feralertx

I get to the same exact screen in Firefox, but I think it someone said that the site probably has way too many visitors and might be busy or something.  But I can't get get it either :shrug:

After reading your post decided to give it a go with mozilla under win98 under vmware

You can see the results:

It works !! So i guess the problem comes from the linux version of flash :o

And BTW the flash site is IMHO of no interest at all.

I seem to be unable to see the doom3 flash site.

I have Flash plugin version 7.0.25.0 installed (which is the latest version AFAIK)

I have tried with mozilla-1.7.2, firefox-0.93, Epiphany 1.2.8 and konqueror (kde 3.2.3).

- With mozilla-1.7.2, firefox-0.93 and Epiphany 1.2.8, I get to the first page of www.doom3.com, I click on 'Enter the flash site' and all i get is a new fullscreen browser window where only a small portion of the left hand side of the screen is visible (same with the three browsers) as you can see on the piture. The sound can be heard.

-Konqueror goes a bit further, again a fullscreen browser window opens but this time is a black one with only 'audio on/off' on the right top corner of the page and 'www.doom3.com' in the botton center, but thats about it. You can hear sound here too. (See picture)

Anyone knows whats wrong ?? Anyone knows if they have yet released the linux binaries?

Thanx!! I´ll try tomorrow cos today is too late. Y gracias que me acabo de dar cuenta que somos del mismo pais!!!

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You're welcome mate.

En estos tiempos que corren, siempre es un placer encontrar a un compatriota que esta orgulloso de ser español

:o :o :o

feralertx -

 

Your on dsl and take 6-7 hours for 1 700mb cd?

 

How fast is your download speed?

 

Im on dsl and its takes me about 1 1/2 - 2 hours to download a cd @ 165k a second.

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I'm on a pathetic 256/128 dsl connection, with a maximum (average) of 27 KB/sec download speed , for wich i pay 45€ (about 50$) They are gonna double download speed (while mantaining upload to 128 :wacko: ) without a price increase :lol: in the next months ... still expensive though...

If yours d/l at 165k (=KB??) then you're probably using a 2MB connection, right ?

Thanx! i dont want to make a booable cd, just one dvd to install the packages. Then i have to copy all folders of the cds into one in the pc and then from the consolo go to that directory and make genhdlist and then burn it? Thanx!!

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Well yeah in theory that should work but i havent try it and i encourage you to use DVDRW media :D if your microwave stop working after trying this, dont blame me :P

1.- Copy all files found in the different RPMS folders of the different CDs (as i told you RMPS for CD1, RPMS2 for CD2 and so on) to a +single+ folder on your hard drive -keep in mind you are gonna need about 4 Gb empty space on the partition where you copy all the packages, so make sure you have room-:

[~] md dvd_packages

[~] cd dvd_packages

[~/dvd_packages] cp /mnt/cdrom/RPMS/* .

Once all files have been copied from CD1, introduce CD2 in the drive and carry on:

[~/dvd_packages] cp /mnt/cdrom/RPMS2/* .

And so on untill you have all the 6 CDs RPMS packages into the hardrive directory "dvd_packages".(Dont forget the dot "." at the end of every one of the cp commands)

Then create the hdlist file:

[~/dvd_packages] genhdlist .

Once it finishes, you are ready to burn all the files in the dvd_packages directory into a DVD (RW!! :-P ), you can put all the packages on the root directory of the dvd or just burn the folder containing all packages to the dvd, it should work either way.

All you need to do afterwards is go to the MCC, Software admin --> Repositories admin, and from there select the CDs repositories and remove them one by one, when you are done add the dvd repository by selecting ADD and then ticking on 'removable media':

- Name: Anything you like, for example PowerPack_DVD

- Route or mount point: Thats your DVD drive mount point + the folder containing the packages (if any) Example:

a/ if you burned the packages to the dvd root directory:

/mnt/dvdrom

b/ if you burned the packages into a folder on the DVD (i.e. dvd_packages):

/mnt/dvdrom/dvd_packages

- Route to synthesis/hdlist: You can leave this unticked since the file is in the same directory of the packages.

Hope it helps, and let me know how it goes !!

Hi all !!

You can start downloading right away from the ftp mirrors or via bittorrent. Or if you already have the beta2 ISO images you can save some time and bandwidth by using rsync.

Read all about it in this MandrakeClub article.

Hi Bibagi, welcome to the forum!

1.i want to give 10gb for linux. so how much space need for / and /home and swap.

That all depends on what you are going to use your computer for. If i was you I would only make 3 partitions:

/ - 6.5 GB

/home - 3 GB (this is the place where your pc users store their files so increase or decrease this size depending if you are gonna store many files or not.)

swap - 512 MB

By having the /home directory separate from / you have the advantage that if you reinstall you can format the / partition without loosing your files which are safe on the /home partition.

Then after using your computer for a while you can check what directories (/usr, /var, /etc, etc...) take the most hard drive space and take it for a reference for your next installation.

2. there is also ext3 or ex2 type file system. which one i have to choose for / and /home

I only use ext3 for all my partitions. I know people use different File Systems (FS) for the different partitions but im fine with ext3, never had a problem. What im sure about is that you shouldnt use ext2 because is not a journaling FS. The ext3 FS is an enhanced version of ext2 that has journaling which is used to maintain consistency, so its better on protecting data on power failures for example (this is probably not a good definition, but its the best i know :-P )

3. i am using 256MB ram . so how space req for swap partition

With 256 ram i would make the swap partition to be double than that, so 512.

4. i am using mandrake 10 . while useing my linux getting hanged sometimes. i chk the memory information. it shows my physical memory is used more den 90% . so how can i increase the physical memory.

That heavy use of RAM is probably due to kde, which is getting IMHO very demanding in resources. The physical memoriy is the RAM modules installed in your computer, the only way to upgrade those is by buying some more and fixing them to your computer. But if you dont know how to do that, take the computer to the shop so they will do it for you...

5. How to install rpm file. any way to setup direct to menu? like windows.

I dont quite understand this question.

RPMs you can install them by double-clicking on them of via the console as root by typing this command:

urpmi name_of_rpm_package.rpm

UAUUHHH what a looooong post :P

Hi LDC!

If you just want to get rid of the cds and have a unique DVD with all the packages, yes, thats possible and quite simple.

You can copy all the packages from the different RPMS folders on the different CDs (RPMS for CD1, RPMS2 for CD2 ... and so on) to a single folder in your hard disk, then use the command genhdlist to generate the hdlist.cz file and burn that folder to a DVD. All you have to do after is remore all the CD repositories and add the DVD one, so next time you need to install any of the packages from any of the -old- disks, itll only ask you for the dvd. If you like this method I can give you more detailed instructions, just let me know.

But to make a bootable DVD so to be capable of installing mandrake from it, its a different story. Its been asked before in this forums and I have never been able to get it to work... Although i think somebody clever than me -which is not difficult to be :P - has, if you wanna try it just do a search on the forums for it.

  Now that I can run config.pl runs, vmware comes up, a vMachine can be created, but I notice the cdrom is not bootable for installing a VM Operating system

You are wrong again.

You need to change the Virtual Machine BIOS so it boots up from the CD-ROM fitst.

To enter the VM BIOS simply press F2 during the VM boot up.

Enjoy... :bvc:

aight...it's not there...and I don't know the version number...and I don't know where to find it, but I could use tucows or google for that...

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You can forget about version numbers, just point the program to:

/usr/src/linux

which is actually a link to the proper kernel source files.

there are almost identical tools for gdesklets and superkaramba. superkaramba is easier to handle/configure imho. but there is a bug in the current superkaramba package (items are sticky on top all the time), so you would need to get the sources, change one of the config-files and then recompile the whole thing. so, if you arent afraid and want to recompile it, go ahead. gdesklets uses a bit less resources but as far as i know, it doesn't support transparency in kde.

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The problem you mention is been fixed in latest releases.

From Superkarambas troubleshooting FAQ section:

3.1. All of my themes are "always on top" of the other windows in KDE 3.2.

    This problem should be fixed in the most recent release.

And I can gurantee it is, since i have it running on MDK 10.0 OE and 10.1 beta2 without problems.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running

kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] /usr/include/

 

**After insisting Yes to use the /usr/include directory

the script complains of a mismatch in kernel labellng::

Why are you changing the default /usr/src/linux/include to /usr/include ??

I had vmware working on 10.0 OE and remember that i just accepted the defaults during installation (and i did the same now on 10.1 beta 2 and is also running...).

You can get the fourth cd and contribute to mandrake economically without even having to buy a box set

Yeah, its easy and simple, you can join the MandrakeClub, which is a club created to help finance Mandrake, you get some benefits that regular users dont, but be adviced, you better just take it as a way to help mandrake and pay them something back in return for their work, if you join thinking on getting something very cool out of it youll get dissapointed.

Oh and BTW, Im a member -and proud of it- ...

When it asked me where to install to, I chose the Windows partition. Well, it installed root there, and everything else was installed on the other unformatted drive, so now I don't have a partition for data files. What did I do wrong?

You probably chose the 'Use free space on windows partition' option, that it actually means that the installer will resize the windows partition -taking up all the free space that was there- and create a new partition for linux with it.

So It want erase the whole window$ partition and make window$ dissapear but will reduce it and leave it with no free space.

XP is still there and I can boot into it just fine.  If I wanted to have that fat32 partition for data files, what should I do so I won't make the same mistake again? If I create the two ext3 partitions, what will that affect the fat32 partition in any way?  I guess what I'm saying is, how should I set it up?

You should tell the MDK installer that you wanna do the partitioning by yourself by choosing 'Custom disk partitioning' and then create the fat32 partition -apart from the window$ one- you wanna use for storing and sharing files between win and lin.

For linux, the easiest will be to make a big root partition (/) and separate /home partition. But about linux partitions you can find lots of info on the web...

edit: nevermind, fixed now. thanks guys

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Wait...what was the fix action?  What did you do?

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Yeah...would be nice of you to let others know... :deal:

If you want to do a hard drive install, you'll have to do some manipulation of the files on your isos per this link from the FAQ section:

 

http://fhj52.tripod.com/linux/MDK_HD_INSTALL.html

 

It's kind of a hassle so I'd try the upgrade install first.

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None of what is said in that link is needed for a HD installation.

How old is the article of the link? For what i have read is from mdk 9.0 so its about 2 years old.

I repit: I DID AN HD INSTALL OF 10.0 OE (and it was really simple)

ok well, mdk 10 official is what i'm using. and i can't seem to open /mnt/cdrom when i put a cd in. i'm not sure whats wrong ....if i put an audio song in, i  can play it through xmms fine. but i still can't view the songs in nautiluis (pardon spelling). i have files on cd that i wish to view, but something seems to be wrong.

 

i'm using kde, any help would be much appreciated. i searched the forums and came up with some stuff, but unfortunately it didn't help me.

 

Bus: ‎ide

 

Channel: ‎secondary

 

New devfs device: ‎/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd

 

Old device file: ‎/dev/hdc

 

Media class: ‎cdrom

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I seem to have a similar problem in MDK 10.1 beta2 where when i put a cd in the drive and try to see its contents it gives me an error.

I tried with

mount /dev/hdc

and it says device /dev/hdc doesnt exist, so I tried with:

mount /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd

and it mounted the cd so i could view the files on it, try it yourself and see if it works.

I have ISO copies of all the CDs in in my home directory (so that urpmi never again ask me to insert a CD), so I thought that maybe I could re-install from there instead of digging out my CDs (or at worse reburn them from the ISOs) and install from slow CDs.

Yes, this is posible. You can create a bootable floppy with the iso image "hd.iso" which is somewhere on CD1 (I think it is in the directory /images). Or you can create a bootable cd too, i dont remember the name of the image but read the docs in the CD to find out.

Whatever method you choose, when you reboot with the floppy/CD itll ask you for the partition and directory where the isos reside.

I did follow this method for one of my installations, id like to give you more info but im not at home.

Also, during the re-install I don't intend to nuke the /home partition (especially if I'm unstalling from ISOs in that partition!). Are ther ethings that I should delete from there before I do the re-install? I want to keep my KDS settings but I think I would rather "start over" with some applications like firefox, so I think I should delete .mozilla before the re-install.

I did reinstall once too, and I didnt format the the /home partition. Once the system rebooted after instalation I had all my previous settings, everything worked fine.

I will back up my /etc directory befoer the re-install just in case. Anything else I should back up to be safe?

I did this too! And turn out very usefull to see previous configurations.

I cp -a the /etc dir as root to my users home.

I just installed Mandrake 10.0 a few days ago.  I have a 30 GB drive.  When I installed the OS, I let it partition everything automatically for me.  Out of curiousity, I looked at the root folder and looked at the properties and it's using 3.4 GB out of 5.8.  Is this going to be a problem soon?  Did it partition itself right, or sholuld there be much more room in there?

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I think that depends on what other partitions the installer created.

If it only created / then it might not be enough (although it depends on how many programs you install and how much space do your users take). But If it did a separate partition for /usr (where the progs are installed), another one for /home (your users files) and another one for /var (system logs and, variables??), then it should plenty.

This is already covered here

But its often forgotten so thanks for the reminder.

Ooops! I should have looked in that forum before posting and could've save some time , anyway, as you say, if it helps to remind some people and to introduce rsync to some others, then it is time well spend.

As a side note, don't bother using the -z option. The files are already compressed.

Ah all right, thanks, i didnt know. I have removed it now from the original post.

Cheers!!!

How well does these "live CD" works vs. installed? I've heard they suck big time from some who tried Knoppix.

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Because a liveCD runs from the CD drive you can expect it to run slower than a hard drive installation. I always use it when posible if i have to use a computer different than mine, and if i encounter a slow system i just boot with a lghter window manager so it runs smoother. But it doesnt suck big time, thats for sure.

Ok, then what is the difference between this LiveCD and Mandrake Move?

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No difference. MandrakeMove is a live cd.

I prefer koppix (another Live CD based on debian), I have tried both and knoppix is IMHO by far better than MandrakeMove.

Hi everyone,

Now that Mandrake has released beta 2 of the upcoming 10.1 I'd like to share this short how-to that explains how to update your beta 1 ISO files using rsync and save some bandwith -and time-. This is probably only aimed to newbies like me who havent heard of it before. I base this mini-how-to on

this other one -which i found somehow difficult to follow- and the man pages.

1.- First of all you need to make sure you have installed the package 'rsync'.

This is Mandrake's description of the package:

Description: Rsync uses a quick and reliable algorithm to very quickly bring remote and host files into sync.  Rsync is fast because it just sends the differences in the files over the network (instead of sending the complete files). Rsync is often used as a very powerful mirroring process or just as a more capable replacement for the rcp command.  A technical report which describes the rsync algorithm is included in this package.

 

Install rsync if you need a powerful mirroring program.

2.- Then you need to find a mandrake mirror which is rsync enabled. To find out if a specific mirror is offering this service or not you do the following in a console -as regular user-:

rsync site.address.com::

And wait for its reply, if you get a welcome message and a list of modules, then you are in bussiness, if not, you need to try another mirror.

For this example I did:

[mybox]$ rsync ftp.rediris.es::

No luck, this is what i got:

rsync: failed to connect to ftp.rediris.es: Connection timed out (110)

rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(94)

So I tried another one, to see a list of mirrors go to the Mandrakelinux site.

[mybox]$ rsync carroll.cac.psu.edu::

 

 

                              Welcome to

  The Pennsylvania State University / Center for Academic Computing

                 FTP Archives at carroll.cac.psu.edu

 

Due to U.S. Exports Regulations, all cryptographic software on this

site is subject to the following legal notice:

 

     This site includes publicly available encryption source code

     which, together with object code resulting from the compiling of

     publicly available source code, may be exported from the United

     States under License Exception TSU pursuant to 15 C.F.R. Section

     740.13(e).

 

This legal notice applies to cryptographic software only. Please see

the Bureau of Export Administration, http://www.bxa.doc.gov/ for more

information about current U.S. regulations.

 

Public mirror sites who use our rsyncd may want to contact us for access

to a restricted-access rsyncd to better avoid being blocked out.

 

Please send suggestions/comments to ftp@carroll.cac.psu.edu.

 

 

apache          Apache

caldera         Caldera Linux distribution

caldera-iso     Caldera Linux distribution ISO images

collegelinux    Collegelinux Linux distribution

cpan            Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

csw             Blastwave.org CSW packages for Solaris

ctan            Comprehensive Tex Archive Network

cygwin          Cygwin

debian          Debian Linux distribution

debian-cd       Debian Linux distribution CD images

fedora-linux-core       Fedora Linux Core

fedora-linux-core-development   Fedora Linux Core Development

fedora-linux-core-updates       Fedora Linux Core Updates

finkinfo

freebsd         FreeBSD

gentoo          Gentoo Linux distribution

gnome           The GNOME ftp site

gnu             GNU repository

kde             The KDE ftp site

kernel          Kernel.org

knoppix         Knoppix Linux distribution

mandrakelinux   Mandrake Linux distribution

netbsd          NetBSD

openbsd         OpenBSD

opencd          OpenCD Windows Distribution

redhat-redhat   Red Hat, Inc. -- Red Hat FTP Site, RedHat Area

redhat-ftp      Red Hat, Inc. -- Red Hat FTP Site

redhat-beta     Red Hat, Inc. -- Red Hat Linux beta releases

redhat-contrib  Red Hat, Inc. -- Contrib FTP Site

redhat-rawhide  Red Hat, Inc. -- Rawhide FTP Site

redhat-updates  Red Hat, Inc. -- Updates FTP Site

sgifreeware     freeware.sgi.com

slackware       Slackware Linux distribution

sorcerer        Sorceror Linux distribution

splack          Splack Linux distribution

sunfreeware     ftp.sunfreeware.com

suse            SuSE Linux distribution

xfree86         XFree86

ximian          Ximian GNOME

yellowdog       YellowDog Linux distribution

There you go, that is the list of the rsync modules they are offering. You can see 'mandrakelinux' among them, so now we do:

[b][mybox]$ rsync carroll.cac.psu.edu::mandrakelinux[/b]

[Welcome message has been omitted...]

drwxr-xr-x        4096 2004/08/24 19:31:17 .
-rw-r--r--         991 2004/04/08 10:07:54 README
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2004/08/24 19:00:32 devel
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2004/04/14 08:16:30 official
drwxr-xr-x        4096 2004/04/01 18:47:10 old

Those are the directories they are offering. At the time of writing, the isos are located in '/devel/iso/10.1/i586/' (all mirrors should have the same directory structure). To make sure you can always use an ftp client to connect to the ftp site and find out the real path to the isos -and find out their new filenames too-.

Ok so '/devel/iso/10.1/i586' is the directory and these are the filenames for beta 2:

Mandrakelinux-10.1beta2-CD1.i586.iso

Mandrakelinux-10.1beta2-CD2.i586.iso

Mandrakelinux-10.1beta2-CD3.i586.iso

3.- Rsync needs you to rename your old filenames (those of beta 1) to those of the new isos. So cd to the local directory where you keep the old isos and change their name to match those of beta 2:

cd /cooker         --> (change /cooker to your local directory where the old isos are)
mv Mandrakelinux-10.1beta1-CD1.i586.iso Mandrakelinux-10.1beta2-CD1.i586.iso
mv Mandrakelinux-10.1beta1-CD2.i586.iso Mandrakelinux-10.1beta2-CD2.i586.iso
mv Mandrakelinux-10.1beta1-CD3.i586.iso Mandrakelinux-10.1beta2-CD3.i586.iso

4.- Ok, now we just need to give the rsync command:

rsync -P --stats carroll.cac.psu.edu::mandrakelinux/devel/iso/10.1/i586/Mandrakelinux-10.1beta2-CD[1-3].i586.iso .

The command explained:

-P --> Tells rsync to keep partially transferred files and to print information showing the progress of the transfer.

--stats --> This tells rsync to print a verbose set of statistics on the file transfer, allowing you to tell how effective the rsync algorithm is for your data.

carroll.cac.psu.edu::mandrakelinux/devel/iso/10.1/i586/Mandrakelinux-10.1beta2-CD[1-3].i586.iso --> This are the files to rsync, as the 3 files do have the same name and only change in the CD number 1,2 and 3, we use [1-3] with the same result and saving the pain to write the command 3 times (one per file), this way it does one file after the other. In case you want to make it one by one just change [1-3] for the iso number 1, 2 or 3.

. --> This is the directory where the isos to rsync are, as i was in that very same dir, I just use “.” which is equivalent to the 'working directory'.

We'll see some verbose on the console like filename being updated, downloading speed, time to finish etc.

Once it finishes all files will give you some stadistics:

Mandrakelinux-10.1beta2-CD1.i586.iso

   681025536 100%  135.34kB/s    1:21:54

Mandrakelinux-10.1beta2-CD2.i586.iso

   681598976 100%   49.66kB/s    3:43:24

Mandrakelinux-10.1beta2-CD3.i586.iso

   678737920 100%   32.81kB/s    5:36:42

 

Number of files: 3

Number of files transferred: 3

Total file size: 2041362432 bytes

Total transferred file size: 2041362432 bytes

Literal data: 1092912440 bytes

Matched data: 948449992 bytes

File list size: 97

Total bytes written: 517536

Total bytes read: 1040346681

 

wrote 517536 bytes  read 1040346681 bytes  26868.99 bytes/sec

total size is 2041362432  speedup is 1.96

I'm on 256/128 DSL, so it usually takes me about 6-7 hours to download one 700 Mb ISO image, as you can see the time has been greatly reduced using rsync. As you can see in the stats the first iso took only 1:21:54, but that is becuase I had to stop rsync and I continued later. I see rsync as a great tool and dont know why other mirrors do not use it. I must say that is only useful if the isos havent changed much between them (for example beta1 and beta2), but if they are absolutly different (like mdk 9.2 and 10.0 isos are) then rsync wont help much and very likely will have to download the whole file.

Hope it helps. Comments, corretions and suggestions welcome!

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MDK 10.1 beta 1 seemed like a good release to me too. I upgraded from 10.0 OE to 10.1 b1 with no problems, everything was working ok, but then, after installing updates (quite a few in daily basis) many things broke or stop working.

Im downloading b2 and will reinstall from scratch as soon as i get it.

Is it true Cd buning is broken? if so, hope it gets fixed asap.