Andrewski Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 I have Gentoo on a fresh system right now (I had to wipe my Mandrake system to partition this baby the way I want it, but now I figure I could put 8 distros hereon if I so choose! ) So I would like to put Cooker on next and am wondering the best way to do it after reading Mandrake's howto: Somehow use Gentoo to begin the cooker installation (chroot'ing?) or to download the necessary RPMS (I have the space) Install MDK 10 OE first and then upgrade via cooker urpmi mirrors (The boot disk option won't work for me, as I have a wireless card as my only current internet access.) What do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 23, 2004 Report Share Posted July 23, 2004 I do a minimal ML-10-OE (about 700 to 1GB of pkgs) no X, WM's or DE's>add the sources from init 3>update urpmi>and cook Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewski Posted July 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 Cool, a weekend project. Thanks for the advice bvc. So that's (as) stable (as Cooker gets) for you? i.e. no problem with "mixed" packages? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 24, 2004 Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 (edited) Cooker has it's moments. If you have other distros you'll be ok. Once I was in debian for a week because kde and X were borked (going to XFree-4.4 from 4.3). Things usually get fixed pretty quick. I upgrade from 9.2 to 10-beta's through cooker and went on to OE :P .....with only that one week down. Then continued for a while til something happened with windows/bootloaders/partitions etc.....I think that was the longest continual install of ML I've ever had. Cooker isn't as bad as it used to be. Burn Baby Burn! Edited July 24, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewski Posted July 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 I do have other distros, and I'm thinking of doing this as some sort of way to contribute to Mandrake; fortunately, that howto spells it out pretty well. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwiftDeath Posted July 27, 2004 Report Share Posted July 27, 2004 I may try cooker soon to once I truly understand the downsides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 27, 2004 Report Share Posted July 27, 2004 if you have something to fall back on, there are no downsides Burn Baby Burn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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