"Hoyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> very difficult to read. It would be nice for numlock to be turned on by
> default for data enrty, but I know what a pain the numlock thing can be with
> X.
very hard.
> It was very nice to have the option of _no_ password - who really needs
> one on a home system anyway? Since I was able to get through all the install
> screens, I must say I am very impressed with what you guys have done.
>
> I did have other problems.
>
> mkbootdisk failed with an error message about install_steps_gtk.pm line 50.
> I tried mkbootdisk after I rebooted cooker with a rescue disk and it failed
> because awk (gawk) was not installed; installing that package fixed it.
ok thanks a lot :)
fixed the missing requires
>
> lilo also failed, with a cylinder too big message. This was probably my
> fault as I was installing to a partition above 1024 cylinders and did not
> provide for a /boot partition below that since I wanted to see what would
> happen. Of course, had I been able to make a boot disk, this would not have
> ben an issue, but I wanted to see what th einstall program would do in this
> case since larger hard drives are becoming more common.
didn't diskdrake told you you were running into problems?
>
> I was able to boot cooker from a rescue disk from the Peanut distro ( I like
> it because it has mc available on the boot floppy). Giving the lilo command
> root=/dev/hda12 (my cooker install partition) booted me up in cooker with a
> few non-fatal kernel compatability messages and allowed me to debug
> mkbootdisk and install gawk and create a boot disk, then boot "for real".
>
> I had a problem with KDE in that kfm would not run; KDE would start and I
> would see a blank desktop and was unable to run programs. I used alt-F2 to
> bring up the command line and ran xterm and started kfm from it to see the
> error messages. It seems that libjpeg.so.62 and libtiff.so.3 were not
> installed automagically. Installing them brought kfm to life.
that's strange as kdebase requires libjpeg and libtiff...
can you mail me:
- /root/ddebug.log
- /root/install.log
- /root/auto_inst.cfg.pl
- Mandrake/base/depslist
>
> Some of the drakconf packages also did not get installed automagically (like
> sound), but I have not fixed that yet. As I try to make things work one by
> one, I'll keep a list of what did not install if that will be helpful to
> you.
>
i'm waiting for your remarks!
> Still, overall, a nice job.
>
thanks :)
