Since I stopped using Slackware oh so many years ago, I haven't used
one distribution with a good rescue disk using standard tools. I have
never checked out the Mandrake rescue disk either - mostly due to the
requirement of actually using a floppy.
What about providing a second iso-image that
hi,
if your system is too broken to even use sash (linux 1 at the lilo boot
prompt.) why don't you check out tomsrtbt...
it uses kernel 2.0 + libc5 i think, but i hear that if you want to use glibc
you can, provided that yo have glibc placed somewhere on the hasrd drive,
and you can use chroot.
"geoffrey lee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
If your system is too broken to even use sash (linux 1 at the lilo boot
prompt.) why don't you check out tomsrtbt...
Well, often when I need a rescue disk is if I screw up a kernel
install. I normally do this now by booting the normal install
... i sort of like this idea. you know when floppy became a standard for
backup media? well, i think the cdrom is well established as well and could be
done the same way! most are bootable as well. i'm sure anyone that can boot
the mandrake 7.0 cdrom would be able to use this.
By the
i also think this would be extremely useful if a newbie get's into a "jam" and
is being provided technical support via telephone. would make things much
easier as too having essentially "any" needed tool "at your disposal".
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Since I stopped using Slackware oh so
from the quill of "geoffrey lee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on scroll
000901bf7f66$4f9fd5d0$020a@workstation1
hi,
sure a lot of spam on this mailing list...can something be done?
Yes. Something CAN be done.
b.
--
Brian J. Murrell InterLinx Support Services, Inc.
hi,
oh ok. :) i misunderstood your msg. so you want a ISO image that can be
burned onto the CD-R for booting when you screw up something on your system?
geoffrey lee (snail talk)
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
"geoffrey lee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hi,
oh ok. :) i misunderstood your msg. so you want a ISO image that can be
burned onto the CD-R for booting when you screw up something on your system?
as for the rescue. 7.1 should have a good one.
the idea is to use a rescue_stage2.img instead
With the scheme about development version addressed with decimal number,
the right name would be
mozilla-5.0-0.13.1mdk for M13 release 1, and mozilla-5.0-0.13.2mdk,...
Now just have to check this renaming does not break too much things.
--
Warly
With the scheme about development version addressed with decimal number,
the right name would be
mozilla-5.0-0.13.1mdk for M13 release 1, and mozilla-5.0-0.13.2mdk,...
make that mozilla-5.0-0.m13.1mdk for M13 release 1, and
How about CVS versions? Any suggestions on how to name them?
Kaixo!
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 11:23:08AM +0100, Warly wrote:
With the scheme about development version addressed with decimal number,
the right name would be
mozilla-5.0-0.13.1mdk for M13 release 1, and mozilla-5.0-0.13.2mdk,...
IMHO mozilla-5.0-0.M13.1mdk would be better. "0.13" won't
Kaixo!
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 02:22:34PM +0100, Stefan van der Eijk wrote:
mozilla-5.0-0.13.1mdk for M13 release 1, and mozilla-5.0-0.13.2mdk,...
make that mozilla-5.0-0.m13.1mdk for M13 release 1, and
Why not 0.M13 ? M13 is more meaningful than m13 (at least for me)
How about CVS
Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
Kaixo!
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 02:22:34PM +0100, Stefan van der Eijk wrote:
mozilla-5.0-0.13.1mdk for M13 release 1, and mozilla-5.0-0.13.2mdk,...
make that mozilla-5.0-0.m13.1mdk for M13 release 1, and
Why not 0.M13 ? M13 is more meaningful than m13 (at
Kaixo!
mozilla-5.0-0.13.1mdk for M13 release 1, and mozilla-5.0-0.13.2mdk,...
make that mozilla-5.0-0.m13.1mdk for M13 release 1, and
Why not 0.M13 ? M13 is more meaningful than m13 (at least for me)
I just forgot to hold down the shift key ;-)
How about CVS versions?
Should we
Kaixo!
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 08:25:36AM -0600, Lord And Master;) wrote:
Well as of current the CVS version of last night is a hell of a lot more stable
the M13 is, M13 was about as stable as running windows;) but as of feb 25th the
CVS release is stable enough to use day to day, so untill
hi,
hot news from slashdot : glibc 2.1.3 released.
it's the stable one, not the snapshots.
geoffrey lee (snail talk)
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Pablo Saratxaga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
IMHO mozilla-5.0-0.M13.1mdk would be better. "0.13" won't tell much to people;
but having "M13" (which is the official numbering) is inmediately
understandable by anyone. The leading 0. is only to avoid that the final
version (that is 5.0 with no
Good idea. By the way windows 2000 does something similar to this.
Pixel wrote:
"geoffrey lee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hi,
oh ok. :) i misunderstood your msg. so you want a ISO image that can be
burned onto the CD-R for booting when you screw up something on your system?
as for
SUB cooker
Cable tester?
Kaixo!
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 04:04:59PM +0100, Andreas Simon wrote:
God! I just realized there are no offending fortunes included
in this package! Why? This is so sad.
Please include ALL fortunes in the next version or make
a additional offending rpm package.
I've exchanged some emails
- Original Message -
From: "Roger" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 6:05 PM
Subject: [Cooker] Printer Brother HP-1240 -- bug/problem fixed?!? --dunno
seems to be some corrections are need to be placed thru the "Linux Printer
Database Site"
- Original Message -
From: "Roger" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 5:05 PM
Subject: [Cooker] printer problem with mdk 7.0 iso2
have a Brother HL-1240 (uses the hp laser jet 4/5/6 driver)
prints the test acii page fine. when printing the
- Original Message -
From: "Pixel" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] menu needs libpopt.so.0
WH Bouterse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
'menu-2.1.5-2mdk needs libpopt.so.0'
pixel@leia:~/gigrep "^menu"
- Original Message -
From: "WH Bouterse" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 4:16 PM
Subject: [Cooker] menu needs libpopt.so.0
'menu-2.1.5-2mdk needs libpopt.so.0'
Now what did I miss this time.
Three days away from the techno-world
and
- Original Message -
From: "Guy T. Rice" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel RPMS are not providing "kernel"
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
I also want to bring up
- Original Message -
From: "Chmouel Boudjnah" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Re[2]: kernel RPMS are not providing "kernel"
"Brian J. Murrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
ask this on the lmkml
lmkml?
Can I suggest that if you wish to unsubscribe from this list you
send an email to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
with the words:
unsubscribe cooker
in the subject. SYMPA is the automated mailing list manager,
which will process your command messages. It is a very common
feature of mailing lists to
Please take me off the list.
Thanks,
John Burleigh
WH Bouterse wrote:
I have been experimenting with GIMP 1.1.7
from the contrib directory and find it very
stable and usable!
In fact, gimp is being stabilized and 1.2 is close to be released.
Is there something I can do to try and crash it !?
Are there obvious bugs I haven't been bitten by
Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
I've exchanged some emails with the author of 'fortune-mod' (btw, he was
very pleased with the improvements in the Mandrake package).
He plans to make it modular for next version, so a 'fortunes-offending'
package can be put available somewhere for people who want it
Please take me off this list!
Bill Halchin
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Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"Geoffrey lee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
oh ok. :) i misunderstood your msg. so you want a ISO image that can be
burned onto the CD-R for booting when you screw up something on your system?
As for the rescue. 7.1 should have a good one.
The
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
Kaixo!
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 02:22:34PM +0100, Stefan van der Eijk wrote:
mozilla-5.0-0.13.1mdk for M13 release 1, and mozilla-5.0-0.13.2mdk,...
make that mozilla-5.0-0.m13.1mdk for M13 release 1, and
Why not
Here in Juneau we have cable modem access
so downloading massive files quickly is not so
much a problem. However;
We may be relocating to the interior in a more
remote area which has only a 2.2kps connection
if you are lucky. Others who are much more
knowledgable than I are in this same
actually I offer a service to do this.
WH Bouterse wrote:
Here in Juneau we have cable modem access
so downloading massive files quickly is not so
much a problem. However;
We may be relocating to the interior in a more
remote area which has only a 2.2kps connection
if you are lucky.
Stefan Siegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello everybody,
I found some errors in "security_check.sh". Here is my list of fixes=20
and attached you can find a patch against "msec-0.9-14mdk" rpm
Hi Stefan,
cool too see that many people give many interest in msec,
however, please never ever
- Original Message -
From: geoffrey lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 6:12 AM
Subject: RE: [Cooker] Rescue ISO?
hi,
oh ok. :) i misunderstood your msg. so you want a ISO image that can be
burned onto the CD-R for booting when you screw up
Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
anybody working with the usb developers for 2.0 integration into the next
kernel or so? just curious.
yes, the development begin.
www.usb.org/developers/usb20/
it's suppose be much faster than 12 mb/sec, more like 480 mb/sec
just curioususb ver. 2.0 is
Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
have your guys implemented the patch for the ls120 diskette drive in this
kernel? (using the ide-floppy module)
no.
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--Chmouel
I posted an e-mail regarding the java debugger supplied with the Sun Java SDK.
Well, after much messing around I have found that Sun, bless 'em, missed one
file out of the SDK tar ball (it was in ALL the RC releases !) and didn't copy
a library file to /usr/lib ! (Thanks to Blackdown for that by
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Good idea. By the way windows 2000 does something similar to this.
yippe. makes me wanna go out and spend $400 for it.
Pixel wrote:
"geoffrey lee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hi,
oh ok. :) i misunderstood your msg. so you want a ISO image
very interesting. think i'll looking into! btw: w/ the ide-floppy
interface, load speeds are much improved so i'm not too worried about that.
anyways, it's better than having no rescue disk! especially when messing with
/etc!
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000,
This may sound like really simple steps, but did you..
- Run "ifconfig" and make sure that the "lo" interface is activated?
- Check the /etc/hosts file and make sure that the name "localhost" is
associated with an IP address, hopefully 127.0.0.1?
Don Head
Linux Mentor
1 800 826-4640 x1942
1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stefan Siegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello everybody,
I found some errors in "security_check.sh". Here is my list of fixes=20
and attached you can find a patch against "msec-0.9-14mdk" rpm
Hi Stefan,
cool too see that many people give many interest
Thanks for replying
ifconfig produces nothing, i.e. no lo, no ppp0, nothing.
/etc/hosts :
127.0.0.1 localhost
What next ?
Owen
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
This may sound like really simple steps, but did you..
- Run "ifconfig" and make sure that the "lo" interface is
Extremely strange. Here's some details..
Make sure you have a file named "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo".
If you don't, it's a plain text file. Create it. Permissions on mine are
root/root 755.
Here's some contents:
DEVICE=lo
IPADDR=127.0.0.1
NETMASK=255.0.0.0
NETWORK=127.0.0.0
Anyone planning on updating xchat-1.4.0? Its supposed to be a stable
release and it seems to work fine on my box for the last couple nights.
--
Steve Fox
http://k-lug.com
Your whole network's not getting started.
Go to /etc/rc.d/init.d and #network start
Look for errors fix them.
If it says, "Network Starting: [OK]" run ifconfig. You will see info on lo
ethx's. Then ensure there are symlinks in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d rc5.d called
S10network. If you have a
Stefan Siegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stefan Siegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello everybody,
I found some errors in "security_check.sh". Here is my list of fixes=20
and attached you can find a patch against "msec-0.9-14mdk" rpm
Hi
hi,
i already uploaded a src rpm but it seems alex forgot about it... :-(
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Fox
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 7:40 AM
To: Cooker
Subject: [Cooker] xchat-1.4.0
Anyone planning on
hi,
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Hedbor
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 4:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Rescue ISO?
Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
"Geoffrey lee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i use rsync...once you d/l all the files for cooker, rsync will only update the
files (rpm's) that have changed on the ftp. it really helps, but still isn't a
replacement for faster speeds.
reserve about 600 mb of hdd space for the /cooker files and rsync it overnight.
most times, there's only
added my comment at the end:
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
hi,
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Hedbor
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 4:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Cooker] Rescue ISO?
Pixel
had problems with the ls120 diskette drive on my system...actually any boot
diskettes. i dislike the old 3 1/2 standard drives because they're slow,
still take an irq, and small in size.
(just my 2 cents)
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, you wrote:
hi,
if your system is too broken to even use sash
David BAUDENS écrivit :
* Thu Feb 24 2000 - David BAUDENS [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 4.72-1mdk
- 4.72 - 56 bits version is available main distribution
^^
Well, of course it's "128 bits version is available in crypto"
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