On Monday 20 October 2003 10:29 am, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: > I am reinstalling 9.1 on my Thinkpad laptop; and I noticed the old > problem; that you cannot enable the IDE DMA with my setup; hdparms just > says operation not permitted or something. > > I was wondering what is the best way to upgrade to a newer kernel, say > 2.4.22 ? Does Mandrake use a patched the kernel, or is it 'plain vanilla' > as found at www.kernel.org? Can I just download the new one from > kernel.org, make xconfig, install, and let it rip? > You could actually install the kernel from 9.2 alongside the 9.1 kernel. It is 2.4.22 with a bunch of Mandrake specific enhancements like supermount, etc. Just grab it (the kernel RPM) from one of the 9.2 mirrors. It will install alongside your 9.1 kernel so that you can select between them at boot. -- /g
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