willfarnaby Posted April 19, 2004 Report Share Posted April 19, 2004 I previously installed Mandrake 10.0 Community Edition and put a lot of work into installing various software and configuring the system. Now, before I actually proceed, I'd like to know what I can expect if I boot from the 4 CD 10.0 Official release and select "Upgrade". What have peoples' experiences been? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kjel Oslund Posted April 20, 2004 Report Share Posted April 20, 2004 I haven't tried a 10-CE to 10-OE using the ISOs, the following may be helpful. I upgraded from 10-CE to 10-OE by using urpmi and dowloading from a mirror the day that 10-OE was announced. I had my system up-to-date with all 10-CE updates. When I ran urpmi --auto-select on the 10-OE sources, the only rpm that was installed was mandrake-release which installs the text file /etc/mandrake-release. I've subsequently bittorrented the 10-OE ISOs and have them looback-mounted as rpm repositories. Running urpmi --auto-select against the ISOs didn't install any new rpms. There have been a few updates from the Official/10.0 update mirrors. So, I would guess that doing an update from the ISOs should be a non-event (but you never know until you try it ;-)). I should add that I had reinstalled 10-CE after the cooker screw-up and had found a mirror with a clean 10-CE setup just a few days before 10-OE was released so my system was in good shape. I wouldn't recommend anyone doing what I did if they still had 10.1 cooker rpms installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Danomatic Posted April 21, 2004 Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 I had a perfectly running 10.0 Community setup. I performed the "Official" upgrade to Community and it screwed up my Lilo based dual boot to Windows. Not a big problem.. popped in the Windows CD, jumped to System Recovery Console and "fixmbr". Then I did a semi-clean (didn't format /home) install of 10.0 Official. Had to reinstall my ATI drivers and a couple other non-core programs and all went well. Overall, this newbie Linux user didn't have much difficulty with the upgrade. The nice part is that Disc 1 of "Official" actually works as the boot disc unlike Community ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted April 21, 2004 Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 I just added a FTP source for the official release to urpmi and then upgraded all the packages. Seems to have worked quite well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted April 21, 2004 Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 Passed the cds to a colleague who had CE installed, he modified the pointer to take the new cds as source and did a urpmi --auto-select update and it worked fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
william Posted April 21, 2004 Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 I just added a FTP source for the official release to urpmi and then upgraded all the packages. Seems to have worked quite well. That's what I did, almost 1GB of updates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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