Stupid question, but no helpful documentation...

[afroguy013]

This is kind of a stupid question, but here goes.

I want to upgrade my machine from 9.1 to 10.1 from the mandrake site. I looked around and found the i586 files I need to download and looked for instructions on how to upgrade. The official instruction weren't too helpful, so...

1. Where do I download the files?
2. How do I begin the upgrade process?
-Mainly: Do I have to somehow get my machine to reboot and find the files, or is it simply a matter of executing the files in a shell?


Thanks in advance!

[lakerdonald]

are they .iso files or what?

[sarumont]

Can't you just do a system update from the Mandrake Control Center?

And if they're ISO files, you have to burn them, boot them and select upgrade.

[afroguy013]

@sarumont- no, can't do the system update in 9.1 (one of the reasons to up to 10.1)

Ok, so download the ISO and then burn it to a cd and it should work right when I boot? Ok I'll try- thank you!

Like I said earlier- pretty stupid question...

[flintlocker]

Speaking from experience, asking dumb questions often prevents hours of frustration. I spent three days trying to install 9.2 from CD's I had burned, before I knew that you have to burn ISo's differently.

Ask questions.

[afroguy013]

ok, new question, not so stupid this time.

I've downloaded the new ISOs for Mandrake.

I go to burn them in k3b and select the Write ISO Image option, enter in all the data, and click write.

After about a minute it spits my cd out with a message saying it had a problem with the cache dumping.

How do I get my darn CD burner working properly? I've had a ton of other problems with it in the past, and just didn't need to fix it at the moment, but now I want it to work. Any help would be appreciated!!