On Friday 19 March 2004 07:46 am, brife wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> When I go home tonight I'm planning on upgrading my laptop from
> 9.2 to 10. I've never been through this process so any advice
> would be appreciated.
>
> I have a relatively simple configuration: Linux is the only OS
> on my laptop and I have a single HD partitioned into /, sv
> (swap), and /home partitions. These partitions are 5, .5, and
> 10 gig is size respectively. Unless its necessary I don't have
> any desire to change the sizes. I've downloaded the 3 10.0 ISO
> images and was planning on booting from the first CD to do the
> upgrade.
>
> What I don't know is how an upgrade will affect my / and /home
> partitions. For the most part I have apps installed on the /
> partition and data installed on the /home partition. I'd like
> to keep some apps on the / partition if possible but if I can't
> its no big deal.
First, put the CD's you burned in your burner, and run
somethin like 'md5sum /dev/scd0' or 'md5sum /mnt/cdrom2'
You'll need to adjust /dev or /mnt to what your burner actually
is. Check the md5sum against those in the md5sum....asc file to
make sure your CD's are correct. If the numbers don't match, you
may have made a set of unusable or problematic CD's. If that's
the case, then ask here, an tell us how and what you used to burn
the CD's. If they match, then...
You can try an upgrade, but due to the large kernel an other
differences (KDE/Gnome), I believe only a fresh install will be
satisfactory in the end. Might as well try an upgrade first tho.
Before you start read
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/Mandrake10
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux10ReleaseNotes
If you then decide to do a fresh install, choose "use existing
partitions", but don't format /home. You will need to format /.
For the apps that are lost, there's probly newer, more 2.6 kernel
compatible apps available anyhow. 'Sides, I always consider a
fresh install to be "spring cleaning" ;)
On some hardware the 1st CD won't boot. This is known and very
close to being solved. If this happens, boot the 2nd CD and it'll
ask for the 1st one. You should be able to then go on. The
install/upgrade will probly ask for a 4th CD at some point, just
cancel and ignore that request.
After you're up and runnin, I suggest you create cooker
sources and update to current cooker. Many many bugfixes.
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