Hello, past little while I have been trying to update from 10.1 to 10.2 and something goes wrong everytime. (linux newbie ) Anyways, I use urpmi.addmedia, and add the sources for 10.2, but do I add all of them? or just main and contrib or just main? anyways, then i type urpmi urpmi, and answer a few questions and then I use urpmi --auto-select and let it sit. First time I did this, when it was done, I had no programs in my menu or anywhere, but i could boot into KDE, second time i did it, all I had was the console at start up. Can anyone point me in the right direct? I want to update to the latest because there is a lot of fixes and stuff that I kinda need I guess, Is there any tutorials around or anything, or could someone list the steps? Thanks.

If you have / and /home partitions, you can just reinstall to / and there is an option not to format the partition you chose for /home. Much more trouble free that using a package manager. I think there is an upgrade option on the install disk too. Doing it using urpmi is difficult, if not impossible. I am surprised it finished without a pile of dependency problems.

I guess im lucky or something, but thats the reason why i wanted to use urpmi is cuz i have no blank discs on hand, but ill download the new images and pick some cds up tomrorow, thanks.

I have done it lots of times using urpmi. I usually do the following,[list=1][*]setup the urpmi repositories of the new Mandriva version (main, contrib and plf)[*]Upgrade urpmi by doing as root "urpmi urpmi"[*]upgrade rpm (if its not been upgraded as a dependency by the step above) and the various drake tools[*]Upgrade xorg (again it may have been upraded when upgrading the drake tools)[*]After that I just upgrade all packages using "urpmi --auto-select"[/list=1]
If running KDE, its not a good idea to upgrade it whilst its running (sometimes config settings get messed up), do it from the CLI.

thank you for your reply, I think my problem was im not updating everything i need, i am going to update all the ones you said or w/e. I also got a question, what images do you download for athlon 64? I went here ftp://ftp.caliu.info/pub/distribucio...icial/iso/10.2 and clicked on /x86_64/ and there is only 1 699 mb image and 2 other files. Where do I get the correct images from or w/e to burn and install on a a64? thanks.

omg it worked perfect, thank you reddazz, no bugs attached. Now that I got Mandriva LE 2005, I just need to figure out what images to download for a athlon 64? Anyone want to help? Thanks.

I am not sure about 64 bit. Try checkng other mirrors. If those are the only files you can find, maybe you are better off sticking with the 32 bit version for now.

@zammmm

LE 2005 (x86_64) is available in the public mirrors only as a 1cd iso and hence you'll have lesser packages.

But, if you are a bit patient Mandriva 2006 would be out soon and that(going by the betas) would have three cds.

Else, you can download the beta if you want to try it.

ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mand...2006.0/x86_64/

I don't got linux installed on it right now, I am just wondering what I need to install on it, so the i586 cds would work for a a64, untill 10.3 comes out? thanks.

I heard the new tecnology allows 32 bit applications to run on the 64 bit processors. In this case you should download the 3 CD ISO images for 10.2

It's a good OS that becames excelent after some twiking