hi i am using suse11.0. i want to upgrade it to 11.2.
is it possible from the website?the automatic upgrade fails.i am also unable to install softwares from internet directly.the error message is 'unable to locate host". can anybody tell me how to do this and how to upgrade softwares directly from the website? the internet connection is working well. thanks in advance.

I updated my 11.0 system to 11.2 a few days ago.

I tried the 'update system' option after booting from the DVD and it gave me quite a lot of headache, as usual. The best thing to do is a complete re-install from scratch. As /home should be on a partition of its own anyway, that shouldn't be a problem. I'd copy /etc to a safe location too, just in case you need some of the old config files for reference. That avoids most of the manual ext3-to-ext4 conversion as well. The update option left me with a non-bootable system and the 'repair' option thought my ext4 filesystems were corrupt (which they weren't, as they mounted just fine on a different console). I'm not sure if updating a live system using zypper should be considered a viable path.

So I recommend to download the ISO image and burn it to a DVD and start from there.

thank you

I installed 11.2 from 11.1, clean install. I can't figure out how to fix the many issues it presents. You might want to wait awhile.

I updated from 11.1 to 11.2 using zypper. Activate the suse 11.2 repositories and inactivate the others.
Then open a terminal session as superuser. Next type the command: "zypper dup". That's all.
Here are the commands to execute:
#in terminal (konsole) session as su:
zypper modifyrepo --all --disable # disable all old repo's
# add new repo's:
zypper addrepo --name "openSUSE-11.2 OSS" http://download.opensuse.org/distrib...11.2/repo/oss/ repo-oss
zypper addrepo --name "openSUSE-11.2 Non-OSS" http://download.opensuse.org/distrib.../repo/non-oss/ repo-non-oss
zypper addrepo --name "openSUSE-11.2 Updates" http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.2/ repo-update
zypper refresh # Refresh the local metadata and repo contents
zypper in zypper # Pull in zypper from the 11.2 repository.
zypper dup -d # download all required packages
zypper dup # upgrade system
for multimedia add repo videolan

I was hoping for more as Suse was the pre-Ubuntu popular 'distro' but yast let it down. I also cannot get updates via Yast after the upgrade. It will not register me, perhaps, the website is busy or the firewall is set outside their peramiters? Overall, aa great improvement on 11.1.

Fred.

Upgrading from DVD ???

I had downloaded DVD ISO through torrents. and burned it. After that I had checked the DVD, It is saying that MD5 checksum error.

Is this DVD usable ??

Did you run md5sum /dev/cdrom ?

If so, have a look at this:

http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikile...rning#In_Linux

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So you are saying that, even though it has MD5 checksum error ....I can use that DVD.?? am I ??

No.

I'm just saying that depending on HOW you run the md5sum check, you can get a false md5sum mismatch. If the checksum error directly comes from your burning application, I wouldn't use the DVD. If you run md5sum as suggested in the link, the result is trustworthy.

ok , then i'll check my DVD.

BTW, there's a 'Check installation Media' boot option on the DVD ;-)

I had followed that option, it says there is a error in the disk, md5 checksum mismatch .....

so i didn't take further step, I had stopped installing ....

OK. That piece of information was missing. Of course the built-in checks are trustworthy, otherwise they wouldn't be there.

Now the questions that remains is if the downloaded .iso file is bad too. If you still have it, you can just run md5sum name.iso on the file itself.

The reference md5 sums are here:

http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.2/iso/

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It is better, instead of making waste DVD's , checking ISO's itself is better. I'll do that first !