Comments on: Novell SLES 10 to OpenSUSE 11.1 Migration http://www.thelazysysadmin.net/2009/07/novell-sles-to-opensuse-migration/ Why do things the hard way? Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:53:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jon Smith http://www.thelazysysadmin.net/2009/07/novell-sles-to-opensuse-migration/#comment-1207 Jon Smith Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:10:59 +0000 http://www.thelazysysadmin.net/?p=446#comment-1207 <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-1196 Basheer Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:37:48 +0000 http://www.thelazysysadmin.net/?p=446#comment-1196 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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