Darren King wrote on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 11:33:48AM +1000 :
> Nope....that's currently at 0.  Wierd.  Looking through the dmesg
> output, I see that the kernel has flagged my chipset as KT133, not KT333
> as it should be.

No DMA => slow slow slow.  Will feel very unresponsive under high disk 
I/O.  Will result in horrible system performance and high load averages
(because the kernel is waiting on the hardware to say "I'm finished
writing all that data that you gave to me").

> I should be able to install the new cooker kernel separately right?  so
> I can choose what kernel I want to boot?

Yes.  Install it, *NOT* upgrade it.  

But: (there's always a but)

<soapbox>
The kernel should be the only package you try this with.  In other
words, don't download the latest Mozilla or Samba package from Cooker
and expect it to work.  It won't.  Cooker is using a different version
of gcc which results in different libstdc++ libs which means none of
your graphical apps will work.  Some of the text based ones *might*, but
I'm telling you and everybody else now:  Don't do it.  You're creating
so much heartache for yourself that it defies explanation why we, even
as sadistic as we are, would do such a thing.
</soapbox>

Blue skies...           Todd
-- 
  Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc.   http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because 
  that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn
   Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-21mdk

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