Re: Problems updating to 2010

On Sunday 08 Nov 2009 22:54:58 Ole Madsen wrote:
> I have some old hardware which I have found useful to keep running:  An HP
>  Vectra, 800 MHz processor and 256 MB RAM.  Pretty anemic by current
>  standards, but it works OK for checking e-mail, reading news and as a back
>  up workstation. At this time I have Mandriva 2007.1 installed and
>  everything works fine.  However, the program is no longer being
>  supported/updated, so I would like to switch to something newer.  Here is
>  problem number one: The machine does not have a DVD drive, only CD.  In
>  2007 you could get Mandriva on multiple CDs, but no more.
> 
> So, I tried Mandriva 2010 One, and had no luck.  It goes through the
>  motions until a screen that says: "Starting Configuration Manager".  After
>  that the screen goes dark and the machine becomes unresponsive.  At that
>  point cutting the power appears to be the only way forward.
> 
> How do I get updated from the 2007.1 program?
Change the media sources to 2010 repositories would seem to be one of the 
answers. I'd check that 2010 can run in 256mb first, though :-)
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