Re: [expert] auto_inst.cfg.pl generation confusion

2000-08-21 Thread Pixel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (bascule) writes: the 486 version doesn't, it also produces error messages in the 'simulated' install routine at the 'setup filesystem' point, is someone here familiar with this and able to help me? as far as i remember, the 7.0 g_auto_install was broken (don't even

Re: [expert] Auto Install

2000-08-10 Thread Pixel
Jeff Groves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to configure the auto-install script to replace the standard packages with ones of your own choosing? well, put it in default_packages in auto_inst.cfg.pl!

Re: [expert] Auto Install

2000-08-10 Thread Pixel
John Rundgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey...Thanks a lot...That at least got the install running But, after the disk partitioning, when it attempts to locate installable packages, it just errors out with the following: "Warning: Nothing found while parsing

Re: [expert] Auto Install

2000-08-09 Thread Pixel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Rundgren) writes: So, I wonder if anyone has been able to use this? Is anyone from Mandrake aware of this? yeah, we are ;p see mandrake.com/en/heliumlast.php3 Error scenario: g_auto_install segmentation faults When: While running

Re: [expert] Tr: Grub disappeared !

2000-08-07 Thread Pixel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now everything is fine but grub disappeared and I'm back with lilo ? Is there any way to use grub again (without reinstalling everything of course ?) use drakboot --expert

Re: [expert] how do i run the 7.0 drakx installer from an existing installation?

2000-04-27 Thread Pixel
what does the environment var PERL_INSTALL_TEST do, and to what do i set it? first of all, you'd better post on cooker, i'm more responsive there :) then read www.mandrake.com/drakx/README what really do u wanna test? there is ./g_auto_install that may suits your need... cu Pixel.

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 is messed up.

2000-03-22 Thread Pixel
"Sean Armstrong" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe you enjoy a subpar product. This problem began with Oxygen, has continued through with Air and 7.02. That is three distributions that have had the same problem. The bug was not present in any Mandrake dist. BEFORE 7.0. I've been talking on

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.0 on Dell PowerEdge with RAID

2000-03-20 Thread Pixel
Joe Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is when I reboot I cannot mount the drive and I get the following error: cannot open root dev 8:05 unable to mount root fs on 8:05. it should work, but initrd is mandatory. Is the boot process using one?

Re: [expert] Does Mandrake have false or misleading advertisement?

2000-03-20 Thread Pixel
Marcos Dione [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Dev Null wrote: I can't remember the name of one of them, I think it was the "Complete" edition. It showed on the back 3 or 4 different books (Linux how-to) and labeled them as "Linux Library". f**kers, may be that's

Re: Update: [expert] Errors: Install using pcmcia ethernet card fails to load module

2000-03-12 Thread Pixel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi again, I have created a pcmcia.rdz image that works for the 8390; email me if you want me to send it to you. The upshot was I started with the original pcmcia image, and changed the /etc/config line 25 to remove the "net/" prefix from the 8390. yeah, much

Re: Update: [expert] Errors: Install using pcmcia ethernet card fails to load module

2000-03-11 Thread Pixel
rry on too much longer. Eventually I need to get some useful work done. well see www.linux-mandrake.com/en/airlast.php3, i've just put a patched floppy with the 8390.o in net directory as it should be. I'm not quite sure it's gonna work, so please tell me there's still some pb hope it helps, cu Pixel.

Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install

2000-03-04 Thread Pixel
the kernel. The initrd is loaded in memory at that time and accessible by the kernel - the kernel uses the initrd as its root - the initrd loads the scsi module and leaves - the kernel mounts the real root cu Pixel.

Re: [expert] Severe Dissappointment with upgrade to Mandrake 7.0 from 6.1

2000-01-31 Thread Pixel
"Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - There's no "back" button (I know this was mentioned before). If you make a mistake, you must give the machine the 3 finger salute. you can click on the green lights on the left - The formatting option does a quick format, not a

Re: [expert] Minimalistic Mandrake version. How?

2000-01-25 Thread Pixel
"Zilvinas Atkociunas" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, Does someone know an any easy way to install minimalistic Mandrake version (without X and so on. Just basic daemons are needed) ? It is somehow inconvenient to manualy deselecting individual packages, then checking if all

Re: [expert] Serial Mouse

2000-01-24 Thread Pixel
"Leonardo T. de Carvalho" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello. I'm having SEVERE troubles on getting my serial mouse working under Mandrake 7.0 I have a set of 12 PC's (With SiS motherboards 8o) using Mandrake 6.1 on my network. With 2 of them the install couldn't get the

Re: [expert] UDMA66

2000-01-20 Thread Pixel
Bart³omiej Muryn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Axalon, even when having HPT66 onboard (ABIT) controller? especially when having HPT366, doesn't work for promise

[expert] floppy boot fails whereas cdrom boot works

2000-01-20 Thread Pixel
Ian Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But the bootable floppy image on my CD didn't seem to work. Don't know if they're all like that though. strange, strange, how did you make this floppy? rawrite? are you sure the floppy is good. the weird thing is that it seems to happend to quite a lot

Re: [expert] weirdness with v7.0

2000-01-19 Thread Pixel
Ian Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Despite having 2 PCI 21041 Ethernet cards, neither the new or old tulip driver will detect the cards, which is something I *have* to overcome... you should also try de4x5.o

Re: [expert] Cheap Bytes release

2000-01-18 Thread Pixel
alann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is Mandrake 7 REALLY based on Debian?? no!

Re: [expert] Problems with 6.1 to 7.0 upgrade

2000-01-17 Thread Pixel
Mark Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Netscape breaks in more than 16bit colour. nope, it breaks in 24bpp but works well in 32bpp. it's a motif problem.

Re: Fw: [expert] kdm segmentation fault problem with 7.0

2000-01-17 Thread Pixel
"Hamish Currie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I sent this to the list over the weekend however it never showed up Sorry if you get two copies. Thanks for lookling at this. Sorry about the length of the post. sorry, it doesn't help :( maybe a hardware problem, or a problem appearing only on

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.0

2000-01-16 Thread Pixel
"James Zavesky" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can't get it to recognize the DPT RAID controller isn't it the eata.o module? what is the problem?

[expert] Kde Template/Autostart

1999-12-09 Thread Pixel
Hi, Is there anybody here who uses the Template or/and Autostart folders in KDE? (otherwise we're gonna remove them!) cu Pixel.

Re: [expert] Important: Intel 810 Chipset and Mandrake

1999-11-02 Thread Pixel
"Patrick Putteman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My boss is pulling is hairs out because of the NT crashes, but I don't = want to dismantle his PC before being sure that linux will run on an = I810 chipset with 128megs of ram, 18GB hdd and a celeron466... so, to = all of you... will it?

Re: [Fwd: [expert] MandrakeUpdate as normal user]

1999-10-21 Thread Pixel
Rickard Åberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's not the mirror, it's the same for both users... This is what the output say when I run it as a user: failed to open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm Password: Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkmain.c: line 533 (gtk_main_quit): assertion `main_loops !=

[expert] Re: [devel] Still need help

1999-10-21 Thread Pixel
Jeff Groves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the help. I found the Mandrake install stuff and checked it out via CVS. However, I am missing some include files when I try to compile. The install build process is pretty complicated and I can't figure out where everything is located.

Re: [expert] Port to Alpha

1999-10-10 Thread Pixel
"Mark Holloway" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is anyone aware of Mandrake being ported to Alpha? yep, quite aware of it :) Since Red Hat = already supports Alpha I can't see it being too difficult for the = developers.. I finally got around to replacing my (second) NT desktop at = work

Re: [expert] kdesu broken?

1999-10-08 Thread Pixel
"Lord And Master;)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the info. sure enough after changing the root's shell back to bash all workes fine now. Now we just need someone to fix the problem! ;) thanks, bug reported :) --- Start of forwarded message --- Subject: [FUN] bug#323: kdesu

Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate and ftp proxy

1999-09-30 Thread Pixel
"Olivier DUGEON - FT.CNET/BD/DAC/ARP" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is MandrakeUpdate work with an ftp proxy? and How? I can't find any doc. or faq. MandrakeUpdate uses wget which -like many progs- uses the environment variables http_proxy and ftp_proxy See wget's manpage for more...

[expert] recognising the bootloader

1999-09-21 Thread Pixel
=1k count=1 # if you have scsi or try else and then mail me (directly!) the /tmp/mbr. Or if you know of any program doing this, please tell me! (file does not...) thanks, cu Pixel.

Re: [expert] using cd-record to make cd's

1999-08-12 Thread pixel
the cd to see both sessions. i've never tried yet, but look at: in man mkisofs, options -C and -M and man cdrecord option -msinfo hope you'll get through, cu Pixel.

Re: [expert] I need to move my server to a larger hard drive

1999-08-11 Thread pixel
/ /copy i don't know any copy... but cp! and cp -a is better than -p for this task. cu Pixel.