Re: [newbie] The 2nd Mandrake 8 CD

2001-09-13 Thread George Petri 

On Wednesday 12 September 2001 23:08, Mr S Ganesan wrote:
 dear sir,
 Could u kindly give me the site from where i can download MK linux 8.1?

I don't believe that 8.1 is out yet.

When the *final* release is out, go to www.linux-mandrake.com or 
www.mandrakesoft.com.

It is very big (2x650mb) if you are using a modem connection.

George



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Re: [newbie] The 2nd Mandrake 8 CD

2001-09-12 Thread George Petri 

On Monday 10 September 2001 00:07, George Petri complained about
Mandrake 8.0 expert-mode graphical installation not even prompting for 
the 2nd CD :).  btw, I made a pure reiserfs 600 mb / partition and a 64 mb 
swap.

I was looking at /root/ddebug.log and found this:

* step `miscellaneous' finished
* starting step `doPartitionDisks'
* warning: bad magic number at /usr/bin/perl-install/partition_table_empty.pm 
line 31.
* found a dos partition table on /dev/hda at sector 0
* test_for_bad_drives(/dev/hda)
* win parts: hda1
* mounting /dev/hda6 on / as type reiserfs
* running: /usr/bin/insmod_ 2 /dev/tty5 -f /tmp/reiserfs.o
* calling mount(/dev/hda6, , reiserfs, -1058209792, )
* warning: mount failed: No such file or directory at 
/usr/bin/perl-install/fs.pm line 220.
* step `doPartitionDisks' finished
* starting step `formatPartitions'
* swapon called with hda7
* mounting /dev/hda6 on /mnt/ as type reiserfs
* calling mount(/dev/hda6, /mnt, reiserfs, -1058209792, )
* mounting /dev/hda1 on /mnt/mnt/windows as type vfat
* running: /usr/bin/insmod_ 2 /dev/tty5 -f /tmp/fat.o
* running: /usr/bin/insmod_ 2 /dev/tty5 -f /tmp/vfat.o
* calling mount(/dev/hda1, /mnt/mnt/windows, vfat, -1058209792, check=relaxed)
* warning: can't open /etc/raidtab for reading: No such file or directory
* step `formatPartitions' finished
* starting step `choosePackages'
* getFile Mandrake/base/hdlists:
* trying to read hdlist1.cz for medium 1
* getFile Mandrake/base/hdlist1.cz:
* read 990 headers in hdlist1.cz
* trying to read hdlist2.cz for medium 2
* getFile Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz:
* psUsingHdlists read 990 headers on 2 hdlists
* getFile Mandrake/base/depslist.ordered:
* getFile Mandrake/base/provides:
* ignoring compat-glibc-7.2-2.1.3.3mdk in depslist is not in hdlist
* ignoring kernel-enterprise-2.4.3-20mdk in depslist is not in hdlist
* ignoring tk-8.3.2-7mdk in depslist is not in hdlist
* ignoring tetex-1.0.7-21mdk in depslist is not in hdlist
* ignoring libhermes1-1.3.2-5mdk in depslist is not in hdlist
* ignoring MySQL-shared-3.23.36-2mdk in depslist is not in hdlist

[hundreds of lines of more of the same]

* ignoring zsh-doc-3.1.9-6mdk in depslist is not in hdlist
* selecting default package as vim-minimal-6.0-0.16mdk.i586
* selecting default package as kernel-2.4.3-20mdk.i586
* getFile Mandrake/base/rpmsrate:
* unknown package `WindowMaker'
* unknown package `Epplets'
* unknown package `WMRack'
* unknown package `enlightenment'
* unknown package `ethemes'
* unknown package `gtk-themes'

[more and more of the same]

* unknown package `wireless-tools'
* getFile Mandrake/base/compssUsers:
* low memory install, using single CD installation (as it is not ejectable)
* getAvailableSpace_mounted 570144 KB
* available size 491MB (corrected 424MB)
* selecting default package as apache-mod_perl-1.3.19_1.25-3mdk.i586
* setSelectedFromCompssList: reached size 594MB, up to indice 4 (less than 0)
* setSelectedFromCompssList: Aurora 

These files were put in my /root folder after install:
ddebug.log install.log
ddebug.log1   report.bug
auto_inst.cfg.pl  tmp/

Things on the second CD such as Penguin Command, TiMidity and DosEMU
*do* appear in the Software Manager (rpmdrake) as part of the second CD.
But, does any one know why the install program didn't even prompt me for the
2nd CD?

Thanks in advance,
George





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Re: [newbie] The 2nd Mandrake 8 CD

2001-09-09 Thread George Petri 

On Sunday 09 September 2001 22:59, you wrote:
 It depnds on the packages you choose.  Likely you didn't choose anything
 that was on the second disk.
I wanted to install DosEMU and TiMidity and Penguin Command (2nd CD)
but they weren't even one of the choices.


 I've installed and re-installed LM8 several times over the past few months
 and I've noticed that a minimal install (selecting configuration and the
 KDE and GNOME desktops)  doesn't require the second CD at all.

 If there is the opossibility you missed something during install, it might
 be the first step of choosing packages where the install program asks you
 if you have the 2nd CD available for installing from.  I've always
 installed in the expert mode and it always asks.  HTH.

I've been through the setup program three times after stuffing up the install
by having the X Test Configuraiton crash the install program, when someone
tripped over the power plug and when I forgot to choose reiserfs.
Is there a single-cd version of mandrake?  Perhaps my friend burnt that and
the 2nd cd of the two-cd version?

thanks again,
george



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[newbie] The 2nd Mandrake 8 CD

2001-09-08 Thread George Petri 


A friend of mine burnt me a copy of the 2-cd version of mandrake 8.
I did a full install (expert mode, medium security) and it *never* asked
me to put in the 2nd cd (mandrake 7.2 does).

Do I have to manually install everything on the 2nd cd (rpm -ivh 
/mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS2/*.rpm) or did I miss something in the
install?

TIA,
George



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