Re: [SLUG] what to think about the next ver

From: Mike Branda (mike@wackyworld.tv)
Date: Tue Apr 19 2005 - 10:32:06 EDT


On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 09:13 -0400, Bob File wrote:

>
> I notice this morning that the (suse 9.3) order site no longer says preorder.
> I don't mind supporting the company by buying CD's; just seems a little high, but I'll probably do it anyway ;-} .
> Note that I have skipped a version, so I probably won't be able to "upgrade", but it was always a waste of time in the past: as somone else said - save data and home directroy to somewhere else and start over by letting the installler partition the drive.
> I mean a waste of time in that when the upgrade got done installing over top the old installation there was always some things that didn't work properly. I assume that the suse folks know this .. .. ..
>

Bob,

Make sure if you have any custom .conf files that you back up the /etc
directory too. A long long time ago when I was still a noob I had spent
a lot of time on samba, nfs , firewall and other config files that I
stupidly erased. Had to redo them from scratch.

Mike Branda Jr.

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