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List:       suse-linux-e
Subject:    RE: [SLE] How to upgrade from 7.3 to 8.1
From:       "Alleman, Lowell" <lowella () MFPS ! COM>
Date:       2003-02-03 21:49:14
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Sounds very similar to what happened to me:  I forgot to mount /usr one
time, and on a separate upgrade I ran out of space on the /opt partition.
The backup made it easy:  I restored, expanded /opt, tried the upgrade
again, and everything worked from there.

BTW:  I love LVM!! (I even use it on my Laptop.)  I can expand my ReiserFS
partitions in seconds by typing just two (fairly) simple commands!! 

Yeah, YaST doesn't warn you about this.  I don't really 'blame' YaST anymore
though, because I think this the problem comes down to the fact that RPM
can't report size based on location.  (I could be wrong about this..)  I
think that RPM reports a single install size and that's it... so there is
know what of knowing how much space is needed on each partition before the
install (and it would be even more troublesome to calculate this value for
an upgrade).

- Lowell


-----Original Message-----
From: Carlos E. R. [mailto:robin1.listas@tiscali.es]
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 8:36 AM
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Subject: RE: [SLE] How to upgrade from 7.3 to 8.1



The 03.01.31 at 17:28, Alleman, Lowell wrote:

> Oh, make sure that you do a FULL SYSTEM BACKUP, before you start the
> upgrade.  This has saved by butt on a number of occasions... believe it or
> not,  most installers just can't cope once you run out of disk
space...lol,
> I'd call myself an experienced computer user, but I've fallen into this
> several times...

Absolutely true!!!!

I tried to upgrade from 7.3 to 8.1. Al went well, apparently; but yast
forgot to mount my /opt partition and run out of space at mid-install...
without saying a single word of warning. So, when it tried to reboot, it
failed, there were so many things missing :-(

I had to do a clean install then. My other option would have been to
restore my system and retry the upgrade, but my type of backup involves
installing first Linux (7.3), and then copying every modified file (a
script similar to what yast1 did as backup).


So... if I had to do it again, I would try the upgrade, after having a
good backup - and have a very close look at the partitioning scheme -. If
it works, there should be much work saved in configuring again the
system, yast should be able to cope with it - I hope. If it doesn't
work... well, then try the clean install, it's only time you expend :-)

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson



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