled repos.
One problem being that much of the out of distro software will probably not be available for some time (Eg Packman software)
Personally I always backup and do a fresh install.
If you are not that experienced, I do advise you wait at least +1 month after the release for bugs to be nailed and additional software to be published.
On 2011-10-29 15:06, danost wrote:
>
> At your web site your coming new version is advertised as coming in 20
> days. When this is released, can I install the new version on top of
> the old, effecting an upgrade without loosing my customizations, or do I
> have to start over from scratch, personalizing and customizing all over
> again?
You can install fresh (useful if you have a separate home partition) or you
can upgrade (live method or dvd method). Your choice. There are advantages
and disadvantages to both methods.
http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade
> http://doc.opensuse.org/products/opensuse/openSUSE/opensuse-reference/cha.update.html
Read these forum posts:
Applications:
Re: “/home is a folder, but a file was expected”
boot-login:
Re: Upgrade production 11.1 to 11.4?
Re: Upgrade SUSE Linux 9.2 to OpenSUSE 11.4?
Re: Upgrade 11.1 to 11.3 - Burn ISO DVD file to multiple CDROMs - Is It
Possible
Re: nfsserver failing to start 11.4 upgrade
Re: Upgrade 11.0 → 11.3
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
My personal choice will be a new install. However, I have “/home” as a separate partition, and I will reuse that without formatting it. So all of my own files will be retained.
Most of my customization is in “/home”. There are a few customizations that are in the root partition (for example, I modify the config files in “/etc/ssh”), so I will have to redo those. I keep a log of most of the changes that I make in the root partition. That log is in the home partition, so it will be available on the new release for me to see what I need to update.
I use the same approach as outlined by nrickert.
I have a partitition on my PC on which 12.1 RC1 is installed for testing.
When 12.1 is released I will “zypper dup” it to test a bit the final result.
If that is ok I will do as always the same as deano and nrickert and do a
fresh install of 12.1 as “production” system.
@ danost:
I think if my situation where yours (not updating from a previous version
but directly from the beta/rc) I think I would just directly update save the
extra work and make of course a full backup before just in case something
goes wrong.
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PC: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Core i7-2600@3.40GHz | KDE 4.6.0 | GeForce GT 420
| 16GB Ram
Eee PC 1201n: oS 11.4 64 bit | Intel Atom 330@1.60GHz | KDE 4.7.2 | nVidia
ION | 3GB Ram
Thank you one and all, your kind help is most appreciated !
Dan
Thank you one and all, your kind thoughts and suggestions are most appreciated, especially for one who is “just getting his feet wet” in Linux.
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:16:03 GMT, caf4926
<caf4926@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
>Personally I always backup and do a fresh install.
>
>If you are not that experienced, I do advise you wait at least +1 month
>after the release for bugs to be nailed and additional software to be
>published.
>
Heartily agreed. If the upgrade causes me grief i can (and have) waited
until my existing install is out of support.
YMMV
?-)