Thanks, BTW - after writing, I thought of a different approach. I updated a virtual 2010.0 machine under VirtualBox. The installer crashed half way through, but after re-booting, I was able to update all packages without any problems. The machine works, so I'll run the update on my main machine.
On Friday 30 July 2010, Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Shlomo, > > On Friday 30 July 2010 09:42:11 Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > Let me first say that I usually do a clean install rather than an update, > > so I'm a bit hesitant about this. So here's my question. > > > > mdkonline which usually notifies me of RPM package updates, notified me > > that a new version (2010.1) is available. When I choose to upgrade, I'm > > given 2 options - Free and PowerPack. Since my original installation of > > 2010.0 (and previous versions) was with Mandriva One, I'm worried that > > choosing Free, will cause problems with proprietary software such as > > Flash and NVidia drivers. > > > > What should I do? > > You can find the packages for Flash and the Nvidia drivers on the non-free > repository and/or in PLF - http://plf.zarb.org/ . Assuming something will > break, you can always install it using urpmi this way. So you can safely > install Mandriva Free. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Sent by KMail 1.12.4 (KDE 4.3.5) on LINUX Mandriva 2010.0 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il