On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 00:29:32 -0400 RickS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russ Kepler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I'm still running 2005LE (10.2) and am wondering about the least painful > > way > > of upgrading to something still getting updates. Anyone have a pointer to > > something online that will walk me through the process? > Hi Russ, > There obviously 2 ways to accomplish this. You can read this as a > start: http://mandriva.vmlinuz.ca/index.php/SysAdmin/Urpmi/Upgrade > All told though it would be better to download an iso CD's/DVD for 2006 > ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrakelinux/official/iso/2006.0/i586/ > and use that to *install*, keeping your $HOME dir intact and upgrade > just the distribution ... This is what I've been doing with success. > > HTH > > p.s. > There is also the cooker how-to for upgrading to cooker. I'm am not > saying you should just yet but it has some valuable insights, > http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo for using > urpmi to upgrade. > > -- > RickS > Lesson: after writing down your password, eat your sticky notes > rather than leave them on the monitor 8) > ____________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? > Go to http://store.mandriva.com > Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com > ____________________________________________________ > I've been simply changing my sources for two years or more. It has worked fine with this command:
urpmi.update -a --wget && urpmi -v --auto-select --wget' Copy the following into your bashrc first and the command becomes 'ud' any time you want to update. alias ud='urpmi.update -a --wget && urpmi -v HTH Lee --auto-select --wget' ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
