Re: [Cooker] [Holy Minimal Install]

2001-08-03 Thread SI Reasoning
When installing linux for people, they seem to be most curious and open at the very beginning. If you have to take cumbersome steps to install for them they immediately assume it will be too hard for them and lose interest. Even though I love having lots of choices, I have noticed that most newbie

[Cooker] USB CompactFlash media

2001-08-03 Thread Willum
Well, here goes:: I bought a Kodak DC3200 dig. cam. around Christmas time, and it is supported in GPhoto 2.0-- which is still beta, and the camera won't work in it corrrectly. really not at all. But, I have LexarMedia Jumpshot USB CompactFlash reader, and I know that this is probably a dumb quest

Re: [Cooker] xinetd broken

2001-08-03 Thread Geoffrey Lee
> > libwrap options compiled in. > > for yesterday: > > Aug 2 18:09:52 silbermann xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded > > Seems libwrap support is the problem here, as /usr/sbin/tcpd is not present. > > Either make xinetd requires it, or (better) disallow libwrap support in > > xinetd. > > Might I

Re: [Cooker] xinetd broken

2001-08-03 Thread David Walluck
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > But i still have problems with cvs (see my other post). > In log, i found for today: > Aug 3 16:06:38 silbermann xinetd[11203]: xinetd Version 2.3.0 started with > libwrap options compiled in. > for yesterday: > Aug 2 18:09:52 silbermann xinetd: xin

Re: [Cooker] Email Setup

2001-08-03 Thread David Walluck
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, civileme wrote: > 1. a universal installer in full GUI built off of checkinstall, > 2. a program that sends hardware and configuration profiles to some central > place for helping non-expert users > 3. program that backs up configuration files daily , keeping a daily re

Re: [Cooker] Re: minimum install

2001-08-03 Thread David Walluck
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Christian Bricart wrote: > Yep .. and exactly such an option I want for an installed Aurora :-) I also have two problems with Aurora. 1. The mose doesn't work. I selected "Generic PS/2 Wheel Mouse". On other systems with "Generic PS/2 Mouse" (no weel) it seems to work. 2. L

[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] ippl-1.4.13-1mdk

2001-08-03 Thread David Walluck
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Lenny Cartier wrote: > Name: ippl Relocations: (not relocateable) > Version : 1.4.13Vendor: MandrakeSoft Just FYI, I have always preferred this package to iplog, and have wished for that to be the default. Can so

Re: KDM dies (was Re: [Cooker] KDE keeps resetting)

2001-08-03 Thread David Walluck
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Bruce F Press wrote: > I have the same problem. KDM dies when I mouse-over the window control > (the menu in the top left hand corner of the window decoration, I > forget it's real name) in certain applications. The ones I can think of > are; mtv (mpeg player), Java Applic

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] parted-1.4.17-1mdk

2001-08-03 Thread David Walluck
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Pixel wrote: > --=-=-= > Name: parted Relocations: (not relocateable) > Version : 1.4.17Vendor: MandrakeSoft > > --=-=-= > > * Fri Aug 03 2001 Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.4.17-1mdk > > - at last a library major ver

[Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] chkconfig-1.2.23-1mdk

2001-08-03 Thread David Walluck
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Thierry Vignaud wrote: > > * Fri Aug 03 2001 Thierry Vignaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.2.23-1mdk > > - new release > - ntsysv requirse chkconfig Are ntsysv and drakxservices the same thing? They don't seem to stay in sync with each other. As I said recently in a post, all drak to

Re: [Cooker] Re: Drakfoo vs foodrake

2001-08-03 Thread David Walluck
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, [ISO-8859-1] Grégoire Colbert wrote: > 1- If you don't know the name of the tool you need, you then just have > to type Drak (or drak) in a console and you see all the tools. > > 2- Sorting RPM packages by alphabetical order will make it more easy to > find the Mandrake's tool

Re: [Cooker] [Holy Minimal Install]

2001-08-03 Thread Will Smith
Le Vendredi 3 Août 2001 19:04, vous avez écrit : > SI Reasoning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > That would be nice Do you think it is possible to > > have the search feature also? It would be so nice to > > just do a search for a few items that we want > > in...instead of chasing down the dire

[Cooker] Strange RPM problems

2001-08-03 Thread Alexander Feigl
Hi! I have some database problems since I upgraded to the latest RPM package of cooker. When doing an upgrade of a package I get: rpm --upgrade strace-4.3-2mdk.i586.rpm rpmdb: Unable to allocate 8247 bytes from mpool shared region: Cannot allocate memory error: cannot open Depends index using

Re: [Cooker] [Holy Minimal Install] Why "Linux sucks"...

2001-08-03 Thread Terrible Tom
on 8/3/01 2:24 PM, Digital Wokan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A bare minimum would be a nice option. I have a router/firewall at home > that I do put to occassional other uses. Starting it off from the > smallest possible install would be a nice choice. > I've moved to the freesco floppy

Re: [Cooker] sane package?

2001-08-03 Thread Willum
I have a Mustek 600 III Plus parallel port scanner. got all the new sane rpms from cooker-- does not work. cannot find my device, even after i restart. it says: no device found. I installed a driver that someone on cooker said helped their parport scanner work, but after i installed that package

[Cooker] grub not found by kernel install

2001-08-03 Thread kk1
Cannot find a boot loader, you may have to see why detectloader has problems or specify via the command line. # detectloader no bootloader on MBR, trying partitions! =-= kk1 _ Free email with personality! Over 200 domains! http://www.MyOwnEmail.com

Re: [Cooker] Email Setup

2001-08-03 Thread S N
Grégoire, My argument about 80 computers is that I have to set up email 80 times or more, it gets old after a while. I think it would be of benefit to have email setup as an option during setup. I also understand that it is easy to set up a computer from the command line. In Menudrake when you in

Re: [Cooker] Email setup

2001-08-03 Thread michael
At 08:46 PM 8/3/01 +0200, you wrote: >I thought Linux was about doing the right thing. > >regards >guran I thought it was about doing the thing right!

[Cooker] broken mozilla rpm?

2001-08-03 Thread kk1
$ rpm -qp mozilla-0.9.3-1mdk.i586.rpm warning: Expected size: 8420904 = lead(96)+sigs(149)+pad(3)+data(8420656) warning: Actual size: 6012922 mozilla-0.9.3-1mdk =-= kk1 _ Free email with personality! Over 200 domains! http://www.MyOwnEmai

minimum install (was: Re: [Cooker] Bugs in mandrake-8.0)

2001-08-03 Thread Christian Bricart

Re: [Cooker] xinetd broken

2001-08-03 Thread Geoffrey Lee
> > > Nothing seems like xinetd here... > > > > look like broken, i look at this.. > E-mails fly too quick :-) > It was before running update-alternatives with --auto xinetd option, this > problem is fixed now. Yes, but we shouldn't have broken alternatives on upgrade ... -- Geoffrey Lee <[E

Re: [Cooker] sane package?

2001-08-03 Thread Marcel Pol
On 02 Aug 2001 21:03:05 +0200 Yves Duret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grégoire Colbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I haven't sent anything to this list since a very long time, so I hope I'm not > > bothering anyone with this question : is there a chance to get an easy > > installation of scan