Re: Problems updating to 2010

Ian wrote:
> 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 :-)
>   
I sure would back up everything 3 times in different places, as there is 
a LOT of differences [under the hood, in the kernels,ide numbering, 
etc...]  between 2007.1 and 2010.

you may be better off to back up and do a fresh install anyway.
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