Re: [Cooker] USB scanners

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
"Alexander V. Voinov" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is/Will $subject be supported by Mandrake 7.1? the kernel of 7.1 has the ''potential'' to run usb scanner but you have to follow the linux-usbguide URL:http://linuxusbguide.sourceforge.net/ (or a package is available from the contrib) and do

Re: [Cooker] [Fwd: Theming old Netscapes with -xrm 'Netscape*background:#ffd600']

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
John Grange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i thought this should find it's way into Mandrake it's a very simple program and functions very well 1! i thing our HF[1] team plan to work actively on this for the next version. [1] Human Factor ou UI team. -- MandrakeSoft Inc

Re: [Cooker] Better availablilty of 486 distro

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Davidmay I ask why were most of the .img files (rescue and others) were left out of the images directory of 7.0-2.i486? LinuxIso URL:http://www.linuxiso.org/ should give you everything you need. -- MandrakeSoft Inc

Re: [Cooker] Mdk 7.1 Beta 3 - bin86

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Don Head [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Keep learning languages until you find the right one so you can understand what the package does, or take a wild guess and hope it doesn't blow up your system (luckily, I know about this package). we are open to all ''description patch''. -- MandrakeSoft

Re: [Cooker]GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION: Software

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
"B. K. Barley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know how long 7.1 has been frozen, but I'm highly irritated with some versions of software that is shipping with the beta. almost one month ? yep yep we trying to do quality software :). -- MandrakeSoft Inc

Re: [Cooker] latest install image problem

2000-05-28 Thread Derek Wildstar
On 22 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Wildstar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: An error occurred: Can't take sqrt of -1.00526 This seems to be a bug in inversion function for size approximation, to avoid it use no more than 18Gb of space for /usr, you can do it as you do not have

AW: AW: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION

2000-05-28 Thread sel
Hi! -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: Chmouel Boudjnah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Samstag, 27. Mai 2000 13:55 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sel) writes: a: UDMA66 support (HPT366,Promise in Kernel), cd-roms on

Re: AW: AW: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (sel) writes: You mean 71b3? yep. It doesnt work here, it doesnt work on my brothers machine, both are Abit BP6 mainboards... The 2.2.15 kernel from kernel org patch with 2.2.15-ide just freeze, when trying to access the cdrom, it isnt mdks fault... humm the cdrom

Re: [Cooker] USB scanners

2000-05-28 Thread Guillaume Rousse
And for USB cd-writers, is there anything available ? I didn't see anything about it in the kernel config options. Also sprach Chmouel Boudjnah : "Alexander V. Voinov" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is/Will $subject be supported by Mandrake 7.1? the kernel of 7.1 has the ''potential'' to run

Re: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION : NEW PACKAGES

2000-05-28 Thread Stefan van der Eijk
How about: kerberos midgard netsaint;-)

Re: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION rpmdrake improvment

2000-05-28 Thread Stefan van der Eijk
What I would like to see are "dependancy relationships" between packages displayed in a graphic way. See it as a sort of tree-like network diagram (ever seen cheops, for displaying networks), from the bottom the kernel (and other base-sys packages) and you build your way up. This way it should

Re: [Cooker] USB scanners

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Guillaume Rousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And for USB cd-writers, is there anything available ? I didn't see anything about it in the kernel config options. should be handle via usb-storage see the : linuxusbguide URL:http://linuxusbguide.sourceforge.net/ for more information. --

Re: crypto stuff on 2nd cd ; was: [Cooker] GET READY FOR ADISCUSSION- Include the contents ofthe mandrakeusr.org sit on thesecond CD

2000-05-28 Thread Stefan van der Eijk
Ok, I can understand the download to avoid royalty fees, but that is a very large download for one program. It's a bloated peice of software... what do you expect?? (still not as bad as MSFT Office 2000) Last time i downloaded SO 5.2B it was around 70M...and of course it was

Re: crypto stuff on 2nd cd ; was: [Cooker] GET READY FORADISCUSSION- Include the contents ofthe mandrakeusr.org sit on thesecondCD

2000-05-28 Thread David Odin
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 07:40:01PM -0500, John Grange wrote: Allen Bolderoff wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: By the way, what is all your opinion about xv? do you use it often? what do you use for fast-viewing pictures? (I don't mean processing it with Gimp for example) I use ee

Re: [Cooker] [Fwd: Theming old Netscapes with -xrm 'Netscape*background:#ffd600']

2000-05-28 Thread David Odin
On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 01:17:33AM +0200, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: John Grange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i thought this should find it's way into Mandrake it's a very simple program and functions very well 1! i thing our HF[1] team plan to work actively on this for the next version.

Re: [Cooker] discussion of next distro

2000-05-28 Thread Robert L Martin
Would be nice that the install would recognize the hardware and install appropriate drivers AND software to use it. Example: My Hauppauge WinTV card. Yes, Hard Drake knows the card is there so why didn't the drivers get installed? the BTTV drivers have been around for awhile. If the install

[Cooker] New distro install idea to attract more users

2000-05-28 Thread Con Kolivas
Now I've installed Mandrake for about 6 people. These people are all windows converts who are not very good with PCs. What they want and should have when they use their machines are much less than the recommended install offers, yet more than the minimum install. These people need all of KDE

[Cooker] Package suggestion

2000-05-28 Thread Allen Bolderoff
mtr (matts Traceroute) would be a fine inclusion -- +++ Allen Bolderoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] LNC - Linux, help and commentary http://linux.netnerve.com CTPC - Caffeine - get it here: http://www.coffee-tea-pots-cups.com/

[Cooker] New distro idea -- XKill mods.

2000-05-28 Thread Con Kolivas
One of the most impressive features when I show non-linux users about the linux wms is the program XKill. The ability to kill a rogue window is fantastic. Unfortunately this only kills the window and many of these programs are still chewing up memory and CPU time. A version of XKill that

Re: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION

2000-05-28 Thread Pablo Saratxaga
Kaixo! On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 07:40:56PM +0200, sel wrote: b: try to get direct3d support, Wine is doing that (with some success it seems) so most games could work under linux, You mean windows games ? Look at Wine again then. But the way to go is for native Linux games. In other words

[Cooker] New distro idea - RPMDrake mod

2000-05-28 Thread Con Kolivas
RPMDrake is great! I'm sure you know that. Why can't I load a single RPM with it though? That would be nice, since it would be able to install any dependent RPMs if they exist in the library. Regards, Con. Keep up the good work!

Re: [Cooker]GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION: Software

2000-05-28 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: "Chmouel Boudjnah" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "cooker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 7:13 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker]GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION: Software "B. K. Barley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know how long 7.1 has

[Cooker] Re: Need test (was: GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION: Software)

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
"Hoyt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I suggest you allow your final candidate to "rest" for a week to allow all mirrors to be updated and all active beta testers to download and install. It would also be helpful if you would post a "We really need these [little-used or unusual] features/hardware

[Cooker] Intellimouse

2000-05-28 Thread Don Awalt
I just installed the latest 5/23 beta build, and I found that while the MS Intellimouse is a valid entry for my mouse (I have it, but it was not recognized automatically), selecting it makes my mouse go whacko - mouse flies all over the screen and it's not useable any more.

Re: [Cooker] Refresh rate with framebuffer console

2000-05-28 Thread Pixel
Till Kamppeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One can do it! See /usr/sbin/fbset man fbset /etc/fb.modes man fb.modes I hope that fbset exists in Mandrake, I know it from Conectiva Linux (www.conectiva.com). it exists but didn't work when i tested :-/ do you manage to make

Re: [Cooker] Intellimouse

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Don Awalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed the latest 5/23 beta build, and I found that while the MS Intellimouse is a valid entry for my mouse (I have it, but it was not recognized automatically), selecting it makes my mouse go whacko - mouse flies all over the screen and it's not

Re: [Cooker] cdrom.img and resolution (beta3)

2000-05-28 Thread Pixel
Stefan Siegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, this morning I asked a friend of mine who never installed linux so far to install the 7.1 beta3 on my box (I plugged my external scsi disk (an excahne disk with nothing usefull on it)). He tried to install it with cdrom.img which I made

[Cooker] OLD PACKAGES

2000-05-28 Thread Lorne Shantz
I noticed that even TCPDUMP is no longer included in the distro. ?? How come? Stefan van der Eijk wrote: How about: kerberos midgard netsaint;-)

Re: [Cooker] couple of bugs

2000-05-28 Thread Pixel
Lorne Shantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LS120 issues - It automatically assumes that the LS120 is HDA. It apparently isn't on two machines. I haven't had time to figure out what it is though. which version of mandrake?

Re: [Cooker] OLD PACKAGES

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Lorne Shantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I noticed that even TCPDUMP is no longer included in the distro. ?? How come? (chmou@kenobi)[~]-% ls /RPMS/$(rpm -qf $(which tcpdump))*.rpm /RPMS/tcpdump-3.4-5mdk.i586.rpm -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com In travel.

Re: [Cooker] Refresh rate with framebuffer console

2000-05-28 Thread Till Kamppeter
Once I tried shortly under Conectiva Linux 5.0 but I didn succeed, too. One should ask the author of fbset how the hell one get it to work, because when it works one could change the frame buffer mode even after booting and so one can change the resoultion of X easily also when the graphics

Re: [Cooker] New distro install idea to attract more users

2000-05-28 Thread Sim
Lesson: newbies need one fully featured window manager with configuration utilities, a web browser/email client and then they can install an office suite (eg star office, corel etc.) Everything else confuses them AND takes up unnecessary space. I agree with this - no one needs more than 1

Re: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION - Address dependency issue better

2000-05-28 Thread Pixel
"Hoyt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So if you were to create a shell script to do this named, for example, "whatrpmprovides", what would it look like? (I'm a writer, not a programmer). there is urpmi that takes care of dependencies. have a look at /var/lib/urpmi/depslist also look at urpmf

Re: [Cooker] A few urpmi-based improvements

2000-05-28 Thread Pixel
Stephane Gourichon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] -It doesn't process everything when you put many (say, 30 or more) rpms to install at the same time. I had to re-issue the command several times until it installs all. ?? you have an example? -/WISH/ a uninstall feature in urpmi command

Re: [Cooker] couple of bugs

2000-05-28 Thread Vincent Danen
On 28 May 2000, Pixel wrote: Lorne Shantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LS120 issues - It automatically assumes that the LS120 is HDA. It apparently isn't on two machines. I haven't had time to figure out what it is though. which version of mandrake? Here it worked a little different.

Re: [Cooker] OLD PACKAGES

2000-05-28 Thread Serge Lussier
Lorne Shantz wrote: I noticed that even TCPDUMP is no longer included in the distro. ?? How come? What ? I have beta 3 and it IS there. But it is not selected by default. ciao Serge Lussier

Re: [Cooker] Not yet ready for prime time

2000-05-28 Thread Pixel
Dmitry Frankstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First, X, xfs, and whole bunch of other stuff related to X doesn't work. Second, the stupid hylafax is not properly installed, so every in console 2 at the end of install, do: chroot /mnt ldconfig

Re: [Cooker] Mahogany, could it be a part of Linux Mandrake ??

2000-05-28 Thread Vincent Danen
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Ad Koster wrote: Until today I used Pine and Mutt for sending and receiving e-mail with Mandrake Linux. Today however I found a very interesting e-mail program on the internet called "Mahogany". You can fint it at: http://www.wxwindows.org/mahogany I was

Re: [Cooker] beta3 install

2000-05-28 Thread Pixel
Derek Wildstar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can ldconfig be run immediately before the X configuration section, then again after as needed? This would also fix the problem of having a wasted install if one tests their X configuration and it fails. this ldconfig bug in cooker will be fixed

Re: [Cooker] couple of bugs

2000-05-28 Thread Lorne Shantz
I'm testing Mandrake 7.1 beta 3. I have ONLY a LS120 on the one system I installed it on. I was unable to make a rescue disk at all. I kept getting errors. One thing I noticed is that I get the error message that the LS120 is reporting two different sizes. 0 and 12X,xxx (I don't recall the exact

Re: [Cooker] OLD PACKAGES

2000-05-28 Thread Lorne Shantz
I guess it just doesn't automatically install then. It used to. Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Lorne Shantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I noticed that even TCPDUMP is no longer included in the distro. ?? How come? (chmou@kenobi)[~]-% ls /RPMS/$(rpm -qf $(which tcpdump))*.rpm

Re: [Cooker] bug

2000-05-28 Thread Pixel
"Seth chandler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a Gateway Solo 2500 with an 800x600 display panel and a neomagic video card, a cdrom drive, and a 4 gig hd. Every time i have tried to install mandrake 7.1, beta 1, 2 ,or 3, it give me a hard drive geometry error at reboot. it says hd

Re: crypto stuff on 2nd cd ; was: [Cooker] GET READYFORADISCUSSION- Include the contents ofthe mandrakeusr.org sit onthesecondCD

2000-05-28 Thread John Grange
David Odin wrote: On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 07:40:01PM -0500, John Grange wrote: Allen Bolderoff wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: By the way, what is all your opinion about xv? do you use it often? what do you use for fast-viewing pictures? (I don't mean processing it with Gimp

Re: [Cooker] OLD PACKAGES

2000-05-28 Thread Lorne Shantz
That must be the problem. I used to be able to select expert, development which I thought was supposed to install everything... I must have missed that it no longer installs it automatically. Serge Lussier wrote: Lorne Shantz wrote: I noticed that even TCPDUMP is no longer included in the

Re: [Cooker] OLD PACKAGES

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Lorne Shantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess it just doesn't automatically install then. It used to. what kind of install. -- MandrakeSoft Inchttp://www.mandrakesoft.com In travel.--Chmouel

Re: [Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION -better ISDN Support

2000-05-28 Thread Burkhard Zombronner
I would be glad to have a better support for ISDN. In detail: some program like kisdn, but gnu-like. Yould could win a lot of red hat users in europe. regards Burkhard Zombronner

Re: [Cooker] Better availablilty of 486 distro

2000-05-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Chmouelyour reply might have been a good answer if I'd asked a different question. What I asked was 'why' those files were left out of the 7.0-2.i486 iso, not 'where' I could get them. Was there a planned reason for them to not be included or was it just an accidental ommission? :-) Alan

Re: [Cooker] Better availablilty of 486 distro

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chmouelyour reply might have been a good answer if I'd asked a different question. What I asked was 'why' those files were left out of the 7.0-2.i486 iso, not 'where' I could get them. Was there a planned reason for them to not be included or

[Cooker] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION: Testing on all platforms

2000-05-28 Thread Stefan van der Eijk
What I've seen happening a few times is that a change in a package causes it to refuse to build on an other platform. The Mozilla team has come up with tinderbox to make sure that the stuff is tested builds on all platforms, and to show what went wrong... See:

Re: [Cooker] beta3 install

2000-05-28 Thread John Grange
Pixel wrote: Derek Wildstar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can ldconfig be run immediately before the X configuration section, then again after as needed? This would also fix the problem of having a wasted install if one tests their X configuration and it fails. this ldconfig bug in cooker

[Cooker] [discus] Openness about build systems (kenobi, etc)

2000-05-28 Thread Stefan van der Eijk
I'm very very curios which packages which configuration is running on Mandrake's build system. This because I build the distro on my systems once a week. Knowing which packages are on Kenobi (the build system) could reduce the time I'm trying to puzzle why something isn't building on my sys. A

[Cooker] [discus]: availability of non-x86 (alpha, ppc sparc)

2000-05-28 Thread Stefan van der Eijk
It's maybe a long-shot... could the cooker for these platforms be hosted at maybe one single place on the web? For the alpha, a place like www.alphalinux.org or API's site could be nice...

Re: [Cooker] [discuss] Windows binaries in Mandrake

2000-05-28 Thread Guy T. Rice
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Stefan Siegel wrote: I am absolutely _AGAINST_ the idea shipping an ext2fs browser with "our" distro!!! You have a security concept in UNIX/Linux that not everybody has the right/possibility to see and modify files. NOONE has an interrested in introducing

[Cooker] [discus]: contrib

2000-05-28 Thread Stefan van der Eijk
Why does contrib contain some (old-) cooker packages? I always had the impression that contrib contains packages that aren't as apealing for the general user (and therefore didn't make it into the main distro)..

Re: [Cooker] Gnome 1.2 gcombust

2000-05-28 Thread Matias Griese
On Sat, 27 May 2000, Randy Welch wrote: I'd much rather see gcombust installed by default than gtoaster. I can't figure out how to build a cd with gtoaster. kisocd isn't bad, Me too, for the same reason. I tried to make a CD with gtoaster once and failed.. I keep gcombust much more intuitive

Re: [Cooker] HD Speed(hdparm)

2000-05-28 Thread Hoyt
My question is, why does Mandrake 7.0 and latest 7.1cooker run an hdparm that doesn't speed up the drive?This makes linux a lot slower than it could be. They choose defaults that are able to work on many machines without trouble. The use of some hdpam sttings can lock up a drive and cause

[Cooker] kernel-2.2.15-10mdk - USB ethernet support?

2000-05-28 Thread Hoyt
Subject: [CHRPM] kernel-2.2.15-10mdk Does this kernel support USB ethernet devices? I have Mandrake 7.0 on my I-Opener and hate using ftp over dial-up for file transfer. Hoyt

Re: [Cooker] OLD PACKAGES

2000-05-28 Thread Lorne Shantz
Meaning that the older distros when developer install was selected, you could drop to a bash prompt and type "tcpdump" and the command would execute. Now, you do as before, and type "tcpdump" and get command not found. Someone mentioned that it is on the 7.1 beta 3 but it doesn't install

Re: [Cooker] bug

2000-05-28 Thread Seth chandler
shoot, one more question, as i'm sure you're already aware, they fixed lilo so it works past 1024 cyls anyway, so, is there a point to use grub then? (assuming you incorperate the new version of lilo into mandrake) thanks again, seth From: Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

Re: [Cooker] bug

2000-05-28 Thread Lorne Shantz
at the bash prompt you should be able to command - lilo and it should insert lilo. I just tried that and it worked. Now I need to re-install Norton Anti Virus to see if that fixes it for me. Seth chandler wrote: how would i do that? From: Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

[Cooker] cdrecord-1.8.1-2mdk

2000-05-28 Thread Anton Graham
With the default setup (sgid cdwriter and all /dev/sg* owned by root.cdwriter), a user in group cdwriter cannot even cdrecord -scanbus. chmod g+rw /dev/sg* allows them to scanbus. But, then they still cannot burn discs. [anton@bladehawke anton]$ cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.8.1

Re: [Cooker] Disk partitioning (diskdrake) bugs

2000-05-28 Thread Pixel
"The TeKnologist" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I got the same problem with Beta1 ISO. about the mounting problem and fs.pm file. Was fixed in Beta2 and Beta3...for me at least. yep, fixed. It was an attempt to set mount points for ntfs partitions... Very good work with MDK7.1Beta3 I can

Re: [Cooker] [discus]: availability of non-x86 (alpha, ppc sparc)

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Stefan van der Eijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's maybe a long-shot... could the cooker for these platforms be hosted at maybe one single place on the web? For the alpha, a place like www.alphalinux.org or API's site could be nice... it will be soon (i hope). PS: The ports of alpha is

[Cooker] Possible Bug

2000-05-28 Thread Icebreaker
Hello, I have a problem with my modem working on the latest Cooker kernel 2.2.15-9mdk First off, I know it's a win-modem, but I have the module which enables it. The last kernel that I know it worked on was 2.2.15-0.20mdk, I tried with 2.2.15-0.24mdk and it didn't work. Does anyone know if

Re: [Cooker] discussion of next distro

2000-05-28 Thread Guy T. Rice
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Robert L Martin wrote: Xawtv is a very small file (tarball) I have a setup with video for linux in the kernel and Xawtv and it works great (using 2.3.99pre9 kernel) since Yall have the space for 50meg rpms for KDE THEMES you should have the space for a half meg of

Re: [Cooker] Experimenting with 7.1 beta 3

2000-05-28 Thread Pixel
Vitor Santos Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] o I've got a NT partition in the HD. When I try to add it to the mounted partitions the system goes beserk, I believe because it didn't have the ntfs module. yep, seems like i missed it :( o Trying to remove vim-extensions would crash

Re: [Cooker] bug

2000-05-28 Thread Seth chandler
if i just create a boot floppy during the install should the floppy work? I havn't yet tried that (yeah, pretty stupid i guess) anwyay, thanks seth From: Lorne Shantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] bug Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 11:38:26

Re: [Cooker] discussion of next distro

2000-05-28 Thread yoann
"Guy T. Rice" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 28 May 2000, Robert L Martin wrote: Xawtv is a very small file (tarball) I have a setup with video for linux in the kernel and Xawtv and it works great (using 2.3.99pre9 kernel) since Yall have the space for 50meg rpms for KDE THEMES you

Re: [Cooker] Intellimouse

2000-05-28 Thread Guy T. Rice
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: Don Awalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed the latest 5/23 beta build, and I found that while the MS Intellimouse is a valid entry for my mouse (I have it, but it was not recognized automatically), selecting it makes my mouse go

Re: [Cooker] [discus]: availability of non-x86 (alpha, ppc sparc)

2000-05-28 Thread Stefan van der Eijk
It's maybe a long-shot... could the cooker for these platforms be hosted at maybe one single place on the web? For the alpha, a place like www.alphalinux.org or API's site could be nice... it will be soon (i hope). :-) PS: The ports of alpha is almost finished, I've noticed... a lot of

[Cooker] problem with beta3 iso

2000-05-28 Thread Pascal Grosse
Hi list, I downloaded the 2 isos of mdk 7.1beta3 from ftp.free.fr I got some problems : the install program failed to read my second CD. At first i thought of a burning error, but the second time the same bug did appear. So i took a further look at some files on the ext cd. For example

Re: [Cooker] [discus]: availability of non-x86 (alpha, ppc sparc)

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Stefan van der Eijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: now it's the 'bugs-patching-circus-tournament'. OK... How can I help in a structured way? i'm waiting to fix some minors kernel bugs actually to release a beta and after get bug reports. -- MandrakeSoft Inc

Re: [Cooker] How can I prepare environment for GI development?

2000-05-28 Thread Pixel
pbt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have some problems in compiling gi source (graphic installation source), I have got gi source from Mandrake 7.0 Source Disc, and hum, didn't know they were included... hum, install-drakx-source.tar.bz2 doesn't include the needed_rpms.lst :( don't

Re: [Cooker] hydrogen 3

2000-05-28 Thread Pixel
"B. K. Barley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lorne, Yes, I clearly remember the problem with 6.1. I'm using Grub and have to manually change it everytime I boot over. Seems to be a pain, but I'm not familiar with how to permanently change grub. Anyone know of a site with info on how?

Re: [Cooker] hydrogen 3

2000-05-28 Thread Pixel
"Gary Russell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just downloaded and installed beta 3. For some reason, this build did not recognize some of my hardware. It only recognized 65 megs of RAM (I have 128 megs) and it did not recognize my video correctly (ATI Rage128 chipset). can you give your

Re: [Cooker] Installer

2000-05-28 Thread Pixel
Andrew M [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have one issue with the installer: colors. The default blue scheme can be somewhat confusing (for example, small status boxes that pop up (like in the partitioner), tend to get "camouflaged"). And I don't think multiple themes for the installer are really

Re: [Cooker] Some thoughts

2000-05-28 Thread Guy T. Rice
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Anton Graham wrote: Submitted 26-May-00 by Hoyt: | Fun to MS bash, but the reality is that MS is the competition and | the poorer product has been known to win and the other die out (VHS | vs. Beta?). In that particular case, the superior technology was far more

Re: [Cooker] New distro idea - RPMDrake mod

2000-05-28 Thread Pixel
"Con Kolivas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RPMDrake is great! I'm sure you know that. Why can't I load a single RPM with it though? That would be nice, since it would be able to install any dependent RPMs if they exist in the library. available in CLI via urpmi. not been added to rpmdrake

Re: [Cooker] New distro install idea to attract more users

2000-05-28 Thread Pixel
"Con Kolivas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now I've installed Mandrake for about 6 people. These people are all windows converts who are not very good with PCs. What they want and should have when they use their machines are much less than the recommended install offers, yet more than the

Re: [Cooker] Some thoughts

2000-05-28 Thread Icebreaker
Original Message On 5/28/00, 3:22:32 PM, "Guy T. Rice" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [Cooker] Some thoughts: Also, it's been quite a few years, but if I recall correctly, beta couldn't get as much on a tape as VHS. People love to pull this example out and parade it around,

Re: [Cooker] bug

2000-05-28 Thread Guy T. Rice
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Seth chandler wrote: shoot, one more question, as i'm sure you're already aware, they fixed lilo so it works past 1024 cyls anyway, so, is there a point to use grub then? (assuming you incorperate the new version of lilo into mandrake) Absolutely. I've had

Re: [Cooker] discussion of next distro

2000-05-28 Thread Guy T. Rice
On Sun, 28 May 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Guy T. Rice" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 28 May 2000, Robert L Martin wrote: Xawtv is a very small file (tarball) I have a setup with video for linux in the kernel and Xawtv and it works great (using 2.3.99pre9 kernel) since

Re: [Cooker] Problem Installing 20000511

2000-05-28 Thread Pixel
Neville Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: received an error message stating that "error loading shared library libjpeg.so.62, cannot open shared object". I could not start X as it came up with a libXmu message which is probably associated with the libjpeg message. call ldconfig at first boot.

RE: [Cooker] Mdk 7.1 Beta 3 - Text Install Bug

2000-05-28 Thread Don Head
Hrm, you seem slightly confused. 3COM cards include: 3C509B - ISA 10MB 3C905B - PCI 10/100MB Which one do you mean? They use the following drivers: 3C509B = 3c509.o 3C905B = 3c59x.o I have found that quite often, using the DOS installation diskette (which you can download from 3Com's

Re: [Cooker] bug

2000-05-28 Thread Lorne Shantz
Yup. It is very very very important to create a rescue disk!! That way if you mess up the partition and it no longer sees grub or LILO you can boot with it, type lilo at the bash prompt and you are done. That easy. Without the disk you have to go to a lot of trouble and know what you are

[Cooker] reiserfs hd.img

2000-05-28 Thread John Grange
hey i tried the hd.img that you made pixel and it refuses to load the ide mod's and therefor leaves me without access to the ide drives on my system, the scsi mod for my 2940 dose load though. -DarlWlf

[Cooker] Mdk 7.1 Beta 3 - identd / pidentd

2000-05-28 Thread Don Head
System: Compaq Prolinea 575 (Pentium 75) 80MB RAM (Wow!) 500MB Hard Drive (I know, small..) 3COM 3C509B (ISA 10MB NIC) Install: network.img from Beta 3 CD/ISO NFS to 7.1 Beta 2 machine next to it with Beta 3 ISO exported Graphical install Expert Custom High security

RE: [Cooker] Mdk 7.1 Beta 3 - bin86

2000-05-28 Thread Don Head
I just checked some Red Hat stuff. I believe the "bin86" package is now "dev86". This change occurred between Red Hat versions 6.0 and 6.1. There is quite a size difference between "bin86" and "dev86" (35k for "bin86", 320k for "dev86"). There must be quite a few changes in the RPMS to create

Re: [Cooker] problem with beta3 iso

2000-05-28 Thread Larry Sword
Pascal Grosse wrote: Hi list, I downloaded the 2 isos of mdk 7.1beta3 from ftp.free.fr I got some problems : the install program failed to read my second CD. At first i thought of a burning error, but the second time the same bug did appear. So i took a further look at some files on the

[Cooker] KDE: /usr/bin/kdesud, gid = 0 exploit (fwd)

2000-05-28 Thread Frank Meurer
FYI -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 19:21:10 +0300 From: noir [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: KDE: /usr/bin/kdesud, gid = 0 exploit /usr/bin/kdesud has DISPLAY enviroment variable overflow. tested on Mandrake 7.02 (Air), exploit will get you

[Cooker] Possible Bug [more info]

2000-05-28 Thread Icebreaker
Ok, I managed to find a bunch of errors that I overlooked when I posted the first time. Any Ideas? May 28 16:50:42 rebalsdream kernel: Lucent Modem driver version 4.27.5.66 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled May 28 16:50:42 rebalsdream kernel: ttyS14 at 0xdc00 (irq = 10) is a

Re: [Cooker] KDE: /usr/bin/kdesud, gid = 0 exploit (fwd)

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Frank Meurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FYI Fix already posted, security package update come in few minutes. /usr/bin/kdesud has DISPLAY enviroment variable overflow. tested on Mandrake 7.02 (Air), exploit will get you gid=0 Shameless self promotion: Any security related job in

Re: [Cooker] Possible Bug [more info]

2000-05-28 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Icebreaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, I managed to find a bunch of errors that I overlooked when I posted the first time. Any Ideas? Do you have an adsl modem ? May 28 16:50:42 rebalsdream kernel: Lucent Modem driver version 4.27.5.66 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled May

Re: [Cooker] couple of bugs

2000-05-28 Thread Pixel
Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 28 May 2000, Pixel wrote: Lorne Shantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LS120 issues - It automatically assumes that the LS120 is HDA. It apparently isn't on two machines. I haven't had time to figure out what it is though. which version

Re: [Cooker] couple of bugs

2000-05-28 Thread Pixel
Lorne Shantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm testing Mandrake 7.1 beta 3. I have ONLY a LS120 on the one system I installed it on. I was unable to make a rescue disk at all. I kept getting errors. One thing I noticed is that I get the error message that the LS120 is reporting two different

Re: [Cooker] beta3 install

2000-05-28 Thread Pixel
John Grange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pixel wrote: Derek Wildstar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can ldconfig be run immediately before the X configuration section, then again after as needed? This would also fix the problem of having a wasted install if one tests their X

Re: [Cooker] Possible Bug [more info]

2000-05-28 Thread Icebreaker
Original Message On 5/28/00, 4:55:22 PM, Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [Cooker] Possible Bug [more info]: Icebreaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, I managed to find a bunch of errors that I overlooked when I posted the first time. Any Ideas? Do you have

Re: [Cooker] couple of bugs

2000-05-28 Thread Lorne Shantz
Did you try it with no disk in the drive? For instance, I just ran lilo from the bash prompt to try to resolve a problem with NAV in Winbloz and it gave the same error. Try it on your system with no disk in it and see what it does. ?? Pixel wrote: Lorne Shantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Re: [Cooker] Mahogany, could it be a part of Linux Mandrake ??

2000-05-28 Thread Allen Bolderoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The RPM is being built on my system right now, but due to how it builds, it might be better to actually build from the source RPM if you're using anything other than an i686 (since it installs to an i686-pc-linux-gnu directory regardless of what RPM I make, and I'm

Re: [Cooker] New distro install idea to attract more users

2000-05-28 Thread Con Kolivas
These people need all of KDE and no other wms installed. They also need all the *drak* configuration software, netscape communicator and some sort of office suite. They need NOTHING else. Unfortunately it takes quite some time for me to filter through all the other unneeded stuff

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