[ILUG] Upgrading to SuSE 8.1

[Conor Lennon]

It is 8.1!
It appeared on mirrors on around Thursday last week.
(e.g. 
ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/8.1/)

I've done a full install, overwriting an existing installation, but I'd 
like to do an upgrade.

Conor

Padraig Brady wrote:

> Conor Lennon wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've downloaded the ftp version of SuSE 8.1 from a SuSE mirror.
>> It comes with 4 boot floppy disk images and a cd boot image.
>>
>> When I boot from either and try in install SuSE 8.1 I only get 
>> options to do a new install of SuSE and to boot the installed system.
>>
>> I'm can't seem to upgrade my existing SuSE 7.3 to SuSE 8.1.
>> SuSE 8.0 came with an upgrade option.
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this?
>
>
> I think you only downloaded the eval version?
> (which is the only x86 SuSE downloadable).
>
> Padraig
> .