[Cialug] Re: SuSE upgrades

[Michael Watson]

Good on ya.  I hope 10.{2,3} is as stable as 9.3 was for the past
two-plus years.
M.

Carl Olsen wrote:
> I just did the update from SUSE 9.3 to SUSE 10.2 on my web server.  The Mono
> stuff broke, but everything else works just fine.  I only have two web sites
> on the server and they are both working perfectly (PHP 5 and MySQL 5), so
> the update was successful as far as I'm concerned.  The stuff the broke was
> just stuff I was playing around with, so nothing important got broken.  I'll
> do the update to SUSE 10.3 one of these days.
>
> Carl
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Watson [mailto:watsonm011 at hawaii.rr.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 6:45 PM
> To: cialug at cialug.org
> Cc: carl-olsen at mchsi.com
> Subject: SuSE upgrades
>
> Just did a 9.3 to 10.2 upgrade on two different PCs (and a 10.2 -> 10.3
> on my laptop last night). Worked OK for the x86 PC, but not on the
> x86_64, the install errors with a specific message that it can't do 9.3
> to 10.2 x86_64.  So I did a full install on that one.  I don't imagine
> 9.3 -> 10.3 should be much different...
>
> Except you may want to note that 10.3 changes the first disk from
> /dev/hda to /dev/sda.  The release notes say you can inhibit this by
> adding 'hwprobe=-modules.pata' (or similar) to the kernel parameters,
> but I didn't see this until after the upgrade was done, and my fstab had
> already been updated.  Not a problem on the laptop (my testbed as well
> as travel computer), but I've got an IDE/SATA mix on my main PC, and
> this should make that an interesting upgrade.  I need to research if
> this can/should be done on the command line on the DVD install boot,
> and/or added to the GRUB parameters, or what (like maybe it assumes no
> IDE drives at all?)  Maybe a post-upgrade fstab fix is the simplest path.
>
> HTH,
> Michael
>
>     Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:31:31 +0000
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>     I did an update from SUSE 10.2 to SUSE 10.3 last night.  Last week, I
> did the
>      update from SUSE 10.1 to SUSE 10.2.  This seems to be fairly easy.
>
>     I'm wondering if I can do an update from SUSE 9.3 to SUSE 10.3 and have
> it work
>      just as easy.
>
>     Does anyone know if I can update directly to SUSE 10.3 from SUSE 9.3
> without
>      doing each version update one at a time?
>
>     Carl Olsen
>     Des Moines
>
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