[Mageia-discuss] Bits about upgrade from MDV 2010.2 to MGA1 RC

Fri May 20 14:32:58 CEST 2011

On a 32-bit system I set up Mandriva 2010.2, installed all updates up
+to today. Installed proprietary Nvidia driver, wifi (Atheros) is
+working, same as sound and webcam.
+
+Used a Mageia 32-Bit DVD for upgrade. The upgrade process went smooth except:
+At the end of the process I wanted to install updates. The system did
+something, but then after some seconds went on to the last installer
+screen - without any error message.
+
+After initial reboot after installation the system showed a message
+that the proprietary driver for nvidia was not found and it is using
+the free driver.
+Then I had to re-configure wifi access data (password). It turned out
+that no media were configured yet (except the install media). Media
+setup via MCC worked without a problem.
+After I did that I did "urpmi --auto-update" which sucked a couple of
+hundreds packages and installed them, including a new kernel. That was
+today, 11:30 UTC.
+After that I did "urpme --auto-orphans" to have a clean system.
+
+Next reboot built the nvidia module and everything was working.
+
+To my surprise the *Mandriva Galaxy* welcome screen appeared! So this
+was not erased, not even by --auto-orphans !
+
+-------------------------------
+# cat /etc/product.id
+vendor=Mageia.Org,distribution=Mageia,type=Basic,version=Cauldron,branch=Devel,release=1,arch=i586,product=Default
+
+# uname -a
+Linux localhost 2.6.38.6-desktopi586-2.mga #1 SMP Thu May 19 19:05:55
+UTC 2011 i686 1386 GNU/Linux
+------------------------------
+
+-- 
+wobo
+