On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Vanco, Donald wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 1:43 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake Update from 6.0 to 6.1
> >
> >
> > In a word... DON'T.
> >
> > Run a 6.1 install without formatting your partitions. Much
> > much cleaner than
> > trying an upgrade that is very likely to break a lot of things.
>
> I'd say YMMV on this one. I did a 6.0->6.1 upgrade today and other
> than it installing seemingly every package, _nothing_ appears to be broken
Now thats a new one to me, could you send me the upgrade.log, old
install.log if you have it, and output of 'rpm -qa > installed.rpms'
> (other than PCMCIA, of course). While I have not exercised every program on
> my system, I've tagged a few of them and they all see as happy as a clam.
It does have pcmcia doesn't it? if so please test pcmcia from cooker and
send the results (cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], also)
> I did, however, have to spend some "quality time" with GnoRPM and
> remove all of the unwanted packages that had been installed! Ugh..... but I
> got back about 500MB of drive space!
> Also - if you have old kernel source you're going to want to copy it
> off - it was removed after my upgrade. As was my old kernels in /boot!
If you have a custom source tree, yes you'll want it named other than
/usr/src/linux, /usr/local/src/linux would be a better spot for it.
Remeber there is always a chance we will overwrite/erase things in /*,
/usr/* (excludeing /usr/local of course) this is why /usr/local is
provided and generaly recommended to be it's own partition.
> > Scott Brightwell wrote:
> > What's the least amount of RPM's to upgrade to convince
> > Mandrake Update to continue the 6.0 to 6.1 upgrade for me?
Scott i wouldn't expect it to work not even a little. It would just check
the 6.1 updates instead. If your really brave rpm -F, will "freshen" the
system, but my recommendation is to just reboot with the upgrade floppy
and upgrade the normal way.
--
MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
--Axalon
