SLES9 to SLES10 Upgrade

2007-04-03 Thread Ifurung, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Our vservers setup was mostly done using the procedures described in "From LPAR to Virtual Servers in 2 Days" by Michael MacIsaac, et al. So currently we have a cloning controller server and about a dozen cloned vservers all current to SLES9 SP3 + patches. We have been applying patches using Y

SLES9 to SLES10 upgrade

2007-06-14 Thread Clark, Douglas
I have completed a new install of SLES10 in a stand alone LPAR. But I would rather upgrade from SLES9 to SLES10 if I can. I get through the process fine until it gets to the "Finish Basic Installation" window and it tries to Install boot manager. I keep getting an error "Error occurred while ins

Re: SLES9 to SLES10 Upgrade

2007-04-03 Thread Mark Pace
Upgrades do not work so well going from SLES9 to SLES10 as you are probably talking about 32bit SLES9 and SLES10 is 64bit only. Your best solution is a fresh install. -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems -- For LINUX-390

Re: SLES9 to SLES10 Upgrade

2007-04-03 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Linux on 390 Port wrote on 04/03/2007 02:09:07 PM: > Hi, > > Our vservers setup was mostly done using the procedures described in > "From LPAR to Virtual Servers in 2 Days" by Michael MacIsaac, et al. So > currently we have a cloning controller server and about a dozen cloned > vservers all curre

Re: SLES9 to SLES10 Upgrade

2007-04-03 Thread Clark, Douglas
Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 11:19 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SLES9 to SLES10 Upgrade Upgrades do not work so well going from SLES9 to SLES10 as you are probably talking about 32bit SLES9 and SLES10 is 64bit only. Your best solution is a fresh install. -- Mark

Re: SLES9 to SLES10 Upgrade

2007-04-03 Thread David Boyes
> I am going from SLES9 64bit to SLES10. This will be an LPAR only > update/install. > Does the SuSE documentation adequately describe this > process? No. It doesn't really get updated much for specific platforms, and LPAR/bare metal is *very* rare. Any docs that might exist will probably be in

Re: SLES9 to SLES10 Upgrade

2007-04-03 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2007 at 4:26 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Clark, Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am going from SLES9 64bit to SLES10. This will be an LPAR only > update/install. Does the SuSE documentation adequately describe this > process? Does anyone have any tips before

Re: SLES9 to SLES10 Upgrade

2007-04-03 Thread Clark, Douglas
LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SLES9 to SLES10 Upgrade >>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2007 at 4:26 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Clark, Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am going from SLES9 64bit to SLES10. This will be an LPAR only > update/install.

Re: SLES9 to SLES10 Upgrade

2007-04-03 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2007 at 6:34 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Clark, Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it me, or does the update from one release of SuSE Enterprise Linux > to another version via "fresh install" seem strange to anyone else? Not to me, since you're not doing a fre

Re: SLES9 to SLES10 Upgrade

2007-04-04 Thread David Boyes
> Is it me, or does the update from one release of SuSE Enterprise Linux > to another version via "fresh install" seem strange to anyone else? Not at all. Update in place is a derivative result of scarcity of hardware. If the design environment is for heavily virtualized "hardware", then it's much

Re: SLES9 to SLES10 upgrade

2007-06-15 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 6:06 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Clark, Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have completed a new install of SLES10 in a stand alone LPAR. But I > would rather upgrade from SLES9 to SLES10 if I can. I get through the > process fine until it gets to the "F

Re: SLES9 to SLES10 upgrade

2007-06-15 Thread Clark, Douglas
>From the installation kernel and selected "update" there. -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 12:37 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SLES9 to SLES10 upgrade >>> On Thu,

Re: SLES9 to SLES10 upgrade

2007-06-15 Thread Mark Post
>>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 11:32 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Clark, Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From the installation kernel and selected "update" there. That was what I was hoping you'd done, since that is (in many cases) the right way. I would say you should open up a pro