On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> > - There is now way a listing all the packages in one list. If you know the
> > name of a package you have to search the whole tree.
>
> Or just skip it, and rpm -i packagename* after installation.
Then there will be installed many useless (for me) stuff. I will simple
browse all the packages without expanding-stuff.
> Since when does SuSE have a simple big list? Last time I checked, they
> were split into sections "aa", "a", "dev1", "x", "xap", and so on... I
> prefer readable sections like Applications/Networking over those...
Gotcha... B-) You have to press F4 and then you can choose different views
(all, packages, only sources) and everything is fine. For me this feature
is a must-have, but different people, different views.
> > - The directorys /var/spool/mail and /var/lock/subsys are simple missing
> > in an new instalition.
>
> Haven't noticed this yet... Are you sure?
I installed Mandrake 6.0 from scratch (read: empty harddiscs) and the
first bootup failed due to the missing /var/lock/subsys (failed is not the
right word here, but there were many timeouts, so I reboot and create the
directory manuelly). Later sendmail failed due to the missing
/var/spool/mail. Very mysterious...
> > - You can't load/save your config of installed packages for a new
> > re-install on severel clients.
>
> man mkkickstart
Sorry, I missed it. I will read it. Thanks for the infos.
> > - German keyboards are not good supported I have change the
> > /etc/X11/XF86config manuelly.
>
> Works here... What is the problem?
Well after reading the documentation and regetting the config from my old
suse /etc/ dir everything was fine.
Thanx for your time.
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Erik Wasser
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