avante avante wanted us to know: >> strongly recommend you get the >> latest 2.4.13 kernel and compile it for your >But could you tell me what particular bugs there are >that make it dangerous to mix with reiserfs and bugs >in genreal? I prefer to stick with this prepackaged >kernel as I am relatively new to Linux.
The recommendation is still to get something newer. Here's a couple of options for you, listed in the order of preference 1) Check on any Mandrake ftp site that carries Cooker development. Install (NOT UPGRADE!!!) the latest kernel that's there (work has just started on 2.4.13 kernels (first one appeared Monday I believe). Be aware that you should check your lilo.conf for correctness after you install. You will probably also have a lot of dependencies forcing you to also install packages such as initscripts, mount, and a few others. Also be aware that Cooker is a work in progress. It may very well break your system. Supermount may or may not work. It is the very nature of Cooker. If you are not comfortable with being able to repair a system that you have screwed up the boot kernel, then this step might not be for you. 2) Check on any Mandrake ftp site that carries the updates. Look in the 8.0 directory and there's a 2.4.7 kernel package there. It appears to be 2.4.7 with some 2.4.8 backports. You'll also have to upgrade the initscripts, mount, reiserfsutils, etc. Be aware that 2.4.7 has some security issues. 3) Repeat of #2 but with the 2.4.8 kernel package that shipped with Mandrake 8.1. Same caveat. 4) Download linux-2.4.13.tar.bz2 from ftp.kernel.org and recompile everything from scratch (can probably just copy over the old .config from /usr/src/linux-2.4.3 and run make oldconfig and answer any new questions that pop up--not tested, not guaranteed to work since Mandrake kernels have lots of patches applied). -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | Are you feeling lucky...punk? | | http://www.mrball.net | I've had better days... | | http://faq.mrball.net | It's the end of the world as we know i|
