Hi all.

Ive been running 9.1 and have everything running well (nvidia drivers, sound, etc) and i am curious to upgrade to 10.0. I dont want to do a clean install and go though it all again so im wondering if anyone has had sucessful upgrades or what issues they have encountered.

My system is nothing fancy : P4 1.4Ghz, 384mb ram, nvidia gF2 ultra, sblive value, DVDrom, CDRW, USR/3com hardware modem, 3com ethernet card...dual boot XP pro and mdk 9.1 on separate drives.


thanks,
-j

I had problems upgrading previous editions but tried this time from 9.2 to 10. When I logged in it still showed 9.2 as the edition at logon.

Still seemed to function but I didn't want to build on that so did a clean instal.

The Mandrake team must be working really hard on hardware resolution issues and this edition is even better than the others. I think I remember seeing Conexant drivers in 9.2 and this one (10CE) is the first distro to give me sound (Aureal Vortex 2 card).

thanks for the info! Is it hard to do a clean install and keep your /home dir? i suppose i could create another partition and copy it....

-j

I use an alternative approach (I am not sure it can be recommanded !). Instead of a general upgrade I have registered in the Mandrake control center of a mdk9.1 box the installation CDs of mdk9.2. I upgrade some programs when I need it. Recently I installed Gimp 2.0 on mdk9.1 thanks to the installation CD's of mdk 9.2.

jamesgf

I have not tried to do this - I don't keep anything precious on linux because I change distros so often (up to now).

I tried doing a search of this site using 'backup' and saw several options which might help you.

actually i did a fresh install, and i was given the option to not format my /home directory, i had backups so i went ahead and did the format of all paritions, so yes, you do have the option of leaving some partitions alone when you do a fresh install

thanks for the info. I might give the upgrade a try, and if it fails ill just do a clean install and save /home. If i lost everything it wouldnt be a big deal, as it is backed up on my xp drive.

-j

Hello,
Easy, the upgrade from Mandy 9.2 to 10.0CE went flawlessly. Everything just worked straight off, except my Nvidia card, which I was expecting anyway. And a quick grab and install from Nvidia sorted that in about 5 mins. But, I did have some problems with KDE and Mime types down to a bug in M10. but found the answer to this pretty much within a day or so using these forums, and those at kde.org, but hardware wise no problems, and other than the aforementined kde bug, all my existing software stills operates as well as ever.

I just tried upgrading from 9.2 to 10.0... sound doesn't work (but I have a sound card which gave me problems with 9.2 as well), I had to uninstall and reinstall kmail and it still won't send mail, the computer doesn't turn off which was an issue I had solved by using kernel 2.6.2 with mdk9.2, but has reared it's head again. Apart from that, it was easy!

Did anyone else see the 9.2 logo when logging into the 10 upgrade?