>' I know that upgrading Linux distros is generally not the better way to go,
>' but I've got 100s of hours into configuring this version to do exactly what
>' I want, so I'm not sure I want to s*it.
>I've got the same problem. I have a laptop computer that uses the
>neomagic drivers for X that I would like to upgrade from 6.0 to 6.2.
I don't really have that problem, although I have seen that the S3VIRGE drivers
have been updated, and will (apparently) only work with a new(er) version of
X11. I'm also running into problems where a lot of software is now only being
updated for the Glibc2 systems, and I've got Glibc1.2 here.
Rather than try to upgrade everything one at a time, I'd like to just upgrade
the entire she-bang.
Quote:>And of course 6.4 is about to come out. What a dilema!
Yeah.. You're telling me! I just know that as soon as I install 6.3, 6.4 will
hit their site in ISO format. {groan}
Why must development go faster than me? :>
Quote:>' Does anybody have any experience in upgrading SuSE Linux v6.0 to SuSE Linux
>' v6.3? I've got both versions sitting here, and was wondering if the upgrade
>' procedure would be less painful than that from v5.2 to v6.0 (ISTR my Linux
>' partition gaining 500 megs of who-knows-what, and system performance going
>' straight down the tubes..).
>I plan on backing up my laptop to my other machine so that I can get
>back stuff. I'm going to try the upgrade system option in yast and
>hope for the best.
I think that's the way I'm going to go. I plan on leaving my /home partition
alone, so that should be a problem. Now just to figure out what I have on my
/ partition that I should back-up, and I just might give the 6.0-6.3 upgrade
a try.
If it doesn't work - I'll have my backup, and I guess I'll just re-install
v6.3 from scratch. {shrug}
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