On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Brook Humphrey wrote:
> 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.
Did you simply replace the old RPM's with the updated RPM's, or did you also
rename the updated RPM's to have the same exact names as the ones they
replaced? I'm thinking of burning an 'updated' CD for myself but am not sure
whether or not I'd need to rename the updated RPM's; you don't mention doing it
but I think someone else on the list said you'd have to for it to work..
> 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.
Are you sure about that last part? I have a 56k modem and have the connection
speed in kppp set at 115200, and it works fine. I usually receive transfers at
at least 4k/sec, often around 4.8k/sec.
> 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
-Tom
