Hi,
has anybody successfully done an upgrade from 10.0 to 11.0?
Should I risk that?
Thank you
C.N.Taur
I would never recommended to upgrade.
I doubt that it is possible to upgrade from 1o.o directly to opensuse 11.0
My advice backup all you,re data , install in customize option for disk use and do not format /home
dobby9
has anybody successfully done an upgrade from 10.0 to 11.0?
Yes.
Should I risk that?
No.
Well, actually it was 10.2, but that is close enough to make the point. There are just too many changes that have been made; you will spend (waste) a whole lot of time resolving broken pieces. I did it because (a) I had a lot of tweaks I didn’t want to redo and (b) I was curious to see if it could be done and (c) I’m a hacker anyway so I didn’t mind getting down inside the guts and (d) I actually know how to get into the guts and (e) in general I lack common sense. 
Joking aside, this is just to confirm @dobby9’s reply. And because it has been asked several times elsewhere. Such an upgrade should only be attempted if absolutely required and by someone who really understands how things work in linux/SuSE under the hood.
And by the way, if you choose to mount /home in the installation (not formatting it to retain all your data and config), you should only install KDE 3.5.9. Deal with KDE 4 later. Don’t forget that backup of /home.
I agree with dobby9, I did upgrades on 5 machines, and 3 worked well. However they were all recent builds (recycled from Win2000Pro!) so not much guff in the user settings. On my personal desktop I had to go back and do a clean install as I have a lot of apps, and all sorts of user settings got broken. The worst was my network connection would no longer start on boot. After that I did my laptop as a clean install from the DVD and it worked fine. I backed up /home, reformatted it, put the data back first, then put user settings back only if I knew it would not break things (Firefox & Thunderbird profiles for example, but not themes and extensions). 11.0 is quite a lot different even from 10.3 so be very careful.
The time it takes to re-install all your apps after a fresh install (maybe keep /home) is going to be less than all the time it will take trying to sort your issues with an upgrade like you suggest.
Thanks to all.
You showed me, that my expectations where right.
C.N.Taur wrote:
> Hi,
>
> has anybody successfully done an upgrade from 10.0 to 11.0?
> Should I risk that?
>
> Thank you
> C.N.Taur