yossarian Posted October 14, 2007 Report Share Posted October 14, 2007 In what site? Errrm... basically, in ALL Mandriva mirrors.Here's the fastest one for me- it should work for you, even if it's not that fast- after all it's only ten megabytes! ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/mandriva/offi.../install/images Downloaded, thanks. I'll try it today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yossarian Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 OK, I downloaded the One CD and the Free CD's, and after backing up my home directory I'm ready to rock n' roll. Now, has anyone actually try to upgrade from 2007.1 to 2008.0 via the network (using the boot image) and/or the CD's? Which is better in your opinion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
menendez Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 Whilst it might seem trashed, and won't boot, you can still get at it, and run with it. Personally, I would boot with a Mandriva CD and choose rescue mode, and then chroot into my partitions, and continue where I left off. Hi, I am in this situation. How exactly do you chroot into the hard disk partition from the Live CD? Thanks, Jose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 (edited) Why should you need the boot.iso to go from 2007.1 to 2008.0? Just login to your existing installation normally. Now, use root konsole/ easyurpmi to change all your urpmi repos to 2008.0 ones. Then do a "sudo telinit 3", log in at runlevel 3 as root, and then the usual urpmi --auto-select And then wait... wait... wait! :D Edited October 16, 2007 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yossarian Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 I thought of doing it Adam's way, who referred to this page. Have you tried your way? Didn't crash in the middle or anything? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 Hi,I am in this situation. How exactly do you chroot into the hard disk partition from the Live CD? Thanks, Jose Open a terminal, log in as root. Then check your partition layout with fdisk -l Once you know which partition you want to mount, run e.g. mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /mnt If that works, then chroot /mnt That's it. For exiting, type: exit and unmount the partition again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
menendez Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 Why should you need the boot.iso to go from 2007.1 to 2008.0?Just login to your existing installation normally. Now, use root konsole/ easyurpmi to change all your urpmi repos to 2008.0 ones. Then do a "sudo telinit 3", log in at runlevel 3 as root, and then the usual urpmi --auto-select And then wait... wait... wait! :D Originally, I did change the repositories from 2007.1 to 2008.0 and used the package manager to udpate. There were about 1300+ packages to install. I was also wirelessly connected to my router (probably not a smart thing in hindsight). It got to about all but 30 packages when the wireless stopped working. So I shutdown the computer and moved it to a room with an ethernet plug. When I started the PC I got a Mandriva 2008 boot screen but when I selected Mandriva 2008 KDE did not start. All I got was a terminal window. So I logged in. su'd to root and did the urpmi --auto-select thing. It started to work but crashed. Curious, I restarted. KDE does start but not working properly. I do not get the frames that let me minimize/maximize/drag the open windows. Here is my package manager errors: 5 installation transactions failed There was a problem during the installation: file /usr/bin/cspctl from install of cspctl-1.0.14-2mdv2008.0.i586 conflicts with file from package sb16_csp-1.0.14-0.rc3.1mdv2007.1.i586 file /usr/bin/cspctl from install of sb16_csp-1.0.14-2mdv2008.0.i586 conflicts with file from package cspctl-1.0.14-0.rc3.1mdv2007.1.i586 libkdecore.so.5 is needed by libkrossui4-3.93.0-0.714006.2mdv2008.0.i586 libkdecore.so.5 is needed by libkparts4-3.93.0-0.714006.2mdv2008.0.i586 libkdecore.so.5 is needed by libkde3support4-3.93.0-0.714006.2mdv2008.0.i586 libkdecore.so.5 is needed by libkutils4-3.93.0-0.714006.2mdv2008.0.i586 libkdecore.so.5 is needed by libkunittest4-3.93.0-0.714006.2mdv2008.0.i586 libkdecore.so.5 is needed by libkntlm4-3.93.0-0.714006.2mdv2008.0.i586 libkdecore.so.5 is needed by kdelibs4-core-3.93.0-0.714006.2mdv2008.0.i586 libkdecore.so.5 is needed by libktexteditor4-3.93.0-0.714006.2mdv2008.0.i586 libkdecore.so.5 is needed by libkjsembed4-3.93.0-0.714006.2mdv2008.0.i586 libkdecore.so.5 is needed by kdegraphics4-core-3.93.0-0.714385.1mdv2008.0.i586 libkdecore.so.5 is needed by libkdeui5-3.93.0-0.714006.2mdv2008.0.i586 libkdecore.so.5 is needed by libkwalletbackend4-3.93.0-0.714006.2mdv2008.0.i586 libkdecore.so.5 is needed by libkdeprint_management4-3.93.0-0.714006.2mdv2008.0.i586 libkdecore.so.5 is needed by libkdeprint5-3.93.0-0.714006.2mdv2008.0.i586 libkdecore.so.5 is needed by libkrosscore4-3.93.0-0.714006.2mdv2008.0.i586 libkdecore.so.5 is needed by libkfile4-3.93.0-0.714006.2mdv2008.0.i586 libkdecore.so.5 is needed by libkhtml5-3.93.0-0.714006.2mdv2008.0.i586 libkdecore.so.5 is needed by libkaudiodevicelist4-3.93.0-0.714006.2mdv2008.0.i586 libkdecore.so.5 is needed by libkio5-3.93.0-0.714006.2mdv2008.0.i586 file /usr/lib/mindi/rootfs/bin/busybox from install of mindi-busybox-1.2.2-2mdv2008.0.i586 conflicts with file from package mindi-1.09-1mdv2007.0.i586 mindi-busybox is needed by mindi-1.24-1mdv2008.0.i586 Any ideas? I must just do a fresh install from a CD. But I prefer to avoid that. Thanks, Jose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yossarian Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 To add to fifi, I'd recommend installing a program called 'Mondo' from the repositories, and use it to make a backup of your system. It can restore your machine from bare metal, as well as parts of it. Mondo doesn't support MDV 2007.1. See Q24 in http://trac.mondorescue.org/wiki/FAQ. Even after the recommended changes, I still get a fatal error message, and not being able to run the program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 16, 2007 Report Share Posted October 16, 2007 Originally, I did change the repositories from 2007.1 to 2008.0 and used the package manager to udpate. There were about 1300+ packages to install. I was also wirelessly connected to my router (probably not a smart thing in hindsight). It got to about all but 30 packages when the wireless stopped working. So I shutdown the computer and moved it to a room with an ethernet plug. When I started the PC I got a Mandriva 2008 boot screen but when I selected Mandriva 2008 KDE did not start. All I got was a terminal window. So I logged in. su'd to root and did the urpmi --auto-select thing. It started to work but crashed. Curious, I restarted. KDE does start but not working properly. I do not get the frames that let me minimize/maximize/drag the open windows. ... Any ideas? I must just do a fresh install from a CD. But I prefer to avoid that. Thanks, Jose Well, first and foremost, interrupting the updating process is never a good thing to do. From what I see, you haven't installed all necessary KDE libraries and - it seems that you tried installing kde4, which is still experimental. Not such a good idea imho. Try to boot into failsafe mode and perform an urpmi --auto-update once again.If KDE is still buggy, then I'd uninstall KDE4 and downgrade to the stable KDE version (3.5.6??). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 17, 2007 Report Share Posted October 17, 2007 At it's current state, Mandriva's KDE4 does NOT install: Many dependencies broken, packages missing, modules nonfunctioning... and all sorts of "goodies". Actually I have managed to install KDE4 in my Mandy Cooker, but 1. I had to do shitloads of footwork/ install packages manually/force install packages with missing dependencies, and 2. the current state of Mandriva's KDE4 is not even "close to unusable". it is ABSOLUTELY unusable... just wait for package migration to KDE4 RC1 (probably some fifteen days after) to get a rough idea about KDE4... Right now it's simply UNUSABLE- period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dexter11 Posted October 17, 2007 Report Share Posted October 17, 2007 OK, I downloaded the One CD and the Free CD's, and after backing up my home directory I'm ready to rock n' roll. Now, has anyone actually try to upgrade from 2007.1 to 2008.0 via the network (using the boot image) and/or the CD's? Which is better in your opinion? It's generally the same thing. You are upgrading using the same packages. The only difference is where are those packages stored. So the answer is if you have unreliable network connection use the CDs or the DVD. I upgraded from several Mandrake releases starting with Mandrake 9.something IIRC until Mandriva 2006 and it worked. But when I upgraded from 2007.1 to 2008 though the upgrade process itself looked to work flawlessly when I rebooted the system was broke so I did a clean install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yossarian Posted October 17, 2007 Report Share Posted October 17, 2007 It's generally the same thing. You are upgrading using the same packages. Am I? If the DVD/CD's are Free, they do not include the Nvidia/ATI drivers, for example. So what happens? And if I install from the network, will everything be upgraded, or will it be identical to the DVD upgrade? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 17, 2007 Report Share Posted October 17, 2007 (edited) scarecrow: KDE 4 in 2008 installs fine. Just install the task-kde4 package. It's useless for real work, but we never said otherwise, it's just there for you to look at (and for the convenience of developers targetting KDE 4). Cooker's currently in the middle of an update so it doesn't work. Edited October 17, 2007 by adamw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sglafata Posted October 17, 2007 Report Share Posted October 17, 2007 It is on the site you mentioned: http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrakel...install/images/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sglafata Posted October 17, 2007 Report Share Posted October 17, 2007 My bad.... I didn't notice there was a 2nd page to this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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