Re: YaST on Leap 16!

"Carlos E. R." <[email protected]> Fri, 3 Jul 2026 21:03:42 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.suse.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 2026-07-03 20:57, James Knott wrote:
> On 7/3/26 12:13 PM, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
>> As far as I know, no, the yast partitioner can't be used during a Leap 16
>> install.  But if you have a working Leap 15.6 system with the partitions
>> the way you want,  the migration-tool won't change anything. Then,
>> once migrated use the YaST partitioner.
> 
> 
> The problem is the migration tool croaks on my ThinkPad E520.  In 
> addition to Linux, with a separate /home partition, it also has Windows 
> and the system recovery partitions, which 16 couldn't handle without 
> clobbering.  It sure would be nice if the later versions understood that 
> not everyone starts with a fresh disk.

You can do the migration with plain "zypper dup" plus some tweaks. 
Zypper dup does not care about how many partitions you have, windows or not.

-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.

   (from openSUSE 16.0 (Laicolasse))

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