Re: [Cooker] Saving Mandrake - a Users Perspective
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 December 2002 18:25, Bruno Prior wrote: How on earth can a support incident only cost $10? That doesn't even pay for an employee to read the incident report. Because Mandrake employee's do not due tech support, Mandrakes Expert problem solvers are all users. The money is split between the user expert and Mandrake. They have to sign up to answer the questions that come with the boxed sets for nothing. Telephone support was done by a outside contractor. That's how they do it. The few times I used Mandrake Expert when I bought boxed sets, I found the actual support to be next to worthless (my opinion) others may have had better experencies. - -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed SuSE-Linux 8.1 Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt jabber.org ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7 Kernel version 2.4.19-4GB Current Linux uptime: 1 days 1 hours 28 minutes. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+DY/ommsm1DCXO8QRAvPXAJ98QIzJr9pyRVrGwPuMZwBI421xcQCfXZm4 Y7x5w9H3og1lff5zjW3EBig= =TsmN -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [Cooker] Saving Mandrake - a Users Perspective
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 December 2002 05:58, Bruno Prior wrote: Ralph De Witt wrote: How on earth can a support incident only cost $10? That doesn't even pay for an employee to read the incident report. Because Mandrake employee's do not due tech support, Mandrakes Expert problem solvers are all users. [Snip] The few times I used Mandrake Expert when I bought boxed sets, I found the actual support to be next to worthless (my opinion) Exactly. You get what you pay for. Support needs to be a significant revenue stream for any Free Software business. Mandrake's support model is seriously flawed, and consequently they are struggling with their revenue streams. They need to provide some means to escalate support issues from MandrakeExpert to Mandrakesoft employees, and charge significantly more for such support. In return, such escalated incidents need to guarantee decent response times. Cheers, Bruno Prior Agreeded. The current support system just left a bad taste in my mouth. - -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed SuSE-Linux 8.1 Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt jabber.org ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7 Kernel version 2.4.19-4GB Current Linux uptime: 1 days 11 hours 28 minutes. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Dhr1mmsm1DCXO8QRAm3mAKCbW1z2wgxc7f/NcNCX4wxKk+KKjwCgpIrK O4a2H0fznhWIz74xHY8ksjI= =gJWr -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[Cooker] Mandrake 9.0 Installation Problem Report
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: I attempted to install Mandrake 9.0 from the Mandrake 9.0 DVD. The install failed with the error message unable to mount CDROM, then unable to mount CDROM2. This was at the second stage of the install. My kit was a LITEON 16X DVD as primary on secondary ide. I believe the model was 163.-02, the secondary was a LITEON CD-RW model 16101B. My Motherboard is a MSI KT3 ULTRA2. Both drives worked on installs of Mandrake 8.2 and SuSE 8.1 and SuSE 8.0. Nothing I did would get these drives to mount. To install Mandrake 9.0 I was forced to buy a new DVD a Toshiba model SD-M 1612. After the install the DVD and CD-RW work as expected. Hope this helps make the version better at installing. - -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed Mandrake-Linux 9.0 Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt jabber.org ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7 Kernel version 2.4.19-16mdk Current Linux uptime: 8:52, days users hours minutes. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE96j2tU4tFWKOpZf8RAsesAJ4nRmrWxqNwEeH/25sGItGbjH524gCeKUxu a4pS/JlhH9HCrZXjxXtKbH0= =v8H2 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[Cooker] Need help with Mandrake 9 installation on a MSI KT3 ULTRA2 MOBO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello: I am trying to install Mandrake 9 on a MSI KT3 Ultra2 (model 6380E) motherboard. The MSI KT3 ULTRA is listed as tested, but I am having no joy with the install. I get as far as pressing enter and then the screen displays the dialouge box that stats it is trying to access the DVD, then the CDROM looking for the install disk. That is as far as it goes. I have tried the noapic, and noauto modes with the same results. I am able to get Mandrake 8.2, and SuSE 8.0 and 8.1 to install, however 8.1 is not stable, it freezes daily. This is a new mobo with a Athalon XP2200+ and 512 MB of PC2700 memory on a single stick., the case has a 300 watt power supply. Can someone help me to figure out what is wrong so that I can install Mandarke 9. I have tried all that my knowledge has. Thanks for your help. - -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed SuSE-Linux 8.1 Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt jabber.org ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7 Kernel version 2.4.19-4GB Current Linux uptime: 33 days 2 hours minutes. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9xAQX8irP9FWaA+cRAgtOAKCrmc8ujEwJ1Grf+qSeGaV+t6ydXgCeI1NL Rj51JdTK6wSG7+ZHPwCkNZw= =zWnK -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [Cooker]problems with cdrom-driver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I tried to install Mandrake 9.0 on my system: MSI 845E Max2-BLR mainboard P4 2.0 Ghz Northwood CPU 512 MB DDR2100 RAM (Crucial) Pioneer DVD-ROM AO6S/106S LG 24x10x40x (Model name: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8240B) WD1200JB-00CRA1 hard-drive WD400BB-00AUA1 hard-drive Anyways: My problem is this: The cd's boot fine, but when it is about to load the installer, it says it can't find any cdrom-drive, and if i try harddisk install, it can't find that either why, i boot's fine i don't understand. if someone has a clue on this, please directly e-mail me in addition to replying to this mailing list. Oyvind: Sorry for mangling your name do not know how to get the slash in the O. I do not know what the problem is but I have had the same probem with a MSI KT3 ULTRA2 MOBO Atholon XP 2200+ MAXTOR drives and LITON DVD and CDRW drives. There has been much discussion in the past about the iso disk size and the speed at which they were burned. Some CD-RW will not burn a 700 MB disk, also the speed can effect the install, CD's burned at a high rate may not work. Mine were burned at 8x speed. I am hopeing that this is the problem. I have not had any problem with install SuSE or other Mandrake versions that I have commercial disks for. So I am waiting for my Mandrake DVD to arrive in the mail. And I am hoping that it is a problem with the speed the disc was burned at and nothing more. I also tried underclocking the MOBO but that did not work. If any one has a solution or better understanding, please help out as I would like to get Mandrake installed. - -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed SuSE-Linux 8.1 Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt jabber.org ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7 Kernel version 2.4.19-4GB Current Linux uptime: 1 days 29 hours minutes. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9tILL8irP9FWaA+cRAnPvAJ9zf91UQgQ/AtFkNBPFigmUu2XxQwCeJ5pT zmVTQisV0QzDNfSl+e9H0AE= =H6Bh -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [Cooker] 9.0 and next
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 September 2002 12:13 pm, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: Hi Warly, On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Warly wrote: Please comment on what you liked, disliked in the 9.0 building, testing and problem reporting process. From a translator perspective, I'd like to comment that the continuing string changes in the Mandrake tools sometimes are driving me up the wall. Up until this weekend there have been string changes without the translators even being notified in any way (I wonder how many developers know about the cooker-i18n list?). This is making the Mandrake experience a less pleasant to non-English users because they get confronted with mixed english/own language interfaces. To make a long story short: next time I would like to see a string freeze that can only be broken in special cases and with notification of translators in due time. The way the Gnome Translation Project works, can be used as a model. regards, Hi all: First of I would like to say that all at Mandarke and volunteers and developers did very well with 9.0. It is going to be a great release. I am pleased that the beta cycle was a little longer than 8.2. This has certainly helped to eleminate most bugs. I have no comments as to the building and testing phases. But I have comments on the reporting phase. I liked that there were three ways to report bugs, but I think that needs to be limited to one way. I really got mad when reporting 3 or 4 bugs during the RC3 portion via MandrakeExpert when I was told to get a Bugzilla account and report them myself, as the expert told me he ws told not to do any more bug reports because they were all usless. This really angered me. I agree that there are a lot of bad bug reports with a open beta like we do. I have probbly done a few my self. But I liked the MandrakeExpert way of doing it because I had someone more knowledgeable than me to look at it and say, hey how about doing this and this and sending the info. Or send the contains of such and such file. This allowed me to turn a bad bug report into a useful one, and one that was taken away from me I got very angry. I think bug reporting should have only one way to report, and that it should be a two step process. One submitte a report, get feed back as to other things that are need, when useful, it is submitted. I think that some sort of feed back needs to be given to the person reporting the bug when it is actioned and completed. Any way just my $.02, I hope it helps make the next beta testing go round smoother. - -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed MandrakeLinux 8.2 Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt jabber.org ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7 Kernel version 2.4.18-6mdk Current Linux uptime: 2:45, days user hours minutes. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9kiBi8irP9FWaA+cRAqf6AJ4w/j5hEsLN3HguwK1DH2nWac+WvwCgrcDY i7Cuqr3WZIuuKuTr1AThB5A= =LX8b -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[Cooker] MDK 9.0 RC3 Problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just did a fresh install of MDK 9.0 and have observered the following problems: 1. For the first install I selected a expert install, selected auto partition allocation with /usr, selected the software catagories to install, clicked throught the individual package selections, and the install hung with about 1 min remaining. Had to use reset to get out of install, I then tryed a new install this time selecting regular and it completed with the exception of network setup. 2. Network setup selecting both lan or the cable setup is now broken. The set up demands the optional gateway ip address. I use a lan setup to access the internet using dhcp and do not have one. The same problem existis with the network set up using MCC. 3. Mouse setup is now broken. With the installation it appears to work, but did not get the scroll wheel working. In MCC Hardware, I can select the mouse type, but then does not all the normal run the wheel, move the mouse. It goes from select mouse type to back to the menu. The result is menus pop up all over the screen. 4. The eject command is not working properly for my cd. I right click on the menu and left select the eject command and the tray opens for a few seconds then closes, much to swiftly to get the cd out. My work a round was to close all windows. Select removable media again and then select eject agian this time it worked. Let's hope that these can be corrected before final. They all worked in the previous RC. All and all I find 9.0 to be shaping up to be a fine release. But perhaps a bit rushed, perhaps a 4th RC is in order. - -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed MandrakeLinux 8.2 Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt jabber.org ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7 Kernel version 2.4.18-6mdk Current Linux uptime: 1 days 1 hours 36 minutes. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9jDOa8irP9FWaA+cRApJVAKCiqXx07z79YjpEeYLGhgqyaGBo8wCgqE6e 32wrqAoOWfE1cmUsS3qM4ZE= =014b -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [Cooker] RPMDRAKE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 03 September 2002 02:55 am, Adam Williamson wrote: On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 03:31, gud wrote: How about Package(s) installed OK (or successfully instead of OK)? -- -- Igor Yeah that sounds a lot better, no errors suggests that errors were expected. We're still not addressing the underlying issue that, if I understand the earlier messages right, you can select a bunch of packages in rpmdrake, hit install, and get back a dialog that says Packages installed successfully (or whatever) - even though no packages have been installed. I've thought about this a bit, but frankly I don't see a way to have one dialog box which deals both with this situation and with a situation where the installation really *did* go as planned. As I see it, the only solution is to either stop the first situation happening at all, or have rpmdrake detect it somehow and return a proper error message. Adamw For what it worth I agree. I started a download and one rpm was not able to be fetched, returned a error message stating sign on name, password was bad (I think the server was just maxed out on users) to me this was a inaccurate dialouge box. Then I selecected not to continue with out this rpm, and the download stops and I get the stupid all successfully installed dialouge, when I no nothing was installed because I was watching progress. I hope this can be fixed. - -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed MandrakeLinux 8.2 Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7 Kernel version 2.4.18-6mdk Current Linux uptime: 32 days 1 hours minutes. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9dSt68irP9FWaA+cRAhu8AJ98Hd7OCwqutJ8Q93Z8MxlvIo4cUQCggzN+ nLhfkuVyyjVxcsnmJ8X9lVw= =sPU6 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[Cooker-firewall] Release Date?
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Re: [Cooker] test!
Looks Like it got here to me!!! :-) - Original Message - From: "Claudio" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 4:45 PM Subject: [Cooker] test! WHY DO MY MAILS NEVER ARRIVE TO THE MAILING LIST!?!?!?! :(
Re: [Cooker] all_rsync.pl
Hey Ron, I need to get the smp kernel for my machine what do I need to do to add them in?? Thanks, Ralph
Re: [Cooker] State of the Distro
On Sunday 29 October 2000 10:36, you wrote: "Greg A. Bur" wrote: Good evening ladies and gentlemen and all the ships at sea. I agree Ron to me 7.2 stil has a few bugs to it. A lot of my progs wont load or take forever like gnapster you start it and 5 min. later it might come up. Groaster doesent work or grip etc.. I dont think this one was ready yet. I am downloading cooker now I will go back to it. Ralph Well, while the mirrors are full of something that purports to be 7.2, in both tree and CD iso image forms, as of a few seconds ago, there has not been any official release announcement, therefore, quite simply, Mandrake 7.2 just does not yet officially exist. So, Walmart, etc. must be lying - refer them to your local fair trading office. Demand double your money returned in full. -- WHEREVER YOU GO THERE YOU ARE AND WHEREVER YOUR HEAD GOES YOUR ASS WILL FOLLOW!! :-)
Re: [Cooker] State of the Distro
On Sunday 29 October 2000 13:18, you wrote: It depends on which one your talking about :-) and that;s all I'm gonna say!! -- WHEREVER YOU GO THERE YOU ARE AND WHEREVER YOUR HEAD GOES YOUR ASS WILL FOLLOW!! :-)
Re: [Cooker] test
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, you wrote: test: anybody receiving mail from the list??? loud clear... yep -- WHEREVER YOU GO THERE YOU ARE AND WHEREVER YOUR ASS GOES YOUR HEAD WILL FOLLOW !!
Re: [Cooker] How to make iso from the hard disk.
I think the link to your page is wrong please check it. I cant get there from any message so far. I'm interested in the english download only. Thanks, Ralph If all you want is an English English installation you can save a few hundred megabytes of download by using the fast rsync download from my web page: http://members.optushome.com/ronst/ Using this, the tree download for 7.2beta needs less than 1 GByte. -- WHEREVER YOU GO THERE YOU ARE AND WHEREVER YOUR HEAD GOES YOUR ASS WILL FOLLOW!!
[Cooker] server
Hi All, I am useing the rsync server at sunnet.se and it's slow as a snail. Is there another good rsync around. Thanks, Ralph
[Cooker] printer
Hey List, I am running beta 1 and was wondering why my printer dont work.. It says it's there and all if i go under hardware drake it sets up fine but when i try to print something it just f..king sits there oh its a cheap ho 610. thanks, Ralph -- WHEREVER YOUR HEAD GOES YOUR ASS WILL FOLLOW!!
[Cooker] how to
Hello, Can someone tell me what is the best way to do an ftp install of cooker or beta 2. Thank you, Ralph -- WHEREVER YOUR HEAD GOES YOUR ASS WILL FOLLOW!!
[Cooker] kpackage
Hey All, Was wondering if anyone has gotten kpacke working in beta 2. If so how?? thanks, byte
Re: [Cooker] bugs bugs bugs
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, you wrote: Just wanted to report some problems. I'm not sure whats going on but Control Center in kde2 is mandrake beta release is still crashing on signal 11 I'm getting the same message with kpackage and some other stuff also.
[Cooker] cooker
Hey All, I'm new to the cooker list and I was wondering after I rsynic all the cooker files then what. How do I set it up? Thanks, Ralph -- WHEREEVER YOUR HEAD GOES YOUR ASS WILL FOLLOW!!
RE: [Cooker] iso of Linux-Mandrake 7.2 beta
that's what I'm talking about where is it!!! ok - where is it??? I've been checking mirrors all morning with no luck. I can't even find the complete non-iso version (found a 7.2 beta folder on rpmfind, but it had nothing in the /images directory. Mike List-Owner: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] iso of Linux-Mandrake 7.2 beta 'lo folks, happy to announce to you before everyone else that you can grab the new Linux-Mandrake 7.2 beta (Ulysses) iso files for CD 1 and 2 from your favorite iso mirror. Remember that it is our first beta (alpha ?) and that a lot of work still needs to be done, enjoy anyway. A new iso will be made in one or 2 weeks, and release candidates should appear by the end of the month. Anyone wanna make an announcement on slashdot .. -- Geoff -- WHEREEVER YOUR HEAD GOES YOUR ASS WILL FOLLOW!!
