Guest ottothecow Posted October 13, 2005 Report Share Posted October 13, 2005 I am running 2005LE and I want to upgrade to 2006. Now, I used to just replace my urpmi mirrors with the new versions but will that work with 2006 now that Smart is the package management tool? If I go with the "Install" method and keep my /home, am I going to lose things like my KDE themes and settings? I would really just like a simple guide to do something like a urpmi update but if its going to work better, I will do a fresh install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 Not your settings but if your themes are made up of parts that are not included in the Mandriva KDE install then these will not work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 I did an upgrade from 2005LE to 2006rc2 by changing my repositories and running urpmi --auto-select and urpmi kernel. It worked without a problem (first time I did not do a clean install). The 2006 mirrors seem to be up now, so you can point to them (main and contrib). For plf I think you still have to use the cooker mirrors, someone please correct me if I am wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 For plf I think you still have to use the cooker mirrors, someone please correct me if I am wrong. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It appears that this PLF mirror for 2006 free and non-free is available (I haven't checked the others): ftp://plf.time4t.net/pub/plf/mandriva/free/2006/i586/ ftp://plf.time4t.net/pub/plf/mandriva/non-free/2006/i586/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustpuppy Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 I did an upgrade from 2005LE to 2006rc2 by changing my repositories and running urpmi --auto-select and urpmi kernel. It worked without a problem (first time I did not do a clean install). The 2006 mirrors seem to be up now, so you can point to them (main and contrib). For plf I think you still have to use the cooker mirrors, someone please correct me if I am wrong. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm being a bit dense here - are the 2006 mirrors there for anyone, or just the club members? I can't find 2006 on easyurpmi... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 are the 2006 mirrors there for anyone, or just the club members? I can't find 2006 on easyurpmi... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Check your favorite public mirror. There's a good chance the 2006 Official tree may now be available there. But not the ISOs yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ottothecow Posted October 14, 2005 Report Share Posted October 14, 2005 are the 2006 mirrors there for anyone, or just the club members? I can't find 2006 on easyurpmi... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I saw them on easyurpmi yesterday when I asked this question but I think I am going to go with the reinstall and just keep my home partition. I do so much experimenting that who knows what is screwed up on my / partition that it makes more sense to start with a clean install. Also, I got the dvd image last night so I might as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jthing Posted October 17, 2005 Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 hi tried to upgrade from 2005LE to 2006. nightmare. GUI didnt load. I installed 2006 beta which worked but had lots of files missing. re 2006 update. gui doesnt load as xorg.conf is looking for libglx.a in /usr/x11r6/lib/modules/extensions but it isnt there!! i am now re installing 2005 LE least that works... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted October 17, 2005 Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 If you have a reasonably fast internet connection you can do a network install. Download the boot.iso from one of the mirrors and follow it from there. (choose network install, http, dhcp, official (change '/current/' to 2006.0 in the mirror address (it's a bug) etcetc) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 17, 2005 Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 I have upgraded to 2006 official without a problem. But, I do it in stages: urpmi, tools, then the rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jthing Posted October 17, 2005 Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 If you have a reasonably fast internet connection you can do a network install. Download the boot.iso from one of the mirrors and follow it from there. (choose network install, http, dhcp, official (change '/current/' to 2006.0 in the mirror address (it's a bug) etcetc) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ok i will try boot. ta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 17, 2005 Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 My install lasted a bit less than two hours. Quite acceptable for a ftp-install. But make sure that you select the right mirrors. I accidently started reinstalling LE2005 before switching to the correct 2006 repos. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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