[Cialug] Venting

Thu Aug 11 14:36:45 CDT 2005

Mandriva 2005 LE (the current stable release) uses 2.6.11-12 (the 12 I 
believe is the Mandriva patch-level) after updates.

LMK if you would like a set of CD's.

Upgrading the kernel in Mandriva using there standard updates is really 
easy ("urpmi --update kernel"). If you want a custom kernel, you're in 
the same boat as RH/Fedora.

Since they tend to use the "compile everything and the kitchen sink" for 
the kernel modules approach, I haven't had to build a custom kernel for 
a long time.

-dc

Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> 
> I'll join the fray.
> 
> I'm having trouble with FC4 too on two different systems.  One is a shuttle
> SFF box with SATA drive and the other is a Supermicro server with two SCSI
> drives.  I boot from CD and run the install from the network, I have also
> been trying to use reiserfs.  I've been seeing similar errors.   To date I
> think my troubles have been with partitioning and filesystem type.  I got
> the SATA machine to install and when I disabled the CDROM the SATA/IDE /dev
> changed.  
> Grrr.
> Between udev in FC3 and all the install issues I've had with FC4 I'm about
> ready to try something else.  Hey Dave C., what kernel version is available
> for mandriva?  Greater than 2.6.10?  I'm ready for the Free Suse distro too,
> bring it on.
> 
> BTW, the Shuttle machine was the FC2 machine I had asked about upgrading.
> Needless to say it went poorly and is going to be fresh when I'm done.  
> 
> I need to learn how to update the kernel without without screwing up my
> distro.
> 
> -Nate
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: timwilson011 at mchsi.com [mailto:timwilson011 at mchsi.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 12:00 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Venting
> 
> 
> 
> I did finally get it to install, finishing up about 9:30 last night.  Of
> course, after copying files over from the old hard drives, that left me no
> time to configure FC4 to be operational for me.  So I ended up putting the
> old hard drives back in.  At least I have it installed and the files copied
> over.  I'll have to copy over any files that change between last night and
> whenever I can get back to it, but I'm sure that won't be that bad.  Setting
> up the firewall, mail, web, etc. will be a bigger PITA.
> 
> I copied the files using a command similar to the following: tar cf -
> directory | tar xvf - -C newdirectory
> 
> Anyone have a better idea, or is that pretty much the best way to go?
> 
> --
> Tim W.
> 
> 
> 
>>Mandriva will give you a warning if it can't install a package, but 
>>will
>>continue on and finish the install / upgrade. Depending on what packages 
>>they are... you may end up with a system that's not so usable when 
>>you're done, so it's kind of a blessing / curse situation.
>>
>>I've seen several systems where you can install with the media just 
>>fine
>>on one PC, but it has these kinds of errors on another, so trying a 
>>different CDROM drive might be a good thing to try.
>>
>>-dc
>>
>>timwilson011 at mchsi.com wrote:
>>
>>>Yeah, that's probably it, even though the media check gave it a 
>>>"PASS".  But
>>
>>why
>>
>>>not just skip the package if it isn't essential to the OS?  It is 
>>>maddening
>>
>>when
>>
>>>you see "8 minutes remaining" after seeing "50 minutes remaining" 
>>>for 20 minutes, just to see it "fatal error" out.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Tim W.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Maybe it's not reliably reading from your cd drive?
>>>>
>>>>On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 00:58 +0000, timwilson011 at mchsi.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I'm doing a custom install.  I took out the offending package from 
>>>>>the first failed attempt.  But it still failed.  This is try #4 
>>>>>(try #6 if you count
>>
>>the
>>
>>>>2
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>times I tried to do an upgrade after the first failure).
>>>>>
>>>>>--
>>>>>Tim W.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 00:58 +0000, timwilson011 at mchsi.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>i just installed fc4 w/ no problems. i'm not sure if i installed
>>>>>>those packages your talking about..   i did the default server
>>>>>>install and after it was up and running did some custom packages 
>>>>>>of my own.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>n.d.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>timwilson011 at mchsi.com wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I would like to know why FC4 install can't just *skip* the 
>>>>>>>package it
>>>>
>>>>*thinks*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>>is in error.  I've done a fresh install now 3 times.  Twice, it 
>>>>>>>has failed
>>>>
>>>>on
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>>the third disk (two different packages), even though it checked 
>>>>>>>out fine
>>>>
>>>>with
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>>the media test.  Fine, I'll make another disk 3.  Now it's 
>>>>>>>failing on the
>>>>>>>*first* disk!  Argh!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>We now return to regularly scheduled e-mail.
>>>>>>>--
>>>>>>>Tim W.
>>
>>
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