[Cooker] menu bug addendum
ok, i figured out what the problem is. when a menu item has a text description it pops up and overlaps the menu item below, then when you move down to the next menu item, the next menu item is highlighted before the description is removed so that when the text description from the item above is removed it leaves a "hole" in the currently highlighted menu item. so... erase text description first, then move the highlight to the next menu item, then display that items text description. Cheers, Eric.
[Cooker] kde menu highlighting bug
Hi, i'm running the cooker from i think yesterday sometime but might be from day before. using kde. This is kind of hard to describe... if you open the menus until you reach an application where the text box pops up describing a program, if you scroll down the menu with the mouse pointer near to the left side of the menu block, as you go down to the next program on the list when that next item is highlighted the highlight gets cutoff by the text pop up box. tell me how to take a screenshot with linux (printscreen and paste into some program?) and i'll send one if that would help. Note that you wont see this bug if you are scrolling up the menu of apps, only while scrolling down. Eric.
Re: [Cooker] Fw: virus in mandrake...
Hahahha. You guys crack me up... I cant wait to give you guys my money. virus fixed. hehehe. Eric. On 11 May 2000, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: "Daniel Haischt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi daniel, i just reviewed the 1st cd of mandrake (cooker) as i got a virus warning from DocSolomon. file D:\LNX4WIN\RM.EXE is infected by virus Burglar.1150 /translation make sure this _never_ happens again!!! things like that are bad for your company's image and at least bad for my and my friend's computer. yep fixed, we are not really windows expert here. -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com In travel.--Chmouel
RE: [Cooker] ATA 66
The latest cooker and 7.1 beta 2 are NOT the same thing. download the latest cooker, make a NEW iso and you'll be much happier. Eric. On Thu, 11 May 2000, B. K. Barley wrote: Yeah, And they said it was fixed in beta 2. I'm tired of downloading the iso's and burning cd's only to find out it's still broke. Hey, can the iso's be burnt on to a rewritable cd and left open? Bryan -Original Message- From: Jonathan Prigot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 10:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] ATA 66 I'm in a similar situation. I was informed that ATA/66 support is still broken in the 2 outstanding betas, but will be fixed in the next. --- On Thu, 11 May 2000, you wrote: I just installed the beta on a box with two HD, and UDMA 66 and an ATA 66. I was expecting this new version to recognize the ATA as stated in the changelog for 7.1 But it doesn't show up. Can anyone give me directions for ATA support? Links, howtos etc.? thanks TTimo -- Jonathan M. Prigot (617-278-0794) Brigham and Women's Hospital 900 Commonwealth Avenue, East Boston, MA 02215-1213
[Cooker] MD5SUM needs updating?
I think the md5sums need updating for the images... [root@s8-54-4 images]# rm MD5SUM rm: remove `MD5SUM'? y [root@s8-54-4 images]# rm hd.img rm: remove `hd.img'? y [root@s8-54-4 images]# rsync -av ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/cooker/ /mnt/iso/ MOTD: Welcome to SUNET Archive, Sweden MOTD: MOTD: DISCLAIMER: SLU nor SUNET are liable for any use, storage or MOTD: transmission of any files stored on this archive. MOTD: MOTD: Please email suggestions and questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MOTD: MOTD: Access our ftp area by anonymous rsync like MOTD: MOTD: rsync -av ftp.sunet.se::Module MOTD: rsync -av ftp.sunet.se::Module/path/below/ MOTD: MOTD: Please _don't_ use the '-z' option, as most of the files here are MOTD: already compressed, and running compression is CPU intensive thing MOTD: anyway. Just _wait_, and the transfer will eventually complete. MOTD: MOTD: ModuleContent MOTD: -- MOTD: pub The ENTIRE archive, way too many gigabytes for you to pul l! MOTD: (We _really_ mean it! Don't try to pull everything!) MOTD: Do note that 'pub/somearea' is *not* a valid name, to MOTD: get to files within that directory use: pub/somerarea/. MOTD: Mandrake Mandrake Linux distribution MOTD: Mandrake-devel Mandrake development tree MOTD: Mandrake-cryptoMandrake crypto software receiving file list ... done images/ images/MD5SUM images/hd.img images/ wrote 125 bytes read 1548957 bytes 83734.16 bytes/sec total size is 887894469 speedup is 573.17 [root@s8-54-4 images]# ls MD5SUM README cdrom.img hd.img network.img pcmcia.img rescue.img [root@s8-54-4 images]# cat MD5SUM | grep hd.img c471f073e4975ac25d1e08ac80559837 hd.img [root@s8-54-4 images]# md5sum hd.img 82101bae7f251816eaed95a84a37705b hd.img [root@s8-54-4 images]# Cheers, Eric.
Re: [Cooker] ata66 on a-bit be6 still not working
Perhaps a 7.1 beta 3 iso should be made available to aleviate redundant bug reports. Eric. On Wed, 10 May 2000, B. K. Barley wrote: Hi, Just downloaded the iso of 7.1 beta b. And setup still fails to recognize an ata66 drive on the a-bit motherboard. I tried passing the io address to the install kernel and it still will not work. I need to install linux on this partition. Thought it was fixed in beta b. B. K. Barley
[Cooker] network config prob
mirrored the cooker at around midnight last night... network didn't get setup properly even though i specified ip, netmask, dns, and gateway properly. could this be due to the fact i didn't format my /home directory this time? i wouldn't think so. was able to configure network with drak afterwords but all the settings i specified in the configure network section during the install were lost and had to be redone by hand post install. Eric.
[Cooker] gnapster
Any chance of getting gnapster added to the distribution? Eric.
Re: [Cooker] XFree86 4.0 - segfaults
Please detail what you did to get q3 running, i've yet to succeed in getting the new nvidia driver to work on my system (i followed the xf86-4.0 faq on the nvidia site to no avail). thx, Eric. On 9 May 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: This week-end I tried out the new optimized "nvidia" driver from Nvidia, with their glx extension and kernel module, all this on our LM7.1 beta. -- Guillaume Cottenceau
[Cooker] success!
So i finally managed to get the cooker mirrored and succeeded in a hd.img install. Its all good. Ok, now to start helping with debug... 1. On the hd.img install, after it said successfully installed, reboot /dev/hda6 (where my cooker resides) was not unmounted first causing a check to be forced. this partition didn't have a label (like /user or whatever) so it was mounted as /mnt/hd. dont know if that helps or not. 2. when applying themes i get a very similar message for a bunch of the themes... Kthememgr warning No proper Kdelnk file found for Home. Installing icon(s) as home.xpm these parts changed in the error message these are all the themes that have this problem: Bryce_Gold DrawingBoard Emily2 Future Kowz MacOS2 Mini Pek_s_Atmosphere eclipse Win95 Win98* Win98 theme actually went into an infinite loop, everytime i hit the ok button to close the Kthememgr warning screen it would produce another warning but the warning message would be a different file everytime, the first couple were... Utilities/Khexedit hit ok Graphics/Kpainthit ok etc... I had to actually kill the kthememgr process to get out 3. During the install i got the following message after changing partitions (first 4 gigs = win2k, last gig = cooker location with no 'label' such as /home or whatever, middle 15 gigs auto-allocated)... "You'll need to reboot before the modifications can take place at /usr/bin/perl_install/diskdrake.pm line 548" I'm not even really sure this is an error, might have been something funky that i did but i do know that my /usr directory should have been non-existent since i deleted my old partitions then did auto-allocate - unless the hd.img has a /usr/bin/.. 4. last thing, right after i finally got the install to work, first time i was logging in, i logged into enlightenment under my non-root account and after it finished the auto-menu creating i was checking out what was on the menus and the system locked up, had to hit reset. unfortunately i wasn't able to reproduce this and i cant remember much about which menu i was in. i know i was somewhere in the menu that comes up with the middle mouse button. Thx to everyone who helped me get up to speed, Eric.
Re: [Cooker] bugs?
Grub worked fine for me and i have win2k on the first 4 gig partition, although its definitely very ugly to look at. any chance we can get it to use the really cool looking smaller text you see on the mandrake install just prior to the graphical install starting? On 8 May 2000, Gary G Russell wrote: After install did work - I don't like the new boot loader. Apparently, part of it resides on the linux partition. Please stick with only lilo. This new one caused a problem when I re-partitioned my second drive and I ended up with a system that wouldn't boot at all!
Re: [Cooker] openssl and openssh installation order
Uhm... how do you get it to install ssh? where is this crypto screen i keep hearing about? expert install only? eric. On Sun, 7 May 2000, Steve Fox wrote: I believe an order needs to be added so that openssl gets installed before openssh. When I have all the open*rpm files in one dir and 'rpm -Uvh open*rpm'. The first time I get an error message about libcrypto.so missing. Once both groups are installed, if I install openssh*rpm again it doesn't complain and generates the host key correctly. Is there a way you can add some dependencies or something so that openssl gets installed first? -- Steve Fox http://k-lug.com
[Cooker] xmms strange behavior
If you start xmms and move it slowly around the screen it "snaps" into place (dont know a better way to describe this behavior) in weird ways. if you try to snap it to the task bar at the top of the screen (kde) it will (almost) snap to the right location if you are at the top left part of the screen, then as you move to the right, it loses the ability to snap to the task bar about 1/4 of the way accross the screen (i'm at 1280xwhatever res), also, i've noticed that if you have xmms in the center of the screen and drag it slowly to the right or left it snaps into place at nothing about 1/3 and 2/3 of the way accross the screen horizontally. konsole snaps into possition properly. is there a specification for how this behavior should be done for kde? Eric
Re: [Cooker] xmms strange behavior
creative tnt2 ultra ok, now this is very very odd. i rsync'd the ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/cooker at about 8 pm last night so i would have thought that xfree86 4.0 would have been installed but rpm -qa|grep XFree86* lists 3.3.16-14mdk :( how'd that happen? eric. On 9 May 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: "Eric J. Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you start xmms and move it slowly around the screen it "snaps" into place (dont know a better way to describe this behavior) in weird ways. if you try to snap it to the task bar at the top of the screen (kde) it will (almost) snap to the right location if you are at the top left part of the screen, then as you move to the right, it loses the ability to snap to the task bar about 1/4 of the way accross the screen (i'm at 1280xwhatever res), also, i've noticed that if you have xmms in the center of the screen and drag it slowly to the right or left it snaps into place at nothing about 1/3 and 2/3 of the way accross the screen horizontally. konsole snaps into possition properly. is there a specification for how this behavior should be done for kde? UUu. Wah.. What is your video card and X server? -- Guillaume Cottenceau
Re: [Cooker] Best way to update a cooker install?
I made a seperate partition to hold the cooker on: fdisk /dev/hda then format it with: mke2fs /dev/hdaX where X is the number of the partition you created (you can figure this out by printing the partition table in fdisk after you've partitioned). Anyway, after that i rebooted and linux mounted my new partition at /mnt/hd. so now you need to mirror the cooker, i'd recommend using rsync. i tried using the mirror program that's mentioned on the cooker home page but i wasn't able to get hd.img to find the cooker when i mirrored with it (almost certainly my fault). Anyway, do this: rsync -av ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/cooker/ /mnt/hd/ After it finishes do the same rsync command again, and keep doing this until it no longer downloads new files. After this is done, cd /mnt/hd/images then put a 1.44 floppy in and do: dd if=hd.img of=/dev/fd0 this will make a boot floppy. once that's done, use diff to compare the image on the floppy with the image on your harddrive: diff hd.img /dev/fd0 next check that the md5sums are correct (the correct values can be found in the file /mnt/hd/images/MD5SUM (use less or cat to read it). to find out what the md5 sum is of the hd.img use: md5sum /mnt/hd/images/hd.img assuming everything all matches (resync if the hd.img md5sum is incorrect, or remake the boot floppy if the floppy md5sum is incorrect) then reboot with the floppy in the drive, enter bios, choose to boot from flopppy, save and exit. when it reboots it should start the install program. it will ask for the partition and path to the cooker. choose the partition you just created from the list, and enter the path (probably /cooker). that should be about all you need to do. later when you want to update your install just use the same rsync command above and it will only download files that have changed so dont delete your cooker after you install. Well, that should pretty much help you out. Feel free to correct me on any mistakes guys. :) Cheers, Eric. On Mon, 8 May 2000, Robert Towster wrote: What is the best way to update your installation? Should I point kpackage rpm dir to a cooker distro site? Is there a better way? (or an official way?) thanks
Re: [Cooker] Progress 20000506
On 6 May 2000, Pixel wrote: Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2. Multiple nameservers should be parsed out and set to /etc/resolv.conf one per line with a"nameserver " prefix. you mean why doesn't it ask for more than one nameserver? seems a good thing to add. 2 nameservers is ok? yes, 2 would be good. also, it would be nice to be able to specify a couple search domains and have them setup Eric.
[Cooker] hd.img 'unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg'
I'm new so this is exactly what i did... mirrored repeatedly until it said there were no difference rpmfind.net to my /home/ejs/man-cooker/ directory then i went into the images folder and did: dd -if=hd.img of=/dev/fd0 then i shutdown and restart and from lilo choose to boot 'floppy' and i got the following message about 30 times or so... 'unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg' then after that repeated a bunch it ended with... 'could not find kernel image: linux' any help is appreciated, but please be precise since i know very little. thx, eric.
Re: [Cooker] Install everything ( was: minicom extras needed )
On 6 May 2000, Pixel wrote: Rene Eske Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mircea Ciocan wrote: I agree, but then the slider that determines how much should be installed should be placed at the percentage that is installed now, so what do you mean by 'installed now'? personally, i think that the percentage install slider and the size that its going to install is about perfect, the only thing that i think might be nice is if as you move the slider you could see how large/small the install would be for each "installation class". i was half tempted the other day to try a 'normal' install class and move the slider all the way down to see what the smallest mandrake install size would be.
Re: [Cooker] hd.img 'unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg'
Ok, so it was a corrupt floppy as someone mentioned before. now the floppy is good, all the md5sums match (though i didn't do badblocks because i dont know the parameters to use for checking a floppy, man page wasn't too helpful there for me). So now when i boot it (either from setting boot from drive a in bios, or from choosing 'floppy' from lilo) it starts the mandrake cooker install program but when i get to the screen asking for partition and directory it says: 'Device hda8 does not appear to contain a Linux Mandrake installation tree. There should be a directory Mandrake, there's only:' nothing listed after the 'only:' so i did: cat /dev/mstab and /home is on /dev/hda8, i mirrored the cooker to /home/ejs/cooker so i thought i would have to select /dev/hda8 for the partition and choose /home/ejs/cooker/ for the path but that gave me the above error message. so then i thought well, mstab lists /dev/hda8 as /home so i thought maybe i dont need to specify the /home part of the path so i did just /ejs/cooker, still didn't work, then i did ejs/cooker (leaving off the first / ) and it erased the screen and put a blinking square cursor in the bottome left of the screen and proceeded to do nothing. also, when i get to the screen which prints the message from above: 'Device hda8 does not ...' choosing cancel does absolutely nothing and i had to hit the reset button my puta causing the check to be forced on the next boot. help, :) eric. the mirrored cooker doesn't have to be on its on partition or something does it? anyway, when i figure all this stuff out i'll write up a newbies guide for all this stuff that can maybe be linked off the cooker mandrake page so people wont have to keep asking stuff like this all the time. thx. On Sun, 7 May 2000, Ron Stodden wrote: "Eric J. Smith" wrote: 'unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg' then after that repeated a bunch it ended with... 'could not find kernel image: linux' any help is appreciated, but please be precise since i know very little. If you generated the floppy under Linux you can easily verify it either of two ways: 1. diff hd.img /dev/fd0 2. md5sum hd.img md5sum /dev/fd0 The resulting sumchecks should be identical to each other and to the hd.img sumcheck in MD5SUM. It is ESSENTIAL to use a floppy disk that has been thoroughly checked for NO bad sectors beforehand. You may have to use Windows for this. -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
[Cooker] 7.1 beta 2
Hi, Maybe i had a bad cd burn but when i did custom install, developer class, 100% install, when switching to the extensions cd the install hangs for me for about 3 minutes. It was in the middle of kpppsomethingorother at the time. By the way, i want to have your children. 7.1 kicks serious ass. :) Oh, newbie question: what's a better way to keep my install up to date with the current cooker? downloading iso's and burning them is painful. Thx, Eric.
