[sles-beta] Upgrade fromSLE 11-3 to 12-0 on x86_64

[Waite, Dick]

Grand New Day,
          I have created a SR on my issue with upgrade. Service Request: 10884981671
          I was not sure upgrade was supported in Beta3 but did get confirmation at the Beta Con_Call last night it is working. I tried again this morning and get the same message, "The installed product is not compatible with the product on the installation media. If you try to update using the current installation media, the system may not start or some applications may not run properly."
            The SLE 11-3 install was done with the GA version, all defaults taken and one network connection. I tried a check load to make sure it ran Okay and then shutdown. I then switched the iso to 12-0 beta3 and tried to upgrade. Looks Okay until it checks what it has and then gives the above message.
          The final target of this will be x86_64 and zlinux environments running SLE 11-3 and KDE to be upgraded to SLE 12-0 running GNOME, unless KDE gets a reprieve…Give us a little more time to do a very major switch of a lot of customers or I see many good people keeping with SLE 11-3 for as long as possible, which is not good for man nor beast.
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From: Waite, Dick
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2014 2:07 PM
To: sles-beta at lists.suse.com
Cc: Uwe Drechsel
Subject: RE: [sles-beta] Upgrade fromSLE 11-3 to 12-0 on x86_64

Grand Sunday Afternoon,
The words I have seen too often, "The installed product is not compatible with the product on the installation media. If you try to update using the current installation media, the system may not start or some applications may not run properly."

This was a new install of SLE 11-3 on new disks using only defaults. I did load the system a couple of times after the install to check it ran and looked Okay. I then switched the environment to point at SLE 12-0 Beta3 iso's. So it looks like from what I see a SLE 11-3 with GNOME can not be upgraded to 12-0 beta3 with Gnome.

The release notes 12.0.8 which say they can also be found at "http://www.suse.com/documentation/sles12", which gives a 404, and has a small font in green on the black background which is not very friendly to the eyes, section 4.4 Upgrade-related Notes, in a grand white font, 4.4.1 it does say: "SLES 11 GA -> SLES 11 SP1 -> SLES SP2 -> SLES SP3 -> SLES 12 GA". True this is only Beta3 but I did understand Upgrade with beta3 is supported.

Time to call it a day I think. Looking forward to tomorrow evenings meeting, could be quite lively and I'm sure productive. We all want v12 to be a grand release, much better then, "the other red one v7".  ;o)

__R

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