RE: [newbie] 7.0-2 version
Thank you so much for the answer! It's nice to know that there are actually some people here that want to help us newbies rather than chastise them. Checking with uname -a and looking at the kernel on rpmfind.net proved that they are the same, so I have the current version. Again thank you for the help! Greg -Original Message- From: Mike Corbeil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 8:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.0-2 version Try % uname -a If this doesn't work, then check the versions of the kernel images and other boot files in the /boot directory. If neither of these work, then I'm not sure how else to check this. There may be a configuration file somewhere, which might contain this information; however, if neither of the above methods provides the information you want, then they should and you might want to report this in the Mandrake bug reports. mike Greg Martz wrote: I have been hearing about the above version, but saw nothing about it on the linux-mandrake.com web site. I then checked rpmfind.net and checking the VERSION file in both current and 7.0 I see that it is indeed marked as 7.0-2 (Air) When I do a Ctrl-Alt-F1, my mandrake install says 7.0 (Air). Are these the same versions? I have looked at the time/date stamps of all the files in the base folder for both my copy and the copy on rpmfind.net and they are the same. Is there a way I can check to see if I have 7.02 (Air) before downloading the whole package again? Thanks! Greg
[newbie] rpmdrake
I am trying to add an ftp site into rpmdrake, and don't understand what hdlist means. Here is the steps you take to get to this item: 1. Open rpmdrake 2. Click on Configuration.Add location of packages.FTP The third box says "For FTP and HTTP, you need to give the location for hdist. It must be relative to the URL above." What does that mean? I can find no documentation for rpmdrake, so can't go there for my sources. I'm trying to add rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/contrib/RPMS and can't find a hdlist relative to that URL. Also, are there any other good RPM locations that I can add to my rpmdrake? Thanks!! Greg
RE: [newbie] installation from hard disk
I just did this, so let me tell you how I set up my HD. Here are the steps: 1. Create a directory off the root of your installation HD called mandrake 2. Create the following directories under mandrake (base, instimage, mdkinst, rpms) 3. Head to mandrake's FTP site, or your favorite mirror 4. download *.* into each of the above directories. Sounds like you are missing some critical files in the base directory. Greg -Original Message-From: Yantai Arts Crafts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 3:36 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] installation from hard disk Hello,everybody, I'm planning to install Mandrake 7.0 in my mini laptop,which doesn't have a CDRom, so I want to install from hard disk. I copied all the files to hard disk,made a bootable installation diskette using hd.img, and began the installation. But after I chose the parititon,format it,when the system looking for available packages, it gave an error report: missing some base files. I tried it on my desktop,there is the same error. Can anyone give me some suggestion about this problem? thank you. Regards Liu
RE: [newbie] modems and soud cards
To setup a simple sound card, you open a terminal session in Mandrake (as root), and type "sndconfig" without the quotes. Then follow the simple prompts. Since I don't have a modem at work I can't help with that. Although the installation manual available on mandrakes wonderful web site does detail the steps to do that. Greg -Original Message-From: Andrew Doe (Web master) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 7:43 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] modems and soud cards how do you set up internal modems and soundcards in ,linux-mandrake-7.0 regards andrew doe (happy linux user)
[newbie] New installation
Wow! After trying several versions of redhat, 2 of slackware, and 1 of TurboLinux I decided to get Mandrake and it installed first time. No other Linux distributions would install for me, way to go Mandrake!! Only problem right now I seem to be having is with the Mandrake Update program. I have been trying to run it and none of the mirrors seem to work. MDKUpdates opens and says "Please wait while fetching the list of upgrade packages...", waits for several minutes, then says I should try another mirror. I tried manually FTP'ing to a couple of the sites and was able to connect and login anonymously with no problems. A couple of other sites gave me a DNS error after logging in, I'm not sure about that problem either. Any ideas? Thanks! Greg
