I would like to update my openSUSE 10.3 x86-64 to openSUSE 11.2 x86-64 but each time I try it has problems connecting with the repository for 10.3. I also tried to manually add the new repositories for 11.2 (and 11.0) in YaST, and when I execute the zypper it says:
Repository 'GNOME:Factory / G:F' is up to date.
Repository 'openSUSE 11.2 - Oss' is up to date.
Repository 'openSUSE 11.2 - Non-oss' is up to date.
Repository 'openSUSE 11.2 - Java' is up to date.
Refreshing 'openSUSE 11.2 - Update'
Repository 'openSUSE 11.2 - Update' is invalid.
ResourceType parse: illegal string value 'susedata'
Please, check if the URLs defined for this repository are pointing to a valid repository.
Skipping repository 'openSUSE 11.2 - Update' because of the above error.
Some of the repositories have not been refreshed because of an error.
I am stuck trying to install new packages because dependencies problems.
You need to do (preferably) a clean install or the non-Live upgrade using DVD or Net Install CD.
10.3 is no more, only the update repo is left on the mirrors, it’s past it’s 2 yr support life.
Personally I would make about 8GB free space for an 11.2 filesystem, and install there into non-default ext3, so I could run 10.3 to and mount & work on configuration from either checking things out.
You need to be careful about where the 11.2 GRUB stuff goes, and only 11.2’s GRUB can boot an ext4 partition.
Then later when happy with 11.2 I’d either re-install clean & re-apply my config changes, or I’d simply build ext4 filesystems I wanted and copy 11.2 into it, making sure the 11.2 GRUB was installed and working for boot up.
Oh! This server is using as production server. I will need to install the newest openSUSE in other computer and set up the plan for move the data in the old server to the new server.
Is there any tool in the openSUSE to make a kind of back up of every configure, databases, and so on in order to make it easier?
I had the same problem with my opensuse 10.3
Till 31 October 2009, everything was working fine, then
from 1 November the Main repositories could not be contacted.
They were discontinued from that day.
I posted the problem on the forum and got the solution
from Global Moderator.
I had the same problem with my opensuse 10.3
Till 31 October 2009, everything was working fine, then
from 1 November the Main repositories could not be contacted.
They were discontinued from that day.
I posted the problem on the forum and got the solution
from Global Moderator.
Excellent! That will give longer life to this server
It will be hard to upgrade to new version if I need to dump everything since we have in this computer some MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, Tomcat web applications, FTP server, user accounts, and so on.
I am also thinking, because this server doesn’t have CD/DVD driver, is there any other way to update this through network? can I download the new ISO in other computer, mount it in this server and execute the upgrade procedure in this way?