On Tuesday 17 May 2005 10:47, Gentian Hila wrote: > I have worked with other kinds of linux like redhat before but this is > the first time I am working with mandrake. > > I have a machine with mandrake 8.2. I want to update ist packages. > Tried to use rpmdrake but it failed asking me to skip packages. > > then I try to upgrade to 10.1. I have a hardware raid in this machine. > > When it came to upgrade it presented me with two mirrored hard drive > allowing me to chose one of t hem, not the raid though. > > I tried both of them, one at a time of course but it complains: > > An error has occured. Oops cannot find the root partition. Of course > the root partition is there since it is working fine. > > Tried to install yum but it needs rpm-helper. try to install it, it > conflicts with some other packages. > > Is there any way in the world of updating or upgrading this machine ? > > Please advice. It's driving me crazy
Copy ALL data to secure location. Install 10.1 CD or DVD Start standard install Go to expert partitions. Reformat HD with /, /home and /boot partitions Continue with NEW INSTALLATION Go choose packages DO NOT install Mandrake selected packages. Check all additional packages you desire or may desire. then go to additional packages which are only shown if you have cheesen select packages and then alphabetic list. Then check ALL of KDE if you think you may possibility want any portion of KDE. KDE is famous for not installing correctly if you do not install all packages at installation. There appears to be a dependency issue where dependencies are not acknowledges on some not all equipment. If you are able to upgrade from 8.2 to 10.1 then you are better than I am because I have not mastered that little trick. SCOL
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