On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, David M. Kufta wrote:
> I have just about completed a mirror of cooker and was not thinking when
> I mirrored the distro to a third 8.4 GB IDE drive this mirror should be
> complete in a short time. I had intentions of doing a HD Install to
> upgrade my exsisting Linux-Mandrake-6.0 to 6.1 version. I know that this
> can be done from a dos partition, however this particular machine has only
> Linux-Mandrake installed.
Not a problem.
> I would appreciate any advise as to how I would
> best proceed to do this upgrade, and if in fact a HD Install would work
> from /dev/hdc1 or if it would be best to simply make use of RPM and do the
> upgrade using rpm -Uvh *.
Based on past experience, you'd be better off reformatting / and doing a
fresh install- the "Upgrade" option pretty much sucks. Although, I'd
imagine that it's perfectly possible to upgrade (and install) the new
RPMs. I just wouldn't do it myself.
> I also noticed the latest MandrakeUpdate agent
> has reference to version 6.1, possibly this would be the best way to
> proceed.
It could very well be the better way- I'm not entirely sure what you mean,
as my update agent doesn't show this (perhaps I'm not looking in the right
place?), but if you're talking about pointing Update to a mirror of Cooker
instead of the 6.0/updates directory, then that would be equivalent to
hand-installing selected RPMs from Cooker.
-Matt Stegman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
