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There is one item that the eeePC doesn't have by design - an optical drive. So this caused an issue for me as I wanted to get 11.0 running on the thing. I had heard (rightly or wrongly) that doing a live upgrade was not possible and not recommended. Well recommendations are just that, things you can ignore

!!!This is by no means a definitive guide as to how to do it, and I accept NO responsibility if it pops a cap in your machine!!!

So to get the goodness that is 11.0, I first added the new Zypper repo and then the Factory repos (you can change this to the official 11.0 ones ina week) in a disabled state for OSS and Non-OSS. I then removed any 10.3 repos (you can disable them instead if you prefer).

From a terminal I just ran zypper up -t package which then pulled in the new zypper and libzypp backend, it also removed all YaST packages. Once the new zypper was in place I then enabled the Factory repos by zypper mr -e $REPONAME and disabled the Zypper Backport repo with zypper mr -d $REPONAME to get the name of the repo just zypper lr. Before you upgrade all packages you need to upgrade rpm to take into account the new lzma compression zypper in rpm, if it tries to pull any deps they will fail - just take a note of them and install them after rpm is done. You may now happily run zypper dup to upgrade everything.

If you want YaST back (who wouldn't) do a search for it zypper se yast and then choose what you want zypper in $PACKAGE1 $PACKAGE2 etc..

Remember peeps, this is a definite YMMV