[Mageia-dev] ANN: Upgrading from Mageia 2 via urpmi

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 18 November 2012 18:59, Thomas Spuhler <thomas at btspuhler.com> wrote:
>> > 2. If you have /usr in a separate partition and have it mounted ro in
>> > your fstab, you will have to manually change the fstab to rw for the
>> > upgrade boot.
>>
>> Cannot you just automatically remount / rw?
> This is great, but if you are running it on a Virtualbox, it will not work (at least it didn't work
> 2 weeks ago). The problem is I (you) lose the network connection at the initial 100+ packages
> upgrade and you cannot finish it.

That's not related to virtualbox.

> I may try it again after the holidays, but we may need to put a warning out.
> The other option would be to download everything before the actaul upgrade.

urpmi --download-all