Mandrake Update Problem

[Bill Davidson]

On Sun, 02 Jun 2002 19:04:16 -0600
Tyler Regas <tyler at pdahandyman.com> wrote:

> Hey all!
> 
> Good news! My proposal for a Mandrake book has been accepted by Que
> Publishing, so I'll be a Linux author soon :) I have a question for
> you all that has been pestering me and popped up again last night.
> Mandrakes online update system typically offers a RPM based kernel
> update. When I was using 8.0 and tried it it kacked out my system. I
> just tried it again with 8.1 last night and it did it again. 
> 
> Does anyone know what the deal is here? Now, I know that its generally
> not accepted to update a kernel with an RPM, but my book is special.
> This book is for desktop users and contains only a very small
> smattering of console stuff. All of it is GUI oriented, which is why I
> keep trying this kernel update.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Tyler

A short while back there was a lot of traffic on the mandrake lists
about people hosing their systems trying to update a kernel using
mandrake update. They have to be installed, not upgraded. Mandrake
update is supposed to install it rather than upgrade it, but usually it
screws up. It might be fixed in 8.2, but I don't know, and I'm not brave
enough to find out.

What's so hard about downloading a kernel and 'rpm -ivh' anyway? You
can't use linux and never expect to use the cli. If you do, you'll no
doubt eventually run into a problem that you can't fix with a gui. And
what happens if you lose your gui? And don't say it can't happen. It
happened to me just recently. I upgraded to mdk 8.2 and found out that
XFree 4.2 doesn't like my video card. You have to be able to overcome
that stuff.

Bill

Bill