Hi all,
site newbie here. Anyways, I have been running SuSE 9.2 for a couple of months and decided to upgrade to 9.3. So, thanks to knetknight I downloaded the 5 CD ISO set and burned them into CDs. Unfortunately, when I reboot my laptop hoping it would boot from CD, it doesn't. My BIOS boot sequence is set up such that it boots from CD first. I checked the MD5sum and they match with the those from the provider.

Any ideas?

Also, I have the SuSE 9.2 boot.iso CD. Can I use that to boot into install mode and install 9.3 from the 5 CDs?

heeeelp please

Did you burn all 5 of those CDs as ISO images? If you did then you can ignore the rest of this post.

If not then you need to do that. If you are using K3B then select Tools->CD->Write ISO Image. Here's a K3B tutorial on burning ISO images.

Once you have your ISO images then you can either 1) boot up your 9.2 system off of your hard drive and then upgrade or 2) boot up and do a fresh install using off your 9.3 CD disks. If you choose to take the second route then be sure to backup any user data that you have prior to reinstalling as your data will be destroyed.

Good luck.

Thanks youngtom.
I have all the 5CDs and I tried to boot from CD1 but my computer ignored it and booted from my harddrive instead.
Is it possible to upgrade from 9.2 to 9.3 using YaST, giving the CDs as a source?

I'm sorry that I wasn't clearer but in order for your CDs to be bootable (or even used to upgrade your 9.2 system), they need to have been burned as ISO images. If they were burned as data CDs then they won't work. Since you've changed your BIOS to boot from the CD first yet the the CDs don't boot, I strongly suspect that your CDs weren't burned properly. What steps did you follow to burn those CDs?

awwwwwwwww thank you thank you thank you.

I had burned the ISOs as data CDs, not ISO images. I assumed it didn't make any difference.
Thanks for the help.

You're very welcome. Once you get those CDs reburned -

Boot from the 1st CD and run 'Update existing installation'. This is the supposed to be the safest way to upgrade.

Done. Thanks a lot.