I have been using Mandrake 6.1 for a day or so
and have found a couple of glitches.
First problem:
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There is a font file named :
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts/beast wars.ttf
As you can see there is a space in the filename. This
filename is literally begging for trouble. It
After fighting a long battle named "True Type fonts under
Mandrake" I finally won. See my previous email to read
the description of the problem.
I noticed that Microsoft allows people to download fonts
from their website. I was wondering if they would let
Mandrake and others download them
Hello Terrapin,
Monday, Monday, September 20, 1999, you wrote:
Terrapin Sounds good. For Mandrake to be successful in attracting the
Terrapin beginners, it must take on the role of "sys admin" in order to get
Terrapin them going. Once they are in the door, they can learn more about the
Terrapin
Hello Takacs,
Monday, Monday, September 20, 1999, you wrote:
Takacs Sandor On 20 Sep 1999, Pixel wrote:
I added quite a lot of features or at least automatic things.
So be carefull in beginner mode it's quite simple. For example if it detects
lilo or dos on MBR or an empty one, it installs
already tried it. Liked the question mark.
observations:
1)I used beginner install from hard drive
2)Beginner installs allot of stuff. Maybe to much (about
700Megs). For instance, should a beginner have a telnet server
installed by default. Also should the man pages for Spanish,
already tried it. Liked the question mark.
observations:
1)I used beginner install from hard drive
2)Beginner installs allot of stuff. Maybe to much (about
700Megs). For instance, should a beginner have a telnet server
installed by default. Also should the man pages for
Here is a little utility I use to build a listing of the content of
all the rpm in a directory. I hope it could be usefull to someone else
and perhaps a listing like that could be included in the ISO image or
in the ftp areas. Any comment welcome.
PS: I'm a newbie in rpm management and this
Has anyone been able to run screen successfully under M6.1 or Cooker?
It starts up find then I detach it and can never re-attach it.
Whenever I type "screen -r" to resume my screen session it starts
a new one. This is rather odd and highly inconvenient. Does anybody
know of a fix?
Thanks.
Takacs Sandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 20 Sep 1999, Pixel wrote:
I added quite a lot of features or at least automatic things.
So be carefull in beginner mode it's quite simple. For example if it detects
lilo or dos on MBR or an empty one, it installs lilo there without asking!
I
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 20 Sep 1999, Pixel wrote:
Guess I'll actually try this soon... ;)
- diskdrake in beginner mode is simplified too (no more `Format', nor `Active',
neither `Mount')
Can we introduce an "absolute beginner" mode that won't even ask
I found this little bit of info at the site below. I thought others might
enjoy it as I did.
-Bill
http://www.tomgilbert.freeserve.co.uk/
Customising Netscape
Netscape is much more customisable than most people think!
Many people know you can use the commandline
When will this be available for purchase on a CD in the US? I gave up on
trying to get it working through the download process!
Sam
-Original Message-
From: Brad Boutwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 3:24 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [Cooker]
Hi,
I am having problems getting PCMCIA v.3.1.0, that comes bundled with the
latest kernel to work. I have the Xircom CEM56 Ethernet/Modem card.
The detection goes fine, but when it loads the xirc2ps_cs.o module, it
complains about "no ports available".
Also, any particular reason why DMA is
Hi,
I would like to contribute packages to Mandrake:
o Roxen 1.3.111 (webserver, much better than Apache, WWW-administration)
o Third-Party-Modules for Roxen
o Fonts for Roxen
And maybe (in the future) some security-tools (like Tripwire, Netsaint, ...).
According to the webpages I have
In the setup boot.img when its to select indivuals packages I cant select
X11/Gnome X11/KDE X11/Games the tree didnt expand... weird.. all other
seem ok.
Emmanuel Paré
GIS/Programming for DBX Geomatics
email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.linux-mandrake.com
Mubashir Cheema wrote:
After fighting a long battle named "True Type fonts under
Mandrake" I finally won. See my previous email to read
the description of the problem.
I noticed that Microsoft allows people to download fonts
from their website. I was wondering if they would let
I also asked.. and have no reply.
Maybe they have no one answering email any longer? it just gets forwarded to
/dev/null :)
-Original Message-
From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 1999 6:38 PM
To: tracer
Cc: Michael Irving; [EMAIL
Hi,
how do I configure the listserver to receive daily digests of the mailing-
list? Or knows somebody a procmail-based solution?
Thanks, Oliver
--
"Wir sind aus einer Zeit, in der noch nicht jeder dachte, das Internet ba-
siert vollstaendig auf HTML. Aus einer Zeit, als eine graphische
tracer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Could the program also function as an upgrader?
I mean here if hardware gets changed can it upgrade these settings???
I would imagine a videocard change will equally stump a beginner (g).
And I still think if not done yet that some program like this if run
Pixel wrote:
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 20 Sep 1999, Pixel wrote:
Guess I'll actually try this soon... ;)
- diskdrake in beginner mode is simplified too (no more `Format', nor `Active',
neither `Mount')
Can we introduce an "absolute beginner" mode
webmedic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
already tried it. Liked the question mark.
observations:
1)I used beginner install from hard drive
2)Beginner installs allot of stuff. Maybe to much (about
700Megs).
The amount of stuff installed by default depends on the size you give it.
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 00:30:04 +0200 (CEST), Oliver Schade
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to contribute packages to Mandrake:
o Roxen 1.3.111 (webserver, much better than Apache, WWW-administration)
I want to use the best. Why is Roxen better than Apache?
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote:
4)Netscape still doesn't work.
hopefully not cuz' of panoramix :-?
To explain netscape has never worked for me with panoramix. as
soon as i install it with boot.img it works and I'm using the
exact same files.
5)The system no longer
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Atif wrote:
Has anyone been able to run screen successfully under M6.1 or Cooker?
It starts up find then I detach it and can never re-attach it.
Whenever I type "screen -r" to resume my screen session it starts
a new one. This is rather odd and highly inconvenient.
I changed back to Helios and it started working again. Says module not
installed.
John
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Terrapin wrote:
I changed back to Helios and it started working again. Says module not
installed.
John
rpm -q kernel ppp
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MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
--Axalon
t From: tracer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
t
t I know, we can do it by hand but it should be easier for the
t beginners.
And easier for the experts too!
Everyone keeps saying that ease of use is for the beginners. Just because I
know *how* to wander around the Net and twiddle with config files while
I am afraid something is still wrong with the post-install script:
# rpm -U ppp-2.3.9-4mdk.i586.rpm
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.10948: line 8: syntax error: unexpected end of file
execution of script failed
# rpm -q ppp
ppp-2.3.9-2mdk
ppp-2.3.9-4mdk
# rpm -q --scripts ppp-2.3.9-4mdk
postinstall script
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Quel Qun wrote:
I am afraid something is still wrong with the post-install script:
# rpm -U ppp-2.3.9-4mdk.i586.rpm
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.10948: line 8: syntax error: unexpected end of file
execution of script failed
# rpm -q ppp
ppp-2.3.9-2mdk
ppp-2.3.9-4mdk
# rpm
Sorry peoples, this is the right one. I forgot to recopy them to ~/RPM
(they don't rpm -bi without root, yet)
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, ChangeLog Automate wrote:
--=-=-=
Name: ppp Distribution: (none)
Version : 2.3.9 Vendor: (none)
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote:
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Terrapin wrote:
I changed back to Helios and it started working again. Says module not
installed.
John
rpm -q kernel ppp
It works with this:
kernel-2.2.13-7mdk
ppp-2.3.8-1mdk
I'm installing
It appears that the problem is caused by having two ppp's installed. I still
get an error mesage with the -9 kernel in a pop-up with kppp although I am
sending this email with ppp
[root@the_swamp RPMS]# rpm -Uvh ppp-2.3.9-4*
ppp
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