Thanks Tom & dfox. Since I was using a removable hard drive rack, it's not that critical. I'll wait for RC1. Tom, went to the website you mentioned, but I didn't see anything about how to get around the printer problem I was having. The install fails as soon as it tries to run printer-utils.rpm. At that point, I have 2 options - keep clicking the "OK" button until I wear out my mouse, or reset the computer, and use my other hard drive to run 9.1.
Curious though,...you'd think that something as basic (on a relative scale that is,...) as the install GUI would work, since the 9.1 GUI is fine. All they'd have to do is to add options and anything else necessary for the new packages, after they update the paths for the newer versions of existing or standard packages. Wonder how something as basic as the "printer-utils.rpm" package could've been missed? Well, it's beyond me, and that's probably a good thing! LOL! Hmmmm,... Lanman *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 8/24/2003 at 8:46 AM Tom Brinkman wrote: >On Sunday August 24 2003 07:04 am, Lanman wrote: >> Since the release of 9.2 Beta2 I haven't heard or seen anything >> about it from anyone on the list. Is this because it's so amazing >> that list members are speechless? > > I've run cooker only since 7.2. Current cooker is solid, no >problems on a overclocked XP 3000+. 2266 Mhz on a KT400a chipset >with 512MB DDR 419, Cas2.5, R/C 2, preCh 2, 2-bank. I don't have >or need a printer. I highly suggest you read this site, >http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo > >> Or because they can't finish an >> install, and are therefore disconnected from the "Net" ? I tried >> burning and installing them, and it quickly went to hell. Several >> restarts later (this is the short version), I got to the end of >> the install. When it tried to detect my printer (Brother >> MFC4800), which is not supported by Linux yet, it displayed a >> message that it was unable to find "printer.rpm" and stopped >> there. That's it. All done. It simply wouldn't go any further. >> I'm considering re-doing the install without a printer attached >> to see if that solves it, but without the above-noted rpm, I >> doubt it will finish properly at all. Obviously, either the rpm >> is not on the CD's at all, or the path statement used by the >> installer is wrong. Either way, it's not happening. > > Get a connection and use urpmi to update to current. I'd >recommend you first 'urpmi urpmi', then urpmi --auto-select. I use >this alias to update several times a day, alias cook='urpmi.update >-a -f --wget && urpmi --wget --no-verify-rpm --auto-select -v' > I'd also suggest you install the current kernel ASAP, >$ uname -r >2.4.22-0.7mdk > > Mirrors have been screwed up lately, but since Sat. (8/23) >they're in order again. OTOH, RC1 was due last Friday. Look for it >to come out very soon (probly why the mirrors were froze ;) > ftp://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-iso/i586 >I suspect if you update to current, you'll have RC1 > >> >> Any suggestions or similar situations out there in Mandrake-Land? >> I realize that it's a Beta, and that there may be bugs in it >> still, but perhaps there's a work-around? Also, didn't Mandrake >> announce that the new 2.6 Kernel would be added to Beta2? Didn't >> find it. FYI, I checked the md5sums of course. Just curious if >> anyone had something to offer about any of this ? >> >> Thanks in Advance,... >> >> Lanman > > Only issue I've had lately is with DM's. None of the Session >Managers wanna work properly for me. So I boot to level 3 and >'startx'. Nobody else is complainin so I reckon I've got a borked >config file. Level 3 is better for testing overclocking with >mprime-17 and burnK7 tho anyhow ;) > > You didn't say anything about your hardware, other than your >tree killer ;> Some things like nforce2 chipsets have issues. >Check the cooker ML archive (or LKML). >http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker&r=1&w=2 has a good >search engine. IMO, runnin cooker requires daily reading of the >cooker and CHRPM (change log) lists. If your printer is still a >problem, post to the cooker list, and if need be file a bug report >on bugzilla. Hurry every chance you get, it's gettin late in the >9.2 testing stages. >-- > Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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