On Tuesday 17 June 2003 8:07 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 07:55:09 -0400 > > dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > begin Roger Oberholtzer's quote: > > | I have an SuSE 7.1 distro, which I am not using. It was bought for > > | testing various distros but is not currently installed anywhere. I > > | am looking to try SuSE 8.2. If I buy an upgrade, will it only > > | install on an existing 7.1, or will it only ask for a CD to check > > | that this is an upgrade? I don't seem to find info on this on > > | SuSE's site. They just say upgrades are available. But not what > > | the install requirements are for this. Any ideas? > > > > unless something has changed drastically with 8.2, the upgrade is > > identical to the full distribution, and the upgrade price is more a > > repeat customer reward than anything else. > > So it is up to the reseller to enforce that it is an upgrade? Seems > the one I am using does not bother...
The only difference with the upgrade is that it does not include any of the manuals. I don't think SuSE cares whether you already own a copy of a prev. release or not. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 06/17/03 10:28 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Yesterday, my eyeglass prescription ran out." _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
