Upgrade Procedure for Mandrake 9.1 to 9.2

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This is still a work in progress…. Make sure to make a backup of your disk image before doing this on a production Linode…

# urpmi.removemedia -a

# urpmi.addmedia --wget main ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz 

# urpmi.addmedia --wget contrib ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/9.2/contrib/i586 with ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz 

# urpmi.addmedia --wget --update updates ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/updates/9.2/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz 

# urpmi --wget --auto-select --auto --force

# urpmi --wget --auto-select --auto --force

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You may wish to run etc-update as well.

Bill Clinton

PS: Mandrake 10.1 will have a UML compatible installer as a feature. The work has been green lighted!! Visit http://opencurve.org/~sunny/mandrake-co … _ideas.txt">http://opencurve.org/~sunny/mandrake-cooker/umlpurposedideas.txt and the Mandrake Wiki http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/vi … kelinux101">http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/IdeasForMandrakelinux101 for more

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