One day old 10.2 to 10.3?

I just decided to install Open Suse 10.2 yesterday not realizing the next
version was available today. On the Open Suse site, all upgrade talk seems
to be from rc2 to 10.3 and I found nothing about 10.2 to 10.3 other than one
brief mention here which made me think it's okay if I haven't altered 10.2.
As I only finished the install yesterday and did nothing but try the news
reader, I'm assuming I'm okay but I have no idea how this is done in the
Linux world...is it as simple as just downloading the ISO, burning the DVD
and installing?

thanks,
Tim

TS Mathews wrote:
[color=blue]
> I just decided to install Open Suse 10.2 yesterday not realizing the next
> version was available today. On the Open Suse site, all upgrade talk
> seems to be from rc2 to 10.3 and I found nothing about 10.2 to 10.3 other
> than one brief mention here which made me think it's okay if I haven't
> altered 10.2. As I only finished the install yesterday and did nothing but
> try the news reader, I'm assuming I'm okay but I have no idea how this is
> done in the Linux world...is it as simple as just downloading the ISO,
> burning the DVD and installing?
>
> thanks,
> Tim[/color]

Download the CD or DVD. Burn it. Put it in your computer and reboot. Then
install it just like you did 10.2. Since you really haven't used 10.2 or
put anything on it (docs, photos etc.) I would just do a fresh install.

--
Chris

"Chris" <chris@thisisnotanemailaddress.ca> wrote in message
news:jPsNi.146051$bO6.58091@edtnps89...[color=blue]
> TS Mathews wrote:
>[color=green]
>> I just decided to install Open Suse 10.2 yesterday not realizing the next
>> version was available today. On the Open Suse site, all upgrade talk
>> seems to be from rc2 to 10.3 and I found nothing about 10.2 to 10.3 other
>> than one brief mention here which made me think it's okay if I haven't
>> altered 10.2. As I only finished the install yesterday and did nothing
>> but
>> try the news reader, I'm assuming I'm okay but I have no idea how this is
>> done in the Linux world...is it as simple as just downloading the ISO,
>> burning the DVD and installing?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Tim[/color]
>
> Download the CD or DVD. Burn it. Put it in your computer and reboot. Then
> install it just like you did 10.2. Since you really haven't used 10.2 or
> put anything on it (docs, photos etc.) I would just do a fresh install.
>[/color]
Just to make sure I'm reading you right. I was hoping I wouldn't have to
uninstall or remove 10.2 first and/or do anything to my already created
partitions. Are you saying that when I start the installation, I'll get a
prompt to the effect, "install" or "upgrade" and I can just select install
and it will either re-accomplish the partitioning or reformat the various
partitions and give me what in effect becomes a fresh, clean install?

Oh, please, tell me I'm reading you right!!! ;-)

TS Mathews wrote:[color=blue]
> Just to make sure I'm reading you right. I was hoping I wouldn't have to
> uninstall or remove 10.2 first and/or do anything to my already created
> partitions. Are you saying that when I start the installation, I'll get a
> prompt to the effect, "install" or "upgrade" and I can just select install
> and it will either re-accomplish the partitioning or reformat the various
> partitions and give me what in effect becomes a fresh, clean install?
>
> Oh, please, tell me I'm reading you right!!! ;-)[/color]

You can do anything you like. During the installation you can use the
partitions you had already or do whatever you desire. This is Linux, YOU
decide what you want to do.

About 95% of the questions asked about Linux can be answerd with YES.
;-)

houghi
--
At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will
find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on
the computer.

houghi wrote:
This is Linux, YOU[color=blue]
> decide what you want to do.
>
> About 95% of the questions asked about Linux can be answerd with YES.
> ;-)
>
> houghi[/color]


I am guessing "Will it get me laid?" falls in that 5%

Tony wrote:
[color=blue]
> I am guessing "Will it get me laid?" falls in that 5%[/color]

I know of at least one person who got laid because of it. Ok, only one,
but still.

houghi
--
Listen do you hear them drawing near in their search for the sinners?
Feeding on the power of our fear and the evil within us.
Incarnation of Satan's creation of all that we dread.
When the demons arrive those alive would be better off dead!

TS Mathews <NOSPAMtsmohio@yahoo.ca> wrote:
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>"Chris" <chris@thisisnotanemailaddress.ca> wrote in message
>news:jPsNi.146051$bO6.58091@edtnps89...[color=green]
>> TS Mathews wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> I just decided to install Open Suse 10.2 yesterday not realizing the next
>>> version was available today. On the Open Suse site, all upgrade talk
>>> seems to be from rc2 to 10.3 and I found nothing about 10.2 to 10.3 other
>>> than one brief mention here which made me think it's okay if I haven't
>>> altered 10.2. As I only finished the install yesterday and did nothing
>>> but
>>> try the news reader, I'm assuming I'm okay but I have no idea how this is
>>> done in the Linux world...is it as simple as just downloading the ISO,
>>> burning the DVD and installing?
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> Tim[/color]
>>
>> Download the CD or DVD. Burn it. Put it in your computer and reboot. Then
>> install it just like you did 10.2. Since you really haven't used 10.2 or
>> put anything on it (docs, photos etc.) I would just do a fresh install.
>>[/color]
>Just to make sure I'm reading you right. I was hoping I wouldn't have to
>uninstall or remove 10.2 first and/or do anything to my already created
>partitions. Are you saying that when I start the installation, I'll get a
>prompt to the effect, "install" or "upgrade" and I can just select install
>and it will either re-accomplish the partitioning or reformat the various
>partitions and give me what in effect becomes a fresh, clean install?[/color]
[color=blue]
>Oh, please, tell me I'm reading you right!!! ;-)[/color]

The answer is yes. Just choose "install".


--
--- Paul J. Gans

houghi wrote:[color=blue]
> Tony wrote:
>[color=green]
>> I am guessing "Will it get me laid?" falls in that 5%[/color]
>
> I know of at least one person who got laid because of it. Ok, only one,
> but still.
>
> houghi[/color]

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to
the library.”

Frank Zappa, American composer, fl. 1940-1993

Vahis
--
"Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important
stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)"
Linus Torvalds 1996.

"Paul J Gans" <gans@panix.com> wrote in message
news:fe6s3t$8l1$16@reader1.panix.com...[color=blue]
> TS Mathews <NOSPAMtsmohio@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>[color=green]
>>"Chris" <chris@thisisnotanemailaddress.ca> wrote in message
>>news:jPsNi.146051$bO6.58091@edtnps89...[color=darkred]
>>> TS Mathews wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just decided to install Open Suse 10.2 yesterday not realizing the
>>>> next
>>>> version was available today. On the Open Suse site, all upgrade talk
>>>> seems to be from rc2 to 10.3 and I found nothing about 10.2 to 10.3
>>>> other
>>>> than one brief mention here which made me think it's okay if I haven't
>>>> altered 10.2. As I only finished the install yesterday and did nothing
>>>> but
>>>> try the news reader, I'm assuming I'm okay but I have no idea how this
>>>> is
>>>> done in the Linux world...is it as simple as just downloading the ISO,
>>>> burning the DVD and installing?
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> Tim
>>>
>>> Download the CD or DVD. Burn it. Put it in your computer and reboot.
>>> Then
>>> install it just like you did 10.2. Since you really haven't used 10.2 or
>>> put anything on it (docs, photos etc.) I would just do a fresh install.
>>>[/color]
>>Just to make sure I'm reading you right. I was hoping I wouldn't have to
>>uninstall or remove 10.2 first and/or do anything to my already created
>>partitions. Are you saying that when I start the installation, I'll get a
>>prompt to the effect, "install" or "upgrade" and I can just select install
>>and it will either re-accomplish the partitioning or reformat the various
>>partitions and give me what in effect becomes a fresh, clean install?[/color]
>[color=green]
>>Oh, please, tell me I'm reading you right!!! ;-)[/color]
>
> The answer is yes. Just choose "install".
>[/color]

Well, I've done it and it went badly. It all seemed to work just fine but
when it was time to actually start the program, I got a blank screen. I
waited for quite a while, thinking perhaps that despite the fact that I
wasn't seeing any light or other indicator that there was either hard disk
activity or something going on, something was still happening. After much
longer than on any previous install attempt (I waited at least twenty
minutes) I thought it might simply be some sort of glitch which has stopped
the system. So, I restarted and got the same thing...it appeared to be
starting normally but a few seconds into it, I got the blank screen and
nothing...no keyboard input accepted, no mouse input etc.

I then shut down and restarted with the installation disk inside and tried
the repair feature which then appeared to run but nothing changed.

So, having no options as I had no control over my system and, thus, couldn't
even boot into XP, I started over and will just have to wait a bit for 10.3
to be around for a bit.

Thanks to all for your help.

On 2007-10-05 17:25, TS Mathews wrote:[color=blue]
> I just decided to install Open Suse 10.2 yesterday not realizing the next
> version was available today. On the Open Suse site, all upgrade talk seems
> to be from rc2 to 10.3 and I found nothing about 10.2 to 10.3 other than one
> brief mention here which made me think it's okay if I haven't altered 10.2.
> As I only finished the install yesterday and did nothing but try the news
> reader, I'm assuming I'm okay but I have no idea how this is done in the
> Linux world...is it as simple as just downloading the ISO, burning the DVD
> and installing?
>
> thanks,
> Tim
>
>[/color]

I installed opensuse 10.2 on a very new box some days ago, just to discover
that the network hardware needed a path before working, and I could not install
the patch without network, so I went home to get another network card as a temp
fix, and then discovered that 10.3 was out.

I downloaded it, burned a DVD, vent back and did install/upgrade , without a
single error, and configured that NIC , and the printer that was not supported
either with from my old 10.2 CD.

So, unless you already have installed software from other repositories, the
upgrade will go very fast (20 minutes) and work (for once)

/bb

On 2007-10-06 00:39, houghi wrote:[color=blue]
> Tony wrote:
>[color=green]
>> I am guessing "Will it get me laid?" falls in that 5%[/color]
>
> I know of at least one person who got laid because of it. Ok, only one,
> but still.
>
> houghi[/color]

One more here ;-)

If Tony mean "will it get me ****ed" it falls in that 5% ,
so he is partly right.

/bb

birre wrote:[color=blue]
> On 2007-10-05 17:25, TS Mathews wrote:[color=green]
>> I just decided to install Open Suse 10.2 yesterday not realizing the
>> next version was available today. On the Open Suse site, all upgrade
>> talk seems to be from rc2 to 10.3 and I found nothing about 10.2 to
>> 10.3 other than one brief mention here which made me think it's okay
>> if I haven't altered 10.2. As I only finished the install yesterday
>> and did nothing but try the news reader, I'm assuming I'm okay but I
>> have no idea how this is done in the Linux world...is it as simple as
>> just downloading the ISO, burning the DVD and installing?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Tim
>>
>>[/color]
>
> I installed opensuse 10.2 on a very new box some days ago, just to discover
> that the network hardware needed a path before working, and I could not
> install
> the patch without network, so I went home to get another network card as
> a temp
> fix, and then discovered that 10.3 was out.
>
> I downloaded it, burned a DVD, vent back and did install/upgrade ,
> without a single error, and configured that NIC , and the printer that
> was not supported
> either with from my old 10.2 CD.
>
> So, unless you already have installed software from other repositories,
> the upgrade will go very fast (20 minutes) and work (for once)
>
> /bb[/color]

10.3 is amazingly good version :)

Like I wrote last Friday, I did the same from 10.0 to 10.3.
That server had been running two years, no external software except
webalizer.

I also made a 10.2 desktop to 10.3 with Packman, Guru, Videolan stuff on
it just to try how it would work. I chose "Just upgrade installed
software and remove unsupported packages"

There were dependency issues but I kept clicking on the installer's
proposals till I got it over with.

That solving stage took some time so I guess a fresh install would have
been a lot faster.

But it works :)

Vahis
--
"Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important
stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)"
Linus Torvalds 1996.

On 2007-10-08 17:29, Vahis wrote:
[color=blue]
>
> I also made a 10.2 desktop to 10.3 with Packman, Guru, Videolan stuff on
> it just to try how it would work. I chose "Just upgrade installed
> software and remove unsupported packages"
>
> There were dependency issues but I kept clicking on the installer's
> proposals till I got it over with.
>
> That solving stage took some time so I guess a fresh install would have
> been a lot faster.
>
> But it works :)
>
> Vahis[/color]

Yes, in my case the 10.2 had never even got out to Internet, so there was no
nvidia drivers or packman packages.


So, this upgrade was pure opensuse packages, so, they at least do what we can
expect, but making an error free upgrade of the OS.
In this case, the upgrade was faster then a fresh install, since it skipped
most configurations.

Packman is always a problem if one upgrade to early, since they must need
some time to build all their packages for it first.
(I love those guys, working hard for us)

/bb