Re: [Cooker] Bla, bla, but no 9.1 date
This would be a GREAT way for some people who have windows installed on a laptop but no cdrom or floppy to install Mandrake. That is, if a small program could be made to install lilo from windows w/ these settings. I don't have a floppy drive. Thanks to Buchan for showing me this. I simplified his lilo.conf stanzas somewhat. I have this in my /etc/lilo.conf image=/boot/vmlinuz-hdimg label=hd-install root=/dev/ram3 initrd=/boot/hd.rdz append=rmadisk_size=32000 vga=791 read-only In order to put the required files from hd.img into /boot, I do the following: su - cd to where hd.img is located mount -t vfat hd.img ~/tmp/ -o loop=/dev/loop3 cp ~/tmp/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-hdimg cp ~/tmp/hd.rzd /boot umount ~/tmp /sbin/lilo exit Now you can select hd-install from your lilo boot menu and that will start the installer. You will need to know what partition stores your cooker mirror and the path to your cooker/i586/ directory, relative to that partition. This is a very way to install Mandrake :-) Narfi. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service
Re: [Cooker] Bla, bla, but no 9.1 date
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 00:59:56 -0800, Jesse Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This would be a GREAT way for some people who have windows installed on a laptop but no cdrom or floppy to install Mandrake. That is, if a small program could be made to install lilo from windows w/ these settings. Oh wait! Slightly not thinking it would require a bit more tweaking than that )-: Its just too late at night for clear thoughts... -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1392] [kdebase] log in as root
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:07:09 +0100, Benjamin Pflugmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon 2003-03-17 at 20:05:20 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: urpmi.setup? And you don't need broadband to install kdm. Needs probably less than 5 minutes with a modem. Thats a bit misleading. The hdlist takes an hour and fifteen minutes to download on a 56k. Use the synthesis file (~150KB) file instead of hdlist (~15MB). HTH, Benjamin. Wow I had no idea.. This is really gonna help. Thanks. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html
Re: [Cooker] GNOME 2.2.1 Desktop
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:11:06 +0100, Götz Waschk [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Am Montag, 17. März 2003, 15:31:41 Uhr MET, schrieb Jesse Wagner: On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:02:33 +0100, Götz Waschk Would you happen to have a changelog for this release of nautilus/GNOME? Yes, but I'm not google. Take a look at the gnome web site. -- Yea, I tried that. And I tried google. No such luck. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own
Re: [Cooker] urpmi features
On 17 Mar 2003 18:35:02 +0100, François Pons [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Possible features of urpmi for next release : * virtual medium (no need to update explicitely, only with synthesis ?). * delay before accepting using a package from a medium (cooker) * always ask confirmation if fuzzy search is used (even for 1 package) * on the fly sorting of media (according to regex like file,rsync,ftp,http) * urpm centralized tools, as well as perl-URPM managing media. * p2p urpmi database (export database as magic synthesis) * -h by default for urpmi.addmedia * do install of package by groups which are shorter as possible (apt-get like) * allow file conflicts error to be handled by recovering errors and try again. * conflicts, provides and requires tag added for global rpm behaviour in order to allow broken dependencies to be not resolved or to avoid removing important package (generalize basesystem) Any other idea are wellcome. François. * Look in current folder for deps -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Send your email first class
Re: [Cooker] urpmi features
Help how do I get off this mailing lis http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/fdevlists.php3 -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... fastmail
Re: [Cooker] urpmi features
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:10:38 +1200, Jason Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Urpmi needs to be able to resume if a disconnection occurs and use rsync to get the required differences between packages only IMHO. This would include Cooker packages. Cheers Jason Man that would be useful. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are
Re: [Cooker] GNOME 2.2.1 Desktop
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:02:33 +0100, Götz Waschk [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Am Montag, 17. März 2003, 13:45:45 Uhr MET, schrieb Adam Williamson: GNOME minor releases are sort-of rolling as well, I seem to remember, so we probably have a mix of 2.2.0 and 2.2.1 in Cooker. We don't have the newest Nautilus, though, I don't think. That not nice, but it's simply too late. If you want to test the new nautilus, get my private packages: http://wwwtec.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~waschk/eel-2.2.2-1gpw.i586.rpm http://wwwtec.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~waschk/libeel2_2-2.2.2-1gpw.i586.rpm http://wwwtec.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~waschk/libeel2_2-devel-2.2.2-1gpw.i586.rpm http://wwwtec.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~waschk/nautilus-2.2.2-1gpw.i586.rpm http://wwwtec.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~waschk/libnautilus2-2.2.2-1gpw.i586.rpm http://wwwtec.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~waschk/libnautilus2-devel-2.2.2-1gpw.i586.rpm http://wwwtec.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~waschk/eel-2.2.2-1gpw.src.rpm http://wwwtec.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~waschk/nautilus-2.2.2-1gpw.src.rpm CU -- Götz Waschk master of computer science University of Rostock http://wwwtec.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~waschk/waschk.asc for PGP key -- Logout Fascism! -- Would you happen to have a changelog for this release of nautilus/GNOME? -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Sent 0.02 seconds ago
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 1392] [kdebase] log in as root
urpmi.setup? And you don't need broadband to install kdm. Needs probably less than 5 minutes with a modem. Thats a bit misleading. The hdlist takes an hour and fifteen minutes to download on a 56k. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... fastmail
Re: [Cooker] [GnomeTAB] Anyone for this one ?
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:45:54 +0100, Fabien ILLIDE [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi guys ! I've open http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2566 some times ago. If GnomeTab will be included on 9.1, is it possible to move it from this not-foundable place (With Nautilis, ROX...) to a not-easy-to-find-but-will-be-better place like Multimedia/Sound ? Remember GnomeTAB is a tool for write tablatures (let's say for guitar, original isn't it ?) , so musicians have often a look in multimedia/sound (more than in File Tools, at least Outils Fichiers in french) I know it is not a really important bug, but... ;) All stupid little irritatins IMHO are good bugs (-; -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own
Re: [Cooker] bugs i've found so far
On 13 Mar 2003 01:40:23 +, Adam Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 23:36, Buchan Milne wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 22:42, Buchan Milne wrote: As I said, I have not tested this, but what happens if you change the default application fonts (which I assume gnome-font-properties uses in it's dialog) to be something unreadable (symbols, or too small)? Can an average user read enough of the dialog to change it back? The font selection dialog is OK / Cancel. Once you OK out of the box, the font you chose is instantly applied. If you Cancel out of the box, no change is made. This seems perfectly sensible to me. OK, it is as bad as I thought. Try this: Get to gnome-font-properties somehow, change the first font (I can't read mine now, but it was probably Application Font, if you change it to (say) OpenSymbol, hit OK, now the whole dialog is unreadable. At this point I would expect to be able to hit ESC or close the dialog to lose my changes (which I can do at least in KDE, probably Windows too), but no, I have had my fonts nuked. Try going back to change the font, but now, since the font names use the Application Font, I can't read them now. It is not too difficult to put back, but this kind of thing can create unnecessary work for the help desk. So you want to add an entirely unnecessary extra back-out stage purely to save the probably suicidally stupid luser who would select OpenSymbol, see in the preview box that it was ALL FRICKIN SYMBOLS, and then hit OK? I'm not biting. -- adamw I've done this myself. Its not too hard to click on the change font box and click the first font on the list. There IS a preview. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - And now for something completely different
Re: [Cooker] Fwd: [Contrib-Rpm] kmess-1.0-1mdk
All well and good but Gaim pretty much negates the need for another one. On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 01:16:56 +0100, Pascal [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: -- Message transmis -- Subject: [Contrib-Rpm] kmess-1.0-1mdk Date: Mercredi 12 Mars 2003 23:00 From: Per Øyvind Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Changelog List [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Contrib-RPM] --=-=-= Name: kmessRelocations: (not relocateable) Version : 1.0 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 1mdk Build Date: Wed Mar 12 22:55:41 Packager: Per Øyvind Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://kmess.sourceforge.net Summary : Replaces strings in all files of a directory hahem the k-mess is in the summary :))) Description : A complete MSN Messenger for KDE and Linux. Very easy to use. If you have to use MSN Chat and/or Hotmail mostly, you must install this package. --=-=-= * Wed Mar 12 2003 Per Øyvind Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1.0-1mdk - initial mdk package -- Pascal __ Running 6:45, 3 users, load average: 0.75, 0.29, 0.26 (gcc version 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk)) Kernel Linux version 2.4.21-0.13mdkenterprise -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software or over the web
Re: [Cooker] question on ftp sites
Maybe putting a Did you know? blurb in the installer (something like Did you know that urpmi simplifies installing new software; with only one command you can install anything from the rich library of MandrakeLinux packages. There's even a graphical version, rpmdrake., perhaps). -- Levi Ramsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sounds like a great idea to me. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 3026] [xmms] xmms can't work with KDE
Since Mandrake uses KDE with arts as the default desktop setup, maybe Mandrake's XMMS package should default to arts output? Sounds like more of a bug in KDE to me and a hack of a solution. Why punish everyone else for a KDE bug? -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own
Re: [Cooker] [Bug 3046] [lyx] Package too old :-)
It's certainly true that v1.3 works very well. I have been using it on RC1 and RC2 and have not had any problems at all with it. It's very backward not to include it. Backward or not, there are more serious bugs to contend with. -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access your email from home and the web
