Re: [Cooker] Mandrake Debian?

2002-02-26 Thread Tapio Riikonen
> I think that improving urpmi will be the best issue . Absolutely! Some cons are: save time and nerves, broader compatibility, more commercial value in the market place. > And does it possible to make a dbkg->rpm converter it will be great;-) Would be very nice, less of a priority though. Tap

Re: [Cooker] hd install

2002-02-24 Thread Tapio Riikonen
> i tried to install beta3 from harddisk hd.img , but it failed. > It said pretty early in the installation, I think just after > selection of keyboard that I missed a file: > /lib/modules.cz-2.4.17-mdk10BOOT and it just closed down. > > Keld It is still broken (I don't know what is so difficult

[Cooker] Road Runner 10 ADSL PCI Card

2002-01-02 Thread Tapio Riikonen
There's no way I can make this very popular and cheap ADSL card work under Cooker or Mdk 8.1. It does work with some versions of Red Hat, though. This must again be an instance of open/closed source dilemma. They seem to use itex drivers. If you are interested in solving (if at all possible witho

[Cooker] Finnish kbd layouts

1999-11-21 Thread Tapio Riikonen
There's been some discussion lately here in Finland about the harm of having two Finnish keyboard layouts: fi-latin1 (the right one) and fi (old 7-bit and practically obsolete). I would suggest that Mandrake remove the old 'fi' layout and save a lot of newbies the frustration of not having a work

Re: [Cooker] Cannot Install Cooker

1999-11-15 Thread Tapio Riikonen
> "Tapio Riikonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I downloaded the new files in /base + gi_hd.img. Wov, Gold is a worthy name > > for this piece of art! I can now go so far as to partitioning and mounting. > > After rebooting the partitions are there b

Re: [Cooker] Cannot Install Cooker

1999-11-15 Thread Tapio Riikonen
hard drive. I have no problems with Mandrake 6.0 when installing from cdrom. Sorry to answer so late, but there are the time zones... You are working when I am sleeping and vice versa. Tapio > "Tapio Riikonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > a) Using gi_

[Cooker] Cannot Install Cooker

1999-11-14 Thread Tapio Riikonen
I have an Abit BP6 with 2xCeleron 366 (not overclocked when installing), 64 PC100 SDRAM, Quantum Fireball CX 13,2 Gb (2.0 Gb Win98 vfat = /dev/hda1, 2.5 Gb vfat = /dev/hda5, the rest empty and reserved for Linux), Matrox G400 DH, Mitsumi CR-4802 CD-RW drive, nothing special.   There have bee

Re: [Cooker] zoneinfo

1999-08-30 Thread Tapio Riikonen
> >ok, now it is: > > > >(please, add the addings in place, so that i can take the final list ;-) > 'Danish (Denmark)' => 'Europe/Copenhagen' 'English (USA)' # This one won't make anyone happy... 'English (UK)' => 'Europe/London' 'Estonian (Estonia)' => Europe/Tallinn' 'Finnish (Finland)' => Euro

[Cooker] DrakX and rpm database error

1999-01-16 Thread Tapio Riikonen
Trying to install cooker with DrakX after selecting the packages and the size I get creation of rpm database failed: at /usr/bin/perl-install/pkgs.pm line 325 Is this error message a universal one or is it specific to my computer? Tapio

Re: [Cooker] DrakX and SMP

1999-01-16 Thread Tapio Riikonen
> "Tapio Riikonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > After installing Cooker with DrakX (now much faster!), in order to = > > enable SMP I had to manually add > > > > image=3Dkernel-2.2.13-29mdksmp > > > > in my /etc/lilo.con

[Cooker] DrakX and SMP

1999-01-16 Thread Tapio Riikonen
After installing Cooker with DrakX (now much faster!), in order to enable SMP I had to manually add       image=kernel-2.2.13-29mdksmp   in my /etc/lilo.conf. After this everything is working OK.   A minor point, but could this be automated in the future?   Tapio