On Tuesday 17 May 2005 15:47, 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
Firstly, 8.2 is now old and unsupported which means that rpmdrake would not have found the packages you want . Secondly to try to upgrade from 8.2 to 10.1 is not likely to work (as you have found) because so much changed between the 2 versions you are trying to upgrade. An upgrade from 8.2 -> 9.0-> 9.1->9.2 -> 10.0 -> 10.1 might have been feasible. I suggest a clean install of 10.2, after you have backed up everything you need from 8.2 of course. I believe that 10.2 has better raid support. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk
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