AmEyeMad? Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 Hi, I have Mandrake 9.2 and Windows XP on my PC and I just bought a dvd of Mandriva 2006. I would like to know if I install Mandriva 2006 will it update my current version of Mandrake or do I have to install 10.0 etc first? Can you go from 9.2 straight to 2006? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 you should do a fresh install of 2006. too too many diffrences between 9.2 and 2006. if you didn't put /home on a separate partition you will need to save it first. if on its own partition no problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 yes. definitely do a fresh install. updates are known to be a bit problematic even from one version to the next, a major upgrade such as this would cause huge problems :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmEyeMad? Posted April 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 Hi, many thanks for the posts! I'm sure I partitioned my HD 3 ways for Linux (they suggested it by default). What would happen to these 3 partitions, would 2006 recognise them and use them for the respective replacements or would I need to uninstall 9.2 first? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 2006 will recognize them, just make sure you don't let it format your /home if it's on a seperate partition (i think this is the default during the install, it won't format /home). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmEyeMad? Posted April 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 Thanks tyme.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 np ;) as always, post if you have any further questions :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cage47 Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 Also, you might want to delete you old user dir's like .kde. I find that there are changes that might not carry over. Like differences in sounds if you use them, backgrounds and other settings. Save your data but delete the program dirs. Just save your .mozilla and .thunderbird directories if you use them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 I just did this with Mandy 9.1 and it worked great. I put it onto a new disk just to be safe. You can find my complete writeup on the experience at this thread: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=31040&hl= Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 I just thought I would add to the post :P You can upgrade, but the majority of people will recommend clean installs. This is because they are so much better. I've always experienced little niggles and problems from upgrades that never were there when I did a clean install. The main problems to overcome with anything pre Mandrake 10.1 is the fact they were using devfsd, whereas from 10.1 onwards they used udev. You can overcome this simple enough, so it's not a major problem as such. I have done a number of upgrades, some from CD/DVD media, and others from urpmi sources. In my opinion they work mostly the same, except that with urpmi your downloading from your internet connection, which saves the need to burn CD/DVD media. But the problem then comes that if you need to reinstall, you'd have to install the old version first and then urpmi again. So the CD/DVD is best to have if you want to get back with it quicker. Whilst I can get an upgrade working quite easily, I still recommend a clean install. It's just better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmEyeMad? Posted April 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 Also, you might want to delete you old user dir's like .kde. I've only had Mandrake on my PC for about a week, and most of that time I've spent trying to work out why I don't have any sound....that's fixed now, but would I need to consider seeking out and deleting my old user dir .kde? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 The .kde folder holds information relating to your user settings within kde, plus app configuration etc. If you've got a clean install, but your home directory still has this directory, then you'll get the settings from the old version of KDE, and maybe some issues, but then again maybe not. If you are experiencing problems, specifically with KDE, layout, etc that relates to the GUI or app functionality, then you can remove it easily enough. In your /home/username directory (where username is your user), just type: ls -a this will list all your directories including the hidden ones. To remove it, make sure KDE isn't running, and then just type: rm .kde -rdf and it will remove it for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmEyeMad? Posted April 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 I just did this with Mandy 9.1 and it worked great. I put it onto a new disk just to be safe. You can find my complete writeup on the experience at this thread: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=31040&hl= Banjo (_)=='=~ Thanks Banjo, I printed out a copy of your experience and I'll read it thoroughly. It's quite daunting, when your used to Windows, and then you feel like someone turned out the lights..... I'm getting complaints from the rest of the household about the PC always being in Linux mode when they want a turn....but I'm going to stick it out and hopefully wave goodbye to Windows... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelcole Posted April 20, 2006 Report Share Posted April 20, 2006 Watch out with removing ~/.kde/ Better to rename this directory as it can contain things like email files... which you may find you want to recover later.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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