Hi guys (and gals)

I currently have Mandrake 8.1 and I need to update to Mandrake 10. If I burn these files on to a cd ftp://mandrakeusers.com/pub/Mandrake/Updates as instructed in the "readme" file, will this upgrade me to Mandrake 10?


P.S. Anyone have a tutorial on how to upgrade/update to a newer version of Mandrake?

You need to install a whole new base of packages, and the easiest way is to download the cds .iso files, and boot those cds. That directory just contains the bug fixes and security patches for the 10.0 release.

Basically you'll act as though you're doing a new install, and 10.0 will detect your old install and give you the option to upgrade. You might be better just backing up your settings and reinstalling though, and using config files from such an older install might cause problems. Better to do a fresh install and compare the old config files to the new ones when editing them.

Hope you got broadband, cause here is the way I done it.

What I have done to upgrade from 9.1 to 10 is to change the urpmi lists on the site: easy urpmi and select the urpmi lists you want.

then do a urpmi.update -a to get the newest lists.

and finally a urpmi --auto-select and this can take a time if your upgrading from 8.1

If you do upgrade to Mandrake 10, let me know how it goes. I'm thinking of upgrading from 9.1 to 10.0

My upgrade didn't work. It messed up my KDE startup. I had to do a completley new install. The new install worked fine. I actually installed Mandrake 10.1 Beta. It even detected my USB Ethernet adapter right away.

Micro420, you have less of a difference between versions but again I think the path of least problems is with a fresh install.

I concur

I will await the final release of 10.1 and then do it then. I hope it's going to be worth it and much better improvement from 9.1.

By the way, what is the ETA of 10.1???

Probably a few months yet. I dunno what Mandrakesoft want to get stable in it before they're happy to release it.