Possible to upgrading from 10.1

Zerboxx · 04-20-2005, 01:29 AM

Hi,
I was planning on getting rid of MS on my laptop, and replacing it with Mandrake 10.1 My only concern is, if Mandrive LE 2005 is going to be available soon (for me who isn't a club member), is it possible to simply upgrade to LE?
I know I could just format and reinstall but I'm going to be using 2 computers (so I can have backups) to go from XP-Linux, and I wont have the other computer about a week from now, and then I'd loose all the >700MB files I have.
Hopefully I'll get some insight,
Thanks!

samael26 · 04-20-2005, 01:53 AM

Hi,
Usually the upgrading option works fine in Mandrake.
I have upgraded so far from 9.2 to 10.0 to 10.1, I did it with 10.2 rc3, but...
well problems. One thing I can tell you, you can always upgrade on
Mandrake, but downgrade, you can't.

RoofRabbit · 04-21-2005, 02:19 AM

I have to disagree since I have had problems with some of the mandrake versions when "upgrading". I found it simplier and quicker to just do a fresh install. I normally have an extra ext3 partition on all my linux drives just for home directory backup as well as key files in the /etc tree (like samba.conf). This extra partition (usually mounted as /mnt/Linux) is not re-formatted during a new install so the data there remains intact.

Padma · 04-21-2005, 10:53 AM

*Some* versions have big enough changes that doing an "upgrade" is problematic. I don't think that 10.1 -> 2005LE is that much. However, be sure to back up anything you con't want to lose before trying this method, because while it works for some, for others it fails miserably. The *safest* approach is to do a clean install.