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  1. If the machine you are installing from has linux on it already, use the kernel ( isolinux/alt0/vmlinuz) as a kernel in your bootloader, with the file isolinux/alt0/all.rdz as the initrd, and you should be able to boot into the installer as if you had booted the CD. Note that you need to add an append line as well, similar to that in the default entry in isolinux/isolinux.cfg If the machine does not have linux installed, but has PXE support, you can use that to load the same kernel and initrd. There are some more hints on this on the cooker wiki ....
  2. I have the driver working fine, I will try and provide dkms packages ...
  3. You should also just try booting with the 'pci=noapic' boot option.
  4. ipw2100 works out-the-box on 10.1, but if you're not using the commercial/Club versions, you just need to get the firmware files from http://ipw2100.sf.net
  5. Uh, you really need to give more information here. What do you mean by "entirely Windows network"? Does that mean you have a Windows NT4 domain with clients joined to it, or a Windows 2000/3/Active Directory domain? Or, is it just a workgroup of Win9x machines? With WinXP home? With WinXP Pro? Samba can do this under any of these conditions, but to be able to help you configure it, we need to know this ... Otherwise, you can: # urpmi samba-server ksambaplugin and use ksambaplugin to configure samba.
  6. Please check if unix extensions are enabled on the samba server. If they are, you may want to try turning them off, otherwise you need an updated samba package which allows smbmount to disable unix extensions (this is an upstream bug). I will upload packages shortly to 10.0 community that have the patch needed to disable unix extensions. I am not sure why Knoppix works - maybe they have an old version of smbfs which doesn't know anything about unix extensions ...
  7. qgis crashed for me under 10.0, but it works on cooker/10.1, and it is now in contrib (version 0.4). The problem on 10.0 was that an updated gdal was needed to build grass57, which changed the minor number of the library, but not that of the rpm, and resulted in file conflicts. Updating gdal would require rebuilding all other apps that require gdal. I didn't want to push this to community contrib, but thac did rebuild the packages on 10.0. 10.1/cooker currently has grass-5.0.3, gras53-5.3.0, and grass57-5.7.0 though. Grass isn't only text based, there is the tck/tk gui ... Anyway, AFAIK, we're the only distro with all 3 (grass, grass53, grass57), as we were also the first with grass (5.0.x).
  8. The problem with the keyboards on these machines is not affected by the distribution, it is a hardware/BIOS issue. Our company has about 20 of these machines, those with the earlier models had problems on every distribution they tried (Fedora, RHEL, Gentoo, Mandrake). BIOS updates help. I am happy with my NX7010 running Mandrake, getting the wireless working on 10.0 was not difficult (I had it running in May IIRC), but it is much easier on 10.1 (beta1), you just need to put the firmware file in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware (you have to create the directory still at present).
  9. Firstly, the easiest solution to your problem is to setup a network urpmi source for main. Use http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ , and if you are on low bandwidth, choose to use synthesis hdlists (since you already have hdlists for the stuff you have on the 2 CDs. Secondly, Mandrakesoft does not hide the fact that Standard Edition is not suitable (on it's own) for development work, but it's not going to advertise that there is no gcc on the page showing the features (just as any other company isn't going to tell you the missing features of a certain model). Just go and compare these two pages: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/91/standard http://www.mandrakesoft.com/products/91/powerpack Finally, if you *just* want to give Mandrakesoft some money (and you can also get all the "commercial" software you get on Standard from them), join the MandrakeClub instead. -You get the CDs sooner (if you dowload/burn or buy from a cheaper online vendor) -You get all the same (and more) benefits) -Mandrakesoft gets more of the money (since they don't have to pay shipping, printing, stamping costs) -Everyone wins
  10. Well, that's your problem. You need an IP masquerading rule, and Mandrake uses shorewall for this. So, if you turn the firewall on, you should have your internet connection sharing working. If you need to access the box the ICS is on, you can (until you get the hang of shorewall rules) turn the policy for masq->fw and fw->masq to accept by editing /etc/shorewall/policy and restarting shorewall.
  11. Internal users may be able to hack your firewall more easily. If you trust them, then that's probably OK. If someone does hack your box from the outside, they can now get into your network (so you may want to rather turn the policy for fw->masq back to deny, and add a rule in /etc/shorewall/rules allowing only connections to high ports on your network, but you may also need ports 137-139 for samba ..). It's always safer to restrict connections as much as possible, going both into and out of a firewall, but unless you have the extra machines, a firewall that is pretty tight from the outside should be enough to make you a less attractive target to hack ...
  12. You probably changed your hostname, and didn't log out and back in, so X didn't know who it should allow connections from. I tested it on 9.1 with XFree86-4.3 (not that I think X version makes a difference) with no problems.
  13. Mandrake Control Center->Network & Internet->Drakconnect->Wizard->Expert mode, and it will allow you to set your various hostnames, set them all, and it should work. Otherwise take a look in /etc/sysconfig/network, and ensure HOSTNAME is set. Samba by default uses your hostname as your netbios name, so it's usually not necessary to change it.
  14. # urpmi cyrus-imapd You do have to manually create accounts, but read the docs that are provided (including the one specific to the Mandrake package) and you should come right.
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