On Friday 17 January 2003 05:02 am, Koning, R. (MCB) wrote: > Hi all, > > I very newbie to mailing lists AND linux so just a simple question. I want > to upgrade our system from 8.2 to 9.0 but during earlier installation from > 8.1 and upgrade to 8.2 we encountered some problems with the RAID system. > Now I need to upgrade to 9.0 but I am afraid things are not goint to work. > So I first going to back up /home /etc /var and /usr but then? Is our RAID > system going to work with Mandrake 9? We have a Supermacro P4-DC6 > motherboard with two Xeon P4 (1.7 GHz) processors and RAID 5 (Mylex > accelleraid 160) with 2Gb RAM and two I think about 54 Gb HD's. > > Roman
Well first see this: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/90errata.php3 Error scenario: When using raid on / on a machine which previously had raid on /, booting your newly installed system will fail. Why: The installer mangled the /etc/raidtab file when trying to detect existing raid arrays. Solution: Format a floppy disk with a DOS filesystem (in Linux, you can use the command "mkdosfs /dev/fd0"). Copy patch.pl to the floppy disk. Remove the floppy and reboot using the Mandrake Linux 9.0 CD1 to do a CD-ROM installation. During boot, press F1 at the splash screen, then place your floppy disk that contains patch.pl in the floppy drive. At the prompt, type "patch", then follow the installation as usual. But "upgrading" from 8.2 to 9.0 is definitely not recommended. There will be lots of unupgraded packages because 9.0 was much smaller than 8.2 (fewer folk to accomplish the tasks and total binary incompatibility of packages). I would suggest that you leave the partitioning alone, then install without formatting /home or /var. If you have significant commercial software installed, and you do not have an /opt mount point sitting on its own partition, then make such a partition and set it up in /etc/fstab, but as /opt1, then mount /opt1 cp -a /opt /opt1 rm -r /opt -f #gets rid of old /opt if set up in / or else removes a symlink #to /usr/opt umount /opt1 kedit /etc/fstab #change opt1 to opt and save mount /opt Anyway, after any of that, try a fresh install. I did upgrade from 8.1 to 9.0 and I have many problems in web and mail settings and in DNS and sharing and eventually I had to put in a border firewall because 9.0's scripts would NOT connect me to ADSL at all. This appears to be a GATEWAY problem in /etc/sysconfig/network with the use of pppoe. Civileme
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