[Cialug] SUSE 10.1 or Debian?

[carl-olsen at mchsi.com]

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.

-------------- Original message from Sam <sam at jazpupy.com>: -------------- 


> 
> 
> carl-olsen at mchsi.com wrote: 
> > I have two machines, so I'm not worried about down time. I'd like to 
> > keep working with SUSE because I have some experience with it and it 
> > seems to do everything I need to do. It is working flawlessly and has 
> > been for a couple years now. However, being able to upgrade the OS 
> > without wiping the drive or doing a complete reinstall does sound like 
> > a major improvement. I can understand having to reboot several 
> > times. I just wiped the drive on my laptop and reinstalled Windows XP 
> > and I had to reboot several times to get all the patches installed. 
> > After installing all of the patches, Office 2003, SQL Server 2005, 
> > Visual Studio 2003, and Visual Studio 2005, I probably rebooted at 
> > least 20 times. 
> > 
> 
> My understanding is patches can be done from yast but to upgrade to a 
> new version you must get the new version CDs and boot to disc one and 
> run the install. At some point you'll be asked about upgrading or 
> replacing or words to that affect. I've done that once and it went off 
> without a hitch. I went from Suse 10.0 to 10.1. I only remember 1 reboot. 
> _______________________________________________ 
> Cialug mailing list 
> Cialug at cialug.org 
> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://cialug.org/pipermail/cialug/attachments/20060711/78047027/attachment.html