[Cooker] 7.0 Updates Location
I don't know whether this is the right place for this. If not, my apologies From the web site, - February 5 2000 - New ISO image available Due to a bug in the installer that caused problems when resizing certain FAT partitions and some additional smaller issues, a new Mandrake 7.0 ISO image called mandrake70-2.iso is available for download at the usual locations. If you have the previous ISO image, just replace your Mandrake/RPMS/draxtools-1.0-43mdk.i586.rpm package by drakxtools-1.0-44mdk.i586.rpm, upgrade to the new boot images and use them exclusively. -- --- There is an inconsistent treatment of "updates" at present. The update to draxtools is in the main RPMS directory and not in the updates area, while the updated boot images are in the updates area and not in the main ISO area. This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering the e-mail to the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this e-mail in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify our office on 61 3 9532 5444.
Re: [Cooker] 7.0 release delayed!
This idea didn't work for me. Here's what happened I went to install MDK7.0 on an 8 GB disk with WIN98 on it. Told partitioner to give 2 GB to Linux (leaving 6GB for Windows) After it all went horribly wrong and I ended up with a corrupt Windows that wouldn't boot, I started from scratch. I deleted the Linux partition (and swap) using the MDK 7 installer, rebooted to DOS, ran fdisk, deleted and recreated my DOS partition. This said everything was fine and showed an 8GB partition. I reinstalled WIN98 (and all my apps), only to find it thought I had a 6GB drive still. Partition Magic 5 fixed it, but only after I resized the Win98 partition to 6GB, then back to 8GB. So, after a day of re-installing, the cost of Partition Magic 5, I would concur that these sorts of problems should have been cleared up before release. On my second machine, which has had about every prior release on Madrake on it without a problem, the install problems are different but just as bad. It's a P120, 32 MB RAM, 1X6 and 1X2GB drive, 6XCDROM, Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro. After numerous attempts where the graphical installer wouldn't work, I finally got it going with the text installer. The text installer is not as good as what was there. It would not allow individual package selection. So finally, I'm up and running. But no mouse. Mouseconfig had linked /dev/mouse to "ttyS0". After manually linking it to /dev/ttyS0, i got my mouse. How basic an issue is this Now to configuring sound. Whereas the sound card (SB16 equivalent) had been picked up by previous versions of MDK, 7.0 did not configure it correctly. Had to manually set the DMA to the correct setting. A minor issue, but I'm curious as to why. Next, KDE. I chose the video card, monitor and setting the same as they've been in the past and it said it coudn't do it. By this stage, I'm fast losing confidence in MDK. Simple things that worked in the past now don't work. Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 01/02/2000 06:40:41 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: [Cooker] 7.0 release delayed! granted...the install partitioner doesn't work well at all with any preexisting windows partitions. have been advised by powerquest that once you use a partitioner, don't switch to others as it may cause other problems. you'll need to go back into the mdk install prg and del the partitions that you created with it or moved to be able veiw the partitions again. thought this problem would have been cleared before the final release no? On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, you wrote: Thank you, Corrupt Windows partition is what I ended up with. using such a CD to start the installation may result in some cases in corruption of your Windows partition if it is resized during the installation. Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 31/01/2000 12:19:53 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Cooker [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [Cooker] 7.0 release delayed! All, There are new floppy images in the updates/7.0 directory of the mirrors. Included is README.img, which I include inline below. Note particularly (and with great joy and relief) the final paragraph (big G). - The following files are boot images which correct a problem in the ISO image mandrake70.iso dated Jan 12, 2000: cdrom-2.img: install from CD-ROM hd-2.img: install from hard-disk network-2.img: install from ftp/nfs/http pcmcia-2.img: install from pcmcia devices If you intend to install Linux-Mandrake from mandrake70.iso on a machine that already has Windows installed, you must start the installation process with a bootable floppy disk created from cdrom-2.img, as described in the files INSTALL and install.htm. Although a CD created from mandrake70.iso is bootable, using such a CD to start the installation may result in some cases in corruption of your Windows partition if it is resized during the installation. To use the boot floppy: 1. Place the floppy in your first floppy drive (A:) and reboot your machine. The installation procedure will be started from the floppy. 2. If prompted, select your CD-ROM drive from the list provided. 3. When prompted, insert CD #1 and continue the installation. Note: On some systems you will need to insert both the floppy and the CD together and reboot. In this case, be sure that the install starts from the floppy and not the CD. A new ISO image mandrake70-2.iso correcting the problem will be available shortly. Keeping its dedication to quality, MandrakeSoft has chosen to postpone the commercial release of its Linux-Mandrake 7.0 distribution to ensure a maximal quality for this product. --- -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux. -- Sent from: Lattitude (deg): 32.7130 Longitude (deg): -117.1530 Altitude (ft):410.0 GMT to Local (hrs):-8.0
Re: [Cooker] 7.0 release delayed!
You make it sound as though I was dealing with beta software. I was commenting on the inadequacy of a released product ( http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/announce-air.php3 ) to deal correctly with my data (I got it 3 days after it was released), when there was no mention anywhere of any problems re partitioning. In fact, Mandrake use this as a big marketing tool with no mention of any problems anywhere on the site There is still no reference to 7.0 in the updates area of the site. Problems with partitioning on install have now been acknowledged as have other install problems. There are just too many problems with 7.0 for it to be considered release quality. Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 01/02/2000 12:05:30 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: [Cooker] 7.0 release delayed! first off...as i said, resizing windows or "adding partitions" was a no-no". did that and when booting back to dos and using pqmagic stated, "partition errorpartition wasn't visible or no partitions to show". to resolve, had to go back a delete the swap partition that i added. tell ya one thing, your confidence is won pretty quick! me, i said, "ahh, what the heck, i'll let it make "just" my swap partition." glad i was safe with my data. just had to go back and delete the swap. also, you could have given powerquest a call for techsupport, could have just been a "value" that needed to be edited with their utility apps w/i /utitilites/dos somewhere. (had to do this also) last item, "data not backed-up" is "lost data"! This is a primary rule when dealing with any computer. what would you do if a lightning bolt struck your hdd? Me? I would simpley say "oh well" and pop in my cd-rom and re-install (windows98? probabely needed to be reinstalled anyways..usually is the case with mine anyways). On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote: This idea didn't work for me. Here's what happened I went to install MDK7.0 on an 8 GB disk with WIN98 on it. Told partitioner to give 2 GB to Linux (leaving 6GB for Windows) After it all went horribly wrong and I ended up with a corrupt Windows that wouldn't boot, I started from scratch. I deleted the Linux partition (and swap) using the MDK 7 installer, rebooted to DOS, ran fdisk, deleted and recreated my DOS partition.This said everything was fine and showed an 8GB partition. I reinstalled WIN98 (and all my apps), only to find it thought I had a 6GB drive still. Partition Magic 5 fixed it, but only after I resized the Win98 partition to 6GB, then back to 8GB. So, after a day of re-installing, the cost of Partition Magic 5, I would concur that these sorts of problems should have been cleared up before release. On my second machine, which has had about every prior release on Madrake on it without a problem, the install problems are different but just as bad. It's a P120, 32 MB RAM, 1X6 and 1X2GB drive, 6XCDROM, Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro. After numerous attempts where the graphical installer wouldn't work, I finally got it going with the text installer. The text installer is not as good as what was there. It would not allow individual package selection. So finally, I'm up and running. But no mouse. Mouseconfig had linked /dev/mouse to "ttyS0". After manually linking it to /dev/ttyS0, i got my mouse. How basic an issue is this Now to configuring sound. Whereas the sound card (SB16 equivalent) had been picked up by previous versions of MDK, 7.0 did not configure it correctly. Had to manually set the DMA to the correct setting. A minor issue, but I'm curious as to why. Next, KDE. I chose the video card, monitor and setting the same as they've been in the past and it said it coudn't do it. By this stage, I'm fast losing confidence in MDK. Simple things that worked in the past now don't work. Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 01/02/2000 06:40:41 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: [Cooker] 7.0 release delayed! granted...the install partitioner doesn't work well at all with any preexisting windows partitions. have been advised by powerquest that once you use a partitioner, don't switch to others as it may cause other problems. you'll need to go back into the mdk install prg and del the partitions that you created with it or moved to be able veiw the partitions again. thought this problem would have been cleared before the final release no? On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, you wrote: Thank you, Corrupt Windows partition is what I ended up with. using such a CD to start the installation may result in some cases in corruption of your Windows partition if it is resized during the installation. Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 31/01/2000 12:19:53 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Cooker [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [Cooker] 7.0 release delayed! All, There are new floppy images in the
Re: [Cooker] 7.0 release delayed!
Thank you, Corrupt Windows partition is what I ended up with. using such a CD to start the installation may result in some cases in corruption of your Windows partition if it is resized during the installation. Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 31/01/2000 12:19:53 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Cooker [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: [Cooker] 7.0 release delayed! All, There are new floppy images in the updates/7.0 directory of the mirrors. Included is README.img, which I include inline below. Note particularly (and with great joy and relief) the final paragraph (big G). - The following files are boot images which correct a problem in the ISO image mandrake70.iso dated Jan 12, 2000: cdrom-2.img: install from CD-ROM hd-2.img: install from hard-disk network-2.img: install from ftp/nfs/http pcmcia-2.img: install from pcmcia devices If you intend to install Linux-Mandrake from mandrake70.iso on a machine that already has Windows installed, you must start the installation process with a bootable floppy disk created from cdrom-2.img, as described in the files INSTALL and install.htm. Although a CD created from mandrake70.iso is bootable, using such a CD to start the installation may result in some cases in corruption of your Windows partition if it is resized during the installation. To use the boot floppy: 1. Place the floppy in your first floppy drive (A:) and reboot your machine. The installation procedure will be started from the floppy. 2. If prompted, select your CD-ROM drive from the list provided. 3. When prompted, insert CD #1 and continue the installation. Note: On some systems you will need to insert both the floppy and the CD together and reboot. In this case, be sure that the install starts from the floppy and not the CD. A new ISO image mandrake70-2.iso correcting the problem will be available shortly. Keeping its dedication to quality, MandrakeSoft has chosen to postpone the commercial release of its Linux-Mandrake 7.0 distribution to ensure a maximal quality for this product. --- -- Regards, Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
Re: [Cooker] mandrake70.iso
Same problem here on two different machines. Is this being worked on / fixed ? At present I have Mandrake 7 CDROM which is totally useless. [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 28/01/2000 12:19:27 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: [Cooker] mandrake70.iso BTW, I just tried this on my IBM Thinkpad 380D and it asked me if I needed any PCMCIA devices for the install, I said no, it went ahead and loaded the second stage ramdisk and failed with the same error. I'm now batting 0/3 :( -Charlie On Thu 27 Jan at 19:10:48 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: On Fri 28 Jan at 01:20:31 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: alas no. not really diagnosticated yet :( what's your hardware? These are the two machines that I tried and on which the install failed: [Box 1]: - Dual Celeron 400 (overclocked to 500MHz) on an ASUS P2B-D motherboard - 64Mb PC100 RAM - 44x ATAPI cdrom - Tekram DC-390 SCSI adapter (although no SCSI devices attached) - SoundBlaster 64 AWE sound card - Intel EtherExpress Pro ethernet adapter [Box 2]: - AMD K6-2 380MHz on FIC PA-2013 motherboard - 128Mb PC100 RAM - Adaptec 2940UW SCSI adapter - Yamaha CRW4260 SCSI burner - 40x ATAPI cdrom - Yamaha PCI soundcard that isn't supported - Intel EtherExpress Pro ethernet adapter I also tried using some of the boot images that were on the cd, but it didn't get me any further. Cheers, -Charlie
Re: [Cooker] mandrake70.iso
Reasoning to go to 7.0 1. New PC - SoundBlaster live 2. dual CD's ( one a Ricoh 7060 SCSI). Supermount sounds useful. 3. Partitioning tool to help set it all up 4. Every previous version of Mandrake loaded successfully, so why not 7.0 5. It's released. After my problems (on my old faithful as well as my new box), I looked through alt.os.linux.mandrake There are numerous other issues with the installaiton. Any advice greatly appreciated. [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 28/01/2000 04:23:53 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: [Cooker] mandrake70.iso On Mon 28 Feb at 04:49:12 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: Same problem here on two different machines. Is this being worked on / fixed ? At present I have Mandrake 7 CDROM which is totally useless. I don't mean for this to sound accusatory, but I thought this would have been tested a bit more thoroughly before release. This seems to be a problem that unfortunately occurs more and more regularly regardless of distro. BTW: What was the reasoning for making the leap to 7.0 from 6.1?
