Dear friends:
First, my thanks to everyone who went out of their way to help me with
all the little questions having to do with installing a /home partition,
including questions about swap partitions, etc. Everything went fine as
you can see below:
[sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 2.6G 1.4G 1.1G 56% /
/dev/hda3 1.2G 330M 793M 29% /home
/dev/hdb1 2.9G 422M 2.3G 15% /bs
[sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$
One question: I updated my Mandrake 6.1 CD using MandrakeUpdate.
Everything went more or less smoothly (you need to add "kdesu -c" to the
Properties. Execute of MandrakeUpdate to make it work as root, thus
"kdesu -c MandrakeUpdate" without the quotes). This included updating my
kernel (all 8 files along with "initscripts" (I think that's the name of
the file). Well, as you can see below, my new kernel is indeed
2.2.13-22mkd, and I made a bootdisk with that new number after
installation (and updated my /etc/lilo and /sbin/lilo) and everything
works fine. But the first entry for the kernel includes BOTH kernel
numbers, the original one and the updated one.
Can anyone explain this?
Thanks again to everyone.
Benjamin
[sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.2.13-7mdk
kernel-2.2.13-22mdk
[sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-headers
kernel-headers-2.2.13-22mdk
[sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-source
kernel-source-2.2.13-22mdk
[sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$
Recommendations to Mandrake:
DURING INSTALL:
1) Explain to users what SMP means. By the way, the autodetect insisted
that I had an SMP, when I only have one AMD k6-2 400 Mhrtz processor.
2) Explain to users what all those acronyms in "Which processes or
programs do you want Linux to automatically start?" (such as amd, httpd,
innd, etc. etc.). A newbie is likely to feel that he has just landed on
the moon when seeing these cryptic acronyms without any explanation
and/or advice on whether he/she needs it or not. I do however,
appreciate the tremendous advance over the old RH 5.2 and 6.0, I think,
where none were checked off at all. At least here you can accept the
defaults.
3) Suggest that the user add ALL : ALL to /etc/hosts.deny and ALL: LOCAL
to /etc/hosts.allow or add that tot he final stage of installation to
give the user some basic online security right off.
4) It's about time that sound configuration was included along with
video and printer and everything else. I've reinstalled RH and Mandrake
several times, yet, believe it or not, it took me a while to figure out
after installing RealPlayer and getting no sound that I had clean forgot
to do my sndconfig sound configuration.
5) When updating, you need to choose an FTP site. Fine, I chose
rpmfind.net. But the next time I opened Update, it returned, unless I am
mistaken, right back to the first site on the list, someplace in
Belgium.
6) Why not spare us the Utilities agony (all the more so because it is
such a minor inconvenience) of having to figure out how to view all the
Utilities (by creating an extra Utilities subfolder, then copy and
paste).
7) What do you do if you DON'T want or need to accept certain updates,
e.g. Netscape or the new and defective lpr? How do you keep it from
appearing every time you open Update?
Otherwise, I am very pleased with Mandrake 6.1. Just thought that these
suggestions may help to make Mandrake even more user-friendly.
Thanks so much.
Benjamin
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Benjamin and Anna Sher
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