I've made a test upgrade on a prepared, clean system: VIA MVP3 motherboard; Intel Celeron 566 CPU; 256 MB RAM; SAMSUNG SV0682D, ATA hard drive (hda); SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-148S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive (hdd); S3 86C368 (Trio3D/2X) 4MB video card;
All information generated by installers (report_bug, ddebug.log etc.) can be found here: for 9.0 beta4 installer: <http://olo.office.altkom.com.pl/domowa/qa/mandrake/beta4/upgrade_8.2-beta4/installer/drakx> for 8.2 installer: <http://olo.office.altkom.com.pl/domowa/qa/mandrake/beta4/upgrade_8.2-beta4/installer/drakx/8.2/> screenshots: <http://olo.office.altkom.com.pl/domowa/qa/mandrake/beta4/upgrade_8.2-beta4/installer/DrakX-screenshots/> The procedure I've followed: 1. install Mandrake 8.2 (Polish language for system usage), using two partitions: one ReiserFS partition for root filesystem (6GB), one 500 MB swap partition. Partitions layout (as seen by fdisk after installation): Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 832 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 766 6152863+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 767 833 537705 5 Extended Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(832, 239, 63) should be (832, 254, 63) /dev/hda5 767 833 537673+ 82 Linux swap 2. setup proftpd to handle anonymous connections, in /home/ftp 3. mirror Mandrake 8.2 updates in the anonymous ftp dir (/home/ftp/pub/Mandrake/updates/8.2) with mirrordir tool: mirrordir -v --no-chown --no-chmod --exclude-glob SRPMS ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distributions/Mandrake/updates/8.2/ /home/ftp/pub/Mandrake/updates/8.2/ 4. setup MandrakeUpdate to use localhost as security updates source and install all of them to achieve an up to date installation of 8.2 5. add the following 2 lines in the global section of lilo.conf (to test for an old bug from 8.2 installer, it's still there in 9.0): restricted password=pass 6. run the expert upgrade process from 9.0 beta4 CDs. So far I've identified and described 2 problems (but there seem to be more), one of them critical. You can reach my reports here: Problem 1 (some important packages aren't upgraded leaving the system in a barely usable state): <http://olo.office.altkom.com.pl/domowa/qa/mandrake/beta4/upgrade_8.2-beta4/critical_packages_not_installed/> Problem 2 (bootloader installation fails if restricted option and password is used in lilo.conf of the system being upgraded): <http://olo.office.altkom.com.pl/domowa/qa/mandrake/beta4/upgrade_8.2-beta4/lilo_password/> Best Regards, -- Olo GG#: 274614 ICQ UIN: 19780575 http://olo.office.altkom.com.pl
