Can you send me directly, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not the list) your
install.log and your auto_inst.cfg.pl file out of the /root
directory? This will help troubleshoot.
-Chris
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Pascal Grosse wrote:
> Hello dear list,
>
> I installed Mandrake 7.1 (final), and I must say i'm very
> impressed by the overall quality of this new flavor of
> Mandrake Linux. But i nonetheless faced some problems :
>
> - I choose expert mode, so maybe i sould not complain about
> what follows :-) When choosing individual packages, i
> removed open_ldap. As i used automatic package dependencies,
> i didn't remark that the installer also removed many other
> packages, as for example kdebase ! Maybe i'm completely wrong,
> but i think that open_ldap is not a prerequisite for kdebase
> and the other packages removed (cannot remember which).
>
> - Another package dependency problem : when using MandrakeUpdate,
> i could not take the upgrade for xemacs, because of a conflict
> with emacs-el. As the conflict was not here during the installation,
> why introduce it later ?
>
> - Finally, when upgrading to kernel 2.2.16, i got many problems :
> the package reiserfs-utils.2.2.16_3.5.19.rpm looked older to rpm
> than the current reiserfs-utils.3.5.19.rpm. I perfectly understand
> the error here, but those inconsistencies are nonetheless annoying.
> I finally installed the package with --force by hand. But when
> i rebooted, my system refused to run again, because of the reiserfs
> module not found in /lib/reiserfs (i'm not sure, writing from memory).
> As i could not resolve this by hand, i only managed to put back the
> kernel 2.2.15 with the cdrom in rescue mode. I must add that all
> my partitions use reiserfs, except boot. I also remarked that the
> initrd was still the one for 2.2.15. When i removed the line in the
> /boot/grub/menu.lst, all the errors concerning reiserfs disappeared,
> but the system still refused to boot. As initrd.2.2.15.img is not owned
> by any package, i don't know how to get a correct initrd for 2.2.16.
> Any idea ?
>
> Pascal Grosse
>
>
>
