[oclug] Best way to upgrade Mandrake?

B McKee binlinux at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 4 20:06:43 EST 2005


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On March 4, 2005 05:40 am, hdc at fs.ca wrote:
> I am looking for suggestions how best to upgrade a server in my office.
>
> I am using Mandrake 9.0, and will be adding RAM and upgrading soon to 10.1
> (or whatever is then available).  In the past, Mandrake upgrades have
> performed flawlessly for me - eg 8.0 to 8.1, etc.

I have seen several posts indicating the swap from devfs to udev
causes grief if not handled carefully.  I would think the major
changes in kernel and KDE would be nasty too.  I'd install clean...

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