On Sunday 20 May 2001 08:13 pm, Gary wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Was at Best Buy (in the States here) today, and low and behold, I
> found V8 PowerPack. There is also a $20 rebate, which is really nice
> !!!
>
> I have 7.2 installed now, and want to know what others have done,
I bought the Cd's from CheapBytes ($3.49) only because www.lsl.com
didn't offer cheap shipping by mail, and then went to
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/donations/
that way Mandrake gets all the money, not some middlemen. A
donation is prob'ly a good idea no matter how you obtain Mandrake if
you want 'em to stay. (see cooker ML archives)
in
> terms of a fresh install, or an upgrade. Anyone found problems with
> upgrading, or will it be okay. This is my production box, and would
> like some input... Thanks
IMO, don't upgrade, do a fresh install. Doesn't require any more
effort, and most often is more efficient and successful. For one, your
various old config changes will prob'ly not be needed or wanted.
Example, the 'hdparm' lines I use to add to rc.local to optimize my
HDD's are no longer needed with 8.0. Every bit of my hardware was
detected and configured correctly. For the first time i didn't even
need to run 'sndconfig' ;>
My experience, and you might wanna check the linux-kernel archives
for your take on this, increase your /swap with 2.4.x kernels. I
changed from 80mb /swap to 250 during the install, and I wish now I'd
taken Torvald's 2.4.x advice and allocated more. I have 256mb ram.
Linus is still sayin '/swap should be 2 * ram'.
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
