Re: Mandrake

[Darin Lang <darin@flashcom.net>]

on 5/5/01 9:52 AM, Jean Francois Martinez at jfm2@club-internet.fr wrote:

> On Saturday  5 May 2001 09:26, Darin Lang wrote:
>> Mandrake excluded Apple Talk and also did not include the source files for
>> the kernel on the installation disc. Apple talk has to be compiled into the
>> kernel, so now I have to download the kernel (25MB) and recompile it, all
>> because they did not allow me to select "Apple Talk Support"  during
>> install. Apple Talk support has been a part of the Kernel since version
>> 1.3.3 as I understand it, so I think it ought to be included in any distro,
>> especially since, unlike other computers, all Apples have built in
>> ethernet, unless INDY is aiming for those who will not be connected to
>> other computers.
>> 
>> Darin
> 
> INDY is not based on Mandrake.   I also doubt Mandrake people  would have
> _purposefully_ left out Appletalk. Can you give me the symptoms?
> 
> JFM
> 
> 
I have installed and reinstalled Mandrake 3 times, in Expert mode and
tracked every possible option. AppleTalk is not even mentioned. It is not
included in Samba. The Kernel has to be recompiled with Apple Talk support
either as a module or in the kernel. I checked "dmesg | grep Apple" to see
if it was already loaded it is not.  I don't know of any convenient way to
do that with Mandrake and I think that is a major shortcoming. Right now I
am recompiling the kernel with no relation whatsoever to the kernel that is
running. I am wondering if I will end up with a completely different kernel
than the one supplied by Mandrake that will not work as wonderfully as the
Mandrake one. It would be nice if I could load the Mandrake Configuration
and then only change the AppleTalk Protocol Support option. Then everything
would work wonderfully.

    Does anyone know if the Mandrake Installation has a configuration file
that i can load into the Linux Kernel Configuration program? That way I
would have an excellent fully functioning base to start from intead of
trying to configure the entire kernel from scratch. The Kernel configuration
doesn't have to be seen but it should be available in any distribution, just
in case it comes up. By the way there was plenty of space on the disk to
include the latest kernel. So that was not the reason they left it out.

Darin