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actually i want to know is it possible to update mageia 3 which i installed on my hardisk using live usb of mageia copy ,here can i used terminal in live mode to update the default distro which i actually installed

If I understand you correctly you are asking if you can boot into a live usb edition and then from within the Live system upgrade a copy of Mageia 3 on the hard drive?

If so then the answer is yes, but I cannot image why you would want to do that. Why not just boot from the hard drive?

But if you really do want to do it from the live system then the procedure would be :-

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urpmi --auto-update --urpmi-root <path/to/hard/drive>

where <path/to/hard/drive> is the path to the file system of the hard drive mounted on the live system.

If the edition on the hard drive does not have software sources defined then you will need to do

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urpmi.addmedia --distrib --urpmi-root <path/to/hard/drive>

as well

thanks djennings
u understood well what i was asking as i badly need it to update using live usb mode
once again very thanks !