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<DIV></DIV>I think that sounds familiar. I'm not sure why I have been reformatting the hard drive every time. I'm still thinking about installing on a different machine and getting it up and running first. I can copy the web sites and databases from one machine to another fairly quickly and I definitely won't have any down time.<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message from Sam <sam@jazpupy.com>: -------------- <BR><BR><BR>> <BR>> <BR>> carl-olsen@mchsi.com wrote: <BR>> > I have two machines, so I'm not worried about down time. I'd like to <BR>> > keep working with SUSE because I have some experience with it and it <BR>> > seems to do everything I need to do. It is working flawlessly and has <BR>> > been for a couple years now. However, being able to upgrade the OS <BR>> > without wiping the drive or doing a complete reinstall does sound like <BR>> > a major improvement. I can understand having to reboot several <BR>> > times. I just wiped the drive on my laptop and reinstalled Windows XP <BR>> > and I had to reboot several times to get all the patches installed. <BR>> > After installing all of the patches, Office 2003, SQL Server 2005, <BR>> > Visual Stu
dio 2003, and Visual Studio 2005, I probably rebooted at <BR>> > least 20 times. <BR>> > <BR>> <BR>> My understanding is patches can be done from yast but to upgrade to a <BR>> new version you must get the new version CDs and boot to disc one and <BR>> run the install. At some point you'll be asked about upgrading or <BR>> replacing or words to that affect. I've done that once and it went off <BR>> without a hitch. I went from Suse 10.0 to 10.1. I only remember 1 reboot. <BR>> _______________________________________________ <BR>> Cialug mailing list <BR>> Cialug@cialug.org <BR>> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug </BLOCKQUOTE>
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