DragonMage Posted December 3, 2002 Report Share Posted December 3, 2002 Ok, I am about to come to my friend's house where I installed RC1 and make it up to date with 9.0 Final and the patches (and texstar and plf and.. well.. you know). Now I don't want to screw up a perfectly good working computer that he has (especially after an hour I spent making his Radeon 7500 working). So my question is, how hard is it and how long does it take? Note that I am saying upgrade not clean install. So I probably just put the newest mandrake CDs and choose expert then upgrade. Is it better to upgrade or upgrade packages only? Anyway, thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted December 3, 2002 Report Share Posted December 3, 2002 I know your saying upgrade not clean install, but from my experience ( i d-load every beta rc, new kernels, etc ) the best bet, unless your really sure what your doing, and what you want to achieve, is to do a clean install in expert mode and format all but your /home partition. Up grade and upgrade packages have both been known to cause problems, (though not always ) The last install I did was 9rc1 , im now running 9.01 all upgraded from cooker, but ive learned from mistakes what to risk d-loading and what not too. For your friends computer, take the safest route, clean install, but don't format /home partition. ( unless of course, there's nothing worth saving ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted December 3, 2002 Report Share Posted December 3, 2002 I definitely second anon. Do a clean install of everything but your home directory. This is probably the safest route to take. Wipe all partitions except for home and do a clean install. This will ensure that there are no strange dependency issues that need to be dealt with. When you upgrade a single package you never know what it may break. I just recently upgraded glibc to 2.3 and I can't run OpenOffice.org anymore. If you friend simply wants a working computer that they are not going to play with, then definitely install instead of upgrade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted December 3, 2002 Report Share Posted December 3, 2002 Since 7.0, never upgrade. Clean install, exactly like anon said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted December 3, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2002 Well.. thanks for your advice. I think I am going to ask my friend first what kind of software he installed other than the ones I installed for him before making that judgment. If he installed very little or salvagable, I think I am going to clean install instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted December 5, 2002 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2002 Update: Did it last night.. just do a regular update.. The only major problem is trying to activate his radeon 7500 again. (around 1 hours). A couple of minor niggles like pressing yes yes yes yes to 82 texstar packages (forgot to install his gpg signature), installing microsoft fonts, adding a mandrake ftp site to urpmi database (so I can do without installation cds) and bugging him to give me his root password. But it seems to run very very smooth after 5 hours of playing around. Yup.. I just love mandrake :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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