On 10/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:carl-olsen@mchsi.com">carl-olsen@mchsi.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:carl-olsen@mchsi.com">carl-olsen@mchsi.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I did an update from SUSE 10.2 to SUSE 10.3 last night. Last week, I did the update from SUSE
10.1 to SUSE 10.2. This seems to be fairly easy.<br><br>I'm wondering if I can do an update from SUSE 9.3 to SUSE 10.3 and have it work just as easy.<br><br>Does anyone know if I can update directly to SUSE 10.3 from SUSE
9.3 without doing each version update one at a time?<br><br></blockquote></div><br>I've done version updates in Ubuntu (apt) and RedHat/Fedora (yum) and in all cases the suggested method was to upgrade through each version without skipping. The reason is simply that there is a finite amount of resources and the upgrade process from version to version is easy to test and account for, but the time needed grows dramatically for testing all of the possible variations.
<br><br>There may be exceptions, for example, there will be an LTS to LTS upgrade for Ubuntu, but these exceptions, if any currently exist, will be well announced. (wow, three parenthetical statements in one sentence! (not counting this one))
<br><br>I realize that this can be very trying when there's an unsupported version between your current version and the one you wish to upgrade to (like, for example, needing to go from FC3 -> current). I'm not sure what to do in that case.
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode