Re: [expert] upgrade woes

2002-07-10 Thread Chuck Lalli
- Original Message - From: "Darren King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "mandrake list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 7:42 PM Subject: [expert] upgrade woes > I just upgraded my machine from a k6-2 400 with a super 7 board to a > ah

Re: [expert] upgrade woes

2002-07-10 Thread Todd Lyons
Darren King wrote on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 11:33:48AM +1000 : > Nopethat'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/

Re: [expert] upgrade woes

2002-07-10 Thread Darren King
Nopethat'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. I should be able to install the new cooker kernel separately right? so I can choose what kernel I want to boot? Darren On Thu, 2002-07-11

Re: [expert] upgrade woes

2002-07-10 Thread Todd Lyons
Darren King wrote on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 10:35:03AM +1000 : > Thanks for the reply Todd. Is the cooker kernel going to break anything > else in my system? Will all my apps and stuff work? I have always been > wary of running a cooker kernel. Can you shed any light here? If there's anything g

Re: [expert] upgrade woes

2002-07-10 Thread Darren King
Thanks for the reply Todd. Is the cooker kernel going to break anything else in my system? Will all my apps and stuff work? I have always been wary of running a cooker kernel. Can you shed any light here? Darren On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 10:06, Todd Lyons wrote: > I will start this reply with th

Re: [expert] upgrade woes

2002-07-10 Thread Todd Lyons
I will start this reply with the following sweeping statement: If you buy hardware that's so new that kernel support is only just appearing, then you should expect some things not to work to full potential in a distro that's now 4 months old (and counting). You obviously are very experienced with

[expert] upgrade woes

2002-07-10 Thread Darren King
I just upgraded my machine from a k6-2 400 with a super 7 board to a ahtlon 1700xp with a kt333 board and now my system is mucho unstable. It's gotten to the point where I am very frustrated with Mandrake and even wondering about how good Linux really is. After years (I started before the kernel