Patkos Csaba Posted September 8, 2006 Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 Mandriva 2007 Final will be soon released, so I'm curiouse what do you recommand for a computer that now is haveing mandriva 2006. In my case I have a lot of personal configurations and andless little programs installed, downloaded form the internet, that I'd not like to hunt down again, or even to start and reinstall all of them from cd... Basicly, I would like to have everithing Mandriva 2007 will have + all personaly installed applications & datas from Mandriva 2006. Awaiting your sugestions. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted September 8, 2006 Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 (edited) Well try to upgrade if that doesnt work reinstall, I had little trouble upgrading 2006 to cooker, and little problems I did have were fixable... (back up /home first though) Edited September 8, 2006 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 8, 2006 Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 There are two easy ways, one requires an internet connection, the other you can do using the CD/DVD. If you want to do over the internet, just do: urpmi.removemedia -a to remove 2006 sources. Then go to the easyurpmi link at the top of this page and configure mirrors for 2007. Do for all available sources, main, contrib, updates, plf-free and plf-nonfree. Then update with this command: urpmi --auto-select --auto Otherwise, just put in the CD/DVD that you downloaded and burnt, and then install as normal choosing upgrade when prompted. Clean installs are recommended though, but you can upgrade no problems, and you might only get some slight niggles of things that don't work correct. EDIT: As ffi says, make sure you backup your data first just in case. However, the two methods work OK for upgrading, clean installs are preferred though, mainly because of all the changes from one version to another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoonma Posted September 8, 2006 Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 (edited) Hi Patkos, when you're able to choose freely, I'd recommend the CD/DVD method and upgrade the system all in once. One reason is, you get your kernel updated just as well and at the same time as all packages. I've done step by step upgrades regularly with at least every major version since Mandrake 8.0 was out and never ran into fatal errors using CDs. Just be careful with partitioning: Choose the manual variant and don't let the routine touch your /home partition. You can simply remount and reuse it, but take note of partition names before updating (check "less /etc/fstab" or use diskdrake). Personal configuration for applications which store your options in $HOME cause fewest problems. You may have to do some adjustustment for standard repository software. Most issues are likely to emerge in /etc with this one. But it depends on how far is your system away from an out of the box version here. New config files/variants are inserted with .rpmnew suffix by default leaving your old settings intact. But some of them will have changed, be obsolete etc. in the new version. At least keep an eye on software which took major steps (shorewall for instance). If you have a lot of software installed deriving from other sources, well, it depends on how robust is their source layout: Are they capable to find and use newer system libraries than the ones shipped with 2006? It's impossible to make a guess here: You may be lucky and they all run like before, but probably you have to recompile at least some of them. There's also changes of the software available: Stuff you've installed before using tarballs may be available in the contrib branch (or even in main?) now. So you maybe like to check which packages 2007 offers in detail before. Good luck, scoonma Edited September 9, 2006 by scoonma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patkos Csaba Posted September 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 Thanks for all advises ... I'm glad you answered so soon. Know, all I have to do is wait for the final release of Mandriva 2007 (I don't like betas). PowerPack+ usualy appears in the same time with the simple release ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 8, 2006 Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 Yes, should think so, although Powerpack and Powerpack + are versions that you can buy. Only Mandriva 2007 Free will be what you can download for free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reiver_Fluffi Posted September 11, 2006 Report Share Posted September 11, 2006 Personally (if your partitioning permits it) I would reinstall as you can format the / partition before installing. This only applies if you have set up /home on its own partition, or can easily back-up the data on home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phil Hudson Posted May 20, 2007 Report Share Posted May 20, 2007 I did the network upgrade. Two issues I've been unable to resolve after >24hrs: 1. My DVD drive appears still to be visible to the system in some fashion, but none of the media playback apps can access the content of discs that were known to work on the same system before upgrade and that still work on other systems. I say the drive still appears to be visible: it appears as device "/dev/hdc" in the hardware config GUI, correctly identified as type DVD, but when a disc is inserted, /dev/hdc does not appear in the output of the command "mount". Is /etc/fstab what I need to futz with? 2. The system no longer logs users into X. Instead, I get a command-line login prompt. I then run "startx", but in the resulting KDE session I can no longer directly shut down or restart, I can only end the session and revert to terminal mode. I'm reluctant just to add "startx" to the users' login scripts because the KDE session's menus no longer include the "Shutdown" and "Restart" commands; I don't want my family members, who are the main users of the system, to have to use the command line. Is /etc/passwd what I need to futz with? System data: Toshiba Tecra 8100 512MB RAM Two partitions: / with 608.6 MB free /home with 1.1 MB free stone (~) phil 5% uname -a Linux stone 2.6.12-12mdk #1 Fri Sep 9 18:15:22 CEST 2005 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) unknown GNU/Linux stone (~) phil 6% sysctl -a ... dev.cdrom.check_media = 0 dev.cdrom.lock = 0 dev.cdrom.debug = 0 dev.cdrom.autoeject = 0 dev.cdrom.autoclose = 1 dev.cdrom.info = CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.20 2003/12/17 dev.cdrom.info = dev.cdrom.info = drive name: hdc dev.cdrom.info = drive speed: 24 dev.cdrom.info = drive # of slots: 1 dev.cdrom.info = Can close tray: 1 dev.cdrom.info = Can open tray: 1 dev.cdrom.info = Can lock tray: 1 dev.cdrom.info = Can change speed: 1 dev.cdrom.info = Can select disk: 0 dev.cdrom.info = Can read multisession: 1 dev.cdrom.info = Can read MCN: 1 dev.cdrom.info = Reports media changed: 1 dev.cdrom.info = Can play audio: 1 dev.cdrom.info = Can write CD-R: 0 dev.cdrom.info = Can write CD-RW: 0 dev.cdrom.info = Can read DVD: 1 dev.cdrom.info = Can write DVD-R: 0 dev.cdrom.info = Can write DVD-RAM: 0 dev.cdrom.info = Can read MRW: 1 dev.cdrom.info = Can write MRW: 1 dev.cdrom.info = Can write RAM: 1 dev.cdrom.info = dev.cdrom.info = ... There are two easy ways, one requires an internet connection, the other you can do using the CD/DVD... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 20, 2007 Report Share Posted May 20, 2007 /home with 1.1 MB free This isn't even remotely close to usable. More free space at your /home partition is needed. Linux stone 2.6.12-12mdk So, you installed Mandriva 2005 or what? This kernel is older than the Great Pyramid... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phil Hudson Posted May 20, 2007 Report Share Posted May 20, 2007 Should have read 1.1 GB Mandriva 2006 Free is what I installed, just about a year ago, from a cover-mount 3-disc installer. I'm in the process of diffing old /etc config files. Will post anything useful. Similar contributions gratefully received. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 20, 2007 Report Share Posted May 20, 2007 Your kernel is from 2006, you need to upgrade it to a newer one from 2007. First: rpm -qa | grep kernel get the format of the filename, and then: urpmf --name kernel look at the files that look similar to the one you are using in 2006, and upgrade to the latest, something like: kernel-2.6.17.18mdv or something along those lines depending on what the latest is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phil Hudson Posted May 21, 2007 Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 (edited) Thanks Ian. Am I right in thinking that the command for this would be "rpm -U <kernel-package-name>"? Your kernel is from 2006, you need to upgrade it to a newer one from 2007. Edited May 21, 2007 by Phil Hudson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 The Mandriva command like installer is called urpmi. So the easiest way is urpmi kernel-xxxxx The plain rpm command doesn't download packages automatically while urpmi does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 23, 2007 Report Share Posted May 23, 2007 Yep, the rpm command I gave was to check what was installed. urpmi will install a package that is in the urpmi repository. urpmf will find a package in the repository and urpme will remove packages installed. urpmq can query a bit like the rpm -q command, with some added functionality. For example: urpmq -i packagename will display some info on that package. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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