updating mdk9.2

[hirohitosan]

Hi there. I found an old laptop, Toshiba Tecra 510. The processor is Pentium I and 144MB memory and 40GB HDD. I succeed to install Mandrake 9.2 on it with X and blackbox as WM. Mdk9.2 has kernel 2.4 . can I update to 2.6.?

It's a minimal install without MCC

 

I want to install some software through urpmi, how can I add new media since my kernel is 2.4

 

tahnks

[pindakoe]

Go to EasyURPMI (links in top/righthand corner of these pages) and use the manual method -- that will give you the urpmi commands to update media which you cut and paste into a terminal (you have to be root). Whether 144 MB RAM is sufficient will be interesting. I have run Xfce as desktop with Pentium II/400 MHz with 192 Mb RAM and that worked. Another option is LXDE -- the new light desktop.

[ianw1974]

I doubt anyone is mirroring packages for Mandrake 9.2 nowawdays :unsure:

[Greg2]

Here's one:

ftp://ftp.sunet.se//pub/Linux/distributio...x/official/9.2/

[jkerr82508]

Back to Mandrake 7.2 available here:

 

ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/...drivaLinux/old/

 

and even older versions (but may not be complete) here:

 

ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/...iva-prehistory/

 

Jim

[hirohitosan]

Here's one:

ftp://ftp.sunet.se//pub/Linux/distributio...x/official/9.2/

thanx Greg2, so it's better to install packages from there than to try to update the kernel to 2.6 and to install the latest packages?

[ianw1974]

You could try manually compiling your own 2.6 kernel, but I expect you'll have a lot of problems with it. Mandrake/Mandriva always patched their kernels, and I found that when I made my own, things stopped working because I'd compiled a kernel without patches. Of course, who knows what patches were applied :)

 

I'd say stay with the the 2.4 kernel - I can't see any real benefit you'll get trying to upgrade it to a 2.6 kernel except a big headache.