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<div class="para">
<p>Upgrading from Mandriva Linux 2010.1 and 2010.2 is supported, and has been fine tuned over the past
- months, so it should work. But as always, <strong>do back up your data before upgrading</strong>.</p>
+ months, so it should work. But as always and before:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>back up your data before upgrading;</li>
+ <li>if you are upgrading a laptop, connect to power!
+ You might be updating over 2000 packages, and this can take some time;</li>
+ <li>do not start up any net-intensive applications during the upgrade
+ &ndash; you need to reserve bandwidth for the upgrade.</li>
+ </ul>
<p>There are several ways to upgrade from one of those previous Mandriva releases:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="#dvd">using the Mageia 1 DVD</a></li>
- <li><a href="#inline">using the online media sources directly</a>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="#mgaonline">using mgaonline</a></li>
- <li><a href="#urpmi">using urpmi</a></li>
- </ul>
- </li>
+ <li><a href="#inline">using the online media sources directly</a>,
+ using <a href="#mgaonline">mgaonline</a> or <a href="#urpmi">urpmi</a>.</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<h2 id="dvd">Upgrade using the Mageia 1 DVD</h2>
@@ -61,14 +64,15 @@ $_t = array(
Both methods are outlined below. But first, download and install
this <code>mgaonline</code> package that will help you through the process:</p>
- <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="mgaonline-2.77.29-1.mga1.noarch.rpm" rel="nofollow" title="Download mgaonline"><img src="/g/images/oxygen/application-x-rpm.png" alt="mgaonline"><br>
+ <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="/en/downloads/dl.php?product=mgaonline" rel="nofollow" title="Download mgaonline"><img src="/g/images/oxygen/application-x-rpm.png" alt="mgaonline"><br>
mgaonline<br>
for Mandriva Linux<br> 2010.1 or 2010.2</a></p>
<br>
- <p>Note that you may get a security warning, due to invalid package signature.
- Yes, that sucks, we know.
- But that's what we got so far.</p>
+ <p>Note that you may get a security warning, due to invalid package signatures.
+ This is because a Mandriva system does not recognise Mageia signatures;
+ you can safely ignore these warnings.
+ Yes, that sucks, we know.</p>
<p>So, it installed the package? Good, let's move on and pick a) or b) below:</p>
<br>
@@ -105,8 +109,8 @@ $_t = array(
</ul>
<hr>
<h2>That's it!</h2>
- <hr>
</div></div>
+ <hr>
<div class="yui-g">
<div class="yui-u first"><div class="para" style="padding-right: 0;">
<h3>Have a question?</h3>