aru Posted March 6, 2004 Report Share Posted March 6, 2004 I know what you mean, that's the reason I'm speding less and less time on the board since past november 28th :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiedra Posted March 6, 2004 Report Share Posted March 6, 2004 Yeah, that's why I haven't been around much anymore. Married life takes up too much time. Time to time, I manage to escape from my wifes clutches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted March 6, 2004 Report Share Posted March 6, 2004 :lol: Send me your plans to see if I can escape too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiedra Posted March 6, 2004 Report Share Posted March 6, 2004 Escaping is the easy bit. Not getting caught is the hard part! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salamandra Posted March 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2004 I would really want to have the time to take Linux to the edge and crash my system again and again (learning in the process) but for now it's not possible :( Other possibility is to own another PC to play with. Not possible for now either :( (Well to be truth, I have an old P-I 64, 64MB and 1.2GB Hard Drive but I don't think Mandrake will run on that using GUI. Corel Linux works fine on that.) Well guys, have any of you tried Mandy 10 ??? Regards, Salamandra (* So wives are kind of a problem... I will think twice before I engage.. :woops: *) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 6, 2004 Report Share Posted March 6, 2004 http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/...x10ReleaseNotes Upgradingurpmi can now do a distribution upgrade simply by adding urpmi sources for the 10.0 dist tree or cd's and then running 'urpmi urpmi' then 'urpmi --auto-select' and finally 'urpmi kernel' to install the new kernel. and then running 'urpmi urpmi' ????? :o :o ok? :unsure: I don't recall seeing that in the man or --help :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted March 6, 2004 Report Share Posted March 6, 2004 I think jimdunn is following this method: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?sho...=15entry96555 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiedra Posted March 6, 2004 Report Share Posted March 6, 2004 Salamandra, about that old pc, one option would to be run, Peanut Linux. I hear it's really god for older systems with limited resources and I also heard it was pretty user friendly. I believe there are a fewppl here that have used it. I remember when I first got Linux, I was able to crash it several times as I was going through the learning curve, but now I haven't had it crash on me for at least 1 1/2 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimdunn Posted March 7, 2004 Report Share Posted March 7, 2004 http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/...x10ReleaseNotes Upgradingurpmi can now do a distribution upgrade simply by adding urpmi sources for the 10.0 dist tree or cd's and then running 'urpmi urpmi' then 'urpmi --auto-select' and finally 'urpmi kernel' to install the new kernel. and then running 'urpmi urpmi' ????? :o :o ok? :unsure: I don't recall seeing that in the man or --help :huh: No, I've never come across that till I saw it on the developers release notes page which I referenced, http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/...x10ReleaseNotes That's why I thought it was worth posting here. Sort of makes sense though, to update the updating tool to the new version first, doesn't it ? I mean, if you're going to make massive changes to your system with 'urpmi --auto-select', then wouldn't it be better to use the most up to date version of urpmi to do it ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted March 7, 2004 Report Share Posted March 7, 2004 (edited) Sort of makes sense though, to update the updating tool to the new version first, doesn't it ? I mean, if you're going to make massive changes to your system with 'urpmi --auto-select', then wouldn't it be better to use the most up to date version of urpmi to do it ? no actually, it doesn't. Rpm and family has always been one of those 'don't til ya have ta'. When I have an rpm and family that's working just fine, upgrading them is very low on my todo list. Edited March 7, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimdunn Posted March 7, 2004 Report Share Posted March 7, 2004 When I have an rpm and family that's working just fine, upgrading them is very low on my todo list. I totally agree with that - especially since new versions of rpm have been known to cause problems (such as the menu bug in 9.2, I think...) But since the discussion was how to upgrade the entire distro, you'd get those new versions at some point in the process anyway, with a clean reinstall, or, presumably, the installer program's upgrade option. So I thought I'd show the poster an alternative from the distribution release notes which he might not have seen. Personally - I'd clean reinstall, but to each his own... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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