Re: [Cooker] Fwd: Simplification of Menu

2003-01-19 Thread prabu anand
Hi, > > Please install Mandrake Documentation by default. > Let > > the power user un choose it if he wants. If > necessary > > put the quick start guide only in a small rpm. > This > > should guide the user how to get more detailed > > documentation. Split the documentation rpm it's a > > whopp

[Cooker] Fwd: Simplification of Menu

2003-01-18 Thread prabu anand
Dear Mandrake, I'm forwarding an e-mail written to me by a 60 years Linux convert to you. Eventhough i don't fully agree with what he wants, i sympathize with his views. Let us ask one question. How many new Mandrake users will be coming from 1. Windows 2. Other Linux distributiosn 3. Compute

Re: [Cooker] Dumping of installation media contents to HDD

2003-01-14 Thread prabu anand
Hi Francois, --- François Pons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le mar 14/01/2003 à 02:19, Leon Brooks a écrit : > > Another feature I'd like to see is offering to > copy the install CDs to disk > > (maybe in /var/install?), set them up as (a) URPMI > source(s) in place of the ... > You may want to

Re: [Cooker] Dumping of installation media contents to HDD

2003-01-13 Thread prabu anand
Hi David, > >> It already does this automatically, check > /root/drakx > >> after the install. (auto_inst.cfg.pl is what > you're > >> looking for) > Another feature I'd like to see is offering to copy > the install CDs to disk > (maybe in /var/install?), set them up as (a) URPMI > source(s) in

Re: [Cooker] [9.1beta1]: Install skips X configuration

2003-01-13 Thread prabu anand
Hi, This happened to me too. I was wondering why no-one reported this as this was too obvious. My configuration is Onboard Prosavage Controller Viewsonic E70F monitor. However as explained below, when i clicked on the empty Graphics field it configured immediately and it worked. Cheers., Prab

[Cooker] Dumping of MDK CD contents to HDD

2003-01-13 Thread prabu anand
Hi Friends, When i install the MDK, the drakconf should give me an option to save the contents of the CD into Harddisk, so that further Add/Remove programme will not require inserion/removal/changing of the CD's. This may need an additional 5 minutes, but the benefit will be there throughout it's

Re: [Cooker] VIA VT8233 AC97 controller soundcard is not working in MDK9.1 beta1

2003-01-13 Thread prabu anand
Thanks for the confirmation. On a side note, my sound mixer configuration is lost on every reboot. This happened in MDK9.0 and now in MDK9.1 beta1. Is this a feature or bug? Cheers., Prabu > mmmh, we noted the alsa rename long ago and fix it > in ldetect-lst cvs > when we updated our kernel to ne

[Cooker] MDK9.1 Beta1 drakfont broken

2003-01-12 Thread prabu anand
Hi, Drakfont seem to be broken when i try to add font using advanced option or from windows. The steps to reproduce the bug are 1. Start drakfont from commandline. 2. Click on Advanced Options 3. Click on Add The steps to reproduce the bug are 1. Start drakfont from commandline. 2. Click on Get

Fwd: Re: [Cooker] VIA VT8233 AC97 controller soundcard is not working in MDK9.1 beta1

2003-01-12 Thread prabu anand
Note: forwarded message attached. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com --- Begin Message --- On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 09:42, prabu anand wrote: > Hi, > > My via8233 based sound ca

Re: [Cooker] VIA VT8233 AC97 controller soundcard is not working in MDK9.1 beta1

2003-01-12 Thread prabu anand
Hi, After editing manually the /etc/mdoules.conf i can get sound working. I'd like to confirm that this is a bug in MDK9.1 beta1. The entry snd-via82xx is the correct entry. But Mandrake tools(not sure which tool!!)makes this entry as snd-via8233. Once i manually change this sound works. In add

[Cooker] VIA VT8233 AC97 controller soundcard is not working in MDK9.1 beta1

2003-01-12 Thread prabu anand
Hi, My via8233 based sound card is not working in MDK9.1 beta1. This is a default install with no external drivers... Please see the following information below .. cat /etc/modules.conf cat /proc/pci draksound insmod snd-via82xx IF you need any more information please ask me. This is an onboar

[Cooker] MDK9.0: Rescue Mode is still showing 8.2 cooker

2002-10-09 Thread prabu anand
Hi Guys, In MDK9.0, if you drop in to the console of Rescue Mode, you will the version there as 8.2 cooker. Is it required to maintain version numbers at so many places, and have difficulty updating them. Eventhough, i tested MDK9.0 since beta4, i didn't goto rescue mode then, so didn't see the

Re: [Cooker] Trouble installing kernel-cource

2002-10-02 Thread prabu anand
Hi, Thank you very much for both of you. Yes, when i mounted the ISO image and installed from there, it installed great. Thanks again, Prabu --- Götz Waschk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 2002, 15:41:33 Uhr MET, > schrieb Per Øyvind Karlsen: > > I would guess that your cd

[Cooker] Trouble installing kernel-cource

2002-10-02 Thread prabu anand
Hi, This is a fresh MDK9.0 installed machine. When i tried to install kernel-source i'm getting this error. This error i noticed even when installing the OS. Does it work for you. I verified the MD5 published in the MDK9.0 download page and i find it is the same as my CD's.. Am i missing somethi

Re: [Cooker] Connection Sharing and Shorewall

2002-09-19 Thread prabu anand
Robert, If this is really broken again, then this is extremely bad. Can you pls. follow the earlier instruction of Florin.. 1. configure your internet connection with drakconnect 2. configure your internet access with drakconnect 3. configure your security AND internet sharing 4. try if it w

Re: [Cooker] Connection Sharing and Shorewall

2002-09-19 Thread prabu anand
Robert, Pls. send the version number of your packages like drakgw Recenty, after RC2 was released.. these packages fixed the connection sharing problem.. drakxtools-1.1.9-45mdk.i586.rpm drakxtools-http-1.1.9-45mdk.i586.rpm drakxtools-newt-1.1.9-45mdk.i586.rpm harddrake-1.1.9-45mdk.

Re: [Cooker] RC2-Internet connection sharing still does not work

2002-09-13 Thread prabu anand
Hi Damon/Florin, Just to be 100% sure, i re-installed the RC2 and installed the new packages given by Florin. Good news internet connection sharing works. However there are some quirks. After running, drakconnect to configure my internet connection,(etho is dhcp and eth1 is fixed ip), when i r

Re: [Cooker] RC2-Internet connection sharing still does not work

2002-09-12 Thread prabu anand
Metric:1 RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1134 (1.1 Kb) TX bytes:1134 (1.1 Kb) --- prabu anand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Florin, >

Re: [Cooker] RC2-Internet connection sharing still does not work

2002-09-12 Thread prabu anand
Dear Florin, I installed all the packages. Some conflicts reported from draksec package for the file, /usr/sbin/draksec, when installing drakx-newt package. I forced the installation and everything installed. Pls. see the results below. Here are the results. I'm getting the same error message

Re: [Cooker] RC2-Internet connection sharing still does not work

2002-09-12 Thread prabu anand
Flroin, I repeat again for your information. there is no draknet in my machine. So i'm running drakconnect. I configure my n/w connection. Now i run, drakgw, internet connection sharing tool, and getting a error message, when i choose to enable the connection. [root@prabuhomepc prabu]# drakconn

Re: [Cooker] RC2-Internet connection sharing still does not work

2002-09-11 Thread prabu anand
Dear Florin, The drake tools are really simple and straighforward to use. When you mention it works for you, i'm interested in knowing how it works for you because for me it doesn't work.To recap here is the procedure to simulate my problem I install Mandrake9.0 rc2 from CD. While installing

Re: [Cooker] RC2-Internet connection sharing still does not work

2002-09-11 Thread prabu anand
nstall any updated packages. Sorry for the delay in replying your question. Regards., Prabu --- prabu anand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Florin, > > Here is the results as requested by you. > [root@prabuhomepc prabu]# grep -v ^# > /etc/shorewall/{zones,interfaces,policy,m

Re: [Cooker] RC2-Internet connection sharing still does not work

2002-09-11 Thread prabu anand
Hi Florin, Here is the results as requested by you. [root@prabuhomepc prabu]# grep -v ^# /etc/shorewall/{zones,interfaces,policy,masq,rules} |grep -v ^$ /etc/shorewall/zones:netNet Internet zone /etc/shorewall/zones:masq Masquerade Masquerade Local /etc/shorewall/zones:loc

[Cooker] RC2-Internet connection sharing still does not work

2002-09-10 Thread prabu anand
Dear Developers, Just now i installed MDk-9.0 RC2 and configured the Internet conneection sharing, and this still doesn't wor. In RC1 the error message was in installing dhcp-server package. Here all pacakgaes are successfully getting isntalled. Also i noticed that once i configured the Interne