tommiy....I'm sorry but I don't have any ready solutions for
your present problems. What I do have are some suggestions as
to how to prevent such problems in the future. Anyway here's
what I do. I have one primary partition and one extended
partition on my 9.1 gig scsi hard drive. The primary partition
has windows on it and uses 1/3 of the space (just under 3 gigs)
on the drive. The extended partition takes up the rest of the
drive and contains 6 partitions. It has in order a 15 meg ext2,
a 128 meg swap, a 2.6 gig ext2, a 15 meg ext2, a 128 meg swap,
and a 2.6 gig ext2. The primary partition is sda1 and the
extended partition contains sda5-10. This leaves room for 2
linux installations of /boot, swap and /. When a new release
comes out I install it clean on the set of 3 partitions I'm not
currently using. Then I can slowly customize and install
updates till I'm ready to stop using the old version and start
using the new one on a daily basis. I've never upgraded, but
instead always installed each new version fresh and migrated to
using the new release slowly. There are other ways too, but
this method is mine and I've never had any severe
disappointments.
Alan
tommiy wrote:
>
> Well when 7.0 came out i got excited and bought the CD thinking...hey
> 6.1 was cool...damn 7 must be better....what a dissappointment.....
>
> I selected an upgrade and now I find I have an absolute multitude of
> problems to work through....seems lots of things are now broken....all
> come with the distro...
>
> First my ppp scripts no longer function...cool huh and all I used to use
> was ifup ppp0.
>
> This is now broken by a new app in the initscripts called ppp-watch. Now
> if I try the old ifup ppp0 ppp-watch barfs and rejects it. Off to the
> source code time to resolve that...in the mean time I probably broke
> everything and went back to the init scripts from 6.1 to make it work
> again.... oh by the way this also appears to make linuxconf ppp side of
> life to fail as well...it gives the same errors in messages....kppp
> still goes but I hate KDE! Would seem to identify where the testing went
> thou.
>
> Also appears that the IDE patches weren't in the kernel cause my ALI
> board chipset is no longer recognised and installed as simplex...DOH!
> off to get another patch and patch the kernel....
>
> Next for some reason starting gnome is as slow as an absolute wet
> week!!! On 6.1 it came up fast....on 7.0 it takes approximately 3
> minutes for the desktop icons to appear.......
>
> Sigh appears that the reasons I went to Mandrake are fast dissappearing
> ;((
>
> Anyone have some cluse to the slow enlightenment startup I would
> appreciate.
>
> Regards
