I'm not exactly sure what happened but when i installed i had just about every
error theveryone is talking about, can't unmount, netscape crashes, kpp doesn't
work( timeout errors), kfm would hage up and crash the system makeing a reinstall
of mandrake 5.3 the only way my system would run. Here are the fixes i used and
now all these problemas are gone.
1. i made a partition on my harddrive just for mandrake to install from (
about
800 megs in size).
2. I loaded all the files on the cd rom to the new partition.
3. I downloaded all the upddates and put them in the mandrake rpms directory.
then i deleted all the older versions of the files that i updated.
4. i did a fresh install from the hard drive with the updated files
in place.
Now my system is stable (accept for one netscape crash which is normal for
netscape but so far i've only had one.)
some pointers:
1. if you install from a hard drive don't give the partition a mount point
when
you set up the mount points in disk druid or else you will get broken sym link
errors. THIS IS A BIG ONE!
2. if you are having problems using Kppp try changing the settings. on my
modem
i set it to (none) (cr) and also set the modem speeed corectly. you cant set it
for faster than it should be anymore. So set to 38400, 56000, or whatever your
modem speed is.
3. I'm not sure why but if you just upgrade sometimes it seems as though some
config or install files get left hanging around. so don't upgrade the files just
do a fresh install.
4. I upgraded all the files in the mandrake update accept for netscape 4.5. I
am currently using 4.6 the new glibc and whatever else was there with no problems.
hope this helps
Brook Humphrey
