On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 21:05 -0400, Bob File wrote:
> I was rooting around in the shed the other day and found a bag with suse
> version 5 set of CD's in it . I guess I've used it a while huh?
> This is supposedly release day for suse 9.3, but their page says "pre-order";
> hmmm.
> I have never had much luck with updating, and after years of reading
> documentation on screen, I don't need a set of books.
> Does anyone know details about their update version? If it needs to see an
> older version of suse linux that would seem kind of bogus, and I've skipped a
> version anyway. The price seems a bit high for just a set of disks.
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To my knowledge,
The upgrade is the full version without hard copy docs. No previous
install is needed. All the documentation is included in the disk set
for digital view. I think that ultimately they make their money up
front and if you wait around about 6 to 8 months, the release makes it
to their ftp site (unless that has changed in 9.3). We bought 9.0 at
the office, then the 9.1 upgrade when it came out. 9.2 I downloaded via
ftp... and I'll probably buy the 9.3 upgrade.
as far as the actual upgrade goes, I usually rsync my home dir and /etc
to a server, then clean format and install, then rsync back. Haven't
tried the official upgrade option. If you do, let me know how it
goes!! :^) I guess I'm just more comfortable knowing I have a clean
disk.
HTH.
Mike Branda Jr.
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