met and does not --upgrade, just --install. No problems.
Only proprietary driver I had was nVidia, but that's no better than the
generic anyway - system reverted to the generic OK.
AND - the $18 USB keyboard now works !
So, now for some serious audio editing.
BTW - the disk problems I mentioned earlier - a brandnew Seagate SATA
drive would freeze up, back to shop & replaced by equivalent Western Digital.
Also, Seagate IDE same problem, also replaced by a W-D. System is now
rock-stable. Question is, big coincidence, or is there something different in
the way Seagate drives relate to Linux compared to W-D ?
thanks
Rod
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James Gregory wrote:
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 12:38 +1000, Rod Butcher wrote:
Hello, I'm downloading a precompiled low-latency kernel 2.6.7.1 rpm from Mandrake Cooker to upgrade from 2.6.3.7 to facilitate multimedia development. According to Mandrake's Ref manual, rpm install should keep versions isolated and update Lilo so I can select which version I want at bootup. Any caveats here I need to know about ? I'm going to backup /boot, /etc/ beforehand. Any other things I need to know about, points of no return etc ?
Mandrake's kernel RPMs are generally pretty safe (even from cooker). It will leave your current kernel in place and I think it even leaves it as the default boot option.
If you're using any proprietary drivers though, you'll need to upgrade them as well (nvidia drivers for example).
you should probably do the actual installation with urpmi because I suspect it will want to pull down a newer module-utils, mkinitrd etc. You can give urpmi a filename and it will operate just like 'rpm - ivh' (but resolve dependencies for you).
Oh yes, if you do use rpm to install it, use '-i', not '-U'. Though I don't actually think it'll make a difference.
I've not used the 'mm' kernels from mandrake though, so I can't speak for the stability of the kernel itself.
HTH,
James.
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