I am using openSUSE 10.3 and planning to upgrade to openSUSE 11.0.
Which install is the best, "Upgrade" or "Clean Install".

akarui.tomodachi@gmail.com wrote:
> I am using openSUSE 10.3 and planning to upgrade to openSUSE 11.0.
> Which install is the best, "Upgrade" or "Clean Install".

This has been discussed to death before. It boils down to "if it works
for you, it works, if not, do clean install."

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> akarui.tomodachi@gmail.com wrote:
>> I am using openSUSE 10.3 and planning to upgrade to openSUSE 11.0.
>> Which install is the best, "Upgrade" or "Clean Install".
>
> This has been discussed to death before. It boils down to "if it works
> for you, it works, if not, do clean install."

With other words:
- Go to future
- do an upgrade
- in case of disaster
- go back to present
- do a clean install

Gunter Schelfhout wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>> akarui.tomodachi@gmail.com wrote:
>>> I am using openSUSE 10.3 and planning to upgrade to openSUSE 11.0.
>>> Which install is the best, "Upgrade" or "Clean Install".
>> This has been discussed to death before. It boils down to "if it works
>> for you, it works, if not, do clean install."
>
> With other words:
> - Go to future
> - do an upgrade
> - in case of disaster
> - go back to present
> - do a clean install

You can replace "go to future" with "do a backup" and "go back to
present" with "restore the backup".

akarui.tomodachi@gmail.com wrote:
> I am using openSUSE 10.3 and planning to upgrade to openSUSE 11.0.
> Which install is the best, "Upgrade" or "Clean Install".

First realize: if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Next try some reaserch. This has been discussed to death since the first
version of S.u.S.E came out. I can understand that you have no clue as
to where to find such infornation, so instead of giving you a fish, I
will learn you to fish.

There is a site called http://dejanews.com This is a site that is an
archive of usenet text posts that you can search fir information even
per group.

Very unknown, but great for this purpose. It used to be good for posting
as well, but it isn't anymore.

houghi
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Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> With other words:
>> - Go to future
>> - do an upgrade
>> - in case of disaster
>> - go back to present
>> - do a clean install
>
> You can replace "go to future" with "do a backup" and "go back to
> present" with "restore the backup".

I would do the following and stop going on when there is a positive
result
1) Make a backup
2) Do the upgrade
3) Do a new install
4) Restore the backup

Well actualy I do this, because I always have a seperate partition
available
1) Do a new installation on the 'other' partition
2) Boot in the old version

houghi
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________________________ Open your eyes, open your mind
| proud like a god don't pretend to be blind
| trapped in yourself, break out instead
http://openSUSE.org | beat the machine that works in your head

akarui.tomodachi@gmail.com wrote:
> I am using openSUSE 10.3 and planning to upgrade to openSUSE 11.0.
> Which install is the best, "Upgrade" or "Clean Install".
>

The 11.0 works surprisingly well. You should have no problem with it.
Don't expect perfection after you get it running. KDE4 is not done yet
and some hardware support in the database has been hacked out. You have
to learn some new tricks to overcome some deficiencies. I'll be waiting
for 11.1 now that I had to go back to 10.3 to get my sound and printer
installed correctly.

On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:15:03 -0700, akarui.tomodachi typed this message:

> I am using openSUSE 10.3 and planning to upgrade to openSUSE 11.0. Which
> install is the best, "Upgrade" or "Clean Install".

If your / root is on a separate partition than /home /music /videos etc
then I recommend clean install. If you only have the one partition do
the upgrade.


I have separate partitions and favor clean install. I find directory
structure might change and a clean install clears / root unnecessary
files and folders. Of course don't format the /home partition.

I run weekly backups of as many configuration files as I can identify and
put them on my /home/backups folder which is a separate partition from /
root. I build a list of *rc, *cf, *config, hosts*, Susefire*, sudoers,
etc., then run a file backup from the list.

Then if I'm lucky I can compare the clean install version of a file to
the previous installations version. I also use RCS to track changes to
files, scripts as best I can (CVS is overkill for my purposes).

I just completed a successful "clean" installation of version 11.0 on
one of my PCs. It has been installed on the same partition of the
previous version (10.3) and selected KDE 4.0.

This PC is networked with RJ45 cable. But I am expecting more
challenge ahead while installing in my other PCs with wireless network
card. I remember, wireless network (D-Link chips) configuration was a
BIG hassle for me in 10.3.

Lets see what happen..........