Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-09 Thread Jay DeKing
Yes, but -21 is out already. I'd go with that one. I had trouble with -18 ( no kernel-specific initrd.img) Jay On Sunday 09 September 2001 03:21, I was honored with this communique: > Too many messsages, so little time. > > So the "zombie" was fixed in -18?? > > -JMS > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --

RE: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-08 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 | | |"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: |> |> Still don't know what you are talking about... |> |> Here's a printout... |> |> [opjose@bluebox opjose]$ su |> Password: |> |> [root@bluebox opjose]# uname -a |&g

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-08 Thread J. Craig Woods
"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: > > Still don't know what you are talking about... > > Here's a printout... > > [opjose@bluebox opjose]$ su > Password: > > [root@bluebox opjose]# uname -a > > Linux bluebox..com 2.4.8-18mdk #1 Tue Sep 4 10:08:58 EDT 2001 i686 > unknown > > [root@bluebox opjose]#

RE: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-07 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Still don't know what you are talking about... Here's a printout... [opjose@bluebox opjose]$ su Password: [root@bluebox opjose]# uname -a Linux bluebox..com 2.4.8-18mdk #1 Tue Sep 4 10:08:58 EDT 2001 i686 unknown [root@bluebox opjose]# ps -aux | grep Z USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RS

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-07 Thread J. Craig Woods
"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: > > Ok, you lost me with the reference. > > What Zombie? > > -JMS > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > |"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: > |> > |> I went to 2.4.8-12mdk last night on a ReiserFS machine without any > |> problems. (I did reserve a ext2 /boot partition originally though..

Re: OT: Cooker Lurkers -----Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 release date

2001-09-07 Thread Felix Miata
Expert wrote: > I do it, how many Cooker Lurkers do we have? How does a cooker user and a beta tester differ? I tried unsuccessfully to get both 8.0 & 8.1B1 to install XFree correctly on my 7.1 machine, and have 8.1B3 downloading right now. -- "The highest glory of the American Revolution was t

RE: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-07 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 | | |"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: |> |> I went to 2.4.8-12mdk last night on a ReiserFS machine without any |> problems. (I did reserve a ext2 /boot partition originally though...) |> |> -JMS |> [EMAIL PROTECTED] |> |> | |So you now live with a zomb

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 release date

2001-09-07 Thread civileme
On Friday 07 September 2001 09:54, chronos . wrote: Hi all, Had a quick question, when is version 8.1 supposed to be released to the public ? thanx, chornos. It will be released when it is ready. That means a good journaling filesystem and most of the major bugs gone. No deadly showstop

OT: Cooker Lurkers -----Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 release date

2001-09-07 Thread Expert
(Raises hand) I do it, how many Cooker Lurkers do we have? On Friday 07 September 2001 09:30 am, so spoke Tom Brinkman: > On Friday 07 September 2001 08:54 am, chronos . escribió: > > Hi all, > > Had a quick question, when is version 8.1 supposed to be released to > > the public ? thanx, > >

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 release date

2001-09-07 Thread cb
After messing with this stuff until 05:00 this morning, I noticed some things that I hope will have been fixed before the real 8.1 ships. On a box with only SCSI disks, if one goes into 'rescue' mode with either 7.2 or 8.0, it'll for some reason realise there's a reiserfs filesystem on the disks,

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-07 Thread J. Craig Woods
"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: > > I went to 2.4.8-12mdk last night on a ReiserFS machine without any > problems. (I did reserve a ext2 /boot partition originally though...) > > -JMS > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > So you now live with a zombie :-) If you go to kernel 2.4.8-14, this little creature will st

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 release date

2001-09-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 07 September 2001 08:54 am, chronos . escribió: > Hi all, > Had a quick question, when is version 8.1 supposed to be released to > the public ? thanx, > chornos. Beta 3 is just out, looks like the planned October release of 8.1 is right on track. From lurking on the cooker list

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 release date

2001-09-07 Thread Harold Hartley
The 8.1 release was stated around the end of september from a article on another web site, but I could be off.. On Friday 07 September 2001 09:54 am, you wrote: Content-Type: /; name="Attachment: 0" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: -

RE: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 release date

2001-09-07 Thread Mitchell, Edmund
I thought I heard someone say end of September... Edmund -Original Message- From: chronos . [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 9:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 release date Hi all, Had a quick question, when is version 8.1

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 release date

2001-09-07 Thread chronos .
Hi all, Had a quick question, when is version 8.1 supposed to be released to the public ? thanx, chornos. On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 09:25:50 -0400 Harold Hartley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >with all the stuff with the kernel 2.4.7, I feel since Mandrake will soon be >releasing the 8.1 version I'll

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-07 Thread Harold Hartley
with all the stuff with the kernel 2.4.7, I feel since Mandrake will soon be releasing the 8.1 version I'll update my whole system instead of bits and pieces of it.. since it looks like the 8.1 release will have the 2.4.8 kernel to it and any new or newer lib files also.. saves on problems as f

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 07 September 2001 02:22 am, Jose M. Sanchez escribió: > The software manager will download the upgraded RPM if used > correctly. > > I had no trouble going to 2.4.8-12mdk via the installer. It "lilo'd" > my system properly as well and picked up the PBM and other libraries > needed for re

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-07 Thread Gregor Maier
The main reason for initrd's is not filesystems. There aren't that much important filesystems the kernel must know before loading modules and they can easily be build into the kernel itself. The reason are more the SCSI-Controllers, Network card (for network boot). Since the kernel must have thes

RE: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-06 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
, September 06, 2001 10:51 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 | | |On Wed, 2001-09-05 at 15:01, Scott Thurmond wrote: |> I used the software manager to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.3 to 2.4.7. |> |> I noticed the new files in my /boot directory, except the |> initrd-2.

RE: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-06 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
the headers and sources be installed too. -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Harold Hartley |Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:21 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7 | | |do not u

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-06 Thread lhon
Hi Scott, Many distribution are very confuse (foolish), most distribution need this kind of file to load something in RAM first to function , e.g. some type of file systems, but the kernel of 2.4.7 seems not need to load some modules first and already bundled in, e.g. reiserfs file system, you

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-06 Thread J. C. Woods
Dan Hensley wrote: >> I wasn't able to use the 8.0 release for a fresh install since it had problems >that >> the beta didn't (I have an nVidia video card). I don't recall all the >problems I>> ran into. > > You probly didn't have a ram disk for the 2.4.7 kernel. > > -- > >

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-06 Thread Dan Hensley
Thanks a bunch for this tip. That indeed was the problem. I did have a ram disk in /boot that was symlinked properly, but it was for the 2.4.2 kernel, so that caused problems. When I created one specifically for the 2.4.3-20mdk kernel, that one was able to boot up fine. For some reason though,

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-06 Thread Vincent Danen
On Thu Sep 06, 2001 at 08:51:03AM -0600, Dan Hensley wrote: > > I used the software manager to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.3 to 2.4.7. > > > > I noticed the new files in my /boot directory, except the initrd-2.4.7*img > > file. > > > > Do I have to change the links to point to the new kernel or

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 06 September 2001 09:51 am, Dan Hensley escribió: All I know is that when I updated with these RPMs, my > system would not boot (see the archives with my posts in the last > week or so). This is because I'm using Reiserfs, and the RPMs really > screwed something up. You probly d

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-06 Thread Dan Hensley
On Wed, 2001-09-05 at 15:01, Scott Thurmond wrote: > I used the software manager to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.3 to 2.4.7. > > I noticed the new files in my /boot directory, except the initrd-2.4.7*img > file. > > Do I have to change the links to point to the new kernel or should the > software

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-06 Thread Oliver Egginger
> > I used the software manager to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.3 to 2.4.7. > > I noticed the new files in my /boot directory, except the initrd-2.4.7*img > file. > > Do I have to change the links to point to the new kernel or should the > software installer have done that for me? > > -Scott There

Re: [expert] Kernel 2.4.7

2001-09-06 Thread Harold Hartley
do not use the software manager to install it. you need to install it manually... instructions are on mandrake or pclinuxonline.com somewhere.. Harold On Wednesday 05 September 2001 05:01 pm, you wrote: > I used the software manager to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.3 to 2.4.7. > > I noticed the new

Re: [expert] kernel-2.4.7 supermount?

2001-08-08 Thread DM
i guess now it is Praedor. here is the excerpt from the changelog of mdk 2.4.7 - Supermount is here again (and ppc shouldn't need additional patches anymore). cheers --- Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So...does kernel 2.4.7-12mdk have supermount support > in it yet? This is the >

RE: [expert] kernel-2.4.7 supermount?

2001-08-08 Thread Charles A Edwards
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Praedor Tempus > Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 11:49 AM > To: Mandrake Expert > Subject: [expert] kernel-2.4.7 supermount? > > > So...does kernel 2.4.7-12mdk have supermount support in it > yet

Re: [expert] KErnel 2.4.7

2001-07-28 Thread Praedor Tempus
As of now there is no 2.4.7 kernel from Mandrake - I downloaded it from kernel.org after another in this list told me supermount was in it and working. He was mistaken...perhaps not knowing what supermount was/is. I even tried transfering the supermount "stuff" from my 2.4.3-20mdk source di

Re: [expert] KErnel 2.4.7

2001-07-28 Thread DM
ok thanks for the info. i actually have mdk8 on my desktop and i do certainly agree that supermount should be part of the kernel. if there is a group demanding for that ... i would certainly be part of it =) my desktop is running MDK 8 with 2.4.3-20mdk kernel... and supermount is running fine. i

Re: [expert] KErnel 2.4.7

2001-07-28 Thread Praedor Tempus
Supermount is not quite the same. It takes autofs a step further. If you read up on the patch information you will see that many think it is a great feature and many hope that it will make it into the kernel proper rather than be a patch. Supermount makes using the supermount volume absolute

Re: [expert] KErnel 2.4.7

2001-07-28 Thread DM
how is supermount different from autofs? doesnt autofs/automounter achieve the same thing? and yes, there is really no option for supermount on the new kernel. --- Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Err...unfortunately, supermount support does not > exist in this kernel. I > have dow

Re: [expert] KErnel 2.4.7

2001-07-28 Thread Praedor Tempus
Err...unfortunately, supermount support does not exist in this kernel. I have downloaded it and have xconfig up right now and there is no option to enable supermount. [...] > On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Praedor Tempus wrote: > > Up until the 2.4.6 kernel (I am not certain about 2.4.5 because I ne

Re: [expert] KErnel 2.4.7

2001-07-27 Thread joy
I have some curios things, while im compiling Kernel 2.4.7 too. I was glad to see that there was a built in module for my new networkcard (rtl), but after i'm made 'make mrproper' this option disappers. it wasn't available whether in menuconfig nor xconfig. xconfig shows always some strange be

Re: [expert] KErnel 2.4.7

2001-07-27 Thread DM
hi supermount is a pseudo-filesystem which manages filesystems on removable media like floppy disks and CD-ROMs. i think that enabling support for CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS while compiling the kernel will enable support for such. dianne --- Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can't answer the so

Re: [expert] KErnel 2.4.7

2001-07-27 Thread Praedor Tempus
Can't answer the sound question - except ARE the modules actually in their appropriate location? Other than the "make modules && make modules_install" bit just mentioned. What I really want to know is does the 2.4.7 kernel have supermount support available to it? On Friday 27 July 2001 10

Re: [expert] KErnel 2.4.7

2001-07-27 Thread DM
just curious, did you make modules and make modules_install after the compile of the kernel? --- "Leonardo T. de Carvalho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all. > > I've got a 2.4.7 kernel up and runnig yesterday (on > the 2nd try! > =o) ) and got some odd problems. > The sou