mandrake's mods to the OS (was Re: New distro)

[Chris Midkiff]

Just my $0.02,

I used the 'Drake update in Mandrake 8.0 to update my kernel, and had no
problems.  The problem that everyone is talking about (and yes, I made the
same mistake) only showed up in 8.1.  It may be that the problem is with the
update, and not with the update system.  Don't really know, but it cost my
my / partition.  UGLY!

That's ok, I wanted to try a different distro anyway :-)

Chris Midkiff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Gilliland" <jegilliland at hotmail.com>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 3:19 PM
Subject: RE: mandrake's mods to the OS (was Re: New distro)

> If I had learned nothing else from my reading this list (which is far from
> true) it would be worth it just to learn not to use the mandrake update
> feature.
>
> Eric Gilliland
>
>
> >From: "Brian Densmore" <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com>
> >To: <kclug at kclug.org>
> >Subject: RE: mandrake's mods to the OS (was Re: New distro)
> >Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:07:49 -0600
> >
> >Yep, did them both at one point in time.
> >
> >Updated kernel. result ... broken system. fix format HD partitions,
> >reinstall operating system. Thank Goodness /home on own partitions.
> >
> >Updated rpms after resolving dependencies, but still had conflicts
> >solution --force. result, system works some utilities broken. Need to
> >pull down db3 and compile yet.
> >
> >Update on new distro. Downloaded linuxfromscratch and gentoo linux
> >yesterday. Asked Ximian to use their gnome branch. Will be studying this
> >week.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Rich Edelman [mailto:edelman at speedscript.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 2:17 PM
> > > To: kclug at kclug.org
> > > Subject: Re: mandrake's mods to the OS (was Re: New distro)
> > >
> > >
> > > You like if you use Mandrake Update to update your kernel, or you use
> > > --nodeps and --force on the installation of a new glibc RPM?
> > > No, I didn't do
> > > that last one, but I know someone who did. RPM installed,
> > > system didn't work
> > > anymore though....
> > >
> > > On Tuesday 29 January 2002 01:13 pm, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Brian Densmore" <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com>
> > > >
> > > > > But as anyone who has tried installing a Redhat rpm on a Mandrake
> > > > > system lately knows is that it doesn't necessarily work. This is
> > > > > strange since Mandrake is "100% Redhat compatible".
> > > >
> > > > Ah, but worse is when the RPM DOES work - but then your
> > > system doesn't.
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > majordomo at kclug.org
> > >
> >
> >
>
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