On Thu, 25 Nov 1999,Benjamin Sher wrote:
| Dear friends:
|
| First, my thanks to everyone who went out of their way to help me with
| all the little questions having to do with installing a /home partition,
| including questions about swap partitions, etc. Everything went fine as
| you can see below:
| [sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ df
| Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
| /dev/hda1 2.6G 1.4G 1.1G 56% /
| /dev/hda3 1.2G 330M 793M 29% /home
| /dev/hdb1 2.9G 422M 2.3G 15% /bs
| [sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$
|
| One question: I updated my Mandrake 6.1 CD using MandrakeUpdate.
| Everything went more or less smoothly (you need to add "kdesu -c" to the
| Properties. Execute of MandrakeUpdate to make it work as root, thus
| "kdesu -c MandrakeUpdate" without the quotes). This included updating my
| kernel (all 8 files along with "initscripts" (I think that's the name of
| the file). Well, as you can see below, my new kernel is indeed
| 2.2.13-22mkd, and I made a bootdisk with that new number after
| installation (and updated my /etc/lilo and /sbin/lilo) and everything
| works fine. But the first entry for the kernel includes BOTH kernel
| numbers, the original one and the updated one.
|
| Can anyone explain this?
|
| Thanks again to everyone.
|
| Benjamin
|
| [sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ rpm -q kernel
| kernel-2.2.13-7mdk
| kernel-2.2.13-22mdk
| [sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-headers
| kernel-headers-2.2.13-22mdk
| [sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$ rpm -q kernel-source
| kernel-source-2.2.13-22mdk
| [sher@adsl-77-232-173 sher]$
|
|
| Recommendations to Mandrake:
|
| DURING INSTALL:
|
| 1) Explain to users what SMP means. By the way, the autodetect insisted
| that I had an SMP, when I only have one AMD k6-2 400 Mhrtz processor.
|
| 2) Explain to users what all those acronyms in "Which processes or
| programs do you want Linux to automatically start?" (such as amd, httpd,
| innd, etc. etc.). A newbie is likely to feel that he has just landed on
| the moon when seeing these cryptic acronyms without any explanation
| and/or advice on whether he/she needs it or not. I do however,
| appreciate the tremendous advance over the old RH 5.2 and 6.0, I think,
| where none were checked off at all. At least here you can accept the
| defaults.
You can press the F1 key here for an axplanation when the cursor is on the item
you do not understand.
|
| 3) Suggest that the user add ALL : ALL to /etc/hosts.deny and ALL: LOCAL
| to /etc/hosts.allow or add that tot he final stage of installation to
| give the user some basic online security right off.
|
| 4) It's about time that sound configuration was included along with
| video and printer and everything else. I've reinstalled RH and Mandrake
| several times, yet, believe it or not, it took me a while to figure out
| after installing RealPlayer and getting no sound that I had clean forgot
| to do my sndconfig sound configuration.
|
| 5) When updating, you need to choose an FTP site. Fine, I chose
| rpmfind.net. But the next time I opened Update, it returned, unless I am
| mistaken, right back to the first site on the list, someplace in
| Belgium.
|
| 6) Why not spare us the Utilities agony (all the more so because it is
| such a minor inconvenience) of having to figure out how to view all the
| Utilities (by creating an extra Utilities subfolder, then copy and
| paste).
|
| 7) What do you do if you DON'T want or need to accept certain updates,
| e.g. Netscape or the new and defective lpr? How do you keep it from
| appearing every time you open Update?
|
| Otherwise, I am very pleased with Mandrake 6.1. Just thought that these
| suggestions may help to make Mandrake even more user-friendly.
|
| Thanks so much.
|
| Benjamin
|
|
|
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