Sorry for the delays, but my DSL is broken,
so I've been dooing most of my downloading over my GPRS phone...
(thank god it's fixed montly fee ,-)... already over 70MB in just a couple
of days)
Here is a copy of what I have at: http://www.iki.fi/tmb/Cooker/
(with some added contents...)
MDK
Did not see this get through the first time.
-- Forwarded Message --
Subject: Re: [Cooker] new install floppies, more modules dropped
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 09:40:53 -0700
From: David Eastcott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thursday 30 January 2003 15:11, Pixel
On Thursday 30 January 2003 15:11, Pixel wrote:
...
- good news: many gigabit drivers are now available
- bad news: the following modules are not available on install floppies
disk/scsi: NCR53c406a aha152x psi240i qlogicfas qlogicfc wd7000 sim710
t128 ultrastor 53c7,8xx dc395x_trm
DrakX will at last switch to new kernel-BOOT. Alas, ACPI is big, but
is going to be needed more and more in the future. The result is a
kernel ~100KB bigger, and fitting on floppy even harder than before.
Hopefully install floppies are no more as important as they used to be
(because of isolinux
Hi
Version:(rsync ftp.sunet.se)
Mandrake Linux Cooker-i586 20020226 0:20
/ChangeLog/1.661/Sun Feb 24 15:49:13 2002//
This is a fresh install.
I don't know what is causing this but it is shamelessly slow and it takes for
ever to get the passwd accepted when attempting to go into su
So far for the past three days I have tried to do a new cooker install
but have been unable to do so because I keep getting the error when it
goes to get the package list.
deplist.ordered mismatch with hdlist.
Robin Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So far for the past three days I have tried to do a new cooker install
but have been unable to do so because I keep getting the error when it
goes to get the package list.
deplist.ordered mismatch with hdlist.
You can try to build it by yourself (if
Date sent: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 14:03:21 +0200
From: Guillaume Cottenceau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: [Cooker] new install - background/desktop problems
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Borsenkow
.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Borsenkow Andrej
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 1:21 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Cooker] new install - background/desktop problems
Where have you found these 99% of people? Obviously, of all
On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Vincent Meyer wrote:
True, it might not be, however why should I loose features because
I choose to do this? I log in as root because I am often installing,
fiddling, testing, etc with things that most user shouldn't - at the
same time I'm getting my user work -
Le Jeudi 20 Septembre 2001 10:51, Radek Vybiral scribit :
I solve this bad things:
Copy ~/Desktop and ~/.kde/config from normal user to /root
NO. the best way is to not log as root !
Why MDK hates logging as root in KDE?
The warning at the begining should be enough.
Yes. Red background
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Fabrice FACORAT wrote:
No as you log as root and don't understand why it is dangerous.
there's also su and sudo
+ open a term
+ []$ su -
give the root password
make what you want, and you can launch what you want. reduce the term or put
it for example in the third
Where have you found these 99% of people? Obviously, of all posting
in
this thread just two people have seen it - one of them developer.
So,
speaking about *users* the score is currently 100% against it :-)
Well, here at Mandrake we sure do tweaking of system all day long, and
no
one
On do, 2001-09-20 at 04:28, Fabrice FACORAT wrote:
Le Jeudi 20 Septembre 2001 04:21, Sergio P.Korlowsky a écrit :
Well... if it goes to votes, I vote to leave it as it is now, and I haven't
seen it yet
so do I, but I'm going to test RC 1 so I will see it maybe.
it is true, you a
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
Where have you found these 99% of people? Obviously, of all posting
in
this thread just two people have seen it - one of them developer.
So,
speaking about *users* the score is currently 100% against it :-)
Well, here at Mandrake we
superuser aka root
su for superuser
with su you don't become an other user. You mainly change uid and gid.
Almost nothing else
but su username changes you to any user on the sytem, hence the command
is abbreviated switch user, and not super user
--
Tom Tomahawk Badran
Department of
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Michael Bollozos wrote:
Im a Mandrake user(newbie), and I would like to log-in
as root in my Box, but with the current 8.1's
new behavior I think I would just stick to 8.0
coz i normally log-in as root in my box this
box is not plugged in the network BTW... I have
On 20 Sep 2001, andre wrote:
su = switch user
su - or su - root for root
su - user to log as a user
superuser aka root
su for superuser
with su you don't become an other user. You mainly change uid and gid.
Almost nothing else
Nah. Also all env variables. su -, but with su yes
Just did new install, Configuration, Console, Gnome, KDE groups
selected, ni manual package selection, Russian locale KOI8-R. First time
login, startx.
1. Background has nasty and distasteful dark red color (blood color is
probably right term). When wizard starts background is changed to usual
Le Mercredi 19 Septembre 2001 15:39, David BAUDENS scribit :
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 10:19, you wrote:
1. Background has nasty and distasteful dark red color (blood color
is probably right term). When wizard starts background is changed to
usual blue. I cancelled Wizard and KDE came
Le Jeudi 20 Septembre 2001 03:25, Vincent Meyer scribit :
Maybe so - but I hate it. I spend half of my time logged in as root
because I WANT to be logged in as root.
why do YOU want to do that ? don't do it !
You don't NEED to log as root in KDE, and what YOU want may not be the best.
True, it might not be, however why should I loose features because
I choose to do this? I log in as root because I am often installing,
fiddling, testing, etc with things that most user shouldn't - at the
same time I'm getting my user work - e-mail, word processing, etc
done. I DON't want to
NO! Just because I don't choose to use what you consider are safe
or good practices shouldn't force me to go back to Windows!!! Plenty
of people logging into KDE as root isn't the same as plenty of
developers
logging into KDE as root.
If you feel that you can use it safely enough, then
Le Jeudi 20 Septembre 2001 04:11, Tom Badran scribit :
If you feel that you can use it safely enough, then surely you must have
the abililty to change/enable any of the features you want, why should
mandrake be changed for 1 person, when 99% of people want it the way it
is, or dont know
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 20:33, you wrote:
Le Jeudi 20 Septembre 2001 03:25, Vincent Meyer scribit :
Maybe so - but I hate it. I spend half of my time logged in as root
because I WANT to be logged in as root.
why do YOU want to do that ? don't do it !
You don't NEED to log as root
Le Jeudi 20 Septembre 2001 04:21, Sergio P.Korlowsky a écrit :
Well... if it goes to votes, I vote to leave it as it is now, and I haven't
seen it yet
so do I, but I'm going to test RC 1 so I will see it maybe.
it is true, you a see lot of people logged in as root, unreal!
unreal is the
On Wednesday 19 September 2001 10:19, you wrote:
Just did new install, Configuration, Console, Gnome, KDE groups
selected, ni manual package selection, Russian locale KOI8-R. First
time login, startx.
1. Background has nasty and distasteful dark red color (blood color
is probably
On September 19, 2001 23:20 pm, you wrote:
NO! Just because I don't choose to use what you consider are safe
or good practices shouldn't force me to go back to Windows!!!
Plenty
of people logging into KDE as root isn't the same as plenty of
developers
logging into KDE as root.
Blue Lizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I let it sit, got breakfast, took shower, read book, played ball, and it
still not finished (slow machine). I decided to go with devfs=nomount.
edit /etc/devfsd.conf and remove the line that talk about /sbin/pam_console_apply
On 22 Aug 2001 10:43:08 +0200, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
Blue Lizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I let it sit, got breakfast, took shower, read book, played ball, and it
still not finished (slow machine). I decided to go with devfs=nomount.
edit /etc/devfsd.conf and remove the line that
Synced two hours ago, almost default install, root on reiser, first
boot
- system hangs on starting DevFs. Install yesterday was still O.K. :-)
The only difference I use chained lilo loader from the first install,
on
test installation (hda5) lilo is installed on partinion.
O.K. it's
I let it sit, got breakfast, took shower, read book, played ball, and it
still not finished (slow machine). I decided to go with devfs=nomount.
Dans l'article
[EMAIL PROTECTED], "Rajesh
Veerappan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] a crit :
Installing nautilus-trilobite will fix the eazel services problem.
I'm going to fix nautilus to no longer display Eazel service icon if
nautilus-trilobite is not installed..
--
Frdric Crozat
MandrakeSoft
"joabb2" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
Great install, photo's broke up boredom of waiting wished for
names attached.
was posted once on this ML and on the Forum.
--
Guillaume Cottenceau - http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
Thanks,
Found it.
a cable installer knocked me off for 30hrs :-/
just catching up.
JoAnne
- Original Message -
From: "Rajesh Veerappan" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] new install
Installing nautilus
On Tuesday 03 April 2001 07:49, joabb2 wrote:
| BTW I still use win/Gozilla for d/ld. get 500-600k/bps.
| cant get more than 292k/bps with Linux :((
| (yes traceroute and ping are about same)
|
Do you use Netscape/Mozilla inder Linux?
Try Konqueror.
I am on dialup, and transfer rate (on
4, 2001 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] new install
On Tuesday 03 April 2001 07:49, joabb2 wrote:
| BTW I still use win/Gozilla for d/ld. get 500-600k/bps.
| cant get more than 292k/bps with Linux :((
| (yes traceroute and ping are about same)
|
Do you use Netscape/Mozilla inder L
- Original Message -
From: "Vadim Plessky" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] new install
On Tuesday 03 April 2001 07:49, joabb2 wrote:
| BTW I still use win/Gozilla for d/ld. get 500-600k/bps.
| cant get
Hi All
Just installed LM8.0 from cd's d/lded from wtfo.com.
system MSI61198 pll 350, 128 ram, 2 Fujitsu 8g hd's,1 generic
cd-rom, 1 generic cd-r/w.
Installed clean on ide1 from booting cd.
Install found 3 cd-roms, 3 RealTek nic's (have 1).
found eth0 said was configured. would not find net at
For some resaon only the 8.0 beta 1 will install on my system.
The only real problem that I have is that the video cards are not proerly set
up. I have not tried beta2 but I have been making my wn cd's using the mkcds
script.
Last night it was so bad that when i tested with fxfree4 the video
Did a rsync of mirror this am and did a reinstall to see how things were
progress. Unfortunately the install was not a good as previous.
the install was expert, development, everything
-previously as a user I could not launch DrakConf and get into
privilaged, after password nothing
Just downloaded latest updates... :-
Now stage2 works, can find HDA,HDB... but something happens and a new
error is here :)))
shmget failed! at /usr/bin/perl_install/install_gtk.pm line 24
Tried with reiserfs as "/"
My partitions:
hda1 fat16 5Mb
hda2 linux swap
hda3 reiserfs 9Gb as "/"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now stage2 works, can find HDA,HDB... but something happens and a new
error is here :)))
can you mail me the report.bug?
to get it:
switch to console 2
put a fat floppy in floppy drive
and type "bug"
- it will put report.bug on floppy and this file interests me
Brook humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks pixel actually what I've had to do so far is boot up with my
linux rescue disk. Start fdisk delete all the partitions and then guess
at were they were before. Anyway I got enough of it that I can mount
part of the root partition and the
Thanks my /home and ftp/pub partitions made it ok but root and swap are
bad. At lest none of the important stuff is gone and I made copies a
long time ago of things like rc.masq and samba.conf to my /home dir so
all should be ok.
Pixel wrote:
Brook humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Christopher Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hey, on a different note, what do you do if you , very dumbly, delete your
lilo.conf file?
i don't this there is a way.
Any way to retreve from lilo?
do you mean the lilo.conf file ?
--
MandrakeSoft Inc
Christopher Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, I mean I deleted the lilo.conf file on my server (accidently, you'd
laugh to hard if I told you what I did) and didn't have a backup.
(Hell, I had created a new server from another machine and copied all of
/etc/*.conf from my origional
Christopher Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, I mean I deleted the lilo.conf file on my server (accidently, you'd
laugh to hard if I told you what I did) and didn't have a backup.
no way to recover it from the mbr.
you have to reconfig it. maybe drakboot can help!
i think by definition the dev kernel is not going to be in
a distro install. closest you can get is maybe
the hackkernel. but doing the dev kernel from a source
download isn't to bad route is
1 install the distros kernel source rpm (for RH or L-M type
distros) when you fix the deps
you get the
Scott Haug [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 09:59:09PM -0500, Heath Doane wrote:
Greetings,
3) "Normal" user is unable to run X successfully. Root has no problems,
but when a regular user starts X, the server loads, the screen goes blue
with an "X" cursor, but the
Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Scott Haug [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 09:59:09PM -0500, Heath Doane wrote:
Greetings,
3) "Normal" user is unable to run X successfully. Root has no problems,
but when a regular user starts X, the server loads, the screen
Heath Doane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 04:15 AM 1/2/00 +0100, you wrote:
Heath Doane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1) When Installing, if it detects existing Linux partitions, it would not
let me create new/more.
diskdrake or lilo ?
That would be in Diskdrake. I chose the "Custom"
Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I had this problem when I installed a fresh oxygen while retaining my previous
/home partition. I created new users using the same name as the previous users
(thus reusing the old user's dirs), but the install gave them new uid's. So
when I tried
I'm new but... did you delete the partitions allready there first
because when i installed i could change almost at will..strange about
the 245m swap file though
Heath Doane wrote:
At 04:15 AM 1/2/00 +0100, you wrote:
Heath Doane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1) When Installing, if it
At 10:03 AM 1/2/00 , you wrote:
I'm new but... did you delete the partitions allready there first
because when i installed i could change almost at will..strange about
the 245m swap file though
How about adjusting the code to set the max. auto-selected swap file size
to amount of physical
Sanjay Sheth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 10:03 AM 1/2/00 , you wrote:
I'm new but... did you delete the partitions allready there first
because when i installed i could change almost at will..strange about
the 245m swap file though
How about adjusting the code to set the max.
On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
Let me clarify i guess. I wouldn't have less than 128megs. 386 or 1gig of
real ram. At current prices 254 megs of hd cost like 2$us. I personaly
can't recommend any less than 128 with todays uses.
not unfortunately in the UK, 110 for 15Gb
or is
On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, stephen wrote:
On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
Let me clarify i guess. I wouldn't have less than 128megs. 386 or 1gig of
real ram. At current prices 254 megs of hd cost like 2$us. I personaly
can't recommend any less than 128 with todays uses.
not
Greetings,
I just installed Oxygen 7.2 (iso dated 99.12.24) on my PC, as a fresh
install. Noticed the following point: (Sorry if they've been covered
before, I've just joined the listserv)
1) When Installing, if it detects existing Linux partitions, it would not
let me create new/more.
It was trying to use my modem for the network. I think. I set up the
modem during install.
Pixel wrote:
root [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
3) The modem install didn't work quite so nice this time and the crypto
packages could not be downloaded during install. I just created an
Well most of the same ;-)
It also got stucked at cryptografic,
"choose a mirror from which to get packages from...
and the same, it couldn't find the modem... which it did before,
if I hit -cancel- skips the option to go to the next, but after setting the
time, it comes back to the same
webmedic wrote:
Its looking real good. I did an install from cdrom.
it boots up with kdm now instead of gdm but maybe thats because I opted not to
install gnome although it is still their using icewm as the windowmanager.
Kfm segfaults if I try to go to the linux mandrake website. Even if
Its looking real good. I did an install from cdrom.
it boots up with kdm now instead of gdm but maybe thats because I opted not to
install gnome although it is still their using icewm as the windowmanager.
Kfm segfaults if I try to go to the linux mandrake website. Even if i use the
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