[Cialug] SUSE 10.1 or Debian?

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

This is what I choose to do, when redhat upgrades.


On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 16:00, carl-olsen at mchsi.com wrote:
> 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 Stu dio 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. 
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