Upgrade from Mandriva2011

[BillG999]

Solved, with thanks.

Hi, I have my hard disk partitioned into system (/hda0), Home (/home) and swap, rather than using a /home directory. I would like to install Mandreia, but cannot afford to lose any data. Can I just install Mandreia on /hda0, and will it then recognise the /home partition?

[benmc]

Hi, and welcome to Mageia.

I understand that upgrading from Mandriva 2011 to Mageia2 and Mageia3 is a process fraught with difficulties, as a different file system is used.
You should consider copying your important data to cd , dvd or external drive.
Install Mageia but use custom partition install, using your preferred naming arrangement.

Kind regards

Benmc

[BillG999]

Great, that´s the info I needed. Thanks very much

[doktor5000]

Upgrading from Mandriva 2011 to Mageia is not supported, you need to freshly install Mageia on top, and the installer will recognise your /home partition, just pay attention in the step where it asks you which partitions to format, /home is disabled by default.

EDIT: tom was faster
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[jiml8]

Having done exactly this (Mandriva 2010 32 bit to Mageia 2 64 bit via fresh install) I can tell you that it will be straightforward to do. I will highly recommend that you save your Mandriva 2011 /etc directory someplace else because restoring your configuration will go much easier if you simply copy the relevant files out of the old /etc to the new /etc for those packages for which it matters.

Also, if you wish to have the capability to roll back in case of a problem, save your /home directory before doing the upgrade; there are a LOT of changes and once your /home is changed, you can't go back.

[BillG999]

Thanks to all of you, I have done this with no problems at all
Cheers, Bill

[doktor5000]

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