Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6.3-8 marked as not available in mirror?
Thanks for the tips on the kernel install. I have installed them many times. What was curious about the behavior of Mandrake Update in this case is that unlike the behavior in the past, the kernel source was never shown in the update list. In the past, whenever a new bugfix kernel was released, the kernel source would show up in the updates list, prompting the user to install it, then follow that with the installation of the appropriate kernel as you described. The presence of the kernel source was always a good flag that new kernels were available for installation. That didn't happen this time. The other curious thing is that the comments section of the description of the kernels and kernel source (2.6.3-8) read not available. In the past, this section held a description of the kernel, and information as to the bugs corrected by the package. None of this information is there on these kernels. I'd like to know if these are valid kernels, were they released as bug fixes, and why they are described as unavailable. There is something strange about these kernel packages. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6.3-8 marked as not available in mirror?
On Thursday 15 April 2004 7:29 am, Rick Kunath wrote: Thanks for the tips on the kernel install. I have installed them many times. What was curious about the behavior of Mandrake Update in this case is that unlike the behavior in the past, the kernel source was never shown in the update list. In the past, whenever a new bugfix kernel was released, the kernel source would show up in the updates list, prompting the user to install it, then follow that with the installation of the appropriate kernel as you described. The presence of the kernel source was always a good flag that new kernels were available for installation. That didn't happen this time. Interesting, Becasause yesterday, urpmi did prompt me to install 2.6.3-8mdk. So, I did, noting that people on this forum had said that you don't install kernals that way. Everything seemed to go fine. But now, I can't find 2.6.3-8. I don't know where it installed to and it hasn't appeared as an option in my boot configuration. Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6.3-8 marked as not available in mirror?
On Thursday 15 April 2004 14:21, Rory wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2004 7:29 am, Rick Kunath wrote: Thanks for the tips on the kernel install. I have installed them many times. What was curious about the behavior of Mandrake Update in this case is that unlike the behavior in the past, the kernel source was never shown in the update list. In the past, whenever a new bugfix kernel was released, the kernel source would show up in the updates list, prompting the user to install it, then follow that with the installation of the appropriate kernel as you described. The presence of the kernel source was always a good flag that new kernels were available for installation. That didn't happen this time. Interesting, Becasause yesterday, urpmi did prompt me to install 2.6.3-8mdk. So, I did, noting that people on this forum had said that you don't install kernals that way. Everything seemed to go fine. But now, I can't find 2.6.3-8. I don't know where it installed to and it hasn't appeared as an option in my boot configuration. Rory, in a terminal, type uname -a or take a look inside the drectory /boot. Better yet, edit (as root) your /etc/lilo.conf where you can change the default line to your new kernel. Don't forget to run lilo when done. Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6.3-8 marked as not available in mirror?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 April 2004 13:21, Rory wrote: On Thursday 15 April 2004 7:29 am, Rick Kunath wrote: Thanks for the tips on the kernel install. I have installed them many times. What was curious about the behavior of Mandrake Update in this case is that unlike the behavior in the past, the kernel source was never shown in the update list. In the past, whenever a new bugfix kernel was released, the kernel source would show up in the updates list, prompting the user to install it, then follow that with the installation of the appropriate kernel as you described. The presence of the kernel source was always a good flag that new kernels were available for installation. That didn't happen this time. Interesting, Becasause yesterday, urpmi did prompt me to install 2.6.3-8mdk. So, I did, noting that people on this forum had said that you don't install kernals that way. Everything seemed to go fine. But now, I can't find 2.6.3-8. I don't know where it installed to and it hasn't appeared as an option in my boot configuration. Rory It may be that your 'linux' option has had its pointer changed to the new kernel, so you don't see it. I think that's what happened when I installed an additional one. You will probably find that /boot/vmlinuz and /boot/initrd are linked to the new one. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAfoGrkFAvMr/nNX8RAouuAKCJBwbLZ7maP3a+WEy5o2PGatoKOgCghTEl BqJQRPngyXl4r4B8z99geII= =Fe/5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6.3-8 marked as not available in mirror?
Here's the output. No luck. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rory]# uname -a Linux 192.168.0.3 2.6.3-4mdk #1 Tue Mar 2 07:26:13 CET 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# ls boot.0200 initrd-2.6.3-4mdk.img message-text boot.0301 initrd-2.6.img@System.map@ config@ initrd.img@System.map-2.4.25-2mdk config-2.4.25-2mdk kernel.h@ System.map-2.6.3-4mdk config-2.6.3-4mdk kernel.h-2.4.25-2mdk us.klt diag1.img kernel.h-2.6.3-4mdkvmlinuz@ diag2.img mapvmlinuz-2.4.25-2mdk grub/ message@ vmlinuz-2.6@ initrd-2.4.25-2mdk.img message-graphicvmlinuz-2.6.3-4mdk Yes, it did prompt me to install, I selected yes and it then urpmi went to work. Hmm... Interesting, Becasause yesterday, urpmi did prompt me to install 2.6.3-8mdk. So, I did, noting that people on this forum had said that you don't install kernals that way. Everything seemed to go fine. But now, I can't find 2.6.3-8. I don't know where it installed to and it hasn't appeared as an option in my boot configuration. Rory, in a terminal, type uname -a or take a look inside the drectory /boot. Better yet, edit (as root) your /etc/lilo.conf where you can change the default line to your new kernel. Don't forget to run lilo when done. Kaj Haulrich. -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6.3-8 marked as not available in mirror?
I don't know where it installed to and it hasn't appeared as an option in my boot configuration. Did you inspect your /etc/lilo.conf file to see if a stanza was added for the new kernel? Did you do a lilo -v (you don't need the -v option, but I like to see what's going on as the config is processed) from a terminal as root after installing the new kernel, to write the new lilo to disk? If you didn't do the above, and a stanza was properly added to your lilo.conf file when you installed the kernel, that's why it didn't show up in your lilo list of installed kernels. Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6.3-8 marked as not available in mirror?
On Thursday 15 April 2004 14:43, Rory wrote: Here's the output. No luck. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rory]# uname -a Linux 192.168.0.3 2.6.3-4mdk #1 Tue Mar 2 07:26:13 CET 2004 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# ls boot.0200 initrd-2.6.3-4mdk.img message-text boot.0301 initrd-2.6.img@System.map@ config@ initrd.img@ System.map-2.4.25-2mdk config-2.4.25-2mdk kernel.h@ System.map-2.6.3-4mdk config-2.6.3-4mdk kernel.h-2.4.25-2mdk us.klt diag1.img kernel.h-2.6.3-4mdkvmlinuz@ diag2.img map vmlinuz-2.4.25-2mdk grub/ message@ vmlinuz-2.6@ initrd-2.4.25-2mdk.img message-graphic vmlinuz-2.6.3-4mdk Yes, it did prompt me to install, I selected yes and it then urpmi went to work. Well, it seems the new kernel isn't installed. How did you try to install it ? When I do it, I download the kernel into a directory, change into that directory and, as root, urpmi kernelblabla.rpm. When finished, I edit lilo.conf, run lilo, done. If everything then works, I urpme the old kernel to save some space. Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Kernel 2.6.3-8 marked as not available in mirror?
Why are the 2.6.3-8 kernel series present in the Proxad 10 official update directory, but are marked as not available in the comments section of Mandrake Update, though they are listed when doing a MCC update search? The kernel source does not appear as either a bug update or a regular update in Mandrake Update. It appears these are in the Update directory for 10, but are not available for installation for some reason. Any ideas why? Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel 2.6.3-8 marked as not available in mirror?
On Thursday 15 April 2004 01:06, Rick Kunath wrote: Why are the 2.6.3-8 kernel series present in the Proxad 10 official update directory, but are marked as not available in the comments section of Mandrake Update, though they are listed when doing a MCC update search? The kernel source does not appear as either a bug update or a regular update in Mandrake Update. It appears these are in the Update directory for 10, but are not available for installation for some reason. Any ideas why? Rick Kunath Kernels are not updated. They have to be installed. Here is how : 1. When in a browser, right-click the kernel-2.6.3-8blah..blahh.rpm and choose copy to /home/rick/somedirectorywhatever. 2. Change into that directory, open a terminal, su to root, give root password. 3. Type : urpmi kernel(and now hit TAB) 4. If the output from that shows your desired kernel version, hit enter. 5. Enjoy all the hashes. 6.When the command prompt shows again, you are done. 7. If you want the new kernel as default, edit your /etc/lilo.conf (by changing the the default line to the new version). 8. Don't forget to run lilo afterwards. HTH Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
