Brian wrote: >I guess I should hve been more clear. How can I update the programs that I >have installed to the current versions that are in 8.2 over the net? I do >not want to update it with a cdrom. In Debian I just did apt-get update and >i was able to update my system without doing a complete install. > >Brian > >>If you have separate /home and /opt and /usr/local partitions on your >>8.1 install, just don't format them and install 8.2. MOst things will >>be preserved by /home, but tarballs often install to /usr/local unless >>you play with the --prefix, and commercial programs that comply with LSB >>install to /opt. >> >>Otherwise, try the upgrade course. (NOT upgrade packages only, the full >>deal). There may be a few items to reconfigure, but their number will >>be small. >> >>Civileme >> >>Either way, it involves running the installer. >> >> >> >> >> > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- > > >>Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >>Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >> > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
Well, you could put a mirror with the 8.2 packages on your update list with Software Manager, and check what you want to update and do that until you are at 8.2, but that would be a painful experience, though it would (eventually) work. Software manager installs groups of packages that require or depend on each other much like apt-get. Another and better way is to find a mirror that has the 8,2 packages and look in /images and download network.img then dd if=network.img of=/dev/fd0 and boot from that floppy, once again identifying the site and the directory that has the Mandrake RPMS as your source. You can then install or update as you choose, and you can select additional packages, but all your currently installed packages would be updated. (Except the kernel which would be installed.) Civileme
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