Is it possible to upgrade from Suse 9.2 Pro to 9.3 Pro?

eagleswings · 08-08-2005, 10:05 PM

I bought a magazine months ago and it comes with Suse 9.2 Pro, I installed it in my PC. I'm just wondering if it is possible to upgrade it to 9.3 Pro online. If yes, please help me how to do it. Thanks heaps.

duffmckagan · 08-09-2005, 12:27 AM

I think that you can Upgrade.
But I guess there would be some issues, which would crap up the system, if you can't solve them properly.

eagleswings · 08-09-2005, 12:37 AM

Hello duffmckagan,

Thanks for your reply, that's not a problem for me right now since my Suse 9.2 is newly installed no added application yet just those comes with the installer DVD. Would you know how to do it? I went to YAST last night, there are only patch update, software update and system update but I couldn't find the system upgrade.

duffmckagan · 08-09-2005, 03:00 AM

Well, I am not pretty sure how you would do it from YAST.

I haven't used SuSE 9.2. (I have tried 9.1PRO and 9.3 PRO, but never upgraded.)

I would check whether the 9.3 PRO CD has an option to upgrade.

reddazz · 08-09-2005, 04:55 AM

There is an option in YAST to upgrade your system. You could also change your installation source in YAST and point it to a 9.3 ftp mirror or 9.3 dvd and cd's.

eagleswings · 08-09-2005, 05:55 AM

Hello reddazz,

Thank you for your advise, I will try it tonight.

jst1 · 08-09-2005, 09:13 AM

I did the 9.2 to 9.3 upgrade and it worked almost perfectly. Only issue was that I had to reinstall the RPMs that are not part of the Suse distribution.

duffmckagan · 08-09-2005, 10:31 AM

That is good.

Upgraded Perfectly? Cool......Never seen this happen with Windows systems.

reddazz · 08-09-2005, 12:40 PM

Thats the good thing about Linux and Unix. I upgrade most of my Mandriva versions using rpm repositories and have never had any major problems.

duffmckagan · 08-09-2005, 01:20 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by reddazz
Thats the good thing about Linux and Unix. I upgrade most of my Mandriva versions using rpm repositories and have never had any major problems.

That is the reason I have completely dumped Windows to use Linux(so i am compelled to learn more.)

.....

I am just hooked onto Cent OS at the moment. Just simply can't leave this one.

My first distro was Mandrake and I still love it.
I downloaded the LE2005 yesterday, and I will soon give it a try.

yapp · 08-10-2005, 08:33 AM

I just did an upgrade from 9.2 to 9.3 yesterday, using the ftp mirrors.

I only had some minor problems, mostly caused by my own modifications.

For the record:
* apache+subversion had to be updated again (replacing them with the same version), apparently one of them was not re-installed causing incompabilities with each other. No settings were lost though.
* Packages I've upgraded from the packman/guru rpm repositories conflicted, I can't blame suse for that

You need to choose between a few possible solutions, and yast will start the actual installation.
* /etc/profile, /etc/bash.bashrc and /etc/vimrc will be overwritten. Note that SuSe offers a /etc/bash.bashrc.local to add custom bash settings. I've added the same trick for /etc/vimrc (including my own /etc/vimrc.local). Again, nothing lost.
* I had to set the boot/kdm theme manually, since I've changed those settings myself.
* I had to run lilo to get the new boot theme for it.
* the "perl include path" for spamassassin is incorrect, I've updated the path in /usr/bin/spamassassin myself.

That's all, no big issues someone can't handle.

Since I have my /etc/ monitored by subversion, I could track all changes made in /etc. A lot of scripts seam to have improved, but none of my settings were lost.

You can also use the official boxset / cd's to upgrade suse. The "upgrade" version in stores is identical to the more expensive version. They've left some manuals out.

eagleswings · 08-11-2005, 12:42 AM

What ftp mirrors would you guys suggest? Coz when I tried mirrors here in AU, I couldn't connect.

thanks!

duffmckagan · 08-11-2005, 06:00 AM

Suse International Mirrors

These should work well.

yapp · 08-11-2005, 12:12 PM

Primairy mirror: ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp...suse/i386/9.3/
and to upgrade to kde 3.4.2 (and 3.5 later): ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/ftp...3/yast-source/

KimVette · 08-11-2005, 07:34 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by duffmckagan
That is good.

Upgraded Perfectly? Cool......Never seen this happen with Windows systems.

I've seen it happen - back when I worked for Micro$uck support and updated Windows 3.1 workstations to Windows 95 with NO third-party drivers installed. Throw an HP printer driver, Norton Desktop (a great desktop environment back in the Win3x days BTW), a Soundblaster32, or an ATI driver with the "crystal fonts" into the mix, and you've got a machine destined for deltree c:\windows or format c:

I have updated Windows 2000 workstations to Windows XP Pro, but that was AFTER:

1. Removing the HDD and running CHKDSK /F /R on it in another machine
2. Reinstalling HDD and removing all third-party drivers that STILL insist on modifying the GDI functionality
3. Removing all antivirus and "internet security" (firewally) programs
4. Removing browser "enhancements"

It broke M$ Office (which I consider to be hilarious!) prompting a CLEAN reinstall of M$ office (uninstall/delete directories including common files/M$ Office, manually cleaning registry) but otherwise the machines are still running to this day, but I'm willing to bet that performance would be better (especially in terms of memory utilization) if WinXP were cleanly installed.