Chris H Posted October 29, 2008 Report Share Posted October 29, 2008 Just had to reinstall Mandriva as my partition got toasted when I installed a distro on another partition. Previously I'd used the graphical/online/blue arrow upgrade method but I believe this has been pulled. Is it recommended to upgrade by changing the sources as an alternative? Ta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yossarian Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 Is it recommended to upgrade by changing the sources as an alternative? You can do that, but if you don't rely on your connection, I suggest upgrading from the Free CD's (or the DVD). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris H Posted October 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 Cheers Yossarian, will do that tonight. I found 2009/Gnome to be excellent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yossarian Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 Welcome and good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris H Posted October 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 Hmm, it's broke! Updated the sources to 2009 at easyurpmi and it errored on a few updates. So selected task-kde4 to install for the hell of it and found I couldn't log in except as root. Have done a quick install. So where to from here? How do I get safely to 2009? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 if you get errors on the upgrade, re-run the urpmi --auto-update command, and don't stop until it's entirely completed. If it keeps cycling the same error over and over again, try and figure out how to fix it (and report it); if you can't, post here. The graphical upgrade procedure will be enabled again in a few days: we've basically fixed all the bugs in it now (we hope...), but we want to let all the mirrors sync up with the fixed packages before we re-enable the option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris H Posted October 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 Thanks Adam, I'll sit tight for the graphical update. It worked well for me last time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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