DragonMage

Maybe not the free download edition.

BTW, isn't kernel 2.6.3-4mdk is the kernel for Mandrake 10?

Not only that, I think that's the Mandrake 10 Community Kernel. Mandrake 10 Official is 2.6.3-7 something

Anyway, you are pretty much out of luck in your search for that particular kernel.

The problem is that the name has to be trademarkable. If Mandrake doesn't base their image on Mandrake the Magician in the first place, Mandrake could've win this one (I mean, I am a comic book fan and even I am hard-pressed to remember Mandrake the Magician image, it's not that markettable today compared to say.. Batman).

While the name Mandriva is ugly, at least it's trademarkable. Face it, no matter what you name your brand / company, there will be a language in which the word (or similar sounding name) is a curse word or something like that. Remember the Chinese Coca Cola example?

You know.. I am not surprised. I think the people who are voting for Ubuntu are hard-core Gnome users. Also, it is rather new, so that excitement is still going.

Thinking of distrowatch ranking, I wonder what would happen if Mandrake actually changes their name to Mandriva (ugh).

Adriano, I know you are not serious when you suggested Lynx.. Links is a lot better than lynx any time.. Heck.. I preferred gopher to lynx :)

The command rm -rf can be devastating period. Especially when done as root. There are many horror stories of a sleepy / drunk / stupid administrator accidentally wiped out his hard disk / important files / directories just because of typing this command.

Check the date.

No, seriously :)

You should check another language to see if mandriva means anything.

For all we know, it could be a trademark of a Spanish company or something.

Hmmm.. I am curious about this, too. Still, are you sure the email is not html? Maybe what you think as text have some embedded html codes in it.

Mobile phones are actually one of the hardest to connect to Linux. Each phone manufacturer has its own standard of communication. Would you believe Nokia (a Finnish company) has one of the worst support in Linux, while sony-ericsson has one of the best? Also, just because you have an IRDA dongle working and it can detect the phone, doesn't mean that you can transfer images like that.

Unfortunately, I cannot find your particular phone on tuxmobil.org. I guess the best way is to research it yourself.

You said upgrade right? Not clean install? What is the Video chipset used in that toshiba laptop? You may need to reinstall the proprietary driver (if any) for that particular chipset.

Try disabling harddrake. Harddrake has a habit of rewriting configuration files. Besides, you don't need it running anyway if you don't change your hardware.

To disable harddrake, go to Mandrake Control Center. Then choose System -> Services. Uncheck the box at the Hardrake section and press the stop button. Reboot, and see if the symptom still happens.

I think 128 MB should be enough to last a couple of years. I still have my 64 MB GeForce4 Ti4200 I bought three years ago and it still can play most games quite well.

In my experience, if you are thinking too much to the future, you will either not buy the item at all or spend too much money. By the time games require 256 MB GPUs, you will probably need to add a PPU (Physics Processing Unit, read the article at anandtech) anyway. :)

If you mean by photographs just plain old jpegs, any image viewer with print option should be able to do that. Gqview, Kuickshow, even GIMP can do that.

I don't know the exact function of higher setting in msec, but isn't that normal?

I think the higher security setting prevents sshing as root (as in ssh -l root xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx). Ssh as normal user is permitted I think. Then you can su after you ssh in.

Check your flash disk in another computer (Windows based preferably) and see whether the same problem occur. It maybe hardware (flash disk) failure. I just have that particular problem with my 3 month old Apacer 256 MB Handy Steno. The Flash RAM basically cannot be written anymore, making it effectively a read-only drive. Even formatting it is impossible.

Ok.. now I am curious. Does anyone have the picture of the logo Kristi is talking about?

You call that adventure? Seems like smooth sailing to me :)

Anyway, where do you put the files for the blog? In /var/www ?

There are other rpm repositories that are not listed in easy-urpmi site. Some of them carries more recent packages like kde 3.4, firefox 1.0.1, thunderbird 1.0 and so on. Here are some examples

http://rpm.nyvalls.se/

http://norlug.org/?op=rpms

Just follow the intructions given in those web pages to put the repositories into your urpmi database. Firefox 1.0.1 just happen to be listed in norlug's repository.

Anyway, even though I have no problems so far in using these packages, they should be considered quite experimental. :)

Good luck

You know what.. I think this is a good thing.

The main problem I have with the 6 month release cycle in the bandwidth starved nation like where I am now is that after you have downloaded all isos and try it in your computer, the newer release is already banging at the door. Also, slower release is also better to support. I still install Mandrake 10 OE for people who are interested in Linux because I can buy the CD set and the guidebook for about 5 dollars and then give it to the people (after I did the installation of course).

That simple hunh? Let me try it tomorrow. I don't have my Mandrake 10 repository mirror with me at the moment.

Seems that there is a limited support under regular linux printing. See this link

http://www.linuxprinting.org/pipermail/can...4q4/001733.html

Ok, I don't know where to put this question really but since it's related to installation, I guess this is the best place.

Being that broadband is not only quite rare in my country, but downright expensive, I usually update my Mandrake installation by downloading all the updates from the ftp site (including hdlist.cz) before burning it to a CD. Then I make a local_update repository pointing to the CD so that everytime I want to update or install updated packages, urpmi will automatically ask for that CD. This works well for the first few months after the release of a new distro version. However, sooner or later, the size of the updates will balloon up so one cd cannot contain all the updates.

So my question is, is there a way to split the files, then regenerate the hdlist.cz for each CDs. So there will be a update_1 and update_2, each with its own hdlist.cz. This way, if I want to update or install update files whose dependancies are split across two cds, urpmi will ask to insert the right update cd in order to continue.

Also, since I usually put download some additional packages from plf, mandrake-club.nl, thac, and others, is there a way to make a hdlist.cz for all those packages? Maybe put it into an emptier of the two cds, or separate cd entirely?

Thanks in advance.

[moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman]

I just built a cheap Celeron 2.26 GHz computer with a Matsonic 9158EP (Via P4M266A chipset with built in ATI Savage Video). Everything works right out of the box with Mandrake 10.0 Official. Of course, you can't expect this type of computer to have good framerates in Quake, but for typical Office / Multimedia player stuffs, it works nicely.

As long as you are just using urpmi for updates and the site is working correctly, you should be fine with 10.0. You may miss on the newest bells and whistles (like newer version of KDE, GNOME, etc), but if you can live with the old version, you should be fine. My laptop is still running a custom 10.0 install because I am too lazy to spend hours getting fresh install of 10.1 to work.

That method may not work if the hd in which mandrake is installed is changed in position, say from secondary master to secondary slave, or something like that. Lilo may run, but trying to boot Linux will fail.