[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dara Hazeghi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I upgraded to Mandrake Cooker from RedHat 6.1 . Things started out well.
> > The graphical installer worked well, my SCSI card was detected etc.
> > Unfortunately when it got to video configuration it would complain that
> > it could not find and certain file by the name of "Cards" or some such.
> > I skipped the step and rebooted.
> >
> > Upon rebooting I discovered a number of very irritating things. Cooker's
> > installer had not cleanly unmounted my Linux partitions which resulted
> > in a 10 minute FSCK.
> > Cooker's max security mode did nothing other than
> > shut down all network interfaces so they wouldn't launch on bootup as
> > well as most of my daemons.
>
> First, msec does not shutdown any network interface in any security mode.
> Sorry, it does many other things, but you didn't see them.
Very well then. I am sorry to attributed the problem to msec, however my
network settings were clobbered and eth0 no longer started up on boot.
>
>
> > Most aggregious was that it actually
> > commented out my /etc/resolv/conf .
>
> Msec didn't use /etc/resolv.conf
> [yoann@jinn msec]$ grep -r "resolv.conf" *
> [yoann@jinn msec]$
This could be my fault, although I honestly do not remember doing such a
thing. People do strange things at night ;-)
Another point:
cooker does not replace the RedHat init scripts properly, in asmuch as I
still get: booting RedHat when I boot. Ideas?
Dara
