i have just installed mandrake (10.1 official - 3 cd's) and have to say its 10 times better than a fedora and even suse.
i have 2 questions.

1. i have configured my sources for urpmi (except contrib -will do it later tonite) however
urpmi firefox
or urpmi --update amarok
does not work.
it says "no package named amarok"


2. I am also trying to recompile my kernel to make my phone (motorola E398) detected as a USB drive). I am not very good at this.
Even if i just 'save and exit' at the 'make xconfig' screen without making any changes, 'make install' or 'make bzImage' gives me the following error
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/usr/src/linux-2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdk/include/net/sock.h: In function `sock_orphan':
/usr/src/linux-2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdk/include/net/sock.h:1055: warning: use of compound expressions as lvalues is deprecated
/usr/src/linux-2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdk/include/net/sock.h:1059: warning: use of compound expressions as lvalues is deprecated
/usr/src/linux-2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdk/include/net/sock.h: In function `sock_graft':
/usr/src/linux-2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdk/include/net/sock.h:1064: warning: use of compound expressions as lvalues is deprecated
/usr/src/linux-2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdk/include/net/sock.h:1068: warning: use of compound expressions as lvalues is deprecated
swsusp2.c: In function `swsusp_mainloop':
swsusp2.c:843: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'notify_resume': function body not available
swsusp2.c:1000: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
make[3]: *** [swsusp2.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdk/kernel/power'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdk/kernel/power'
make[1]: *** [_subdir_power] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.27-0.pre2.1mdk/kernel'
make: *** [_dir_kernel] Error 2
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I read somewhere that its because of gcc versoin . I have gcc 3.4.1.
Thanks .
Cheers.

got the urpmi problem fixed.
no progress on kernel though.
anybody has ideas?

I compile kernel 2.6.12.6 and motorola e398 works OK.But my cdrom-s could not mount.Whit kernel 2.6.8. mount is OK.Can anyone help?