[plug] reinstall for new core hardware?

[Ben New]

I finally got to this level!


Leon Brooks wrote:

>On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:11, Ben New wrote:
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>>They both have onboard graphics, but I'd have to assume different
>>drivers are required.
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>Yes. XFDrake will sort that for you, and very politely too.
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It was pretty damn straight-forward!  Just for the record, the exact 
command (capitalisation) is
# XFdrake

>>Obviously there will need to be a kernel compile in there somewhere
>>(in my case, probably about 5 or 6 before I get it right) with the
>>increased number of processors and probably other things (?)
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>No, just use the precompiled SMP kernel supplied by Mandrake. Installing 
>it on your old (UP) machine is perfectly safe, too. Actually, the Intel 
>mobos like some of the features in kernel-enterprise so you might like 
>to try that as well as kernel-smp.
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Excellent :-)  I'm currently downloading the smp kernel, will give the 
enterprise version a go also.  I'm assuming enterprise is a superset of 
smp?  (i.e. it includes the smp bit?)

>One simple way to make the required changes is to simply upgrade to 9.2. 
>Remember to point the finished product at a mirror and pull updates - 
>including a new kernel - before you drop your shields.
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Nah, I'd rather just keep the updates I've got...  I have a pretty poxy 
download limit atm ;-/

>You might also like to try a 2.6 kernel, in which case I recommend 
>pulling 2.6.0-1mdk from the Cooker SRPMS directory and rpm -bb'ing 
>that.
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I've been meaning to play around with the 2.6, but I think I'll run it 
on another machine first, just to get my head around any changes (and I 
assume there are quite a few, otherwise it wouldn't warrant a whole new 
version number).  I'm surprised there hasn't been much about 2.6 on this 
list actually (I know there were a few, but I was expecting all sorts of 
raging debates over what's been done well and what hasn't).  In fact 
this month's archives show only 1 message with the string "2.6" in the 
subject.

Well, kernel-smp is now installed...  I'll give it a run.

Regards,
Ben

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Ben New
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