Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

[Jack]

Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 12 November 2004 04:50 pm, Jack wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 11 November 2004 05:54 pm, Jack wrote: 5 - Most damning of all was my attempted upgrade to 10.1 official. I completely wiped my drive to do a clean install, and after everything was said and done, the official version could not find the internet, nor my onboard (Asus P4P800) sound card. 10.0 had no trouble finding these 2, nor did the community version of 10.1. Luckily for me, I had imaged the drive beforehand, so I was able to go back to 10.1 community. Sounds like a configuration problem. BTW, you could have upgraded to official by changing your urpmi sources to 10.1 official location and just use 'urpmi --auto-select' to bring it up. This would have saved all of you configuration settings, and probably would have avoided the problem. Good point Greg but I dislike "upgrading." I always prefer to do a clean install. My experience has been (up to now) that there are less problems this way. I tend to agree, especially when moving from point release to point release, but moving from 10.1CE to 10.1OE is more like applying security updates than a wholesale upgrade. Good point... maybe I should try this then.  Can anyone tell me the *exact* urpmi command that will accomplish this? - Jack