On Sunday, November 18, 2012 09:37:43 AM Colin Guthrie wrote: > Hi, > > As many of you know, upgrading from Mageia 2 is somewhat tricky due to > the usr move. > > With Alpha3 comes the ability for the installer to upgrade the > filesystem layout, but many of you (myself included) prefer upgrading > via urpmi rather than the installer. > > While this is possible with some manual commands, it's not as trivial a > task as it should be - until now!! > > So I've just pushed the package mageia-prepare-upgrade to mga2 > core/updates_testing. > > This package, when installed will add a new menu option to your > bootloader. Simply install this package, reboot, select the "Mageia 3 > Upgrade Preparation" entry boot, wait while your FS is converted and > then perform a urpmi upgrade as you would normally. > > I've not specifically tested the upgrade part, only the installation and > creation of the initrd and bootloader entries in grub. I've also not > done this on an mga2 machine yet but will do soon enough. > > I just wanted to get this package "out there" for anyone wanting to > update their mga2 machines to mga3 a3 but not wanting to use the installer. > > At present there are a few limitations: > > 1. It requires kernel 3.3.8-2.mga2 to be installed (any flavour should > work). A specific kernel version is not really 100% necessary but it > does mean I can add hard requires to the package. This is only desirable > to prevent the situation where users install this upgrade package but do > not run it and later remove the kernel used to generate the initrd for > the bootloader menu item, thus breaking it. Any smarter ideas on how to > manage this welcome. > > 2. If you have /usr in a separate partition and have it mounted ro in > your fstab, you will have to manually change the fstab to rw for the > upgrade boot. > > > Happy testing. Let me know if it kills any kittens. Please keep a backup > etc. etc. > > Col Thanks Colin. The conversion works. But then the problem shows, we have no network. doing a urpmi --download-all --auto-update only downloads the fist 120+ rpms (the ones needed before restart-urpmi
What is needed is to add some directories and then the network will start /var/run/netreport /var/lock/subsystem/network I will check after the upgrade if they can be deleted -- Best regards Thomas Spuhler
