[Cooker] newest version

2000-01-22 Thread Kenneth Kline
is air.iso still the new newest version? I saw mandrake 7.0 in the mandrake iso directory, is this the final release to be shipped in february. -- Kenneth Kline ITUS Fairmont State College [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ http://www.terrastorm.net uin#

[Cooker] info xemacs == false

2000-01-22 Thread Magnus Therning
Info works fine when invoked on the comand line, but for some reason the info package in xemacs doesn't appear to be set up right since it doesn't find any info-files whatsoever :) _ Magnus Therning e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www:

Re: [Cooker] Lost email!

2000-01-22 Thread Pablo Saratxaga
Kaixo On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 01:20:40PM -0500, root wrote: 2-) On a command line how do you install or upgrade a package that as dependencies rpm -Uvh --nodeps * ? Of course not ! You have to install at same time all the depending packages. Eg 'ispell-en' depends on 'ispell', but 'ispell'

Re: [Cooker] Modem Update

2000-01-22 Thread Florent Villard
On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 11:39:45AM -0500, Christopher De Long wrote: Question: I have people send me Html Based email. In PINE it just shows the source code of the html NOT the cute pictures and buttons and such. Anyway to get pine to show this . I looked in Settings. Doesn't appear to have a

Re: [Cooker] Air: Keyboard selection misses variant

2000-01-22 Thread Pablo Saratxaga
Kaixo! On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 05:28:57PM +0100, Jürgen Zimmermann wrote: the graphical install misses the variant "de-latin-nodeadkeys", so I had Yes, I purposedly do it; I thought nobody used it and was only a relief of the very old times when Linux was unable to properly handle 8bits and

Re: [Cooker] I need some help setting up chinese display / input (off-topic)

2000-01-22 Thread Pablo Saratxaga
Kaixo! On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 09:57:14PM +0100, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: I need some help getting Chinese display / input going under Mandrake 7.0. My girlfriend is from Hong Kong (living with me in the Netherlands for almost a year now). We decided to ditch the windows on her system,

[Cooker] Thoughts and Wishes for Mandrake 7.x

2000-01-22 Thread Craig Foster
Congratulations to the AIR team, Mandrake Linux 7.0 really does all it said it would! Personal Good Points :- 1) GFCC on the CD - IPChains has never been sooo easy 2) ISDN Support in the kernel (not just with packages) The installation even includes ifcfg-ippp0 AND ifcfg-isdn 3) DrakeCONF is

Re: [Cooker] info xemacs == false

2000-01-22 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Magnus Therning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Info works fine when invoked on the comand line, but for some reason the info package in xemacs doesn't appear to be set up right since it doesn't find any info-files whatsoever :) have you this in your ~/.emacs : (require 'info) (setq

[Cooker] detect's exclusive build architecture excludes the K6

2000-01-22 Thread John Cavan
Which isn't necessary in this case since the K6 is a pentium clone (with additional features of course ;o). John

[Cooker] more exclusive arch problems

2000-01-22 Thread John Cavan
This one with dosemu, limited architecture to i386 and i586. Makes me ask... what happened to the i486? :o) Anyways, K6, i486, and i686 should be supportable in the spec file. John

[Cooker] CDRECORD HELP NEEDED

2000-01-22 Thread Mike
I am having some trouble copying a cd i have a 2x6 hi-val and it is on the list but i have no idea bout cdrecord , or if there is something better i should be using... thanx ex windows user [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Cooker] Install/Upgrade to existing /root partition. Partition table cant be read!

2000-01-22 Thread Roger
I get the following error when try to install to my mandrake 6.1 system. I have two hdds. One ~2.4 gb ( Quantum Bigfoot that came with the Compaq on ide0) and One 4.3 Western Digital as slave on ide0 (I think). The first partition is only the Compaq presarios bios (which normaly I

Re: [Cooker] CDRECORD HELP NEEDED

2000-01-22 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Ryan Wahle wrote: CD Record is the only cd data burning product i know of so yeah you should use it. :) with a graphic front end, say xcdroast or g-toaster (on your cdrom..) Quoting Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am having some trouble copying a cd i have a 2x6

[Cooker] Re: Are we interested in IPSec (FreeS/WAN) in the kernel RPMs?

2000-01-22 Thread Brian J. Murrell
from the quill of Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] on scroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Brian J. Murrell wrote: I think thats a bit tomuch crypto for the cd's isn't it? I was thinking about that. The recent rumblings about US export might make it possible. It is my (very

[Cooker] kibitz should be executable

2000-01-22 Thread Quel Qun
Hi, The kibitz script from the expect-5.28-16mdk package should be set to executable. Also, if I type "netscape " from a Gnome-terminal, why is netscape closed when I close the terminal? Shouldn't it stay up? --- kk1 __ Get Your Private,

[Cooker] Netscape and crashes

2000-01-22 Thread Jae Carlson
Why is it that netscape keeps crashing with a bus error? I thought bus errors were because of hardware problems and to my knowledge none of my hardware is bad. Any ideas? Jae

Re: [Cooker] kibitz should be executable

2000-01-22 Thread Guy T. Rice
Quel Qun wrote: Also, if I type "netscape " from a Gnome-terminal, why is netscape closed when I close the terminal? Shouldn't it stay up? Many shells will kill all their children when they exit. See if your shell supports the "disown" command. If so, disown any children you want to

[Cooker] rpm dependancy problems?

2000-01-22 Thread Brian J. Murrell
I realize that this is really an RPM issue, but I am wondering if it is in how RPMs are being built or a problem with rpm itself? I have: $ rpm -q kernel kernel-2.2.14-15mdk $ rpm -q kernel-fb kernel-fb-2.2.14-12mdk kernel-fb-2.2.14-15mdk kernel-fb-2.2.14-15mdk kernel-fb-2.2.14-15bjm

Re: [Cooker] kibitz should be executable

2000-01-22 Thread Mike Julien
If you exit the terminal by typing "exit" Then whatever is launched in the background stays running Mike Julien John Cavan wrote: Quel Qun wrote: Also, if I type "netscape " from a Gnome-terminal, why is netscape closed when I close the terminal? Shouldn't it stay up? No, you've only

[Cooker] Re: rpm dependancy problems?

2000-01-22 Thread Brian J. Murrell
ICK. Follwing up to my own message. ~sigh~ from the quill of "Brian J. Murrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on scroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course adding --force Of course I meant --nodeps Something else I noted a while ago. The kernel RPM needs the following for each of the kernel packages

[Cooker] Why dhcpcd instead of ISC dhclient?

2000-01-22 Thread Brian J. Murrell
I am wondering. Is this historical or is there a good reason to use dhcpcd over the ISC dhclient package. The latter is, IMNSHO (I have implemented a large consumer based DHCP service and have seen what goes on out there with clients) a much better client. Are we willing to change to using

[Cooker] Upgrade Fails on gnome-core!

2000-01-22 Thread Roger
Using mdk 7.0 iso d/ld from rpmfind.net on ~01/12/00 using the txt_boot.img diskette since the default install on cd-rom fails to find the /root partition (it cannot read my 1 hdd which has the /root partition)! Package: gnome-core-1.0.55-2mdk Size: 4360k Summary: The core programs

Re: [Cooker] 3COM 509 NIC

2000-01-22 Thread Esko Woudenberg
I have 3COM 3C509 working fine on 3 different machines here. (One is Mandrake 6.0/6.1) The other two are Mandrake 7... I think I might have had to go and update the domain field in the NIC configuration screen (under Mandrake 7) after install though... Esko

[Cooker] Air doesn't like S3

2000-01-22 Thread Aaron Peromsik
Quel Qun writes (a long time ago, I read this list once a month or so): QQ Mandrake 7.0 (Air) CDRom still fails to start on my Dell133 w/S3 Trio. It QQ should use the S3 server but never does. Here is what detect found on this QQ machine: Incidentally, I had an S3 Trio card until a month or