Re: [expert] How do you upgrade?
On September 1993 plus 3729 days Rob Blomquist wrote: > 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 urpmi...I've been urpmi'ing since 8.1 (or 8.2). Some times strange things happen with some packages, like happened with the kde split of 9.1-9.2 but if you pay attention, it's usually easy to fix afterwards. Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] How do you upgrade?
--- Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > 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. I cannot say the same thing because i had some porblem with kde menus, but i came from 8.2 before and something of kde 2.2 survived. > > 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. I had a lot of problem me either. I had to use grub instead of linux when installation finished because of errors i don't understood. (see my mail of upgrade: no answers) I couldn't use kde because of riva tnt2 card. I had to rebuild the driver, but no kernel source was present, so i had to download the one on the update site. To do so i had to use old kernel -of course it worked perfectly! Now my hd works with pio mode 16 bit and all seems to be slower. I patched the installation to allow installing security updates during installation, but now all my pakages have check signature fail! The key printed is the same of mine, but lower case! I upgraded k3b (rel. 10), and i cannot use it because of k3bsetup disappeared (i didn't found on kde control centre and no where else) I upgraded to 9.2 last sunday today it's the third day! what can i find more? > > 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'd like to know too. thanks Angelo __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How do you upgrade?
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 21:06, Greg Meyer wrote: > 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'. Actually for me the upgrade for 9.1 to 9.2 of so far 4 boxes was the only time I've ever had a successful upgrade, on any Linux. I did what was suggested above plus a bit more. The details from my efforts + a number of others have been combined into the TWiki http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UrpmiUpgrade Know issues with the 9.1 to 9.0 path are here as well, hopefully everyone who contributed to this one was/is thorough. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How do you upgrade?
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 "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
