"Thomas J. Hamman" wrote:
> 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
>
>
I didn't change any of the file names. I only added the updates and deleted the old
files.
as for the kppp thats just what i had to do to get my modem to work. if your's works
the way it is then thats great. I just listed the stuff about kppp because i kept
reading about people haveing trouble with it and i had those same problems but i was
eventualy able to get it to work using these settings.
also is there any way i could get you to burn on of those cd's for me. I don't have a
rom burner and i would really like to reclaim the 800 megs of hard drive space for
other things.
