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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?"
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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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