[Mageia-discuss] Installer: Server v. desktop kernel: No choice?

Sun Jul 17 13:58:05 CEST 2011

On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 08:00:03 PM mageia-discuss-request at mageia.org wrote:
+> Message: 2
+> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:45:43 +0100
+> From: Maurice Batey <maurice at bcs.org.uk>
+> To: mageia-discuss at mageia.org
+> Subject: [Mageia-discuss] Installer: Server v. desktop kernel: No
+>         choice?
+> Message-ID: <pan.2011.07.15.17.45.42.391789 at bcs.org.uk>
+> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-jp
+> 
+> Having installed Mageia-1 (from DVD), I find it has installed the
+> server kernels, rather than the desktop kernels.
+> 
+> Presumably that's because my PC has 4GB RAM, but - on this 1-user system
+> - I would have preferred the desktop kernels to be installed.
+> 
+> Did I miss an installation option, to choose server v. desktop?
+> 
+> If not, could the installer be given such an option - perhaps in
+> some 'Advanced' tab?
+> 
+> That would avoid having to swap kernels with:
+> 
+>       urpmi kernel-desktop-latest
+>       urpmi kernel-desktop-devel-latest
+>       urpmi nvidia-current-kernel-desktop-latest
+> 
+> (assuming that will do the trick here).
+> 
+> -- 
+> /\/\aurice 
+>         (Retired in Surrey, UK)     Registered Linux User #487649
+>         
+I raised this one on the Mandriva list.  I was told that it was because I had 
+a 32-bit version installed on a 64-bit capable machine.  Sure enough, when I 
+installed the 64-bit version, I got the desktop kernel by default.
+
+Doug.
+