Yesterday I've updated two systems - one from RH7.0 and one from Mandrake
7.1 - both got Mandrake 7.2 installed using a network boot diskette, one
using FTP transfers and one using NFS shares (exactly why is pretty
comlpicated, but involves the fact that I didn't have CDROMs, but the ISO
images stored on the computers, which where the only ones on a small LAN).
anyway - the upgrade went smoothly - in the machine that used to be a
Mandrake 7.1 I chose the upgrade path, and it kept all of my settings,
didn't have to change a thing. it updated all the packages and insalled some
brand new 7.2 stuff, and then I went and installed several other things by
hand (mostly things from the extensions CD which I had no idea how to make
the installation use it when installing over the network - it does list the
packages correctly, but it didn't install any of them - maybe I need to have
a single directory tree the holds all the packages , instead of the two loop
mounted ISOs ?).
The box that was an RH7 was a little more dificult - first, it didn't let me
choose an upgrade - all I could do was install a new one. since I didn't
want to format my HDD, i also didn't have much room left on the drive, and
when computing percentage of packeges to install, based on disk's free
space, it didn't take in account the fact that most files will be replaced
by new packages. so I had to manually go over the disk and delete the
binaries and anything that wasn't a configuration I wanted to keep (all was
done using the installation's console, so I didn't need to qut the install -
pretty cool). after that things went smoother - it installed everything it
could found from the first disk (second disk had the same problem I
described above), and didn't delete any of the configuration files I had.
the downside was that I had to manually go over all the configuration and
merge the new stuff with the old settings.
anyway, I know have both machines happily running Mandrake 7.2, and it was
almost no fuss (it probably was going to be less fuss if I would have
installed from CDs directly).
I do recomend to install WebMin - I usually don't really like "all-in-all"
configuration programs, but this one saves lots of pain and anguish if
getting a physical access to the machine is less the easy. just don't do
user managment with it and make sure you know what it does to your
configuration files.
One problem though - I use SSH to connect to the computers remotely - I
usually use either the unix SSH command, the MindBright Java Applet, or a
free Win32 Client called Putty (I use version 0.48). after installing
Mandrake 7.2, which comes with OpenSSH 2.2.0pl1, I can't get putty to
connect to any of the Mandrake 7.2 boxes - I always get a 'protocol
initlisation error'. the other clients are working fine , of course. what
gives ?
Oded Arbel
..
According to Jon Bentley and Bjarne Stroustrup, rewriting malloc/free is one
of
the most rewarding forms of entertainment for SW people.
-- Henry Baker, (Re: allocator and GC locality (was Re: cost of malloc),
He did add a smiley to that comment
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 8:53 PM
Subject: Re: networks card on mandrake 7.1
> On 30-Oct-2000 Oded Arbel wrote:
> > Mandrake just released 7.2 . I'm still downloading it, but from what I
can
> > see in their site, this one should be great, with almost anything you
may
> > want out of a linux system straight out of the box.
>
> please let us know how the update (I assume you're upgrading from a
previous
> version of Mandrake) goes. As I wrote a couple of days ago, I use and like
> Mandrake BUT I've heard bad things about the upgrade screwing up settings
and I
> don't want to destroy things like network setups, desktop settings,
menues, etc.
>
> TIA
>
> //-------------------------
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> Date: 30-Oct-2000 Time: 20:50:03
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