Re: [UUG/MLUG] Mandrake 5.3

["Christopher J. Kaiser" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Scott Greathouse wrote:

> I just got my Cheapbytes Mandrake 5.3 CD in the mail today, and I've got
> a couple of questions (particularly if you have upgraded a machine to
> Mandrake 5.3).
>
> Right now, my machine has RedHat 5.1 on it with KDE. The Mandrake CD's
> readme1st file says that I can try the 2.2.1 kernel if I want to... so,
> does that mean it won't install it automatically?
>

Correct.  It installs the 2.0.36 kernel.  It includes the few upgrade
packages you need for the 2.2.1 kernel and a tarball of
/usr/src/linux-2.2.1.

If you're going to install these updates make sure you get
modutils-2.1.121-4.i386.rpm.  Mandrake has a link to where you can get it
on their web page.  The zero version of this will lock things up.

I went to the rawhide directory and grabbed all of their packages after I
installed Mandrake.  It has an rpm for the 2.2 kernel.  It also defaults to
gnome instead of kde, though both are still on there.

>
> Second question: KDE's install instructions say to uninstall 1.0 before
> installing 1.1, which is what Mandrake has on it.  So, should I
> uninstall KDE before I run the Mandrake install program?

Don't know about this one.  I didn't have kde before I installed Mandrake.

>
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
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> Scott Greathouse
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