[Cooker] menu bug addendum

2000-05-12 Thread Eric J. Smith
ok, i figured out what the problem is. when a menu item has a text description it pops up and overlaps the menu item below, then when you move down to the next menu item, the next menu item is highlighted before the description is removed so that when the text description from the item above is

[Cooker] kde menu highlighting bug

2000-05-12 Thread Eric J. Smith
Hi, i'm running the cooker from i think yesterday sometime but might be from day before. using kde. This is kind of hard to describe... if you open the menus until you reach an application where the text box pops up describing a program, if you scroll down the menu with the mouse pointer near to

Re: [Cooker] Fw: virus in mandrake...

2000-05-11 Thread Eric J. Smith
Hahahha. You guys crack me up... I cant wait to give you guys my money. virus fixed. hehehe. Eric. On 11 May 2000, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: "Daniel Haischt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi daniel, i just reviewed the 1st cd of mandrake (cooker) as i got a virus warning from DocSolomon.

RE: [Cooker] ATA 66

2000-05-11 Thread Eric J. Smith
The latest cooker and 7.1 beta 2 are NOT the same thing. download the latest cooker, make a NEW iso and you'll be much happier. Eric. On Thu, 11 May 2000, B. K. Barley wrote: Yeah, And they said it was fixed in beta 2. I'm tired of downloading the iso's and burning cd's only to

[Cooker] MD5SUM needs updating?

2000-05-10 Thread Eric J. Smith
I think the md5sums need updating for the images... [root@s8-54-4 images]# rm MD5SUM rm: remove `MD5SUM'? y [root@s8-54-4 images]# rm hd.img rm: remove `hd.img'? y [root@s8-54-4 images]# rsync -av ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-devel/cooker/ /mnt/iso/ MOTD: Welcome to SUNET Archive, Sweden MOTD: MOTD:

Re: [Cooker] ata66 on a-bit be6 still not working

2000-05-10 Thread Eric J. Smith
Perhaps a 7.1 beta 3 iso should be made available to aleviate redundant bug reports. Eric. On Wed, 10 May 2000, B. K. Barley wrote: Hi, Just downloaded the iso of 7.1 beta b. And setup still fails to recognize an ata66 drive on the a-bit motherboard. I tried passing the io address to

[Cooker] network config prob

2000-05-09 Thread Eric J. Smith
mirrored the cooker at around midnight last night... network didn't get setup properly even though i specified ip, netmask, dns, and gateway properly. could this be due to the fact i didn't format my /home directory this time? i wouldn't think so. was able to configure network with drak

[Cooker] gnapster

2000-05-09 Thread Eric J. Smith
Any chance of getting gnapster added to the distribution? Eric.

Re: [Cooker] XFree86 4.0 - segfaults

2000-05-09 Thread Eric J. Smith
Please detail what you did to get q3 running, i've yet to succeed in getting the new nvidia driver to work on my system (i followed the xf86-4.0 faq on the nvidia site to no avail). thx, Eric. On 9 May 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: This week-end I tried out the new optimized "nvidia"

[Cooker] success!

2000-05-08 Thread Eric J. Smith
So i finally managed to get the cooker mirrored and succeeded in a hd.img install. Its all good. Ok, now to start helping with debug... 1. On the hd.img install, after it said successfully installed, reboot /dev/hda6 (where my cooker resides) was not unmounted first causing a check to be forced.

Re: [Cooker] bugs?

2000-05-08 Thread Eric J. Smith
Grub worked fine for me and i have win2k on the first 4 gig partition, although its definitely very ugly to look at. any chance we can get it to use the really cool looking smaller text you see on the mandrake install just prior to the graphical install starting? On 8 May 2000, Gary G Russell

Re: [Cooker] openssl and openssh installation order

2000-05-08 Thread Eric J. Smith
Uhm... how do you get it to install ssh? where is this crypto screen i keep hearing about? expert install only? eric. On Sun, 7 May 2000, Steve Fox wrote: I believe an order needs to be added so that openssl gets installed before openssh. When I have all the open*rpm files in one dir and

[Cooker] xmms strange behavior

2000-05-08 Thread Eric J. Smith
If you start xmms and move it slowly around the screen it "snaps" into place (dont know a better way to describe this behavior) in weird ways. if you try to snap it to the task bar at the top of the screen (kde) it will (almost) snap to the right location if you are at the top left part of the

Re: [Cooker] xmms strange behavior

2000-05-08 Thread Eric J. Smith
Cottenceau wrote: "Eric J. Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you start xmms and move it slowly around the screen it "snaps" into place (dont know a better way to describe this behavior) in weird ways. if you try to snap it to the task bar at the top of the screen (kd

Re: [Cooker] Best way to update a cooker install?

2000-05-08 Thread Eric J. Smith
I made a seperate partition to hold the cooker on: fdisk /dev/hda then format it with: mke2fs /dev/hdaX where X is the number of the partition you created (you can figure this out by printing the partition table in fdisk after you've partitioned). Anyway, after that i rebooted and linux mounted

Re: [Cooker] Progress 20000506

2000-05-06 Thread Eric J. Smith
On 6 May 2000, Pixel wrote: Ron Stodden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2. Multiple nameservers should be parsed out and set to /etc/resolv.conf one per line with a"nameserver " prefix. you mean why doesn't it ask for more than one nameserver? seems a good thing to add. 2 nameservers

[Cooker] hd.img 'unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg'

2000-05-06 Thread Eric J. Smith
I'm new so this is exactly what i did... mirrored repeatedly until it said there were no difference rpmfind.net to my /home/ejs/man-cooker/ directory then i went into the images folder and did: dd -if=hd.img of=/dev/fd0 then i shutdown and restart and from lilo choose to boot 'floppy' and i

Re: [Cooker] Install everything ( was: minicom extras needed )

2000-05-06 Thread Eric J. Smith
On 6 May 2000, Pixel wrote: Rene Eske Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mircea Ciocan wrote: I agree, but then the slider that determines how much should be installed should be placed at the percentage that is installed now, so what do you mean by 'installed now'? personally,

Re: [Cooker] hd.img 'unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg'

2000-05-06 Thread Eric J. Smith
: "Eric J. Smith" wrote: 'unknown keyword in syslinux.cfg' then after that repeated a bunch it ended with... 'could not find kernel image: linux' any help is appreciated, but please be precise since i know very little. If you generated the floppy under Linux you

[Cooker] 7.1 beta 2

2000-05-05 Thread Eric J. Smith
Hi, Maybe i had a bad cd burn but when i did custom install, developer class, 100% install, when switching to the extensions cd the install hangs for me for about 3 minutes. It was in the middle of kpppsomethingorother at the time. By the way, i want to have your children. 7.1 kicks serious