[expert] Upgrade to 7.0 problems

2000-04-10 Thread Daniel Knapp
Hello all, I have just upgraded from Mandrake 6.1 to 7.0, and almost everything still works (some things better than before). Unfortunately, when I try to run acrobat reader, or corel wordperfect I get the following error message: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' I don't get this message when

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0

2000-02-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Johnthat sure brings up a question. I wonder how it impacts the commercial distributors and those folks who have already bought from them. What are the differences, especially since there have been no updates issued (I just checked) so far. Alan John Aldrich wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Jan 20

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0

2000-02-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote: > Ronreally!? Where did you see this? I just checked out > their web page and there's no announcement posted anywhere > prominently there. > I just heard about a new ISO image -- 7.02. Perhaps that's why the announcements in the ftp sites disappeared

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0

2000-02-02 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ronreally!? Where did you see this? I just checked out their web page and there's no announcement posted anywhere prominently there. Alan Ron Stodden wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Harvey B. Herman wrote: > > > I was very happy with the earlier version of Mandrake (6.5). As a > > serve

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0

2000-02-01 Thread Ron Stodden
On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: > Ronwell I for one still don't understand. I read your > previous message and the message from Jeanette was in response > to that message, so she obviously didn't get it either. Where > would we have been able to see this "README.img announcement"

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0

2000-01-31 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Ronwell I for one still don't understand. I read your previous message and the message from Jeanette was in response to that message, so she obviously didn't get it either. Where would we have been able to see this "README.img announcement" before its "apparent withdrawal"? Do you have a co

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0

2000-01-31 Thread Ron Stodden
On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, Phil Edwards wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Ron Stodden wrote: > > > > MandrakeSoft has announced that Mandrake 7.0 will not proceed to commercial > > release. Quality was the given reason. > > > > Where was this announced? I haven't been able to find anything to this

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0

2000-01-31 Thread Ron Stodden
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Jeanette Russo wrote: > What do you mean it won't proceed to commercial release I was at Microcenter > this weekend and the shelves were full of Mandrake 7.0 Power Pack? I refer you to my previous messages in this mailing list (please keep up to date) on this subject, and Ma

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0

2000-01-31 Thread Phil Edwards
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Ron Stodden wrote: > > MandrakeSoft has announced that Mandrake 7.0 will not proceed to commercial > release. Quality was the given reason. > Where was this announced? I haven't been able to find anything to this effect on the Mandrake web site. Would you care to comm

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0

2000-01-31 Thread Jack Coates
Ron Stodden wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Harvey B. Herman wrote: > > > I was very happy with the earlier version of Mandrake (6.5). As a > > server, it performed flawlessly for months at a time. I decided to > > upgrade to Mandrake 7.0; don't ask me why. Now, when I try to logon and > > start

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0

2000-01-31 Thread Jeanette Russo
0, 2000 9:11 PM Subject: Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0 > On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Harvey B. Herman wrote: > > > I was very happy with the earlier version of Mandrake (6.5). As a > > server, it performed flawlessly for months at a time. I decided to > > upgrade to Mandrake

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0

2000-01-30 Thread Ron Stodden
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Harvey B. Herman wrote: > I was very happy with the earlier version of Mandrake (6.5). As a > server, it performed flawlessly for months at a time. I decided to > upgrade to Mandrake 7.0; don't ask me why. Now, when I try to logon and > start ppp, it says it can't authenticat

[expert] Upgrade to 7.0

2000-01-30 Thread Harvey B. Herman
I was very happy with the earlier version of Mandrake (6.5). As a server, it performed flawlessly for months at a time. I decided to upgrade to Mandrake 7.0; don't ask me why. Now, when I try to logon and start ppp, it says it can't authenticate the remote machine. I worked around by logging into

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0?

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: > I've never had the experience of "Upgrading". It seems that a complete reinstall is >recommended to eliminate the reported > anomalies. When you do a complete reinstall over a previous version, would you have >to reinstall all of the non-distro software? > Or

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0?

2000-01-26 Thread Sevatio Octavio
would reinstate the software you had prior to the complete reinstall? Seve -Original Message- From: Jon Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 12:50 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0? >On Mon, 24 Jan 2000

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0? => NO!!!

2000-01-25 Thread Tim & Val Litwiller
you need to do an expert install if you wish to select packages individually Rachelle DuBey wrote: > My complaint is that you can't choose individual products . They all seem > to come as units - even using custom. I have no problems with xfs using > 7.0. But I miss being able to add other pro

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0? => NO!!!

2000-01-25 Thread Oeystein Hermansen
TED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Oeystein Hermansen/ALLIANSE/NO) Subject: Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0? => NO!!! On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, alann scribed: => Over the past days I've seen a LOT of things cross here about 7.0. => => I have a wonderful working 6.1 system now, and Li

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0? => NO!!!

2000-01-25 Thread Alan Shoemaker
michaelI'm sorry, I hope you and the Mandrake staff get the xfs problem solved soon. If you'd like to talk about cut & paste, maybe there's something we can stumble on that will fix that part of your problem. Alan michael chopek wrote: > > Hi Alan; > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Alan Shoemake

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0?

2000-01-25 Thread Jon Hewitt
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, you wrote: > Alanif you need to ask you probably shouldn't. With that > said, I've got to say that I'm happy I upgraded. Actually, I've > never upgraded as I always do a full install of a new distro. I I can't say for sure but upgrading instead of doing an install is w

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0? => NO!!!

2000-01-25 Thread Warren Doney
michael chopek wrote: > I have been a big supporter/advocate of Mandrake since 6.0, and just > wrote a very nice review for our local LUG about 7.0, where I was > highly complimentary...just before the thing killed xfs... It got me too... I just hosed it & did the install Re: the Copy/pate

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0? => NO!!!

2000-01-25 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, michael chopek wrote: > Another *highly* annoying thing that 7.0 is doing is that you can not > copy_&_paste from any KDE app into Netscape...what pain. > > I read through all the archives this weekend, regarding using > Ctrl-C...Alt-C...it just does not work. Hmmm, I'm not

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0? => NO!!!

2000-01-24 Thread Rachelle DuBey
My complaint is that you can't choose individual products . They all seem to come as units - even using custom. I have no problems with xfs using 7.0. But I miss being able to add other products such as daemons individually. This packaging seems to be designed more for newbies. Or is the iso

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0? => NO!!!

2000-01-24 Thread michael chopek
Hi Alan; On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Alan Shoemaker scribed: => -michaelI just cut your signature out of the message I'm => responding to an pasted it at he beginning here. I'm in Kedit => and am going to paste this into my reply in netscape when I'm => done. Well *for me* it just does not work

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0? => NO!!!

2000-01-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
-michaelI just cut your signature out of the message I'm responding to an pasted it at he beginning here. I'm in Kedit and am going to paste this into my reply in netscape when I'm done. So far I really like using my floppy, cd and zip in supermount and have experienced no problems with the

RE: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0? => NO!!!

2000-01-24 Thread Andrew Post
TECTED]]On Behalf Of michael chopek Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 11:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0? => NO!!! On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, alann scribed: => Over the past days I've seen a LOT of things cross here about 7.0. => => I have a wonderful workin

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0?

2000-01-24 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Alanif you need to ask you probably shouldn't. With that said, I've got to say that I'm happy I upgraded. Actually, I've never upgraded as I always do a full install of a new distro. I believe that's one factor that helps to eliminate at least some of the problems. And I never install a ne

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0? => NO!!!

2000-01-24 Thread michael chopek
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, alann scribed: => Over the past days I've seen a LOT of things cross here about 7.0. => => I have a wonderful working 6.1 system now, and Linux Mandrake is my MAIN => OS.. I'm seeking an honest answer here. Should I upgrade, or are there a lot of things ( => bugs ) creeping

Re: [expert] Upgrade to 7.0?

2000-01-24 Thread webmedic
I can't speak for others but I did an upgrade of my 6.1 system that I use for just this purpose and it left me with a few little bugs like telling me I only had 64megs of ram instead of 160. Other than that it did pretty good. After this I just saved my samba.conf and did a fresh install. Then jus

[expert] Upgrade to 7.0?

2000-01-24 Thread alann
Over the past days I've seen a LOT of things cross here about 7.0. I have a wonderful working 6.1 system now, and Linux Mandrake is my MAIN OS.. I'm seeking an honest answer here. Should I upgrade, or are there a lot of things ( bugs ) creeping around.. Some of the main things I've got working