After finishing with all the work this term, including written reports, oral reports in meetings, and two rather risky academic presentations in a Congress (described here by Megatotoro), I can take some free time at last.
Of course, after the crazy rush, I ended a little weak. But my wife made me an offer I could not refuse: she has been using Mandriva 2009.2 on her Toshiba satellite laptop all this time and wanted me to help her migrate it to a more updated system.
I remember that I had unsuccessfully tried to install Mandriva 2010 Adelie, 2010.1 Farman, and 2010.2 Christmas. There were some issues with the graphic server.
She asked me to try Mageia 2. Unfortunately, when I booted this distro from a USB drive,I hit the same problem.
Then, it occurred to me that I had not tried Mageia 1. I know Mageia 1 has already gone EOL, but I decided to give it a try anyways.
It worked. Mageia 1 picked up everything: wi-fi, function keys, graphic server, sound, and effects. But the best part was that my wife's user-defined desktop preferences stayed after installing because I did not format the home partition.
I am going to try to run an upgrade to Mageia 2 later.
UPDATE: Mageia 1 offered me the possibility to upgrade to Mageia 2. Although I normally prefer to do clean installs, I accepted and, after a couple hours, my wife was using her brand new Mageia 2 OS.
What comes next is to decide on a system to migrate my desktop. But I will wait a bit longer because I want to try the next Mandriva release.
Long are the days in which, at this time, you were backing up everything and bracing yourself before the usual HD formatting!
ResponderEliminarWhat about a W8 migration while it is on sale? :P
I was thinking about that--how easy it is to migrate systems with Linux, not about migrating to WEIGHT (W8)!
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