Your problem may have been from dinking around with RedHat software instead
of Mandrake software. Personally, I don't trust installing RPMs on Mandrake
unless they're from Mandrake, with a few exceptions. I don't know about
backing out from these abortive RPM installs, you may want to make a fresh
install of Mandrake.
When you get a working install back, try downloading the Linux Kernel source
in .tar.gz format from Linux.org or some other place and compiling it
yourself. There's great HOWTOs on compiling the kernel just about everywhere
and it's not as hard as it seems, it's just takes a little extra time to
actually compile the kernel (my first compile was on a Pentium 90-- it took
about two hours! Any Pentium II should take considerably less time)
The best part is once you get used to it you can really customize the kernel
to suit your needs, it's a great way to squeeze all the performance you can
out of your PC!
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 20:24, Rafael Lepra wrote:
> I installed LM 7.1, I needed to upgrade my kernel to 4.2.6 in order to
> instal the drivers of my software modem Motorola SM56. I could upgrade the
> kernel thanks to the help of this mailing list.
>
> So far, no problem. Unfortunately when I tried to instal the package of the
> modem's driver I got a warning that my rpm did not support versions higher
> than 3. I got a rpm package rpm-4.0.2-5x.i386.rpm (from redhat upgrade ftp
> site) and tried to instal it. I got a message about db3 dependency. So, I
> downloaded the package db3-3.1.17-4.5x.i386.rpm and installed it.
>
> Then I installed the rpm-4.0.2 and I got a message about a directoy
> /rpm/libs (but I am not sure about the name) that could not be erased
> because it was not empty.
>
> The bad new is that after that, kdepackage did not work, I tryed to rebuild
> the databases, but after several minutes the process abort with a "core
> dump" or somthing.
>
> Could anyone give me some advice about what to do?
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
>
> Rafael
