Sles 9 to Opensuse 11.4 Migration

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#1

Hi,

I have a Sles 9 system that I want to migrate to Opensuse 11.4 on a new box.
The sles 9 system is using software raid 1.

Please comment on my intended plan.

  1. Stick a new Hard drive into sles 9 system.

  2. Boot with System Rescue CD and clone Sles 9 Drive (/dev/sda) onto a new drive.
    i.e. I will not clone the mirrored drive. Therefore my new system will have a broken mirror.

  3. Stick the new cloned HD into new box. Stick in a new hardrive to fix the broken mirror.

  4. I dont expect the system to boot from HD due to new hardware.

  5. Insert Suse 11.4 DVD and perform upgrade. Hopefully this works!

  6. Copy partition table from /dev/sda to blank hd’s /dev/sdb

  7. Use mdadm to sync the mirror drives.

  8. Uses Gparted to expand the drives to use max capacity of new drives.

I kindly request the advice of linux gurus on the plan above… Will it work? Is there another way of doing it?

Thanks in advance

Regards

Basheer

#2

I seriously doubt if an upgrade will work or that the installer will even try. SLES and openSUSE are different families of products. One’s enterprise, the other’s community.

#3

Somebody has done something similar:

TechnoBlog: Convert SLES to OpenSUSE

Regards

Basheer

#4

> I kindly request the advice of linux gurus on the plan above… Will
> it work? Is there another way of doing it?

I don’t know if the “upgrade” will work.

As to the cloning, there are many ways. Me, I first install a small
partition in the target computer with the target system, that will serve as
“rescue” system. From that one, I would create the raid devices, then copy
over the original system via network. Then install grub on that one and
boot it.

One of many ways, I’m sure.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)