Mandrake Upgrade Tool
 

I just moved from Fedora 2 to Mandrake, and I was wondering how to update the thing (not specifically update the kernel, just upgrade). I'm used to having many ways of upgrading to chose from: yum, up2date, apt, etc., but i can't find anything for mandrake!

Going from another release to Mandrake on the same system, while trying to preserve everything is a VERY BAD idea due to the differences.

You could boot from any LiveCD based distro and delete everything except your important data files and home directories.

Leave the /etc/fstab intact, but delete everything else.

e.g.

/etc /var /lib /usr /bin /opt /dev

Then install Mandrake, telling it to use existing partitions.

This will preserve the data files.

BTW: Mandrake uses rpm (ala RedHat) enhanced with urpmi.

The latter is like apt-get in that it also gets and installs any related dependancies.

Actually, i already wiped the hard drive and installed Mandrake, im talking about software updates, i just want something to update my computer with (like that mandrakeonline thing).

Then all you need is to follow these directions...

http://www.zebulon.org.uk/urpmi_en.html

Pretty simple once done.