Re: [Cooker] autoboot is buggy (7.0)
Axalon Bloodstone a écrit : On 9 Feb 2000, Pixel wrote: just find out that autoboot.bat is buggy, it should be: mdkinst\loadlin mdkinst\vmlinuz ramdisk_size=32000 initrd=mdkinst\initrd.cd mdkinst cdrom instead of mdkinst\loadlin mdkinst\vmlinuz initrd=mdkinst\initrd.cd could explain the boot problems (it was taken from the .img) so they were wrong too -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon Alas, even with the correct loadlin command, my laptop still hangs during installation : DrakX (sometimes) start, but it can't find the cd when it wants to install the packages :- Bruno
[Cooker] new script for grub
Hi I send here a new script for grub. This one can automatically configure grub on a box with linux and win9x. Please read the README file. Chmouel, may be you could update the grub rpm with it ? Bye Bruno grub-scripts.tgz
Re: [Cooker] backup
rsync + cron ? Roger a écrit : Anyone know of a nice free (little) backup tool. Something that uses compression and i can specify certain files or a whole folder. Mainly have my /home dir and /etc/smb.conf and other files of the type to backup. Also, have another computer which is configured on sambe/ftp which needs the same files to be backed-up Which could possibley configured to at a certain time? The medium to back up to would be harddrive (or possibley later cd-burner). lol. someone's complaining of all the apps already in this thing but there's yet to be a small useful backup utility? .not kdat-only uses tape. -- Sent from: Lattitude (deg):32.7130 Longitude (deg):-117.1530 Altitude (ft): 410.0 GMT to Local (hrs): -8.0 (daylight savings enabled) Created with Linux-Mandrake 6.1! http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ Currently Beta Testing Mandrake Ver 7.0 (CODE NAMED: OXYGEN)
[Cooker] suggestion
Hi I wonder why you can find the netscape icon on the desktop and not the kppp one ? I believe it would be useful to many... (seen on 6.1 - I didn't check oxygen) Bruno
Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] NAME: grub VER: 0.5.93.1 REL: 2mdk
David Walluck wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) add a script to build a generic grub boot floppy, or better add this boot image in the rpm. Here is such a script (version 0.0.1 :-) I'd also like it to install to my hard drive for me, as well. I mean, with lilo all I type is "lilo" and it works like magic. grub has some serious usability concerns if you ask me, well.. so does all GNU software in one way or another, for that matter. If GNU software was easy to use there would be no reason for Mandrake, so I guess I'm happy that it is :) -- Sincerely, David Walluck [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just started working on it. btw, according to grub's doc, the safe way to install grub on a hd is first to build a boot floppy including the correct "install" command, boot with this floppy and run the included "install". So you won't escape the floppy ! I'm now writing a script that build a custom "menu.lst" so the floppy generated will be adapted to your system so the grub's installation proc will be : 1) install the grub rpm 2) create the boot floppy including the custom menu.lst 3) boot from this floppy, check that every boot option works, then run the "install" menu item. That's all. This proc is valuable for a LILO-GRUB conversion. I believe it will be easier when it'll be included in the standard install process.
[Cooker] [cooker] GRUB rpm
If anyone is interested, I built a rpm for grub 0.5.93.1 (on a redhat 6.0 box, but it works fine on an helios box). Just tell me where to upload it. It just contains the files, no automatic configuration. Read /usr/doc/grub../grub.ps Bruno
Re: [Cooker] Re: Cooker Boot Glitches
I think we have to seriously address this question if we hope to adapt to the modern world of large disks. As far as I can see, we have only a few choices, and fewer still which are practical 1) We should install dual booting for the novice using loadlin as the only boot loader option, especially if we can detect in advance that the target disk partition is out of bounds 2) We need to document the above 6 steps (which still leaves the problem of mounting hda2 before hda4) and include a much more involved section on dual booting in the install guide. 3) We should stress a recommendation that a dual boot machine should consider using a second hard drive before considering LILO as an option. 4) We could adapt LILO to large disks ;) 5) use GRUB. I have been using for a few month with W95 and 3 linux distros without a problem and there is no special limit with 1024 cylinders. It's harder to configure the first time, but after you get a clean menu at boot time and it is very easy to maintain the configuration. I don't want to go back to LILO :-) Bruno
