On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 20:28:50 -0400
Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 October 2001 02:23 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> > nevermind, I found it on the New York site. I'll give it a try. The
> > other -1mdk kernel had some dependencies, will those break my
> > original 8.0 install or would you use the -ivh and put them in
> > parallel also?
>
> I used a Netherlands site. Fondness I suppose, I use to live on a
> Dutch island. Anyhow, mirrors are like musical chairs, you haft'a find
> the right one, and jump in at the right time. Generally the European
> sites are updated before the latest bytes make it to this side of the
> Atlantic. Europe must have a direct link to Texas too, 'cause I usually
> get better transfer rates than from N American sites ;)
>
> I always install a new (ready made) kernel with -ivh. This keeps your
> other kernel(s) and links intact. Then, as is the case with
> 2.4.10-2mdk, I'm satisfied the new kernel is worth commiting to, I d/l
> the source and headers for it. I install those with
> rpm -Uvh kernel-source-2.4.10-2mdk.i586.rpm
> kernel-headers-2.4.10-2mdk.i586.rpm
> (all on one line, ie, together at the same time)
>
> This will make the links in /usr/src/linux point to the new source
> and headers, and any source you compile after that will be built
> against the new kernel. Once again, a caution I'd offer is that any
> closed source binaries, like nVidia, winmodem, win-sound and other
> win-hardware drivers, or binary only apps like Star Office, RealPlayer,
> etc., you are using, might not be compatible with newer versions of
> Linux.
> (which is what the new kernel _is_).
> --
I reside in the SE US but my best mirrors both for content and speed are
the European ones. sunset and ciril to name 2.
Did run into a little snag on 8.1 updating to kernel-2.4.10-2.
When installing the kernel source got a depend eror for ncurses-devel.
The stange thing about this is that ncurses-devel is not on the cds nor
could I find it on any of the mirrors, but I did find the mdk pkg using
rpmfind.net??
Installing ncurses-devel itself brought a depend for ncurses-ext which does
not exist as a mdk package.
I did a nodepends and 2.4.10-2 booted without problem or complaint but I now
find that ncurses-extraterms is no longer installed.
Charles
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
