sir_max

Ah, Tyme...

If it was that easy I would have done it :lol:

But my linux machine is not connected to the Internet... Basically, I download the updates at work, burn them on CDRW and update my home pc.

Hi..

i download updates ay work (at home i don't have an internet connection available)

but i have never had a problem with dependencies when making updates...

perhaps there were some bad files...

or you just lacked some files...

i always download the complete directory for updates.. i think if this is what you do... then may be you have some corrupted files...

Greetings

is that a Community Edition or an Official Edition ??

Greetings

I do stage1 so i can compile NPTL in glibc and everything that follows, just my preference.

 

Just download the latest 2004.1 universal iso

 

 

 

2004.1 iso

 

md5sum

 

5ccddf4260fba0998c8cf5b65375947b *install-x86-universal-2004.1.iso

i also have downloaded this iso at work...

at home i don't have an internet connection available... so i hope this doesn't want to connect to internet...

can i compile from stage 1 with this cd???

is there a how-to.. or the how-to at gentoo.org is also applicable to this iso??

thanks for your comments

HI

one question

did mdk10 use supermount as a kernel patch??

link supermount www.chilehardware.cl/sirmax/supermount-2.0.4-2.6.3.patch.gz

link submount (recommended by another person, but i haven't tried it yet) www.chilehardware.cl/sirmax/submount-0.9.tar.gz <-- i believe this one should be compiled also....

because if you download from kernel.org you have to patch with this patch for kernel 2.6.5

to apply the patch...

inside /usr/src/linux

patch -p1 < patch-selected

and the do the make {menuconfig|xconfig}

well hope that helps you.. it did for me :D

using mdk92 as stated in my sig

Bye and Greetings to all ;)

ext2 is my filesystem.

 

1024 MB CORSAIR XMS3200 (no 4 GB support kernel compilation though)

250 MB Swap (hardly ever used)

 

XP command line is beating down Mandrake by a good margain in Lifemapper... and I'd imagine in SETI@Home too. My SETI@Home efficiency is around 9.75 CPU cycles / FLOP ... it lists the optimal performance of a PIV Northwood at about 6.0 to 6.2 CPU cycles / FLOP depending on RAM type.

 

I have passed a few parameters using hdparm that got a small increase in hard drive I/O ... but I think my speed is hurt by a really bad latency hiding somewhere (??), inefficient use of data after it is taken from the hd, or lack of architecture specific optimization. I know it will go faster than this. I got Linux to be absolutely outrageously smoking fast after compiling 2.6.3-7mdk to my needs (4 GB memory... architecture optimized... "fat" removed...) ... however installing the nVidia driver ruined by day by ruining the XFree86 installation :( Also had issues with "vanishing hardware" when booting from kernel 2.6.3-7 back to 2.6.3-4

to be someone who is interested in speed, that filesystem is not very fast...

i think you should try

reiserfs or XFS (which i have been using for quite some time)

now to test your disks on a console write

hdparm -tT /dev/hdx

well...

bye hope you can speed-up your box ;)

somos millones :D

I hope it won't be intended as a breach of trust that I've made a printer friendly pdf version of this topic...

:unsure: I hope you don't get angry about this... :unsure:

you can download it from

PDF.TAR.BZ2

Greetings... bye

Give Submount a try.

it looks good, il will try it ;)

thanks

Thanks Gowator

that was very illustrative and i have a better idea on what to do if i get that question again...

and i have never been argued like that before :D

thanks again

Hi everyone...

for quite some time i have been thinking about this...

why almost always people recommend debian or red-hat as excellent server distribution..

i i always have said, why ????

all distros have similar software (differs on versions numbers mostly)

you can create scripts in all of them...

at home i have mdk functioning as a web server and i never have had any problems...

well.. that was it...

P.S.: perhaps this should be in off-topic, but i put it here ;)

i think this is a great idea...

i think myself of a newbie that have read a bit, so i can do some stuff... and some other i cannot...

i like the CLI, because i have started at computer with DOS 3.3 and then windows 3.1 came but i never liked it too much....

i think that is a really excellent idea to have 2 kind of FAQ's graphical and non-graphical...

another thing that can do a great deal of help to newbies is to speak clearly, i mean, not just say RTFM or STFW or etc...

but say how to do it...

i have answered some post at foros.tux.cl and foro.powers.cl both in spanish.. and after i have posted them i have realized that my post wasn't really helpful because i didn't understand it (if i were a newbie)...

so i elaborate some more... i think the most important thing to help newbies is to explain thing step by step.. even though we skip some steps when we do it in reality...

well, that was all i wanted to say.. i hope this is readable.. (as i said before in another post english is not my first language)

Thanks to all

Greetings ;)

i asked because when i have installed kernel 2.6.5 vanilla

supermount didn't work because there wasn't kernel support...

now i have downloaded that patch

and was thinking if there was another patch worth installing..

perhaps i didn't ask the right way, maybe because english it's no my first language...

thanks for your reply :D

Hi, i have this question...

What kernel patches are advisable to merge into a new kernel??

for security and better hardware support??

Thanks to all

i have solved the serial mouse problem...

without knowing why, i have to load the module 8250 for it to work, despite i compiled serial support into the kernel

Greetings...

do you have all required pkgs needed for a 2.6 kernel to run? There's no point in  spinning your wheels til this is known. The best and easiest way to get them is to install a kernel-2.6 mdk.rpm. You don't have to use it.....other than to get the required pkgs needed for your own to run. You can then uninstall it.

 

Modules changed a bit, in at least how they load. You need mousedev (maybe not in your case with a serial mouse) in /etc/modprobe.preload and get auto out of the XF86Config-4 and put an actual protocol. I don't know what to put for a serial mouse. :unsure:

all pkgs needed are installed because i have installed kernel-2.6.0-test9.5mdk.rpm via urpmi

then reboot to see if there was no kernel panic :D

then uninstalled it...

then compiled 2.6.5

but, as i said before i have no idea how to see if the system is recognizing my serial mouse....

although i've been searching through google.com i have found nothing yet...

thanks for your help

If you're on an older mandrake with the 2.4 kernel you need other pks for the 2.6 kernel like, module-init-tool and others.....see kernel-2,6 related threads.

i had kernel 2.4.22-10mdk

i have installed 2.6.0test9.5mdk and worked fine, but no nvidia driver (only compiling errors), no sound no mouse...

uninstalled 2.6.0test9.5mdk

compiled 2.6.5 from source on www.kernel.org

compiled nvidia driver, OK

but no sound no mouse...

with sound i will check alsamixer.. i haven't checked that yet :unsure:

for mouse i have changed XF86config-4

Driver "mouse"

Option "Protocol" "Auto"

Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

any hint would be helpful...

i have tried your method and i have no sound nor mouse support... any pointer at this???

mouse serial on com1

sound sb awe 64 gold (this works perfectly on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk with alsa 1.0.4)

i have also enabled alsa and sb support integrated on kernel

how to fix the mouse, i don't have a clue, right now i'm searching with my friend www.google.com/linux :D

thanks...

thanks i'll try this and will let you know tomorrow

thanks again...

Hi, i don't know if i were clear enough...

my question is...

how/where can i add applications to start with fluxbox, like gkrellm??

thanks..

i have searched for a .xinitrc file but there isn't any...

thanks to all for your time

Hi everyone

i have installed mdk92 on my old pc, hardware:

Motherboard Soyo 6VBA133

P3 650

384 SDRAM PC133 CL2 (IBM)

video GForce 2 MX400 ASUS V7100Pro

sound Diamond Monster Sound MX300

20GB HDD Maxtor

and i have compiled alsa from source 1.0.3, using factory kernel 2.4.22-21

all modules load right, but everytime i want to hear a MP3 or watch a movie i worked for about 3 or 4 seconds and then the system hangs up...

and i have to reboot to have my computer working again...

any help would be apreciated...

thanks to everyone..