----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Parish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "expert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 1:49 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Strange behavior of a tulip clone NIC This is a response to the "system doesn't boot any more" part: If you downloaded ALL the updates available, you will have updated the kernel which is more or less certain to screw your system up. For future reference, don't use update for the kernel. Download it and use: rpm -ivh to install it alongside your existing kernel. I don't know why mandrake insist on putting the kernel in the same bin as all the other security updates, thereby inviting people to trash their systems, but they keep on doing it. Brian -------------------------------- Hello Thank you very much for this tip. You are right: this is the way I screwed my system up. At least, I've learned something ;-) I think there was an update for the glibc, too. Could such an upgrade be a problem too ? By the way: I have a geforce2 card, which I used with the kernel module from Nvidia. Upgrading the kernel with rpm -ivh should have kept this clean, or it could bring me other problems ? Regards François
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