Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-14 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 22:32:28 -0700 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 21:04, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 20:39, Tim Sawchuck wrote: Ok, thanks to Jack and Eric it works. I did not read the instructions and tried to start it with Xdm or Xtart. I

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-13 Thread Tim Sawchuck
Ok, thanks to Jack and Eric it works. I did not read the instructions and tried to start it with Xdm or Xtart. I do not have kdm or gdm installed, so I like the WMs that will allow me to change to another, until I decide which one to settle on. Right now I need a combo of blackbox and Ice, or

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-13 Thread James Sparenberg
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 20:39, Tim Sawchuck wrote: Ok, thanks to Jack and Eric it works. I did not read the instructions and tried to start it with Xdm or Xtart. I do not have kdm or gdm installed, so I like the WMs that will allow me to change to another, until I decide which one to settle

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-13 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 21:04, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 20:39, Tim Sawchuck wrote: Ok, thanks to Jack and Eric it works. I did not read the instructions and tried to start it with Xdm or Xtart. I do not have kdm or gdm installed, so I like the WMs that will allow me to

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-12 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 09 October 2003 21:30, James Sparenberg wrote: Ok, I'm just about to complete my second update from 9.1+plf+texstar to 9.2 via urpmi. The order of march is urpmi.removmedia -a (get rid of all current dbases) urpmi.addmedia (added cooker cooker-contrib and plf-cooker)

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-12 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 12 October 2003 08:19, Greg Meyer wrote: I already have the new kernel running on my 9.1 install, and all seems to be going well. Win4Lin is working and the nVidia drivers are installed. The balance of my plan is as follows: 1) remove all plf and Texstar packages 2)

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-12 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 08:19:06 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7) Wait for Tex to build cool stuff for 9.2 He has a few things already, check his website, mostly icons and themes. He stated in Cooker mail list that he would setup a hdlist.cz as soon as 9.2 is officially released. Tim

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-12 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 05:19, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 09 October 2003 21:30, James Sparenberg wrote: Ok, I'm just about to complete my second update from 9.1+plf+texstar to 9.2 via urpmi. The order of march is urpmi.removmedia -a (get rid of all current dbases)

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-10 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 20:53:07 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep jumping between BlackBox and IceWM. Even on a P4 1.3GHz, 512Mb RAM, I love the quickness of a simple WM. Have you tried http://pekwm.org/ (my favorite) XFCE4 (rpms at http://clevername.homeip.net/xfce4/ ) ?

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-10 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 21:08, Tim Sawchuck wrote: ... I've messed with XFCE, and it just didn't do it, but now 4 is out, I have to see if it will run under 9.2 Cooker. Tim I've got three cooker systems and it runs a treat on all of them. Follow the instructions here:

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-10 Thread Eric Huff
Well, Eric, Thanks for the tip, XFCE4 installs just fine under Cooker 9.2, but it will not run. I installed everything, Xtart cannot see it, it does not show up as a WM in any other WM menu. I tried from a terminal within blackbox, I'm at a loss. No error messages, nothing, just command

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-10 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday October 9 2003 08:30 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: urpmi --auto-auto select --force why the force ... because signatures in the cooker are all over the place, and plf cooker isn't signed with the same sig as the rest of plf etc etc and I got real tired of saying y every 3 or 4

[expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-09 Thread James Sparenberg
Ok, I'm just about to complete my second update from 9.1+plf+texstar to 9.2 via urpmi. The order of march is urpmi.removmedia -a (get rid of all current dbases) urpmi.addmedia (added cooker cooker-contrib and plf-cooker) urpmi urpmi (get the new urpmi first it's ability to download

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 18:30, James Sparenberg wrote: Ok, I'm just about to complete my second update from 9.1+plf+texstar to 9.2 via urpmi. The order of march is urpmi.removmedia -a (get rid of all current dbases) urpmi.addmedia (added cooker cooker-contrib and plf-cooker) urpmi

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-09 Thread Tim Sawchuck
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 18:30:13 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I'm just about to complete my second update from 9.1+plf+texstar to 9.2 via urpmi. The order of march is Just?!?! :-) I did this a few weeks, maybe a month ago after a posting on Distrowatch about this

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-09 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 20:11, Tim Sawchuck wrote: On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 18:30:13 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I'm just about to complete my second update from 9.1+plf+texstar to 9.2 via urpmi. The order of march is Just?!?! :-) I did this a few weeks,

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-09 Thread Eric Huff
I keep jumping between BlackBox and IceWM. Even on a P4 1.3GHz, 512Mb RAM, I love the quickness of a simple WM. Have you tried http://pekwm.org/ (my favorite) XFCE4 (rpms at http://clevername.homeip.net/xfce4/ ) ? They are also realy fast. XFCE4 is more of a desktop, pekwm is just a wm.

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-09 Thread bluefire78
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 20:41:16 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep jumping between BlackBox and IceWM. Even on a P4 1.3GHz, 512Mb RAM, I love the quickness of a simple WM. True but a lot here do use kde. one question why switch once you are in a window manager who