Re: Have 9.2, But Want To Install 10.0 - Things To Look Out For

Dirk Weber wrote:
Am Dienstag, dem 03.1.0.06, schrieb jhinkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx in LvqdnZMen_0ABbzYnZ2dnUVZ_vKdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxx:
What things do I have to do to/watch out for during the 10.0
install to keep my 9.2 working? BTW, the machine also has WinXP on
it as well (although I rarely boot it). GRUB is the boot loader.

Well, a bit difficult to say. Do you have a seperate /home partition? In that case you will face less problems than when having no seperate /home partition.

Unfortunately I do not have a separate /home partition.

I moved from the 9.2 to the 10.0 some time ago and it works fine. IIRC that was the version change which improved the startup time dramatically.

I did not update the 9.2, I made a new installation. I did so because I created a new partition on my system. Furthermore I read that sometimes it is a bit tricky to update to a new version instead of making a new installation. Since I do have a seperate /home partition I only formatted the other partitions during the installation process. So my personal data and (most of) my personal configurations were saved. Since there was quite a lot of work in those configurations that was very important for me.

But of course there are some configurations which are not stored in the /home directories. I will try to list them but I am not sure at all if my list is complete. Maybe it is a good idea to save your current /etc directory.
Fortunately I only use this machine as a number crunching node of a small cluster. I want 10.0 instead of 10.1 because the other nodes have 10.0 on them. I therefore do not have any of the issues that you state below:

Scanner
None attached

Printer
Don't use one with this machine.

Monitor
Easy to adjust.

leafnode
Have no idea what this is.


Mail server
Nope.


Partitions
Well it may be useful to save the partition table. I have to admit I never did, but that is not really a good advice. During the installation you will be asked about the partitioning scheme. If you do not want to change it just take the old partition table.

GRUB
If you did face no problems in configuring your grub you probably will face no problems now. The Windows partitions should be recognized automatically. I former times I used to have a dual boot system with SuSE and WIN98, absolutely no problems with grub.

Nope, no problems at all with the dual boot using GRUB.

Sound system
It's a compute node, so no need for this.

Patches and updates
Nope.


OpenOffice.org

Don't use it at all. Too buggy and really slow (at least 1.X is)


Else
?
I am sorry, but that seems all I remeber to be important.

hth

Greetings from Arft, Germany

Dirk Weber




Thanks for the input!
.

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