Hello everyone. Just a question like in the title: if I boot the Leap 16 ISO writen to a USB stick, there is no option in the boot menu to “Upgrade”. There are options for “Boot from Harddisk”, “Install”, “Resque”, “Check Medium”. But not “Upgrade”.
Am I doing something wrong? Is this a bug?
Nothing wrong on your side, upgrade to Leap 16 is not trivial so you may be better off using opensuse-migration-tool, see Upgrade_using_opensuse-migration-tool
Ok, thank you for your answer, so you mean that option is not there on purpose?
I think so, but maybe other users might know for sure.
The Leap 16 release manager adapted the linked wiki article and explicitely removed the offline upgrade method via DVD.
All clear now, thank you all for the responses.
I could be wrong but my guess would be the old upgrade path is no longer supported by the new Agama installer and you’re supposed to use opensuse-migration-tool now.
A good feature that was removed after working well for 25+ years…
Anyway it is also not needed anymore, as you can do an online upgrade with zypper dup since at least 10 years.
Please be aware that the Leap 16.0 structure is significantly different this time from that of Leap 15.6, so manual adjustment of the repo list might not be trivial to all users.
See Manual_upgrade_with_zypper_dup
I did a successfull upgrade from 15.6 to 16 using opensuse-migration-tool. I have another PC on Tumbleweed and, since opensuse-migration-tool does not offer the option to upgrade to Leap 16, I was hoping that the offline ISO image boot would offer the Upgrade option. I understand though that Tumbleweed is very different from Leap and the upgrade from Tumbleweed to Leap might be impossibble.
Tumbleweed-> Leap 16 is a downgrade and neither supported by opensuse-migration-tool nor officially in any other way.
Is there a chance to become an upgrade if I wait enough without updating Tumbleweed and maybe Leap 16 will catch it up?
No. If you want Leap 16 on this box, do a fresh install.
Not likely, for instance Tumbleweed has kernel 6.17 while Leap 16 has kernel 6.12.x and will remain there for a long time. The same might be true for several basic blocks of the OS.
(Well unless you mean not updating for two years…)
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