> 1 When I install a test Cooker, 1.9 GB, from a hd.img it takes about > 30 > min, a rh7.2, 1.7 GB, from my CDRW HP 9150 => 32, takes 11 min. I think > this is because rh has a better way of using my harddrive, an IBM 7200 > rpm UDMA 100, but my mobo can only drive it at UDMA 66. I have used no > manual change of hdparm, for testing = from the installer.
The same partitioning and file system types? > > If any of you at Mdk is going to test it, check out how they manage a > kernel upgrade, I used -ivh for the kernel and then -Fvh for the whole > directory of updates, i.e. including all kernel stuff, - and I ended up > by both kernels in grub. Seems to be foolproof to me. > How is it different from Mandrake? rpm -i inserts new kernel into bootloader config (at least for lilo, there may be specific bug for grub) and subsequent rpm -Fvh ignores new version because it already installed. Apart from that I would be interested in comparison between Mdk (cooker/8.1) and RH7.2. -andrej
