well I have given up....mdv 2008.1 has just arrived for us freeloaders = GPL

I would have thought just using the kernel.txt from the doc section off the cd but renaming it .config and loading it...should work....but my trouble was with lib you know what ....and I did try make config....the real hard way but got errors.

2) funny thing is...my chroot is playing up...I do not run ssh or a server so I am not concerned but...chroot /rip2/boot/1/.....looks like it works because I made a /slack to put all my tgz files that I had success with....but by accident I ran
hostname....and bugger me...my mdv hostname popped up.

that might explain some leaks and links in trying after make mrproper....I was getting errors...naturally I also tried a package called rpm2tgz and imported a rpm file of libncurses-devel but it have glibc errors that I did not have time to fix.

3) I am really hoping slax is the answer in the long run as well because when you read the dox is really modular in design.

good luck

My hope was slax was the answer to, but it doesn't look to be. I tried slax this morning and was able to get eth0, but I couldn't get a DHCP lease! *Grumble* *Grumble*

I'll keep working on it and post my results.

RIP just gone 4.5
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-r...looplinux/rip/



but kernel version 2.6.22.14 shows up in
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-r...s/RIPLinuX.txt

EDIT this is not a mistake...I just d/l the non-x and ran uname and its that kernel sorry

edit better search for k 2.6.24
http://distrowatch.com/search.php?pk...6.24#pkgsearch

edit 2. deleted suggestion

search is still giving non-live cds eg slack...I can put a version into linux package search but it is not accepting live cd etc

ok d/l sidux and suggest you need it heh heh

k 2.6.24.2
e1000
yep

surprised I was able to modprobe it in vbox.

check out packages here if interested

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=sidux

weird...sidux cautions on ntfs-3g not that I have one.
http://manual.sidux.com/en/live-mode-en.htm#ntfs-3g

2) ntfsclone version 2.0.0 using libntfs v 10.0.0

hope that means good as I do not use it.

mdv install I am using is k 2.6.24.4 and this post has optiplex and I know they are not the same but may be similar?
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...32#post3114332

so maybe you could try the live cd?
http://www.mandriva.com/en/product/mandriva-linux-one

in case sidux not the answer rip has gone k 2.6.25.4
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-r.../rip/Changelog