[Cooker] Re: rsync site for mdk+updates ?
I should clarify that I'm not looking for a server containing separate distribution of mdk8 and separate updates to mdk8. I'm looking for a server containing installation distribution which has the updates *integrated*, so I don't have to manually rpm -U the packages to be updated. Thx. On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Where is there an rsync server I could get the latest Mdk8.0+UPDATES off of, so I can rsync to local machine and make an installationw/current updates via NFS from my local maschine ? Thx, Jan -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
Re: IPO / shares in the hands of the Community! [was: Re: [Cooker]mozilla]
Yes ... and espectially when it packages great spelchekers ! ;-) (soory, couldn't resist ... ;-) On Thu, 24 May 2001, Armisis Aieoln wrote: I am seriously intrested in being a Mandrake Investor. As long as it stays product orentated. Dave
[Cooker] Why ?? -- Maybe because : ?? And a solution ??
Hi, I just read the Why ? thread. I suspect that the because is due to a couple of factors : 1.Time preasure - RedHat has released something, and Mdk is a rival, so it needs to follow. 2.Other events happening - there was some conference before the release or something, and the right people weren't always available, so some assumptions had to be made, and unfortunatelly some of these assumptions turned out to be wrong. 3.The requests for enhancements that people had posted weren't properly recorded and recognized by the people that assign to the Mdk developers tasks. I expect that Mdk didn't want to be lousy on the visual presentation, but due to confusion and overwhelming number of other issues, these did get overlooked. Not much can be done about 1., but 2. 3. could potentially be eliminated if cooker testers (list readers and posters), were able to put their findings and even suggested fixes (patches) into an online bug tracking database. Then Mdk wouldn't hopefully release a distro if they saw that a problem serious enough exists. And I'm sure, being under the time pressure, they would welcome if people suggested some patches in the online bug tracking db that they could utilize. Is Mdk already using a bug tracking db internally ? Would it be possible that cooker audience could browse it and submit new bugs / finding / fixes / patches ? TTYL, Jan -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
Re: [Cooker] where is 8.0
I've kept an rsync of latest cooker becore Mdk8, and then rsynced just a few megs off of a slow, unannounced rsync site in europe. Then I ran misc/mkcd. I only had to download 1/75th of Mdk8. Jan On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Alan Olsen wrote: On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Matthew D. Pitts wrote: check http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3 Every one I have tried is either slower than dead possums or not accepting new ftp sessions. - Original Message - From: Giles Hamlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 7:33 PM Subject: [Cooker] where is 8.0 kk am I being dumb or is there a lack of any /iso directory on the many FTP sites I've tried? Giles
Re: [Cooker] 8.0 and cooker
I have the same question. If anybody has the answer, please let us know ! I would hate to see unnecessarily overburdened FTP servers, and frustrated downloaders (especially if we *already* have 8.0 anyway). My latest rsynced cooker ./VERSION says : Linux-Mandrake Cooker-i586 20010418 12:13 . Do I then have the same content as 8.0 ? Thanx, Jan (please Cc: me on your reply) On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Greg Sarsons wrote: Is what is in the cooker right now what is in 8.0? I've got cooker in sync right now, rsync, and don't want to download the same thing again. -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
Re: [Cooker] Congrats!
great job guys on your 8.0 ! Jan PS: I'm also glad to see http://www.linux-mandrake.com/donations/ ! On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote: Not much, just congratulations for releasing a superb 8.0! And also congrats for having been /.'ed :) Alexander Skwar -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
Re: [Cooker] bash cmd line 1 char short
I've upgraded : rpm -U bash-2.04-18mdk.i586.rpm bash-doc-2.04-18mdk.i586.rpm termcap-11.0.1-4mdk.i586.rpm readline-4.2-1mdk.i586.rpm which fixed the problem. Thanks! Jan On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Jan Vicherek am Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 01:30:22PM -0400: Hi, does anybody have the same problem ? : Yes, I do. Uhm, I used to have this problem - but right now, I cannot reproduce it. I reported it already a while back, but nobody seems to have noticed it. [askwar@teich askwar]$ rpm -q bash termcap readline bash-2.04-18mdk termcap-11.0.1-4mdk readline-4.2-1mdk Alexander Skwar -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
[Cooker] bash cmd line 1 char short
Hi, does anybody have the same problem ? : when I type into bash or sh cmd line, the last column of the terminal is always filled with space, which prevents cut paste ! ( tcsh doesn't have this problem ) If I 'unset TERM TERMCAP ; export TERM TERMCAP ; exec bash', then I get even funnier behavior : them bash uses the "horizontally scrolling cmd line", and as I type into bash, it *automcatically inserts* a space when I type $COLUMNS-1 characters. It also automatically deletes the space when I delete the char I typed right after this. Does anybody have this same broken behavior ? Thx, Jan -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
[Cooker] gcc-2.96 doesn't compile gcc-2.95.2 !
Or am *I* doing something wrong ? I've just used teh gcc defaults !
full outputs :
http://honza.vicherek.com/gcc-2.95.2-compile/configure.outerr
http://honza.vicherek.com/gcc-2.95.2-compile/make.outerr
http://honza.vicherek.com/gcc-2.95.2-compile/Makefile
http://honza.vicherek.com/gcc-2.95.2-compile/config.cache
http://honza.vicherek.com/gcc-2.95.2-compile/config.status
http://honza.vicherek.com/gcc-2.95.2-compile/etc/Makefile
http://honza.vicherek.com/gcc-2.95.2-compile/etc/config.status
http://honza.vicherek.com/gcc-2.95.2-compile/etc/config.log
http://honza.vicherek.com/gcc-2.95.2-compile/libiberty/config.h
http://honza.vicherek.com/gcc-2.95.2-compile/libiberty/Makefile
http://honza.vicherek.com/gcc-2.95.2-compile/libiberty/config.status
http://honza.vicherek.com/gcc-2.95.2-compile/libiberty/config.log
http://honza.vicherek.com/gcc-2.95.2-compile/libiberty/xhost-mkfrag
http://honza.vicherek.com/gcc-2.95.2-compile/mt-frag
* second stage install running (DrakX v1.457 built Wed Mar 14 19:27:55 2001)
# lastest at the time :
# rpm -q --qf '%{INSTALLTIME:date}\n' -f /etc/mandrake-release
Thu 15 Mar 2001 03:21:52 AM EST
# rpm -qa | g cc
gcc-cpp-2.96-0.44mdk
psacct-6.3.2-6mdk
gcc-2.96-0.44mdk
gcc-c++-2.96-0.44mdk
byacc-1.9-9mdk
gcc-java-2.96-0.44mdk
# rpm -qa | g egcs
egcs-1.1.2-41mdk
egcs-cpp-1.1.2-41mdk
egcs-c++-1.1.2-41mdk
egcs-libstdc++-1.1.2-41mdk
cd /tmp ; tar -xf gcc-2.95.2.tar.gz ; cd gcc-2.95.2 ; ./configure ; make
...
/tmp/gcc-2.95.2/gcc/xgcc -B/tmp/gcc-2.95.2/gcc/ -B/usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -c
-g -O2 -fvtable-thunks -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-implicit-templates -I. -I. -nostdinc++
-D_IO_MTSAFE_IO fstream.cc
test x"no" != xyes || \
/tmp/gcc-2.95.2/gcc/xgcc -B/tmp/gcc-2.95.2/gcc/ -B/usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/
-c -g -O2 -fvtable-thunks -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-implicit-templates -I. -I. -nostdinc++
-D_IO_MTSAFE_IO indstream.cc -o pic/indstream.o
/tmp/gcc-2.95.2/gcc/xgcc -B/tmp/gcc-2.95.2/gcc/ -B/usr/local/i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ -c
-g -O2 -fvtable-thunks -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-implicit-templates -I. -I. -nostdinc++
-D_IO_MTSAFE_IO indstream.cc
indstream.cc: In method `struct streampos indirectbuf::seekoff(long long int,
ios::seek_dir, int = 3)':
indstream.cc:82: `struct streampos' used where a `int' was expected
indstream.cc:85: `struct streampos' used where a `int' was expected
indstream.cc:87: `struct streampos' used where a `int' was expected
indstream.cc:89: conversion from `int' to non-scalar type `streampos' requested
indstream.cc: In method `struct streampos indirectbuf::seekpos(_G_fpos64_t, int = 3)':
indstream.cc:99: `struct streampos' used where a `int' was expected
indstream.cc:102: `struct streampos' used where a `int' was expected
indstream.cc:104: `struct streampos' used where a `int' was expected
indstream.cc:106: conversion from `int' to non-scalar type `streampos' requested
make[1]: *** [indstream.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/gcc-2.95.2/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libio'
make: *** [all-target-libio] Error 2
ps: is there a "drakebug" utility which would generate you info about
the makdrake installation, so that you know in what context did
this happen ?
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Re: [Cooker] VMware under linux
and have you applied the patch below ? It's for 2.4 kernels. Jan On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Jason Straight wrote: I freshened up my mirror this morning and updated, about 36 hours since my last update. My vmware is now broken under linux. :( I am not, nor have I been running the mdk kernels since way before beta-1, so I know it wasn't a kernel update that caused it. I'm wondering if it was egcs stuff that I know was updated recently. Anyone else having problems like this? -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/ diff -urN vmnet-only.orig/vnetInt.h vmnet-only/vnetInt.h --- vmnet-only.orig/vnetInt.h Mon Feb 12 23:57:51 2001 +++ vmnet-only/vnetInt.hMon Feb 26 20:41:00 2001 @@ -16,9 +16,17 @@ # define KFREE_SKB(skb, type)kfree_skb(skb) # define DEV_KFREE_SKB(skb, type)dev_kfree_skb(skb) # define SKB_INCREF(skb) atomic_inc((skb)-users) -# define SKB_IS_CLONE_OF(clone, skb) ( \ - skb_datarefp(clone) == skb_datarefp(skb) \ - ) +# ifdef skb_shinfo + /* zerocopy kernel */ +#define SKB_IS_CLONE_OF(clone, skb) ( \ +skb_shinfo(clone) == skb_shinfo(skb) \ + ) +# else + /* pre-zerocopy */ +#define SKB_IS_CLONE_OF(clone, skb)( \ +skb_datarefp(clone) == skb_datarefp(skb) \ + ) +# endif # define SK_ALLOC(pri) sk_alloc(0, pri, 1) # define DEV_QUEUE_XMIT(skb, dev, pri) ( \ (skb)-dev = (dev), \
[Cooker] ESC$rX in vi mode in shell doesn't work as it should
# set -o vi # ls -al /etc/mandrake-release | cut -c 40- 45 Feb 7 09:23 /etc/mandrake-release # now typing ESC$rX doesn't result in # ls -al /etc/mandrake-release | cut -c 40X as it should, but instead results in # ls -al /etc/mandrake-release | cut -c 40X- which it shouldn't ! --^^ so it is *inserting* the char instead of replacing the last char. in anyone else experiencing the same behavior ? what could be the problem ? if all other people are having this problem too, is cooker supplying good /etc/inputrc ? # rpm -qf /etc/inputrc setup-2.1.9-34mdk # ls -al /etc/inputrc | cut -c 40- 661 Feb 15 06:03 /etc/inputrc # md5sum /etc/inputrc bcf147dbbc946c7f0da907260a8d9b18 /etc/inputrc # grep 'set -o vi' ~/.bashrc set -o vi thx, Jan PS : which RPM stores the VERSION info, that tells me which cooker version have I installed ? (I think there is VERSION for the RPM set, and VERSION for the installer. Are both these versions stored somewhere on the installed fs ?) PS2 : I may have gotten a related answer myself : # grep 'second stage' ~/report.bug * second stage install running (DrakX v1.457 built Wed Mar 14 19:27:55 2001) -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
[Cooker] rpmdrake-1.3-17mdk still crashes
Hi, I have 1.457 install, Linux-Mandrake Cooker-i586 20010315 1:15 I've just upgraded : # rpm -U \ ./ftp/sunsite.uio.no/pub/Linux/Mandrake-devel/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/urpmi-1.5-22mdk.i586.rpm \ ./ftp/ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/rpmdrake-1.3-17mdk.i586.rpm but I still get : # rpmdrake Segmentation fault (core dumped) info stack #0 0x40495c9f in fseek () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x08050683 in _start () #2 0x08055928 in main () #3 0x4043c0de in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 (xxgdb) output of "strace -o /tmp/rpmdrake.strace rpmdrake" can be found at http://Jan.Vicherek.com/cooker1.457/rpmdrake.strace other installation particulars are at : http://Jan.Vicherek.com/cooker1.457/available.vs.installed.diff http://Jan.Vicherek.com/cooker1.457/auto_inst.cfg.pl http://Jan.Vicherek.com/cooker1.457/ddebug.log http://Jan.Vicherek.com/cooker1.457/install.log http://Jan.Vicherek.com/cooker1.457/report.bug Jan PS : until rpmdrake is fixed, what graphical tool can I use to see what packages I have available (HD/CD/net), installed, and perhaps the dependency list ? - Thx -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
[Cooker] 1.457 expert PCMCIA/HD install : missing many packages
Rsynced off of primary site after more than 20 hours of attempts. Yuck! expert install from FAT32 Win2k partition. $ head `find | g VERSION` == ./Mandrake/mdkinst/usr/share/version == /ChangeLog/1.457/Wed Mar 14 19:27:55 2001// == ./version == Linux-Mandrake Cooker-i586 20010315 1:15 I selected english US as language, and Xfree-4 at the end. I selected all types on the coarse-grained selector (workstation, server, development), and when it showed the individual packages, half of them were not selected ! So I manually seleted *all* packages except non-english packages. Attached is the result when I compare what got installed vs. what was avaialble in "20010315 1:15" RPMS. ( And at the end I selected almost none initial services for machine startup, which I hope didn't uninstall the packages ! ) At the end, through "advanced", I created auto-install floppy, and then put onto it the package selection. Did I do something wrong / stupid, or are these bugs in the install ? for details see http://Jan.Vicherek.com/cooker1.457/available.vs.installed.diff http://Jan.Vicherek.com/cooker1.457/auto_inst.cfg.pl http://Jan.Vicherek.com/cooker1.457/ddebug.log http://Jan.Vicherek.com/cooker1.457/install.log http://Jan.Vicherek.com/cooker1.457/report.bug -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
Re: [Cooker] 1.457 expert PCMCIA/HD install : missing many packages
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Pixel wrote: Jan Vicherek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did I do something wrong / stupid, or are these bugs in the install ? what exactly do you find buggy? the fact that much less packages are installed by default? Nope. I find buggy that I selected everything in the individual package selection except non-english packages, and the following didn't get installed : sshd, AfterStep-1.8.8-1mdk alsaplayer-0.99.32-13mdk alsa-utils-0.5.10-2mdk ami-1.0.9-1mdk ami-gnome-1.0.9-1mdk Apache-ASP-2.00-3mdk apache-devel-1.3.14-4mdk ... etc etc etc . don't you find such behavior buggy ? looking at your diff, i see many packages that should not be installed and feel the current behaviour is better. not if I specifically asked for every package (I hope they were listed on the individual selections !) of course quite a few good packages are missing. Tell me about them, or better send me a patch for the rpmsrate :) I haven't thought of what packages are missing in the RPMS directory, my only concern was that I've selected every package shown in the individual selector, yet there were so many not installed ! Thanks, Jan (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/gi/perl-install/share/rpmsrate) -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
Re: [Cooker] 1.457 expert PCMCIA/HD install : missing many packages
Hmm, could it be that my Mandrake/base/*list* was not in sync with Mandrake/RPMS/* ? Would such state cause the behavior described ? How do I find out whether it is / was in sync ? If I rsynced against primary site, why wouldn't it be in sync ? On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Pixel wrote: Jan Vicherek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nope. I find buggy that I selected everything in the individual package selection except non-english packages, and the following didn't get installed : sshd, AfterStep-1.8.8-1mdk alsaplayer-0.99.32-13mdk alsa-utils-0.5.10-2mdk ami-1.0.9-1mdk ami-gnome-1.0.9-1mdk Apache-ASP-2.00-3mdk apache-devel-1.3.14-4mdk ... etc etc etc . don't you find such behavior buggy ? ok, that is a bug. But i just tried selecting AfterStep in the "individual selection" step and it did get installed... looking at your diff, i see many packages that should not be installed and feel the current behaviour is better. not if I specifically asked for every package (I hope they were listed on the individual selections !) ?? what do you mean by "I hope they ... !" I didn't check what was there and what wasn't I've been checking everything and only filtering out what had contained the ...-xx- language extension. So I don't know whether apache-devel was listed on the individual pkg selection list. Jan -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
Re: [Cooker] 1.457 expert PCMCIA/HD install : missing many packages
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Pixel wrote: Jan Vicherek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I didn't check what was there and what wasn't I've been checking everything and only filtering out what had contained the ...-xx- language extension. So I don't know whether apache-devel was listed on the individual pkg selection list. that explains. In the tree selection, AfterStep is not there. The only way to select it is to toggle to flat list where all packages are there. Hmm, the fact the tree list and the flat list don't have indentical set looks to me like something that needs fixing, right ? Or is there a solid idea as to why shouldn't these lists be identical, or at least very close ? (execpt maybe HW-specifics, like Xfree drivers, etc) ? Jan -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
Re: [Cooker] 1.457 expert PCMCIA/HD install : missing many packages(fwd)
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Pixel wrote: Jan Vicherek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Pixel wrote: Jan Vicherek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I didn't check what was there and what wasn't I've been checking everything and only filtering out what had contained the ...-xx- language extension. So I don't know whether apache-devel was listed on the individual pkg selection list. that explains. In the tree selection, AfterStep is not there. The only way to select it is to toggle to flat list where all packages are there. Hmm, the fact the tree list and the flat list don't have indentical set looks to me like something that needs fixing, right ? Or is there a solid idea as to why shouldn't these lists be identical, or at least very close ? (execpt maybe HW-specifics, like Xfree drivers, etc) ? i could add a "All other packages" node, but i'm not sure it would be good. The basic idea is to keep people from installing everything. Apparently it's not clear that the tree/flat lists are not equivalent. Please either make them equivalent or make it obvious that they are not. I think that would avoid some unpleasant surprises. Thanks, Jan -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
[Cooker] 1.457 expert PCMCIA/HD install : other issues
Overall went good, only when it asked me about internet connection setup, I couldn't "cancel". I had to specify something, so I opted for parallel port. Also after install : # rpmdrake Segmentation fault (core dumped) can't think of anything else for now. great job ! Jan -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
[Cooker] cooker updates network overload
Help !!! I'm getting very frustrated with downloading cooker ! I've been trying to get one for 18 hours now, and still haven't been able to. - cooker updates are so frequent that new release is out before the previous has been propagated to mirrors. This makes is useless to have mirrors. I never know what is the latest release. - I never know that I have a consistent state of install+RPMS+base/* Problem : the best assurance that I have a self-consistent fileset is to use the primary site (sunsite.uio.no), therefore causing a bandwidth bottleneck. It has happened to me several times that a new release caught me in the middle of doing rsync, so I ended up with an inconsistent state, and so was wondering why cooker isn't working as it is supposed to ! Fixing this problem will eliminate many completely unnecessary headaches to your beta testers, who cannot currenly reliably beta test. Because of the reasons above, it is as if cooker didn't have any mirrors. I cannot even get onto the rsync server "@ERROR: max connections (50) reached - try again later", and so cannot effectively do beta testing. Proposed actions : 1. clearly indicate the version/release of self-consistent filesets (is this done now by Mandrake/VERSION and install/VERSION ?) 2. cause cooker releases to be promptly replicated to several sites, so that the primary site doesn't become overloaded. 3. at each release publish the most current VERSION on a high-availability spot (no rsync or FTP with less than 1000 users limit, please, but rather use a web page / http access for this, do not use mailing list, as it takes sometimes many hours to get the msgs), so that we may know whether we are up to date or not. It can be quite futile and useless to do beta testing on an old beta. 4. indicate to us that I've finished rsyncing the same release that we have started rsyncing ! I.e. before a replica starts being updated, remove the VERSION file. That way people will know that any download attempts are futile, since they will not end up with a consistent fileset. When you are done updating a replica, put the new VERSION file in, so people know that it makes sense to download it again. Also, if I finish syncing and the VERSION file is different from when I started, I know I have to resync now. I.e. the following command will ensure that when it is finished, I have a complete and self-consistent cooker on my HD. $ rsync mirror::cooker/VERSION ./VERSION.previous $ while ! cmp VERSION VERSION.previous ; rsync mirror::cooker/VERSION ./VERSION.previous ; do rsync mirror:cooker . ; done $ rm ./VERSION.previous This will greatly help us to do effective beta test on such frequent beta releases. Thanks, Jan -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
Re: [Cooker] kernel config stored ?
So I tried rebuilding the kernel with the config found in /usr/src/linux/configs, but my PCMCIA network card stopped working ! Help! How can I get my card back working (it worked with the kernel installed during setup) ?! If I only could do "cat /proc/config", I could rebuild the kernel as it had been ! Can we please put in /proc/config, so that we can really tell what is it that we are running ? It saves a lot of time from guessing ... How can I re-install the original modules that were overwritten by "make modules_install" ? Thanx, Jan On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote: So sprach Andrej Borsenkow am Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 12:16:54PM +0300: Default conifg is installed into /usr/share/doc/kernel-2.x.y.XXX (not confusing with kernel-doc-xxx). Last time I checked it was there. And also in /usr/src/linux/configs if you install the kernel-source.rpm Alexander Skwar -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
[Cooker] cooker: bash2/readline: vi mode: problem: ESC k $ r X
Hi, I don't know what's wrong with bash2/readline, but after "set -o vi", doing ESC k $ r X, which is supposed to *replace* last character of previous cmd line with character X, it *inserts* X. What has gone wrong ? (rpm -qi mandrake-release says 8.0-0.1mdk, build date 2001-02-07 09:23:13AM EST) Thanx, Jan -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
[Cooker] kernel config stored ?
Hi, I installed a cooker about a week ago, and I have noticed that there was no /proc/config, neither was there /boot/*config*. Please include /proc/config or at least /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.x-XXmdk.config Thanks, Jan -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
Re: Mdk8 for i386/i486 (was: Re: [Cooker] RedHat vs Mdk8)
I heard that i586-optimized code still runs on i486. The only difference is that it is slower. Is that true ? If not, what do I need to do to install Mdk8 on an i486 ? I presume that there would be more of us that would really welcome this, so what do *we* need to do to install Mdk8 on an i486 ? [ I only care whether Mdk8 *runs* on i486, I don't care whether it is *optimized* for i486. ] Thanks, Jan On 7 Mar 2001, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Jan Vicherek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks Michel for mentioning it -- I have here a couple of i486, and an i486SX -- I could really use Mdk8 compiled for i486 ! I plan to use only one distribution for all the computers here, so I really hope that Mdk8 will offer i486 compatibility ! Who in Mandrake has this under their belt ? Are they on this list ? Can they answer whether Mdk8 will run (albeit not optimised) on i486 ? We have decided to drop the support for i486 when releasing Linux-Mandrake-7.1. Thus the freshest LM running on i486 is 7.0, as you can verify here: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3 Of course, this is due to the balance between resources-cost and targetted-public-equipement. (other ports do enter the competition, as you can see on the given link). -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
Mdk8 for i386/i486 (was: Re: [Cooker] RedHat vs Mdk8)
Thanks Michel for mentioning it -- I have here a couple of i486, and an i486SX -- I could really use Mdk8 compiled for i486 ! I plan to use only one distribution for all the computers here, so I really hope that Mdk8 will offer i486 compatibility ! Who in Mandrake has this under their belt ? Are they on this list ? Can they answer whether Mdk8 will run (albeit not optimised) on i486 ? Thanks, Jan On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, [iso-8859-1] Michèl Alexandre Salim wrote: --- civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 March 2001 01:58, you wrote: I am certain that there will be technical differences beyond the obvious one that we compile for i586. And, as you say, there is no need for a war. Civileme Red Hat now compiles their packages optimised for i686, while keeping compatibility with i386... wonder how that compares with Mandrake's Pentium optimisations, especially since now both are using the same compiler (roughly)? Perhaps Mandrake can be compiled targeting the i686 compiler while keeping compatibility with the Pentium... or will that be too biased against K7 and Crusoe users? A pertinent point since I run one P6, one K7 and one Crusoe machine... Speaking of 'download and try', thanks for keeping everything available for download! One recalls a certain European Linux company that does not allow this kind of thing... Regards, Michel Salim
Re: [Cooker] Is it possible to bundle XFS support?
mee too ! It would add weight to my argument when proposing Linux at work ... Jan On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Eugenio Diaz wrote: --- Michèl Alexandre Salim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone at Mandrake please? I pledge my money to buying a boxed set of Mandrake 8.0 if it includes XFS - seriously. (Having bought several of SuSE's releases, and one of RH's, I am not against spending real money on Linux if I deem it adds something nice) Ok, anyone that wants XFS in cooker raise your han..er keys! Several months ago we were asked what we wanted in cooker ... well, I want enterprise features, specifically XFS!
[Cooker] RedHat vs Mdk8
Hi, I would like to know the principal diferences between upcoming RedHat release (read about beta at http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/beta/rhl.html ) and upcoming Mdk 8. * Of course I know that Mdk 8 is so much better. * I would just like to be aware of the principal, primarily technical, differences. I hope that this will not result in a war about who is better. I hope this will result in a comparison list. (E.g. Mdk8 doesn't have NVIDIA, due to source-only policy, while RedHat is willing to go to bed with companies that will pay them and will commit to releasing the source in less than 5 years. -- that was just a made up example). Thanks, Jan -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
PCMCIA is OK in Cooker-i586 20010305 3:15 (was: Re: [Cooker] CookerPCMCIA install with Mandrake 7.2 PCMCIA image ?)
Well, I just synced via rsync : # cat cooker/VERSION Linux-Mandrake Cooker-i586 20010305 3:15 and it worked !!! Thanks ! well, I had to try to mount it several times, since I got RPC timeout. That may had been related to the number of NFS timeouts I got afterwards. Anyway, PCMCIA appears now OK. Thanx, Jan On 4 Mar 2001, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] Currently we don't have a good kernel. [...] Sorry, currently pcmcia is the sacrificed lamb.. nope, pcmcia is ok now. the only pb now is that it's not a 2.4 and that touching psaux with no mouse freeze the keyboard. Okay, I guess the famous file-not-in-archive reported by Jan Vicherek [EMAIL PROTECTED] when using pcmcia.img is due to a too old disk image, then? Jan, could you retry with latest disk image please? -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
Re: [Cooker] mkcd.pl
"mee too". perl v5.6.0. Jan On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 28 Feb 2001, Warly wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all... this is my first post.. so sorry if this is old behaviour.. i download the current misc dir from sunsite.uio.no, the cooker one the mkcd.pl scrip have this line... -d $work_dir or mkdir "$tmpdir/.build_hdlist"; this simply not works [root@pc-lab1 misc]# ./mkcd.pl Not enough arguments for mkdir at ./mkcd.pl line 25, near ""$tmpdir/.build_hdlist";" Execution of ./mkcd.pl aborted due to compilation errors. [root@pc-lab1 misc]# so... i change it this way. -d $work_dir or system "mkdir $tmpdir/.build_hdlist"; and works ok... apropos what perl version are you using for this one? [warly@proca /]# perl -v This is perl, v5.6.0 built for i386-linux And you ? The same one -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
Re: [Cooker] Cooker-i586 20010224 20:30 : screen : no more PTYs
can you please folks confirm or reject my experience on your cookers ? please let me know if I'm the only one, or you all also cannot make screen work. Thanx ! Jan On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Jan Vicherek wrote: I even tried rpm --rebuild screen-3.9.8-3.src.rpm # from rawhide and am still getting same "No more PTYs.", "Sorry, could not find a PTY." Help ! jan On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Jan Vicherek wrote: so I tried : # rpm --rebuild screen-3.9.8-3mdk.src.rpm Installing screen-3.9.8-3mdk.src.rpm error: failed build dependencies: gpm-devel is needed by screen-3.9.8-3mdk # rpm -i /mnt/windows/l/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/gpm-devel* error: cannot open file /mnt/windows/l/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/gpm-devel*: No such file or directory # wget ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/7.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/gpm-devel-1.19.3-3mdk.i586.rpm # rpm -i gpm-devel-1.19.3-3mdk.i586.rpm # rpm -i ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/7.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/utempter-devel* and so I got : ... make[2]: makeinfo: Command not found ... exit 1 should screen.spec require texinfo/makeinfo ? so I installed texinfo, rebuilt, installed : # rpm -U /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/screen-3.9.8-3mdk.i686.rpm and I get the same results ! (No more TTYs.) Help ! `screen' is essential ! Thx, Jan On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Jan Vicherek wrote: screen 3.9.8-3mdk installed in Cooker-i586 20010224 20:30 says "no more PTYs", and then "Sorry, could not find a PTY." ls /dev/pty* shows tons of entries, as well as /dev/tty*. What could be the problem ? Thx, Jan -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
Re: [Cooker] Cooker-i586 20010224 20:30 : screen : no more PTYs-- more info
Hmm guys, I don't know what's happening here, whether my posts are going
through to you guys, but there wasn't a single reply as to whether it's
just me going crazy or something is wrong with cooker.
C'mon, it's not that hard to run "screen" and see whether it starts up or
not and reply to my post "Worx here / doesn't work here either".
Now I got tired of wating to find out whether anybody will bother to read
/ respond, so what I had to do to get it working :
# mv /dev/ptmx /dev/ptmx_
# rpm --rebuild screen-3.9.8-3mdk.src.rpm
# screen # -- now worx fine.
So what's with /dev/ptmx ? Does "screen" expect something unreasonable
from it, or screen is reasonable, but the kernel is behaving unreasonably?
TTYL,
Jan
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Jan Vicherek wrote:
can you please folks confirm or reject my experience on your cookers ?
please let me know if I'm the only one, or you all also cannot make
screen work.
Thanx !
Jan
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Jan Vicherek wrote:
I even tried
rpm --rebuild screen-3.9.8-3.src.rpm # from rawhide
and am still getting same "No more PTYs.", "Sorry, could not find a PTY."
Help !
jan
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Jan Vicherek wrote:
so I tried :
# rpm --rebuild screen-3.9.8-3mdk.src.rpm
Installing screen-3.9.8-3mdk.src.rpm
error: failed build dependencies:
gpm-devel is needed by screen-3.9.8-3mdk
# rpm -i /mnt/windows/l/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/gpm-devel*
error: cannot open file /mnt/windows/l/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/gpm-devel*: No such
file or directory
# wget
ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/7.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/gpm-devel-1.19.3-3mdk.i586.rpm
# rpm -i gpm-devel-1.19.3-3mdk.i586.rpm
# rpm -i
ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/7.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/utempter-devel*
and so I got :
...
make[2]: makeinfo: Command not found
...
exit 1
should screen.spec require texinfo/makeinfo ?
so I installed texinfo, rebuilt, installed :
# rpm -U /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/screen-3.9.8-3mdk.i686.rpm
and I get the same results ! (No more TTYs.)
Help ! `screen' is essential !
Thx,
Jan
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Jan Vicherek wrote:
screen 3.9.8-3mdk installed in Cooker-i586 20010224 20:30 says "no more
PTYs", and then "Sorry, could not find a PTY."
ls /dev/pty* shows tons of entries, as well as /dev/tty*.
What could be the problem ?
Thx,
Jan
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Re: [Cooker] Cooker-i586 20010224 20:30 : screen : no more PTYs-- more info
I'm guessing that this is because the kernel that gets installed by
default should have been compiled with a particular option (that fulfills
/dev/ptmx), and it wasn't ? Maybe ? Anybody has any thoughts on this ?
Jan
PS: I wouldn't call the "mv /dev/ptmx /dev/ptmx_" a "fix", but rather
temporary workaround, until a Mdk guru can fuigure out what's going on.
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Jim Radford wrote:
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Jan Vicherek wrote:
Jan, I have the same issue with screen on a new cooker install (as of
current mirror this afternoon).
Thanks for the fix.
Jim
Hmm guys, I don't know what's happening here, whether my posts are going
through to you guys, but there wasn't a single reply as to whether it's
just me going crazy or something is wrong with cooker.
C'mon, it's not that hard to run "screen" and see whether it starts up or
not and reply to my post "Worx here / doesn't work here either".
Now I got tired of wating to find out whether anybody will bother to read
/ respond, so what I had to do to get it working :
# mv /dev/ptmx /dev/ptmx_
# rpm --rebuild screen-3.9.8-3mdk.src.rpm
# screen # -- now worx fine.
So what's with /dev/ptmx ? Does "screen" expect something unreasonable
from it, or screen is reasonable, but the kernel is behaving unreasonably?
TTYL,
Jan
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Jan Vicherek wrote:
can you please folks confirm or reject my experience on your cookers ?
please let me know if I'm the only one, or you all also cannot make
screen work.
Thanx !
Jan
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Jan Vicherek wrote:
I even tried
rpm --rebuild screen-3.9.8-3.src.rpm # from rawhide
and am still getting same "No more PTYs.", "Sorry, could not find a PTY."
Help !
jan
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Jan Vicherek wrote:
so I tried :
# rpm --rebuild screen-3.9.8-3mdk.src.rpm
Installing screen-3.9.8-3mdk.src.rpm
error: failed build dependencies:
gpm-devel is needed by screen-3.9.8-3mdk
# rpm -i /mnt/windows/l/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/gpm-devel*
error: cannot open file /mnt/windows/l/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/gpm-devel*: No
such file or directory
# wget
ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/7.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/gpm-devel-1.19.3-3mdk.i586.rpm
# rpm -i gpm-devel-1.19.3-3mdk.i586.rpm
# rpm -i
ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/7.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/utempter-devel*
and so I got :
...
make[2]: makeinfo: Command not found
...
exit 1
should screen.spec require texinfo/makeinfo ?
so I installed texinfo, rebuilt, installed :
# rpm -U /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/screen-3.9.8-3mdk.i686.rpm
and I get the same results ! (No more TTYs.)
Help ! `screen' is essential !
Thx,
Jan
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Jan Vicherek wrote:
screen 3.9.8-3mdk installed in Cooker-i586 20010224 20:30 says "no more
PTYs", and then "Sorry, could not find a PTY."
ls /dev/pty* shows tons of entries, as well as /dev/tty*.
What could be the problem ?
Thx,
Jan
--
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## To some, nothing is impossible. ##
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Re: [Cooker] display export during install (was: mouse tedious)
I tried it too AND I LOVED IT !! It is *much* better installing the machine on my 21" monitor where I have good mouse and keyboard and can see large package selection at a time. It also responds about 2.5x faster, since the CPU is not taken up with pixel drawing (under that non-accelerated SVGA). THANK YOU FOR THIS FEATURE ! IT MADE INSTALLING *MUCH* *MUCH* NICER AND SIMPLER ! T H A N K Y O U! ! ! Jan On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Leon Brooks wrote: Pixel wrote: you can already export the display when making a network install. Try booting with "linux display=192.168.1.xxx:0" Oooh! Fancy! (-: Perhaps some more snippets of info like this could find their way into the installer help screens? That way, more people will know and appreciate and beenfit from this genius! -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
Re: [Cooker] Cooker-i586 20010224 20:30 : screen : no more PTYs
I even tried rpm --rebuild screen-3.9.8-3.src.rpm # from rawhide and am still getting same "No more PTYs.", "Sorry, could not find a PTY." Help ! jan On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Jan Vicherek wrote: so I tried : # rpm --rebuild screen-3.9.8-3mdk.src.rpm Installing screen-3.9.8-3mdk.src.rpm error: failed build dependencies: gpm-devel is needed by screen-3.9.8-3mdk # rpm -i /mnt/windows/l/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/gpm-devel* error: cannot open file /mnt/windows/l/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/gpm-devel*: No such file or directory # wget ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/7.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/gpm-devel-1.19.3-3mdk.i586.rpm # rpm -i gpm-devel-1.19.3-3mdk.i586.rpm # rpm -i ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/7.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/utempter-devel* and so I got : ... make[2]: makeinfo: Command not found ... exit 1 should screen.spec require texinfo/makeinfo ? so I installed texinfo, rebuilt, installed : # rpm -U /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/screen-3.9.8-3mdk.i686.rpm and I get the same results ! (No more TTYs.) Help ! `screen' is essential ! Thx, Jan On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Jan Vicherek wrote: screen 3.9.8-3mdk installed in Cooker-i586 20010224 20:30 says "no more PTYs", and then "Sorry, could not find a PTY." ls /dev/pty* shows tons of entries, as well as /dev/tty*. What could be the problem ? Thx, Jan -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
[Cooker] how can I contribute a package ?
Hi, I think it would be reasonable for ftp://ftp.ied.com/pub/boss/boss-960104-1.src.rpm to be included in a distribution. Since there is no working PCMCIA on Mdk8 yet, I don't have a way to do an ix86.rpm for it, but it its size is 112123, so rebuilding would be very quick. What do I need to do to "contribute" this package, so it shows up in one of the distros ? Thx, Jan -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
[Cooker] Cooker-i586 20010224 20:30 : screen : no more PTYs
screen 3.9.8-3mdk installed in Cooker-i586 20010224 20:30 says "no more PTYs", and then "Sorry, could not find a PTY." ls /dev/pty* shows tons of entries, as well as /dev/tty*. What could be the problem ? Thx, Jan -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
[Cooker] what could prevent me from *upgrading* cooker Cooker-i586 2001022420:30 to Mdk8 release ?
Hi, Background : I need to install a 2.4-based system. Mandrake loox best to me. Constraint : I won't have time to do backup all the changes that I make to the install, therefore I cannot "reinstall" from scratch. Dilemma : If I install now, what kind of issue could come up between now and Mdk8 release which would require me to "install" instead of "upgrade" ? The only thing I can think of is that Mdk8's newer pkgs will imply packages' configurations which will break old configs, thus the system will become "inconsistent" from pkg config perspective (e.g. glibc in Mdk8 release was built with different set of locales than Mdk8 cooker, causing some problems ... I'm making this up, as I don't know what kind of inconsistencies would I most likely run into.) So should I wait and install Mdk8 release ? Question : What kind of problems could I run into if I "upgrade" into Mdk8 release from current Mdk8 cooker, instead of doing fresh reinstall of Mdk8 release ? Thanks, Jan -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
[Cooker] installation Feb 24 20:30 -- success report
so I had to make enough room on winbloze partition to copy the whole installation tree over. in Network Configuration Wizard: s/informations/information/ on a Laptop, I've mistakenly let it configure "internet access", and it didn't let me out of "Which net driver shout I try ?" -- Cancel would just get me to the same dialog box. I had to click back on "configure networking" star, which made it green and it went on to summary. After I clicked again "configure networking" star, it now properly showed the dialog, where I unselected all 3 options, and it went on to summary. Hey ! Keyboard control throught the whole installation worked !!! At Exit step, When I chose Advances and Gnererate autoinstall floppy, Replay, tty3 said "getFile images/.img\nErrorOpeningFile images/.img\nfailed to write /dev/fd0\n". So I instead just saved the package selection. Then it said "installation complete, leaving", "Restarting system.", and my ThinkPad 770E *froze*. No tty switching worked, nothing. Not even Ctrl-Alt-Del, so I had to power off/on. However, boot from floppy didn't work, the laptop just showes "602" and proceeded to boot from the HD. HD had grub, and I selected "floppy", which said "Booting 'floppy'\n\nroot(fd0)\n Filesystem type ext2fs, using whole disk\nchainloader +1\n\nError 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format\n\nPress any key to continue..." which put me back into grub menu, so I selected "linux". Which worked just great. And reiserfs after reboot loaded ! Geat job, guys ! Jan PS: Hmm, I don't remember it asking me for timezone, but I guess it must have, as `date` is reporting correct timezone. But the installed files show timestamps of GMT/UTC ! This might need fixing ? PS2: at the end of /var/log/dmesg shows about 90 lines of: clm-6006: writing inode 92157 on readonly FS and syslog reports it 93 times. PS3: and "portsentry" is going crazy; it keeps reporting "attackalert: Possible stralth scan from unknown host to TCP port: 111 (accept failed)", and it does so cca 17 times a minute (says /var/log/messages). PS4: BTW, starting KDE's "advanced Editor" gives unreadable font. -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
Re: [Cooker] Cooker-i586 20010224 20:30 : screen : no more PTYs
so I tried : # rpm --rebuild screen-3.9.8-3mdk.src.rpm Installing screen-3.9.8-3mdk.src.rpm error: failed build dependencies: gpm-devel is needed by screen-3.9.8-3mdk # rpm -i /mnt/windows/l/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/gpm-devel* error: cannot open file /mnt/windows/l/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS/gpm-devel*: No such file or directory # wget ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/7.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/gpm-devel-1.19.3-3mdk.i586.rpm # rpm -i gpm-devel-1.19.3-3mdk.i586.rpm # rpm -i ftp://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/7.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/utempter-devel* and so I got : ... make[2]: makeinfo: Command not found ... exit 1 should screen.spec require texinfo/makeinfo ? so I installed texinfo, rebuilt, installed : # rpm -U /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/screen-3.9.8-3mdk.i686.rpm and I get the same results ! (No more TTYs.) Help ! `screen' is essential ! Thx, Jan On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Jan Vicherek wrote: screen 3.9.8-3mdk installed in Cooker-i586 20010224 20:30 says "no more PTYs", and then "Sorry, could not find a PTY." ls /dev/pty* shows tons of entries, as well as /dev/tty*. What could be the problem ? Thx, Jan -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
[Cooker] mouse use very tedious
Hi, I'm quite excited about Mandrake 8 ! I've just tried an install tho, and I've quit after 20 minutes of point-and-click drudgery (when selecting packages). I need to know "dependencies" (implied removals and installs), but the problem is that every time such dependency box shows up, I have to locate the OK button with the mouse, and that (with the installation on the laptops I would have to do) is very impractical. I guess that's a bug, that the OK button doesn't get keyboard focus. I could bear it if I only had to go through this drudgery once in 6 months, but the horrifying thought is "this is beta, and if something goes wrong *after* I've painfully selected my packages, *I would have to waste that time again* !". That thought of time waste quite discourages me from installations, and from beta test participations. But I *want to* do the beta, since I'm quite excited about Mdk8. Someone please help ! Also is there a way to select just the necessary basics as to avoid the mouse drudgery during install ? Using the installed basics I would then reboot into the newly installed linux, and finish the installation with some nicer tool ? Something like MandrakeUpdate ? (But MandrakeUpdate doesn't allow me to install *additional* packages, only updates existing installed. So which tool would I use which is like MandrakeUpdate, but also allows me to install *additional* packages ?) Great work on Mandrake 8, Jan -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
[Cooker] how can I prepare package selection set for an installation ?
Hi, I should be installing linux on several somewhat slow machines, each machine will have only slightly different package selection; I would like to try it with Mandrake 8 (beta). I would like to prepare the selection(s) on a fast server I have here, which already runs Linux. Is there a tool I could run on my fast server (on this server is also where I've downloaded the distro to), which would allow me to produce a file, a "package selection set", which I could later use on the slow machines ? (The slow machines have very bad mice, and it would take ages to do the graphical install with these mice and with so slow CPUs). I'll be doing NFS install. Is there such a tool I could run on my existing linux box ? Thanks, Jan -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
[Cooker] please add to distribution : casio boss backup / sync utility :
please add to distribution : casio boss backup / sync utility : located at ftp://ftp.ied.com/pub/boss/boss-960104-1.src.rpm ... at least as a source ... Thx, Jan -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
Re: [Cooker] Immediate availability of DrakX with linux-2.4 (build1.393)
I'm new here, so please be little patient; ... "Immediate availability of DrakX with linux-2.4 (build 1.393)" ... does it mean that I should be able to do : rsync -av ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/cooker on an NFS server machine, and then do a PCMCIA-based NFS install onto my laptop ? Please tell me what is the full cmdline for rsync to update my tree. (I've "mirror"ed one with lftp from indiana.edu a couple days back.) Thanx, Jan
Re: [Cooker] Immediate availability of DrakX with linux-2.4 (build1.393)
Hi, thanx for prompt reply; I should have introduced myself better than "I'm new here". I've been administrating Linux boxes for 8 yrs, but am new to Mandrake (was with RedHat before), so what I'm really asking is 1) has the latest DrakX been built for PCMCIA installs (PC card network card , module 3c575_cb ), and 2) what are the rsync params to get best results . next time I'll be more precise. Thanks ! Jan I understand the general installation principles. On 26 Jan 2001, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Jan Vicherek writes: I'm new here, so please be little patient; ... "Immediate availability of DrakX with linux-2.4 (build 1.393)" ... does it mean that I should be able to do : rsync -av ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/cooker on an NFS server machine, and then do a PCMCIA-based NFS install onto my laptop ? Please read the following for short description of all means of install: http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/html/stage1.html -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
[Cooker] status of cooker install scripts
Hi, Can someone point me please to what does one need to do to make a freshly downloaded cooker install ? I.e. what are the reguar tasks that need to be done, any sanity checks and other prep things ? I've downloaded cooker yesterday, and tried NFS-mounted install, but was getting error : cannot open Mandrake/base/hdlists. So I tracked down to ./usr/bin/perl-install/install_any.pm line 136, where it says ".../tmp/image/...", but should be saying ".../tmp/rhimage/...". Who's fiddeling with these scripts, why, and how can I participate in keeping these scripts safe from breaking ? Thx, Jan -- -- Gospel of Jesus is the saving power of God for all who believe -- ## To some, nothing is impossible. ## http://Honza.Vicherek.com/
