Warp wrote:
>   Making a major system upgrade (from 10.x to 11.x in this case) on a
> running system is theoretically possible through extensive trickery, but
> not officially supported nor recommended.

I saw a description once of how to install FreeBSD on a running Linux 
machine and make it dual-boot, all without anything but ssh access to 
the machine. (I.e., you could do it with a locked-down machine in 
another city.)  Pretty funky.

>   Then it downloaded some 5 GB worth of packages, which took some hours.

I wonder if it would restart properly were it interrupted, or if the 
network failed. Seems like it pulled down more than it would have if you 
had the DVD burned. :-)

> After that, it booted to the new installed OS, and everything seemed to
> work just well and all of my settings and programs were preserved.

That's good to know. Maybe if I leave the job using 10.2 I'll upgrade to 
11.0 at home.

>   The Yast2 software manager is enormously faster now, as they fixed the
> problem in the earlier version (it always took several minutes to start
> up because it downloaded and parsed a big bunch of XML files every time).

Oh good. That was always a pain in the butt for me. Especially manually 
upgrading a dozen remote machines. Sheesh. :-)  Every time that started, 
I thought "what, can't they see they just downloaded that 5 minutes ago?"

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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