[Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

Sun Dec 16 12:38:11 CET 2012

> This package, when installed will add a new menu option to your
+> bootloader. Simply install this package, reboot, select the "Mageia 3
+> Upgrade Preparation" entry boot, wait while your FS is converted and
+> then perform a urpmi upgrade as you would normally.
+
+Hi, tested this on yesterday with the up to date mga 2 by installing
+upgrade prepare rpm and rebooting and selecting the "upgrade to mga3
+option" from grup and then adding the cauldron repositories.
+
+Then I started the install with
+"urpmi.update -a"
+"urpmi --download-all --auto-select"
+
+Install started fine and offered that I have about 2200 rpm's to update.
+During the install some package seemed to hang (I don't remember anymore
+which one) and I canceled install with ctrl-c and saw message about
+error in postinst section.
+
+I run urpmi.update again and then "urpmi auto-select" and somehow
+ended up to situation where all my network interfaces are down
+and about 900 rpm's fail to install as some of their dependencies are
+missing.
+
+I tried to download and copy the missing rpm's with another computer to
+usb stick, but usb fails to mount... (I can not see /dev/sdb, etc...
+only /dev/sda which is my harddisk)
+
+Questions:
+
+1) If I copy them missing rpm's to device by using the rescuq disc, do I
+need to select again the "upgrade to mga3 option when booting to
+mandriva" or is it one time operation that has been done in first boot.
+
+2) Is there some trick for getting network up? Now ifconfig command
+shows only the "lo" interface.
+
+Mika
+
+