On Friday 07 November 2036 06:21 am, Al Niessner wrote: > I have Mandrake 8.2 up and running on a twin P3 desktop and now my > laptop. The desktop went without a hitch because the disk was erased and > full installation was done. My laptop was much more difficult. To start > with, I had to use the usb.img kernel on floppy to get anywhere in the > install process. If I just ran the cd from the start, the install > program would simply vanish after the serial detection. Booting with the > usb kernel got me past that and to the upgrade. Things went smoothly > until I tried to recompile the kernel with acpi instead of apm. Found > out that the links in /etc/alternatives were broken. I had then pointing > to 3.0.1 which of course got upgraded to 3.0.4 but the by then the links > had been broken. I had to go back and manually but the links back in > /usr/bin and correct the ones I had in /etc/alternatives. So far, that > was the only glitch. > > Good work Mandrake. > > Al
Al: This probably isn't related to your problem, but either your date/time settings are screwed up, or I've just had a very long nap. Since my beard doesn't reach the floor, and KMail reports a time adjustment of +30349438 from GMT, I think it's at your end. -- cmg
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