Comments on: Novell SLES 10 to OpenSUSE 11.1 Migration http://www.thelazysysadmin.net/2009/07/novell-sles-to-opensuse-migration/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=novell-sles-to-opensuse-migration Why do things the hard way? Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:07:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Darren http://www.thelazysysadmin.net/2009/07/novell-sles-to-opensuse-migration/#comment-675 Darren Sun, 04 Sep 2011 03:45:45 +0000 http://www.thelazysysadmin.net/?p=446#comment-675 Hi Jon, Wondering if you have any follow-up to your moving from SLES to OpenSuse, which appears to be something you did a while back. Are you still glad you made that move, any regrets? I was just curious because we also use SLES in our environments, we never call into support either and not entirely in understanding why we are paying besides being able to use the baked QA certified packages in their enterprise repositories. Was just curious on how things are going for you now? Thanks -Darren Hi Jon,

Wondering if you have any follow-up to your moving from SLES to OpenSuse, which appears to be something you did a while back. Are you still glad you made that move, any regrets? I was just curious because we also use SLES in our environments, we never call into support either and not entirely in understanding why we are paying besides being able to use the baked QA certified packages in their enterprise repositories. Was just curious on how things are going for you now?

Thanks
-Darren

]]> By: Jon Smith http://www.thelazysysadmin.net/2009/07/novell-sles-to-opensuse-migration/#comment-164 Jon Smith Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:10:59 +0000 http://www.thelazysysadmin.net/?p=446#comment-164 <a href="#comment-1196" rel="nofollow">@Basheer </a> I did a clean install. To the best of my knowledge there would be no available upgrade path from SLES to OpenSUSE. As I had a large web farm to upgrade I used Autoyast to make a new build, then my eCom team tested all our software with the latest versions of Postgres, PHP, and Apache. Once we we happy with the build it was deployed, a lot of rsyncing was going on to move web files and config files and we were done. For everything else, Apache Config, Postfix Config, Postgres Config etc I just used my existing configs to build new configs and then embedded them into the Autoyast installation file. My advice would be to take a complete copy of the Harddrive and then do a clean install and work from there. If you cant take a full copy you will want at least your /srv, /home, /etc, /root directories as well as a dump of all the package list on your current installation as a guide to what you need to select on the OpenSUSE install. Also if you are running any databases a text based dump of those as moving the binary DB files will not always work when changing versions (ie mysqldump, pg_dumpall). Hope that helps. Jon @Basheer
I did a clean install. To the best of my knowledge there would be no available upgrade path from SLES to OpenSUSE. As I had a large web farm to upgrade I used Autoyast to make a new build, then my eCom team tested all our software with the latest versions of Postgres, PHP, and Apache. Once we we happy with the build it was deployed, a lot of rsyncing was going on to move web files and config files and we were done.

For everything else, Apache Config, Postfix Config, Postgres Config etc I just used my existing configs to build new configs and then embedded them into the Autoyast installation file.

My advice would be to take a complete copy of the Harddrive and then do a clean install and work from there. If you cant take a full copy you will want at least your /srv, /home, /etc, /root directories as well as a dump of all the package list on your current installation as a guide to what you need to select on the OpenSUSE install. Also if you are running any databases a text based dump of those as moving the binary DB files will not always work when changing versions (ie mysqldump, pg_dumpall).

Hope that helps.

Jon

]]> By: Basheer http://www.thelazysysadmin.net/2009/07/novell-sles-to-opensuse-migration/#comment-163 Basheer Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:37:48 +0000 http://www.thelazysysadmin.net/?p=446#comment-163 Hi, Could you post more detailed info on how you did the conversion? Did you just stick in the Opensuse CD and select upgrade? I want to convert from SLES 9 to Opensuse. My Sles is using 2 HD's with software raid mirrors. I have 2 spare HD's that I can use to test with.... Your help will be appreciated. Regards Hi,

Could you post more detailed info on how you did the conversion? Did you just stick in the Opensuse CD and select upgrade?

I want to convert from SLES 9 to Opensuse. My Sles is using 2 HD’s with software raid mirrors.

I have 2 spare HD’s that I can use to test with….

Your help will be appreciated.

Regards

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