I have a multiboot setup. I have opensuse 42.3 and Win 10 on one disk and opensuse 42.2 and Win 7 on the other. I never installed Tumbleweed because I thought it was too “experimental” for my main OS. After all this time, Tumbleweed seems stable enough for me!
Since support for 42.2 is ending, I would like to replace it with Tumbleweed. Do you have any advice on how to do this? 42.2 resides on sdb6. I have used opensuse for many years and many upgrades. The last couple of times, upgrades didn’t work for me (I blame my skills, not opensuse) and I want a smooth upgrade from 42.2 to Tumbleweed.
I was thinking I should boot to 42.2 and try to update it to Tumbleweed. If I download the iso, do I risk formatting the whole disk instead of the one partition?
I appreciate all the advice. I checked on the location of the old LEAP. I updated it. I downloaded the iso and burned it to CD.
Next, I booted to the CD and hesitated between the “Install” option and the “Update” option. I figured if update failed, I could start over with the install option. After some preliminary checking my disks, Tumbleweed offered to update either LEAP 42.2 or LEAP 42.3 without any searching, configuring or partitioning on my part. I picked the older version to update and sat down to watch TV for about an hour or two. I came back to a working, stable system.
All my personal stuff was carried over! A few things remain to be done. I have to add a google repository to get Chrome. I have to update the text on the grub menu which still says LEAP 42.2 but boots into Tumbleweed. While I’m at it, I may move Tumbleweed to be the default OS, which now is LEAP 42.3. I also would like to get BOINC on this install.
I appreciate all the advice. I checked on the location of the old LEAP.
I updated it. I downloaded the iso and burned it to CD.
Next, I booted to the CD and hesitated between the “Install” option and
the “Update” option. I figured if update failed, I could start over with
the install option. After some preliminary checking my disks, Tumbleweed
offered to update either LEAP 42.2 or LEAP 42.3 without any searching,
configuring or partitioning on my part. I picked the older version to
update and sat down to watch TV for about an hour or two. I came back
to a working, stable system.
All my personal stuff was carried over! A few things remain to be done.
I have to add a google repository to get Chrome. I have to update the
text on the grub menu which still says LEAP 42.2 but boots into
Tumbleweed. While I’m at it, I may move Tumbleweed to be the default OS,
which now is LEAP 42.3. I also would like to get BOINC on this install.
Thanks again for help!
Hi
I have BOINC running on Tumbleweed and openSUSE Leap 42.3. I just
downloaded boinc_7.4.22_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.sh and run that ( a few
missing libs to install) and all is good.
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On 01/03/2018 04:26 PM, Prexy wrote:
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> Knurpht;2849850 Wrote:
>> And … don’t use anything else to update TW than 'zypper dup’Thanks for that. I had no idea! How often do I run zypper dup?
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As often as you want. I run my once a week, others as often as updates
are announced on the factory mailing list. I did a recent dup on my
laptop that had been turned off for a couple of months and had no problems.
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