On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Jeff Gutierrez wrote:
>
> Hey Guys,
>
> I'm currently in upgrade-everything mode since my insomnia has kicked in
> again. So my next two (2) stops are upgrading my laptop from Mandrake 7.2
> to 8.0, and installing the latest Win4Lin with the Linux kernel 2.4.
>
> Before I embark on this undying quest to get myself to do something when I
> cannot sleep, I have a few questions to those who have already threaded
> the path.
>
> 1. Any caveats when upgrading from 7.2 to 8.0?
Nothing really, i just upgraded two boxes recently.
The only beef i have with 8 is that [on an install, not an upgrade] its
default package selection sucks for develpment use. You gotta manually
select a lot of devel packages for your box to compile SRPMs decently.
MDK 7.2 before had 'development' option which installed almost everything
needed for a general purpose machine.
Of course, if you have the 'auto-inst.cfg' floppy, this wouldn't be a
problem.
> 2. This is my first venture to kernel 2.4, any caveats?
o The initscript support for iptables (/etc/sysconfig/iptables) wasn't
tested. It doesn't work. If you want to use iptables, you have to do it
from the command line or from rc.local.
o Also, supermount support seems to be a lot flaky in kernel 2.4. IN the
later 2.4.6-mdk kernels it doesn't even exist anymore.
o Kernel 2.4 == no iBCS
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