On Monday 17 November 2003 11:48 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: > OK, my #1 problem with running Linux is dealing with upgrades. > > With the upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1, the Mandrake upgrade worked pretty well, > seeming to upgrade the stuff that needed, leaving alone the stuff that > didn't. > > Now, 9.1 to 9.2 club, that was a fiasco. I finally moved my /home to a new > partition, and blasted out /boot and /, installing in clean partitions. But > what was left over was uploading all the little programs I like, say > bidwatcher, KSetiSpy, Audacity, and the like, and nuking all the stuff I > don't: devfs and supermount to name two. Then configuring a new hosts file, > and setting up fstab to mount all the drives like I want them. > > So the big question is how do you upgrade? Or maybe you don't. Or maybe you > use urpmi to pull off an upgrade that does not interfere. I wanna know, > cause I love linux, but I don't want to be a slave to my computer. > I upgraded my desktop machine using urpmi against a local copy of the dist tree. It went very smoothly and I really had no problems. First thing I did was urpmi itself 'urpmi urpmi', then the kernel 'urpmi kernel' then reboot, then everything else using the --auto-select switch, 'urpmi --auto-select'. -- /g
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