On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 11:43, Greg Meyer wrote: > 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.
I have never updated the kernel with URPMI...do you still need to configure LILO or are necessary changes done 'auto-magically'? Thanks. -- Cheers, Trey --- The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. - Aristotle
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