Re: upgrading SUSE 7.2 to SUSE 9

From: Ruel Smith (NoWay_at_NoWhere.com)
Date: 04/11/04


Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 09:37:27 -0400

On Saturday April 10, 2004 6:44 pm, Elmer vomitted:

> Several years ago I bought SUSE 7.2 and installed it on my old intel
> 350MHZ
> box with a 80 gig hard drive. It is networked with two other windoz
> machines.
> I just bought SUSE 9, can I load the SUSE 9 on top of the SUSE 7.2 and
> retain all of the current programs and settings ( i.e. samba, mail etc )
> or should I wipe the hard drive and load SUSE on a clean drive?

Cross your fingers... It's better to wipe and do a clean install.

One question: Why did you just purchase SuSE 9 when SuSE 9.1 is getting
released in 3 weeks?

-- 
Big Daddy Ruel Smith
SuSE Linux 9


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