Hello, first i noticed that 64bit iso is 3.8GB, while 32bit is more than 4GB.
upgrading mdv 2010.1 x86_64 PWP with mageia 1 alpha 2 x86_64 DVD: - i noticed that the delay in text is still there during boot from DVD(#61) - in installer, i noticed that some of the blue rounding is gone now(#62) - ( what shall we do with #66 ? low priority? not valid? discuss more? ) - I chose upgrade, and it almost immediately started upgrading. - I absolutely love the artwork during install: 1.5 thumbs up! - upgrade did tell me it would take more than 1hour, after a while it told me it would be more than 4 hours I remember from earlier mdv upgrades that upgrade from DVD always took a huge amount of time, so i haven't tried it since it was mandrake... at later times, i upgraded using urpmi sources and even later just by the applet. or sometimes did a fresh install. i noticed on my vbox3 that the disk and DVD gave 1sec activity and then 2sec nothing... so i suppose this could be more a CPU issue rather than a disk issue... (VM has 1cpu + 512 MB RAM) - after about 10% i see an error message: i tried to take screenshots of everything... but there was alot. * it started with conflicts of /usr/share/doc/HTML/kcontrol/ that was moved from kdebase to kderuntime or something * alot of X needed by Y stuff: from perl-base, x11, python, imagemagick it seems to (ironically) be bug #404 . the upgrade seems to stop and just move on to configuration... - the users step was skipped (seems normal) however, the item is still there? - the bootloader step was done - i don't know if it's a bug or not, but security level was marked as "unconfigured" in the configuration step. - i chose yes to updates - during update the small font is still there (#67) - it gave an error that "aria2 failed(exited with 127): unable to access distribution medium (no media.cfg file found)" with a text below: "medium: ()" (#426) - it then proceeded to show the screen to reboot - documentation asked to look on terminal to find out some stuff, but in my vbox, pressing Function keys with alt didn't do anything, and ctrl-alt switched me on the host, so i couldn't test that. so i rebooted. - rebooting showed me the old grub (text + graphic), but seemed to boot into mageia, (even after selecting mandriva). - black background in DM - logging in to KDE gives "could not start kdeinit4. check your installation" and a second window behind it, about changing names of folders. i was in a daring mood and clicked update names. and after that on the "okay" button from the kde error message. it got me back to kdm, so i clicked console login - seeing tty, i noticed it still said Mandriva linux - product.id + /etc/issue still unchanged - urpmq --list-url showed me that the DVD was still listed as medium, so i did the urpmi --auto-update - "unable to access core media" but it continued with message: - "some requested packages cannot be installed: dblatex, gtk-doc", i said yes - "the following will be removed: " kmail, due to missing kio-* ; and some others like mdkonline and some python stuff., i said yes - then installing package step, 276 packages and 39MB will be freed., i said yes. - it said, please insert medium "core media" - i ejected it in vbox and put it back in, that did the trick - it tried to start and said i needed 86MB on / (out of disk space?) - i removed tetex (it seemed to take 200M on /usr/share/texmf) with urpme and it removed also 12 that depended on it dblatex and stuff - i redid the autoupdate, and it asked again to insert medium core media, but reinserting it didn't seem to work. also not inserting something else first. - failing that, i removed the core media and set up urpmi sources from online local media. alas it seemed aria2c didn't work due to libz and libxml versions missing... - specifying --wget option didn't help either, because my eth0 wasn't present, but renamed to eth1, which didn't have a config, of course. - after dhclient eth1 and shutting down firewall, and iptables service to accept, that worked. - it also showed the "2\n2" isn't numeric warning messages (#201) - i also had to add --no-md5sum (due to md5sum check failed) - i also got messages that it was unable to get pubkeys - urpmi --auto-update --wget gave warnings but seemed to work, only 2 packages were to be removed due to python < 2.7 - after it ran, it seemd to be only related to urpmi update, and so it restarted itself and asked me to remove libktorrent to proceed, i say yes - it then said 300+ extra MB for 1700+ packages, i say yes - it's halfway through installing atm, i'll go to sleep and tomorrow i'll continue this. this was a cloned machine, so it can be retested at a later date. or in different ways. my conclusion: - totally not ready for upgrade via DVD. - DVD upgrade method seems very unstable to me and takes way too much time. - I would propose to change the DVD upgrade method, that it just doesn't upgrade at all, except it installs a mgaupdate applet on the mandriva, then reboots into mandriva, but sort of does an applet-y upgrade there.
