Hi, I’m actually completely new to openSUSE. 11.0 failed to install GRUB on my Macbook correctly, so after reading around, determined to try out this distro, I read that the bug was fixed in 11.1 Beta 5. And lo and behold, it was.
However, I’m wondering If I can ride the updates to the final release. I’m coming from Debian and Ubuntu, and their development cycle is like that. It’d be nice not to have to download an entire image to update it.
Thanks,
Brandon 
Don’t see why not. As long as you have the right repository in yast, you can use zypper dup from the command line to upgrade to the latest release. I’ve been using to upgrade for sometime now, with no problems.
That’s exactly what I going to do (I usually start that with rc1). I install with a separate /home partition. So I will update through GM. Then, I buy the boxed version and make a clean install of that – to clean out all the cob-webs as I experiment a lot, add & get rid of things. Usually by then I know what works & how I want to make the config. Then, I copy over all my good stuff from the old /home to the new /home the rest gets formatted (trashed).
And, when I consider it my production install, I will copy over all my good stuff in 11.0 /home.
BTW, I’m really liking 11.1 already; it’s going to be the best yet;)
Have fun:)
I’ve found an even more economic way to do it, I save on both bandwith and DVD’s. Reuse your 11.0 DVD, install it on a fresh partition, notice that after you’ve registered and run the online update your online repos are set to factory not distribution/11.0. Is this a bug or a feature? Has anyone else noticed this behavior? Now set your update repo to 11.1 and run the following:
zypper dup
Download size will be slightly over 1 GB and you will as of today end up with beta 5.1, this is on a 32-bit i386. You’ll save one DVD-R and 2+ GB bandwith, as will Novell, and Novell will do that for every user using this method!
This worked with Flash 10:
Oh forgot to mention, be sure to disable the DVD repo!