Is there anything stopping me from using say the Redhat Network Hardware Config program in my Mandrake 10.0 Community distribution?

If it's just an RPM on the fedora disks, it's likely to work isn't it? Perhaps there might be dependencies needed, but other than that, I should be able to do this in theory?

There's stacks of utilities I miss from fedora.

For software compatibility yes, but I'm not sure that Mandrake and Red Hat use identical scripts for network configuration. I haven't used either one in years so I wouldn't be the person to ask, but what would probably be a better solution would be to learn about how your distro's init scripts work and how to set up network interfaces.

Hi sausagejohnson,

I couldn't say for sure, but this is my gut-instinct:

The RPM may not install at all -- the problem being not so much dependencies, but the fact that Mandrake and Fedora often install programs to different locations. You may the dependency installed, but the Fedora RPM can't find it.

Even if you got it installed, you're likely to find problems associated with using a different config tool to your systems default tools. Each distribution is set up differently, and Fedora may not correctly access or modify Mandrake's config files. In fact, the result could be a dangerous system compromise if any of the drak tools become confused and spit the dummy.

I could be wrong, as I've never tried it. But the recommendation would have to be to stick to the default MDK tools -- they're pretty good IMO.

OT: Interesting what you say that about the Fedora tools. I thought about looking at Fedore Core 2 Test 2, but I was uncertain as to whether I'd get the same sort of desktop trimmings (like a mature package manager, config tools, etc.) as I'm used to with Mandrake. Might have to take another look at Fedore when the final release is out.

Cheers,
Tim

Thanks, guys.

In terms of Mandrake tools, yes they are quite brilliant and they integrate very nicely together with Drak. I guess my reason for wanting to do this was that I couldn't get my eth0: to start. I get [Fail].

I know I could configure it properly using Fedora/Redhat.

From what I can see, both distributions use /etc/sysconfig/networking. I'll have another look.

I won't be touching Fedora again until the final releases. Too many compilation problems with downloaded software.