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Re: [LUG] SuSE upgrade question

 

On Wednesday 11 February 2009 15:52, Dave Morgan wrote:
> Hi
> we have some new OpenSuse 11.0 boxes in the office that are having
> reliability issues.
>
> How easy is it to upgrade to 11.1? Can we just boot a DVD and select
> upgrade? (we need to test this on one machine first, and if it works
> upgrade to *exactly* the same binaries in a month or so on other machines,
> so network upgrade is not possible.)
>
> In term of hard lock-ups, 11.0 at least 50x less reliable than Suse 8.2
>
> Unfortunately I have lost 50% of my machines in past 6 months due to
> capacitor failure on motherboard (5 year old IBM kit), which forces
> the upgrade.
Last time I played with suse you could do 'on-line upgrades'
Does it still uses yast - yast/software/system update  etc
Tom te tom te tom


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