[Mageia-discuss] Install fails

[Florian Hubold]

Am 12.09.2011 11:36, schrieb andre999:
> KevinO a écrit :
>> On 09/11/2011 05:05 AM, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:
>>> Installed Mageia 1 on an external HD, work a treat; glad I did, enables me to
>>> wrtie this !
>>>
>>> I then trie to upgrade my Mdv 2010.2 system, from the Mageia 1 DVD, the
>>> upgrade failed.
>>>
>> Do not 'upgrade'. Do a clean install. (This has been stated here repeatedly.)
>
> Sorry, but that is not true.
> The Mageia 1 DVD was _designed_ to upgrade mdv 2010.2, and worked flawlessly 
> on my portable.  (Much better than any recent mdv upgrade.)
> However, it will (likely) not work if you try to update using a USB 2.0 
> optical drive.
> Probably because the USB interface to an optical drive is too slow.
> (I tried that initially, without thinking, as my portable will not write DVD's.)
>
Depending on your Mandriva installation and if you had backports enabled,
upgrade will fail. There are some blockers, f.ex. hplip, which is 3.11.5 for
Mandriva and only 3.11.3a for Mageia 1. Also some backports can make the 
upgrade fail.
There are numerous forum posts and bugreports about that.