Yeah, but here is the thing: it was not me who installed and configured postfix, spamassassin and a bunch of other stuff in this machine so I was hopping that I could fix some problems just by upgrading the box so I woukln't have to spend weeks on configuring all the stuff that is already in there.
On 5/17/05, Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 17 May 2005 09:47 am, Gentian Hila wrote: > > I have worked with other kinds of linux like redhat before but this is > > the first time I am working with mandrake. > > > > I have a machine with mandrake 8.2. I want to update ist packages. > > Tried to use rpmdrake but it failed asking me to skip packages. > > > > then I try to upgrade to 10.1. I have a hardware raid in this machine. > > > > When it came to upgrade it presented me with two mirrored hard drive > > allowing me to chose one of t hem, not the raid though. > > > > I tried both of them, one at a time of course but it complains: > > > > An error has occured. Oops cannot find the root partition. Of course > > the root partition is there since it is working fine. > > > > Tried to install yum but it needs rpm-helper. try to install it, it > > conflicts with some other packages. > > > > Is there any way in the world of updating or upgrading this machine ? > > > > Please advice. It's driving me crazy > I would have to say that 8.2 to 10.1 is much to big a jump in that the changes > to the filesystem will be a big problem. You would be much better off do a > clean install but do not reformat partitions that have important data on > them. Rename the files you want to something like important_stuff.backup and > then install 10.1. > This will save you much hair pulling and gnashing of teeth. Somebody jump in > here if you have a more detailed or better scheme. > All said and done the new 10.1 power pack or LE2005(aka10.2) power pack is a > quantum leap in functionality over 8.2. HTH > -- > Dennis M. linux user #180842 >
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