Upgrade 11.0 to 11.1

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#1

hello all

I want to upgrade 11.0 to 11.1 from DVD Can I ? Haw ?
I also have Vista

thanks

#2

I wouldn’t as such. Just keep your current /home (do not format) and do the as new install. It much less painful - :slight_smile:

#3

I’ve done that upgrade without problems. Only minor dependency issues to resolve.

#4

> I want to upgrade 11.0 to 11.1 from DVD Can I ? Haw ?

the official way is as caf4926 has already told you…and, here is the
‘official’ proof of that, read the information box at the beginning of
http://en.opensuse.org/Upgrade

> I also have Vista

oh, i’m sorry…i hope you get that fixed too!
the fix is pretty easy, really. (you are just a format away from repaired)

–
platinum

#5

I agree with caf4926 and platinum, but if you have the time and don’t mind playing, try the upgrade and if you don’t like it, do a fresh install.
Just make sure you know what extra software you have added and where to find them to reinstall after the upgrade.

#6

If it’s just a plain desktop for standard usage, i.e. mail - browse - office, I would do a fresh install.

If you’ve been through a lot to get things configured the way you want it, i.e. webserver - NIS - samba - NFS - static IP’s etc, I would suggest updating, since that leaves your /etc as it is. No need to reconfigure things mentioned.

#7

thanks for all

the official way is as caf4926 has already told you…and, here is the
‘official’ proof of that, read the information box at the beginning of
Upgrade - openSUSE

I didn’t find zypper

and Can I upgrade from 11.1 DVD because there is
" new installation "
" Upgrade "

please don’t forget I’ve Vista

#8

zypper is part of the installed system and some users just changed their 11.0 repos to 11.1 and used zypper dup.
But I do not recommend this.
Use the DVD, select Installation
Proceed with New Install and just make sure your current /home is not formatted. This assumes you have a /home
If you post the result of this from a su term:

fdisk -l

I’ll see what you have

#9

I don’t know if I choose new installation I’ll mess boot to Vista !

#10

Please post

fdisk -l

it will help me see your current setup

#11

ok here you are

linux-5ml8:/ # fdisk -l 

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes 
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders 
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes 
Disk identifier: 0x5c128273 

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System 
/dev/sda1               1       10445    83891430    7  HPFS/NTFS 
/dev/sda2   *       10445       38913   228676218+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA) 
/dev/sda5           10445       18278    62917548+  83  Linux 
/dev/sda6           18278       23499    41945683+  83  Linux 
/dev/sda7           23500       24152     5245191   83  Linux 
/dev/sda8           24153       24675     4200966   82  Linux swap / Solaris 
/dev/sda9           24676       38913   114365440    7  HPFS/NTFS
#12

So from that I see everything below Vista is in extended sda2 which also has the boot flag on. Which means grub is there not the MBR.
Do you know what sda7 is?

If you are that unsure about your ability to do this install, I’m reluctant to encourage you. Except to say it’s not as difficult as it seems.

Can you restore Vista if something bad happens and can you make some kind of backup of important files?

I could tell you how to do the zypper thing, but I make no promises there either.
Post the result of this:

zypper lr -d
#13

Do you know what sda7 is?

yes it’s mounted /boot I think that help me to save boot file to it

#14

Well you have to decide what to do. I can’t do it for you, not unless you live near me, which I suspect not.

I would proceed as for a new install, and use custom partitioning, keep my /home unformatted. I suspect you actually have no use for /boot from what I can see so you could delete it and grab the space in to /home
Set mount points for sda1 and sda9 (sda9 may change if you delete /boot). Set grub to sda2 as it is now. Away you go