hirohitosan Posted May 31, 2009 Report Share Posted May 31, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindakoe Posted May 31, 2009 Report Share Posted May 31, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 31, 2009 Report Share Posted May 31, 2009 I doubt anyone is mirroring packages for Mandrake 9.2 nowawdays :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted May 31, 2009 Report Share Posted May 31, 2009 Here's one: ftp://ftp.sunet.se//pub/Linux/distributio...x/official/9.2/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkerr82508 Posted May 31, 2009 Report Share Posted May 31, 2009 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hirohitosan Posted June 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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