Re: Upgrading from 10.0 to 10.1

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2025 at 01:20:54PM +0100, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> Sorry you've had a hard time.

Indeed, let's try to make this better for next time :-)

> > 2. The `sysinst` method does not explain what it will upgrade. The
> > tool offers choices but does not explain what the choices mean.
> > 
> > For example:
> > 
> > «
> > Figure 4.6. Choosing the distribution filesets
> > »
> > 
> > Surely if one is upgrading then what it upgrades is what is presently
> > installed? You can't upgrade something which is not there to upgrade.
> > But the menu options here suggested to me that I should pick full
> > install regardless of what was already installed, and that might
> > install a lot of extra things I did not have and fill my root
> > partition.
> 
> As above, upgrading is not dissimilar to a new installation except you don't
> extract etc and xetc. Those are handled by etxupdate and postinstall.
> 
> When upgrading, sysinst should check what is installed by looking in
> /etc/mtree and suggesting accordingly - I don't know whether it does though.

Indeed, it should do that to pre-select the old sets. It currently doesn't.

But it also allows you install more sets (e.g. if you did not have X
sets installed, this is the way to get them later). It also allows you
to download the same OS version again (e.g. if anything garbled some binaries).

So it is quite important at what exact URL you point it at for the sets
(but recentish versions, and 10.0 does count as that) should have proper
defaults. If something goes wrong here, this would explain why you got
the same kernel again.


Martin