[Cooker] [Bug 4495] [Installation] basesystem package not selected

2003-09-09 Thread [sam]
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4495 --- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-09-09 21:46 --- RC2 has this bug as well.. Still... This sucks,. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail

[Cooker] samba-client

2002-11-04 Thread Sam Morrison
addressing. Where would be the best place to start a repository like this? (Mandrake Linux for Corporate Deployment) Any ideas? Thanks for letting me rant sam

Re: [Cooker] samba-client

2002-11-04 Thread Sam Morrison
thanks Todd, but mount -t smbfs did the same thing. Have you ever experienced a bad install of a package? Does this happen? Usually rpm/urpmi lets me know when things aren't kosher... sam On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 17:08, Todd Lyons wrote: Sam Morrison wrote on Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 05:00:49PM

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Made Easy: a modest suggestion for Windowsusers

2002-11-04 Thread Sam Morrison
How about adding a Linux user for each user configured for the Windows install? sam On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 18:38, Leon Brooks wrote: On Tuesday 05 November 2002 09:15 am, Ben Reser wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 07:35:51AM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote: * ICQ/IRC/AIM/MSN settings - EveryBuddy

RE: [Cooker] bash: TMOUT: readonly variable

2002-02-17 Thread Sam Stern
/security/msec/level.local that contains: msec.set_shell_variable('TMOUT', 0) -- this is the wrong syntax, btw. I am still trying to locate the right syntax. HTH, Sam Stern Bethesda, Md, USA

Re: install problem

2001-11-16 Thread Sam Goodman
. I have two monitors and no matter which video card i use its the same. I can't read the text enough to choose what language or packages to install . I noticed the same problem with suse ppc but the yellowdog linux showed up just fine. Is there something im not aware of? sam from alaska

Re: [Cooker] MandrakeUpdate

2000-11-18 Thread Sam
it's just wasted disk space. Sam Original Message On 11/18/2000, 2:17:25 PM, Armisis Aieoln [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [Cooker] MandrakeUpdate: After running mandrakeupdate, i ran it again a day or so latter to see what was out there, well it was the same things i had just downloaded

Re: [Cooker] Success with NVidia feedback [ NVidia driver for Linux/XFree86 ]

2000-11-16 Thread Sam
I have one- do you have a question? Are there any owners of Happauge (i believe that's the spelling) video cards on list? PROPOSAL: ~ Let's collect suggestions/questions to NVidia together, and send them all collected to NVidia. At least now we have contact person. BR,

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion

2000-11-13 Thread Sam
equivalent for (programming/setting up of PLC's, industrial control systems and measuring devices) Sam Original Message On 11/13/00, 7:47:55 AM, Christopher Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [Cooker] Suggestion: On Sunday 12 November 2000 11:03, you wrote: The partition table

Re: [Cooker] Menus

2000-11-13 Thread Sam
Loki uses there own installer, similar to the windoze install program. This installer was written based on the KDE 1.X menu structure so doesn't work too well when placing menu items under KDE 2. This brings up another suggestion for Mandrake. Loki has made the code for their installer

[Cooker] Suggestion

2000-11-12 Thread Sam
This got lost in the griping I did in another note, When using customized mode- Please set up the installer so that it creates a floppy for installing Mandrake with the same settings like Expert does. I'm starting to be driven nuts by Win98. I booted it up the other day and a brand new

Re: [Cooker] DSL question

2000-11-11 Thread Sam
. (Before someone sends a list of compatible DSL moems/routers, I know there are a bunch more. I'm strictly talking about the models in Qwests special offer). Thanks, Sam Original Message On 11/10/00, 10:21:35 PM, "Bruce Gidney" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [Cooker] DSL ques

[Cooker] Linux, IBM, and an interesting fact

2000-11-10 Thread Sam
of Linux. They're really encouraging people to switch over on the desktop aren't they? ;-) Maybe one of the Mandrake folks could give them a call and pound some sense into them. Anyone got a suggestion as to where I could post this so it would embarrass IBM out of there stupid narrow-mindedness? Sam

Re: [Cooker] About to include netscape6 in the cooker

2000-11-10 Thread Sam
Question- 1. Where is NS8, it's not on the netscape website or any download centers. Original Message On 11/10/00, 6:37:32 AM, Meir Faraj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [Cooker] About to include netscape6 in the cooker: Hi all , First I wanna to tell you thanks for your

Re: [Cooker] About to include netscape6 in the cooker

2000-11-10 Thread Sam
No mozilla is NOT better. You don't want mozilla on a public release as it is a DEVELOPMENT platform for Netscape. Go to the mozilla website. They try to dissuade the average user from downloading it. I do use Mozilla- it's fast, but is it bug free- no way. Mozilla is development code. As

Re: [Cooker] About to include netscape6 in the cooker

2000-11-10 Thread Sam
the same thing as does Mandrake with Cooker at various times. By no means are any of them considered a final release at that point. Sam

Re: [Cooker] About to include netscape6 in the cooker

2000-11-10 Thread Sam
(made by Dell) uses Linux and a browser based on gecko. Original Message On 11/10/00, 8:19:11 AM, Chmouel Boudjnah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [Cooker] About to include netscape6 in the cooker: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The reason they freeze it is because they know

Re: [Cooker] About to include netscape6 in the cooker

2000-11-10 Thread Sam
So sprach Chmouel Boudjnah am Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 06:56:46AM -0800: do you thing that a distribution of 1,2Gb is not enough ? Well, if you include powertools, redhat is at almost 2 Gig. So why not? Although slackware is only 1.5 CD's in size, they have a contributions iso image as the

[Cooker] DSL question

2000-11-10 Thread Sam
. If you don't have the information. What do you need? Also, there are no Linux drivers for the Intel DSL modem. Is this because it works under the same principle as a winmodem? If not, having linux drivers for this modem in the distribution would be a big plus. Sam

Re: [Cooker] Potato Guy kills X session

2000-11-10 Thread Sam
You got farther than I did, the program never started for me. Original Message On 11/11/00, 10:12:48 PM, "Greg A. Bur" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [Cooker] Potato Guy kills X session: This isn't too terribly important, at least not yet, but while I was exploing the KDE2

Re: Iomega and CD-Recorders support [Re: [Cooker] Call for boycott]

2000-11-09 Thread Sam
I'm using a SCSI ORB drive with Mandrake- 2.2GB per disk, $30 per disk, cheaper than a 1GB Jazz drive. Iomega is only still alive because of product name recognition. Everybody with a computer knows what a Zip drive is. Original Message On 11/9/00, 8:58:35 AM, Vadim Plessky [EMAIL

[Cooker] ORB drive

2000-11-09 Thread Sam
I'm using a SCSI ORB drive with Mandrake, but there is one problem. I have to eject the disk and reinsert it before I boot the computer. The reason for this is mandrake does not wait long enough on boot for the drive to spin up. It reports "not a valid block device" and continues booting.

[Cooker] 7.2 Install from CD

2000-11-04 Thread Sam
, If the process goes anything like the first machine I should be done in two days. Sam

[Cooker] Re: Linux vs NT

2000-03-24 Thread Sam
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, you wrote: The latest 'Linux is crap because' are : 1) 'Linux is only capable of blocking'. I thought Unix became non blocking about 1980, but I'm not sure. If it did I assume Linux is as well. I know nothing about this. 2) NT / 2000 are completely object

[Cooker] Fwd: Act on UCITA NOW

2000-03-24 Thread Sam
Not a cooker issue, but it is a concern to all Linux users. You guys at Mnadrake should be posting info about UCITA to all of your users -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Act on UCITA NOW Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:20:39 -0500 From: Skip Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] An update on

[Cooker] Auto allocate needs rethinking

2000-03-22 Thread Sam
of two things- a. drastically increase the root partition size since all of the files going under /usr will be installed there, or b. Have auto allocate create a root, /usr, and /home partition Sam

Re: [Cooker] Auto allocate needs rethinking

2000-03-22 Thread Sam
I tried both the server and developer under recommended and the root partition was 1.5GB. Also, on my machine the only 3 partitions were created besides the swap file- boot, root, and home. The same thing happened when I chose developer. Pixel wrote: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /boot

[Cooker] Disk Drake problems

2000-03-22 Thread Sam
the first time this error has been reported out of three runs with Diskdrake. The drive is a Maxtor 20GB, 7200rpm IDE ATA33 drive, model 92048D8 The motherboard is an ABIT BH6 Sam

Re: [Cooker] Disk Drake problems

2000-03-22 Thread Sam
commercial packages. That way someone can change partitions easily after Mandrake is installed. Pixel wrote: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I decided to change my partition setup for Linux and reinstall Mandrake. Disk drake was the last partitioning tool I'd used and it gave me the error

Re: [Cooker] Disk Drake problems (good news)

2000-03-22 Thread Sam
! Sam Pixel wrote: Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I decided to change my partition setup for Linux and reinstall Mandrake. Disk drake was the last partitioning tool I'd used and it gave me the error message, "Diskdrake cannot correctly read the partition table". In addition,

Re: [Cooker] mandrake70.iso

2000-01-27 Thread Sam
a black eye they still haven't recovered from. There's a lesson to be learned here guys. I happen to really like what you are doing with the Mandrake release and I'd hate to see the same thing happen to you. Sam On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, you wrote: On Mon 28 Feb at 04:49:12 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] done

[Cooker] More bugs

2000-01-27 Thread Sam
logout and everything returns when I log back in. I got this to repeat everytime without fail. Sam

[Cooker] Upgrade notes

2000-01-26 Thread Sam
. Documentation is too skimpy during the lilo setup for a newbie, I'll talk to Pablo about writing something better for you. Sam

[Cooker] Install bug

2000-01-26 Thread Sam Walker
I have 128MB on my machine. I entered 128 in the requestor for memory size during the install. There is no mem=XXX statement in lilo. What it did was put in my scsi, but no memory settings. Sam

RE: [Cooker] Air ISO boot problems.

2000-01-25 Thread Sam Walker
wonder why? ;-) duh Try to read the cd in a file manager. If it says air.iso is a file on the CD and that's all you see, you didn't set things up properly before starting. Sam -Original Message- From: Pablo Saratxaga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 12:21 AM

Re: [Cooker] Air ISO boot problems.

2000-01-25 Thread Sam
See comments below On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: not sure as windows 2000 won't even use my cd burner but I have burned at least 4 cd's that I can remember using mandrake 7.0 to burn them and they all worked great. With these few problems 1) they won't work with the kenwood true speed

Re: [Cooker] Air ISO boot problems.

2000-01-25 Thread Sam
If you made this mitake, you can moint the CD, but you will still see only one file on the CD, air.iso (or Mandrake70.iso, depending on which site you got it from) Sam Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try to read the cd in a file manager. If it says air.iso is a file on the CD

RE: [Cooker] Air ISO boot problems.

2000-01-25 Thread Sam
I had that happen too. It was caused when I did a restart from windoze. I shut the system down, did a cold boot, and everything worked fine. Why? I dunno . . . On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Sam Walker wrote: One other thing can cause this problem. I was in a hurry to burn the copy, so I selected

RE: [Cooker] Winmodems

2000-01-21 Thread Sam Walker
There is a Winmodems website that has some links to available drivers. As far as I know, Lucent is the only one that has released a Linux driver for their winmodems, but I've heard mixed reports on their usability. Sam -Original Message- From: Tracy Whitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent

[Cooker] Text in installer

2000-01-08 Thread Sam
me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would need you to send me the text files for editing. Sam

RE: [Cooker] Mandrake 6.1 is out!

1999-09-20 Thread Sam Gentile
When will this be available for purchase on a CD in the US? I gave up on trying to get it working through the download process! Sam -Original Message- From: Brad Boutwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 3:24 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [Cooker

[Cassini] Cassini: No Graphical Install, Can't find any packages

1999-09-07 Thread Sam Gentile
I did a download of Casini and the whole directory structure and made boot disks and I never got any "grapical install" option. Also with the hard disk install, it can't find any packages or RPMS. So I cannot install. Known bugs? How do I get this to install? Sam Gentile Senio

RE: [Cooker] WordPerfect 8 RPM

1999-09-02 Thread Sam Gentile
I would rather have StarOffice. -Original Message- From: Jake Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 1:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Cooker] WordPerfect 8 RPM Is Wordperfect 8 going to be in the distribution? I've noticed that Caldera has

RE: [Cooker] Kernel problem?

1999-09-02 Thread Sam Gentile
Why aren't we going with the lastest stable kernel 2.2.12 anyway? -Original Message- From: Kit Ngan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 1:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] Kernel problem? Sam Gentile wrote: I don;t know if I did LILO

RE: Re[2]: [Cooker] Vote for a BulletProofFTP Port to Linux

1999-08-30 Thread Sam Gentile
When you say download the RPMs into the directory you mean through Bullet Proof FTP? Sam Gentile Senior Software Engineer - Web Group 978.264.0012 (voice) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 978.264.0010 (fax) www.networkmasters.com "Your Advantage for Internetworking Develo