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+ <B>Thomas Spuhler</B>
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+ TITLE="[Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi">thomas at btspuhler.com
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+ <I>Sun Nov 18 18:59:09 CET 2012</I>
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+<PRE>On Sunday, November 18, 2012 09:40:21 AM Thierry Vignaud wrote:
+&gt;<i> On 18 November 2012 17:37, Colin Guthrie &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>&gt; wrote:
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; This package, when installed will add a new menu option to your
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; bootloader. Simply install this package, reboot, select the &quot;Mageia 3
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Upgrade Preparation&quot; entry boot, wait while your FS is converted and
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; then perform a urpmi upgrade as you would normally.
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; I've not specifically tested the upgrade part, only the installation and
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; creation of the initrd and bootloader entries in grub. I've also not
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; done this on an mga2 machine yet but will do soon enough.
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; I just wanted to get this package &quot;out there&quot; for anyone wanting to
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; update their mga2 machines to mga3 a3 but not wanting to use the
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; installer.
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; At present there are a few limitations:
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt;
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 1. It requires kernel 3.3.8-2.mga2 to be installed (any flavour should
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; work). A specific kernel version is not really 100% necessary but it
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; does mean I can add hard requires to the package. This is only desirable
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; to prevent the situation where users install this upgrade package but do
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; not run it and later remove the kernel used to generate the initrd for
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; the bootloader menu item, thus breaking it. Any smarter ideas on how to
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; manage this welcome.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Cannot you just made dracut/mkinitrd always include it and just
+</I>&gt;<i> rebuild initrds so
+</I>&gt;<i> that any kernel with work
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 2. If you have /usr in a separate partition and have it mounted ro in
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; your fstab, you will have to manually change the fstab to rw for the
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; upgrade boot.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Cannot you just automatically remount / rw?
+</I>This is great, but if you are running it on a Virtualbox, it will not work (at least it didn't work
+2 weeks ago). The problem is I (you) lose the network connection at the initial 100+ packages
+upgrade and you cannot finish it.
+I may try it again after the holidays, but we may need to put a warning out.
+The other option would be to download everything before the actaul upgrade.
+
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+Best regards
+Thomas Spuhler
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