Re: [Cooker] Suggestion: Mdk 7.2 installation and 32M RAM

2000-10-31 Thread Pierre Fortin
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > > > > Try it with Redhat you'll have the same problem. Graphical installers eat > > > memory. (much). sorry. So do higher-level language installers such as Perl > > > or Python-based

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion: Mdk 7.2 installation and 32M RAM

2000-10-31 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > > Try it with Redhat you'll have the same problem. Graphical installers eat > > memory. (much). sorry. So do higher-level language installers such as Perl > > or Python-based. > > Not convinced this is the real answer

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion: Mdk 7.2 installation and 32M RAM

2000-10-31 Thread Pierre Fortin
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > Try it with Redhat you'll have the same problem. Graphical installers eat > memory. (much). sorry. So do higher-level language installers such as Perl > or Python-based. Not convinced this is the real answer (I reported this as bug#691)... ftp fails and nfs works.

[Cooker] suggestion for MandrakeUpdate

2000-10-08 Thread Michael Reinsch
Hi! Just a suggestion for MandrakeUpdate: what about also showing the changelog of the listed packages and not only the description? Then one wouldn't need to run rpm manually every time. -- Michael Reinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://mr.uue.org --

[Cooker] suggestion for upgrade ....

2000-10-07 Thread Meir Faraj
SDL version 1.1.5 is out but with a crash but he telling that in few day it will release an 1.1.6 but there are already a fix in the cvs

Re: [Cooker] SUGGESTION BOX MD7.2 developement

2000-10-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 02:55:58PM +0200, Pixel wrote: > and if accessing the zip drive via hdX, does it fail? You mean in GtkZip/ziptool/jaZip? Yes, it does. There's also a big note on all these homepages that you have to use ide-scsi. As I have 3 other SCSI drives, and as I somehow couldn't

Re: [Cooker] SUGGESTION BOX MD7.2 developement

2000-10-04 Thread Pixel
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > GtkZip is a program for maintaining your Iomega Zip drive disks under Linux. > It is based on a command line utility ziptool, and is written fully in C > using the GTK widget set. and if accessing the zip drive via hdX, does it fail?

Re: [Cooker] SUGGESTION BOX MD7.2 developement

2000-10-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 12:33:52PM +0200, Pixel wrote: > Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > Which is also needed if you want to use ziptools, so that's not a problem at > > can you tell more? what does it give more? I'll just paste the description from freshmeat here:

Re: [Cooker] SUGGESTION BOX MD7.2 developement

2000-10-04 Thread Pixel
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Which is also needed if you want to use ziptools, so that's not a problem at can you tell more? what does it give more? > all, but more a plus. Maybe you guys should start compiling the kernels > *WITHOUT* IDE cdrom and IDE floppy support an

Re: [Cooker] SUGGESTION BOX MD7.2 developement

2000-10-04 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 02:44:36AM +0200, Pixel wrote: > the second problem is that both ide-burner and ide-zip, in that case, you must > also give hdX=ide-floppy for the zip, otherwise you'll end up accessing your zip > via sda (or whatever) Which is also needed if you want to use ziptools, so t

Re: [Cooker] SUGGESTION BOX MD7.2 developement

2000-10-03 Thread Leon Brooks
Pixel wrote: > Leon Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> One thing which _would_ help in this area is to load CD support as a module >> rather than building it in, that way the funny ATAPI CDE burners (TraxData etc) >> can be got working under Mandrake without a kernel recompile. As things stand,

Re: [Cooker] SUGGESTION BOX MD7.2 developement

2000-10-03 Thread Pixel
Leon Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One thing which _would_ help in this area is to load CD support as a module > rather than building it in, that way the funny ATAPI CDE burners (TraxData etc) > can be got working under Mandrake without a kernel recompile. As things stand, > the CD driver

Re: [Cooker] SUGGESTION BOX MD7.2 developement

2000-10-03 Thread Alexander Skwar
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 12:44:38AM -0700, John Richard Smith wrote: > When it come to new programme(s) for future release ,kindly consider:- > > a) A proper drive image programme for backing up entire OS's,not just the data,and >that euphemistically titled dump programme It's there, either tar

Re: [Cooker] SUGGESTION BOX MD7.2 developement

2000-10-03 Thread Leon Brooks
> John Richard Smith wrote: > When it come to new programme(s) for future release ,kindly consider:- > b) Do something to get a CD writer operational.What about writing Unix drivers > or perhaps something along the lines of ghosytscripts for cd writers Unix drivers? Have you seen how many utterl

[Cooker] SUGGESTION BOX MD7.2 developement

2000-10-03 Thread John Richard Smith
There are just a couple of ideas of mine that I would like to share with you folk.   When it come to new programme(s) for future release ,kindly consider:-   a)  A proper drive image programme for backing up entire OS's,not just the data,and that euphemistically titled dump programme   b) Do

Re: [Cooker] suggestion install-log

2000-09-27 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Nico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > When I first installed the 7.2 beta2, some RPMS didn't install > correctly. > Wouldn't it be possible to have a logfile of which packages didn't > install correctly? It is; /root/ddebug.log and /root/install.log > Maybe would it be also possible that c

[Cooker] suggestion install-log

2000-09-26 Thread Nico
Hi, When I first installed the 7.2 beta2, some RPMS didn't install correctly. Wouldn't it be possible to have a logfile of which packages didn't install correctly? Maybe would it be also possible that create automaticly a script to reinstall those RPMS later? Also, during the install, how about h

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion for package chooser

2000-09-16 Thread Pixel
Michael Stucki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I install Mandrake and want to choose single packages, I always have to > choose my own list. What about an option to save this list to disk and to read > the back in a later installation? This is not the same like the > Auto-Install-Disk. It's ju

[Cooker] Suggestion for package chooser

2000-09-16 Thread Michael Stucki
When I install Mandrake and want to choose single packages, I always have to choose my own list. What about an option to save this list to disk and to read the back in a later installation? This is not the same like the Auto-Install-Disk. It's just the package-list. Anybody who wants to add this?

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion : Automated config report to help debugging ?

2000-09-01 Thread Benjamin Reed
> Since when ? > It doesn't work on Linux Mandrake 7.1. Since this is the cooker list, I would assume in cooker. :) -- Ben Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://defiance.dyndns.org/ / http://radio.scenespot.org/ Now playing on Defiance Radio: Remember by BT

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion : Automated config report to help debugging ?

2000-09-01 Thread Pixel
Charles Nepote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Since when ? after 7.1 (aka cooker) > It doesn't work on Linux Mandrake 7.1.

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion : Automated config report to help debugging ?

2000-09-01 Thread Charles Nepote
Pixel wrote : > Charles Nepote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As we can see in many messages, many people try to report bugs but > > sometimes don't know how and what to report... > > Why not create very simple scripts to report config informations for > > helping debugging ? > > as for inst

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion : Automated config report to help debugging ?

2000-09-01 Thread Pixel
Charles Nepote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As we can see in many messages, many people try to report bugs but > sometimes don't know how and what to report... > Why not create very simple scripts to report config informations for > helping debugging ? as for installation, there is now the scri

[Cooker] Suggestion : Automated config report to help debugging ?

2000-09-01 Thread Charles Nepote
As we can see in many messages, many people try to report bugs but sometimes don't know how and what to report... Why not create very simple scripts to report config informations for helping debugging ? Example : A problem with X ? Typing "report_configX" would provide : -- xxx lines about basi

[Cooker] suggestion for mdk cooker

2000-08-25 Thread Luis Alves
i think prc-tools2.0 with sdk 3.1 and 3.5 should be in mdk, so we can be able to develop for palm plaform, i think palm has an rpm package. -- _ Luis Alves MobiComp - Mo

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion : integration of kwintv - xawtv package err

2000-08-24 Thread Povl H. Pedersen
> >kde2 port is on the way but far to be complete. >xawtv is still there. And xawtv does not depend on KDE or GNOME. Only problem with current xawtv is, that the resources file is not copied to $HOME/.Xresouces or the system resources, so the program will not start before this is done manuall

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion : integration of kwintv

2000-08-24 Thread Thierry Vignaud
pgeorges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thierry Vignaud a écrit : > > > > pgeorges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Being the best TV program, could kwintv be integrated in cooker ? > > > > it's already in contrib ... > > Yes, but not compatible with current cooker. > Maybe is it better t

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion : integration of kwintv

2000-08-24 Thread pgeorges
Thierry Vignaud a écrit : > > pgeorges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Being the best TV program, could kwintv be integrated in cooker ? > > it's already in contrib ... Yes, but not compatible with current cooker. Maybe is it better to wait for the promised port to KDE 2 (see kwintv homepage

Re: [Cooker] Suggestion : integration of kwintv

2000-08-24 Thread Thierry Vignaud
pgeorges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Being the best TV program, could kwintv be integrated in cooker ? it's already in contrib ...

[Cooker] Suggestion : integration of kwintv

2000-08-24 Thread pgeorges
Being the best TV program, could kwintv be integrated in cooker ?

[Cooker] Suggestion for those downloading ISOs

2000-05-27 Thread Tim
I noticed that the mirrors for the downloads are rather slow even though I'm on a T1 connection. For those beta testers that are lucky like me and have lots of bandwidth try using a simple download program like GetRight and configure it to download in segments from multiple mirrors. The 70k/

[Cooker] Suggestion: More Monitoring software

2000-05-26 Thread Allen Bolderoff
Ie, trafshow - I always have that on my boxen netcat things that give realtime stats for what is going on on a network. -- +++ Allen Bolderoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LNC - Linux, help and commentary http://linux.netnerve.co

[Cooker] suggestion for kde..

2000-05-06 Thread Chris Edwards
It would be nice to have the install RPM funtion on right click in KDE... Chris

[Cooker] suggestion for netkit

2000-03-27 Thread geoffrey lee
hello all, i found that you can download a file called netkit-combo which contains all of the netkit stuff (e.g. ftp, rwho, telnet, etc). wouldn't it be better if you have one spec for netkit, that uses the netkit-combo + netkit-base file instead of having a spec on all of them? you can still ha

[Cooker] suggestion for xpdf

2000-03-20 Thread geoffrey lee
hi, i have a suggestion for xpdf... it seems that we can obsolete the gcc patches, if we compile with no-const-strings. seems to work for me... here is the spec diff for xpdf ... btw, i was wondering if we could provide a crypto xpdf (one with decryption patch.) on the crypto site. i made one

RE: [Cooker] suggestion for frontpage+apache

2000-03-07 Thread Civileme
n-linux.phtml That might be helpful. Civileme > > > > -Message d'origine- > > De : Jean-Michel Dault [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Envoyé : dimanche 5 mars 2000 03:19 > > À : geoffrey lee > > Cc : cooker list > > Objet : Re: [Cooker] s

RE: [Cooker] suggestion for frontpage+apache

2000-03-07 Thread NEPOTE Charles (Neuilly Gestion)
Title: RE: [Cooker] suggestion for frontpage+apache Hello, The installation of FrontPage Server Extensions is quite difficult for a newbie as I am. Should it be possible to make a separate RPM of Apache + FPSE preconfigured (without the need of compile Apache sources) ? Best Regards

Re: [Cooker] suggestion for frontpage+apache

2000-03-05 Thread Stefan van der Eijk
> > Looking from the alpha perspective, I need some of compaq's TRU64 libs > > to get the TRU64 version of FPSE working... I'd rather see more > > effort going into this project: > > http://www.nimh.org/fpse.shtml > I looked into the project, looks interesting. I don't know if it's stable > or

Re: [Cooker] suggestion for frontpage+apache

2000-03-04 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, geoffrey lee wrote: > hello, > > i just saw this on freshmeat. i don't have time to try it out yet, and even > if i do, i don't have the resources to test if it fully works (web server > won't be up for a while...) what does everyone think? > http://home.edo.uni-dortmund.de/

Re: [Cooker] suggestion for frontpage+apache

2000-03-04 Thread Jean-Michel Dault
On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: > Looking from the alpha perspective, I need some of compaq's TRU64 libs > to get > the TRU64 version of FPSE working... I'd rather see more effort going > into > this project: > > http://www.nimh.org/fpse.shtml I looked into the project, looks i

Re: [Cooker] suggestion for frontpage+apache

2000-03-04 Thread Stefan van der Eijk
> i just saw this on freshmeat. i don't have time to try it out yet, and even > if i do, i don't have the resources to test if it fully works (web server > won't be up for a while...) what does everyone think? > http://home.edo.uni-dortmund.de/~chripo/ Seems to be some wrapper that makes fpse a bi

[Cooker] suggestion for frontpage+apache

2000-03-04 Thread geoffrey lee
hello, i just saw this on freshmeat. i don't have time to try it out yet, and even if i do, i don't have the resources to test if it fully works (web server won't be up for a while...) what does everyone think? http://home.edo.uni-dortmund.de/~chripo/ it's gpl too. geoffrey lee (snail talk) [EM

[Cooker] Suggestion? for KDE and Supermount

2000-03-03 Thread Civileme
It's true, I support unwilling converst from windows who use Kmail instead of Netscape mailer because they can click on the link to an attachment in Kmail (say a MS Word *.doc file) and Star Office will rise to open it. Well, in my quest to make things simpler, I used Air and supermount on a coup

RE: [Cooker] suggestion

2000-01-07 Thread Roger
first, grab an ftp client and connect to the site "IN Binary Mode" (should be in the site connection properties, if you don't, the file mystically doesn't work). After you d/l, click on the iso image and (if you have adaptec's Easy CD Creator installed) should start with the burn process. First,

RE: [Cooker] suggestion

2000-01-06 Thread Robert J Bartels
Use easy cd creator... and select make cd from image... find the iso and burn burn burn... The iso contains info for auto boot etc... Its the easiest way to go.. Bob >Hi ! > >I've downloaded the oxygen ISO image... >But I'm working under Windows... > >How should I burn a CD ? What soft ? >The p

Re: [Cooker] suggestion

2000-01-06 Thread chris tillman
If your running Windows, just use the Adaptec Easy CD Creator (more than likely is what came with your burner). And under File -> Create CD from Disc Image choose the oxygen-3.iso and burn it. So, what's up with running the Mandrake 7.0 Beta on laptops? I've got a Toshiba 400CDT which after in

RE: [Cooker] suggestion

2000-01-06 Thread Nicolas VERITE
Hi ! I've downloaded the oxygen ISO image... But I'm working under Windows... How should I burn a CD ? What soft ? The problem is I don't wanna have just one big file named oxygen-3.iso I didn't find such help on Mandrake's site. Thanx for your help. Nico

Re: [Cooker] suggestion

2000-01-06 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Bruno Bodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi > > I wonder why you can find the netscape icon on the desktop and not > the kppp one ? I believe it would be useful to many... > (seen on 6.1 - I didn't check oxygen) which desktop, kde ? --Chmouel

[Cooker] suggestion

2000-01-06 Thread Bruno Bodin
Hi I wonder why you can find the netscape icon on the desktop and not the kppp one ? I believe it would be useful to many... (seen on 6.1 - I didn't check oxygen) Bruno

[Cooker] Suggestion regarding RPM packaging

1999-08-31 Thread Andrew Morton
I just ran 'rpm -Va' on a vanilla Mandrake 6 installation. It's rather a mess. For example: - There are a stack of missing ncurses libraries which the RPM thinks should exist. - There appears to be a missing symlink in /usr/lib (libhistory.so.4.0 -> libhistory.so.4). This is part of readline.

Re: [Cooker] suggestion of netselect

1999-08-28 Thread Seth Cohn
> You're right... a nice litle application... I don't really understand why I > can download faster from california sites that > are so far from me, against sites located in Texas, Luisiana oklahoma etc... Because physical location isn't the real issue, it's backbone connection and how many steps

Re: [Cooker] suggestion of netselect

1999-08-28 Thread Seth Cohn
Sergio, thanks for the proof of why netselect is SO important... Sergio Korlowsky wrote: > > > I'd LOVE to see mandrake updater use this it would > > find the BEST mirror, not just the one you pick. > > I went to the web site downloaded the src file and compile it under > cooker, > so far I

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