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Mandriva 2005 to 2006


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Urpmi can allow you to upgrade from one version to another, but problems can be encountered. I normally find a clean install works best going from one version to another.

 

Eg: I upgraded using urpmi from 10.1 Official to LE2005 and couldn't get my Intel graphics card to work with 3D/OpenGL. However, a clean install of LE2005 on the same system, and the Intel card worked without any problems.

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If you do decide to upgrade, you need to remove all urpmi sources with:

 

urpmi.removemedia -a

 

and then add the urpmi mirrors for the 2006 RC1. If you have 2006 RC1 on CD/DVD then you can boot from it and upgrade that way. That might work better than upgrading from the urpmi mirrors.

 

If you do with the mirrors, then make sure:

 

urpmi --auto-select --auto

 

will make sure everything is updated to the latest version. Then you will need to install the latest kernel for that release, and perhaps the kernel-source as well. These items are not upgraded automatically.

 

However, do expect encountering some problems if not a lot of problems!!!

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I have upgraded from 10.0 to 10.1 then to 2005LE and then to 2006 beta3. Never had a problem but over the years there are so many left over things remained I have 3 G more free space now after installing (cleanly) RC1, and the system is faster, don't know if they improved it or it's my doubled swap partition.

So I say if you wanna upgrade go for it, but a clean install is recommended every now and then.

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Thanks for the replies, hmm so the consensus is for me to take the plunge and Go 2006 RC1, then upgrade my urpmi source when 2006 officially launches right? I never thought this would be possible Praise be Linux.

 

Any idea how far away 2006 final will be? I cant wait. Im stuck with KDE 3.3 and Gnome 2.8 and im too chicken to upgrade because I keep reading nasty stuff about the KDE 3.3 to 3.4 update.

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Hello Dexter. Doubling your swap space will likely NOT have made things faster. If you have adequate real memory, 256mbs or more, then the swap space is hardly even used. A swap space greater than 500mbs is just simply wasted space.

I have 1gb of true memory and only about 450mbs of swap and am considering deleting it entirely.

I agree with the clean install update even though mandriva versions have been getting better and better at behaving properly when do upgrading.

And yes, independant tests are showing that Mandriva2005-LE is faster and also considerably faster than suse or redhat in boot up time and overall operation.

Cheers. John.

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