Re: [opensuse] Network install/upgrades?



Darryl Gregorash wrote:

Do you mean a complete upgrade of a running system from one version of
the OS to another? That wasn't so far back in the mist of time, just 6
days ago :-)

http://en.opensuse.org/Updating_SUSE_Linux

but be advised that it's *strongly* not recommended. See also my first
post in the thread "Upgrade from one suse to the next" in this list,
message date is Nov 23 at 01:35 a.m. CST.


Doing things that are recomended against on a production system is a bad thing(tm) I just wonder if in some future time we can find a way to make such things happen correctly. I've already found that yast and "upgrade" an older redhat system into SUSE fairly painlessly. I'm just trying to avoid sending someone with a CD to this machine. Frustrating

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