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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just occasionally, I really, really hate linux with
a passion.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>How's this for a crappy weekend.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I find an easy (allegedly) way, of installing a 2.6
kernel into my mandrake 9.1 install (the gentoo install, and lack of access, is
on a back burner FTM). so I follow the instructions/links and it looks like I'd
managed to get this going.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wrong. Yes it installed the kernel version, but
killed the nvidia driver for my graphic's card. "Not a problem" thinks me, I'll
just nip over to the nvidia site and get the latest driver. Great. Got that, so
I follow the install instructions. No, it won't install, it can't find the
kernel sources for the 2.6 kernel version. No problem, I'll nip over to the
mirror and get them. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wrong. The kernel version available at "mandrake
cooker" has changed. So I've got to get the latest kernel version, plus the
kernel sources. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ok, that's those two installed along with the
nvidia driver. Great.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wrong. The bastard won't boot.
AAAAAAAArrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhh!!! :(</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Ok", thinks me, I'll just have to look into the
mandrake 10 beta again. Hours of downloading later, I've even got a checking
facility, so I can make sure the md5sum's are correct. They are,
excellent!.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'll just install that, and I'll have a mandrake
install that has both a 2.6 kernel and the latest kde 3.2</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wrong. That swine won't boot either. Well, it
starts booting, but hang's. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>OK, I'll just nip over to the LUG mail archive and
get the instructions that Paul Morris sent to Angelo, that should get my gentoo
install going again.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wrong. After following the instructions from Paul's
e-mail, the system just won't boot into gentoo. I still haven't got any idea as
to how I can now find the info on the gentoo version that's (as far as I can
tell) sitting on my hard drive, or the stuff about initrd that I think I'd need
to be able to modify the lilo.conf.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And just to top things off, some of you may
remember that there was a relatively serious security scare a couple of months
ago, about kernel versions 2.4.23 and below. Well, even if I re-install mandrake
9.1, when I do the update to include/install the kernel version that "they"
produced, to "close the hole", I still can't get the bugger to install and do
the modifications that I'd need to be able to boot from lilo.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sometimes I'm just glad that I'm still dual
booting, and have the dreaded windows XP available!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Oh well, here we go again!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>regards</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John D</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>