Hi,
I am planning to buy Suse 6.1 when it comes out, I just wanted to wait
until all the glibc and kernel 2.2 changes have been finished and had
some time for any bugs to be ironed out before I buy the commercial
version. I was just after a quick upgrade in the meantime.
Cheers,
Brad.
>
>
>Brad Jones wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> I am currently running the full commercial version of SuSE5.2
and want
>> to upgrade to 6.0. I've been dnloading the 6.0 version (by modem) and
am
>> getting sick of waiting. I just wanted to know what files I actually
>> need to upgrade to 6.0. I would suspect that all the old binaries I
have
>> installed from 5.2 will still work with 6.0. It should be backwards
>> compatible right?
>> So I guess if I just have the first 3 directories (a1, app1,
app2) from
>> the ftp site dnloaded I should be able to just go into yast, set this
>> directory to be the source and then click on update. Is this all I
have
>> to do? I don't need any other of the directories?
>> If there's anything else I need could you please let me know.
It just
>> seems like a waste dnloading everything when I don't need it all.
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Brad.
>
>
>Ahhh... Now you see the advantage of purchasing the commerical
version
>on CDROM.
>1) A permanent copy of the distro plus ALL the major downloads
available
>at the time, all on 5 CDs.
>2) A ready-made boot disk.
>3) A live-system on the CD.
>4) A beautiful manual.
>5) If your time is worth anything, and you don't have a T1 connection
>to the internet, it is easier and quicker to get the commerical
release.
>6) It costs less than a movie and dinner out for two... ;-)
>7) The CD boots into YaST and the install-upgrade is just clicks away.
>8) Where else could you get such a finely engineered system at such a
>low price?
>
>However, Geeks with plenty of experience, time to burn and a T1 would
>think nothing of downloading all the packages and putting together an
>installable system.
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