-----Original Message-----
From: Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 12:23 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Way to make an updated 6.0 CD?
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999,Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
| On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, mshirley wrote:
|
| > With all the problems with 6.1, is there a way to
| > make an updated 6.0 CD so that all the updates are
| > installed automagically? IE, I put the CD in, and
| > run install, etc, and get the new kernal, initscripts,
| > and heck even the new 2.2.13 kernal and XFree86 even.
| > Is there a file used for installation that says what files
| > are on the CD?
|
| Technically you could, yes. You'd just remove the packages you're
replacing
| from Mandrake/RPMS, put the newer packages you want to use in
Mandrake/RPMS,
| and then from the base of the distribution tree run:
|
| ./misc/genhdlist .
|
| To update the hdlist with the new packages.
|
| That's what I did when I made an updated M6.0 CD (with the updates
specifically
| for 6.0). I can foresee you possibly having dependency problems when
trying to
| mix 6.1 packages in, though; it's quite likely that there are slightly
newer
| versions for some libraries (like gtk, qt, etc.) in 6.1 that some
packages in
| 6.1 depend on, so you would need to add them too (and might as well toss
in the
| newer development packages while you're at it). But THEN you MIGHT (or
might
| not, your guess is as good as mine) break some of the 6.0 packages that
are
| linked with slightly older libraries from 6.0.
|
| If you haven't actually tried 6.1 yet, I'd suggest giving it a try. It
works
| great for me, and my impression of it is that it's less buggy than 6.0.
There
| were some updates for 6.0 that ya just HAD to get, but I didn't even
bother
| getting the 6.1 updates until I was burning a CD for a friend and
figured I
| might as well put the existing updates on it.
|
| > Secondly, once I get this ready, can it be burnt in *GAK*
| > Windows, or do I actually need to figure out XCDroast?
|
| As far as I know, burning in Windows should be fine. Though I don't
know if
| Windows burning programs allow you to use Rock Ridge extensions? I'd
think you
| would want a Linux CD burned with Rock Ridge extensions (it's like the
Linux
| version of Windows' Joliet).
|
| -Tom
Mandrake 6.1 works great here. The only problem I have found is that there
apears to be a conflict between the kcmclock package and the kdelibs
package.
If you have this problem, remove the kcmclock package, and install the
kdelibs
package in kpackage. Problem solved!
Ernie
I have been following the banter from Steve Philps and Axalon about how
broken 6.1 is,
and don't even want to touch it until the SECOND bug fix is out. 6.0 works
well for me,
but have been unable to get the fix packages to install correctly, and
thought that since
I am still learning, and hence, screwing up my installs bad enough that I
need to reinstall
every now and then, that I would make an updated 6.0 CD, that way I have one
less step every
time I reinstall.
On that note, when updating the kernal and initscripts for instance, how do
I get the package
to install? De-install the kernal and then reinstall the new one, then
update lilo? or the other
way around? Secondly, how do you update lilo that is on a floppy? I don't
have lilo on the MBR.
Know-nothing,
Mark
