On Monday 21 June 2004 08:00, Graham Trott wrote:
Thanks for the pointer. I'm downloading it now and will fire it up on a spare machine as soon as it completes (later this morning). CDs on request assuming success.
I note the page mentions "...and see its capabilities, before upgrading to the Professional edition via FTP...". In the past I've found SuSE to be very unhelpful on how to do this, compared to Gentoo or Debian, for example. Is it a complex process (asks he, not wanting to put aside a whole week to learn)?
It used to be very tricky as the only network package source YaST would see was NFS, so you had to download the whole FTP archive and mirror it locally. Now however YaST accepts HTTP and FTP sources.
It should be as simple as adding the Suse FTP server under "Change Source of Installation" and then clicking the System update.
Remember to set the login correctly when adding the source.
I've never tried it personally, I keep meaning to run an update to 9.1 from 9.0 using this method. Do remember however that you do not get the Full Pro version as the non-free packages will have been removed.
Anyway the only difference between the Personal and Pro versions is the included packages, so once you have added an installation source you can add any of the pro packages you need.
Unless someone corrects me, I believe that the core system is the same for both versions. The extra packages and the more comprehensive manuals are what you pay for in the pro version.