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Red Hat Tells Customers: 'No More Freebies'
scoopy replied to jlc's topic in Other Linux and Unix Distributions
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OK, let's find out what your really running. Open a terminal/ konsole and type this: rpm -qa | grep kdebase This will spit out the exact version installed. ;)
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You are most likely looking at something like this. If you click on the selection at left for "All Packages" and change to "by update repository," you should get two separate lists. The first is addable, which are currently not installed on your system and the second is upgradeable, which are installed. Or... you could select the Maximum Information selection on the right side and this will tell you if installed, what version you currently do have installed, which source the update was found in, plus a whole lot more.
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I am looking at my possibilities to network a friends home. Currently they have 3 (windows) machines in two different rooms (on two different floors). They have a recently built home that was prewired for a future internet cable connection. The setup I saw while there, was an incoming Cat 5 type wire with about 25 feet of cable rolled up on the wall in their basement. The rooms have a wall outlet with a coaxial type connection. I am not at all familiar with this type of networking. The broadband services available include Comcast High Speed (the local cable company) and Verizon DSL(our phone company). So my choices are to either figure out the needed hardware that will fit this setup or just go the wireless setup route. I am looking towards the most cost effective way, which would include the cheaper Verizon service at maybe $35 per month (cheaper if they include them for phone service). They currently have 3 AOL accounts... which would be another project in itself (to reformat the three systems to rid them of this virus) What do you think?
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I think it is doable. Seems like almost anything is with Linux. We just gotta figure out what image the cd is booting from during stage 1 of the install... the temp kernel in the ramdisk. Then we could just replace the kernel files with 2.6 versions and should be good to go. Maybe too, what I saw was just a text file showing up from some package list I did not change ??? My ISO did install the 2.4.22-21 kernel instead of what 9.2 had.
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Nope, was at work, where we use MAC 0S 8.6 and photoshop. Also ran a quick "despeckle" on the background image to try and rid that look it got from being a 256 color gif file. I did get those blank pages too.
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I believe the background image thing is a css trick, so that is why it passed the html test. try this: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/MUB2/bvc/ <STYLE type="text/css"> body { background-image: url(images/gulf.jpg); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: top left; } </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> BTW: the image is at images/gulf.jpg and not at ../images/gulf.jpg and also I tested the above on an old Power MAC G3 with OS 8.6 using mozilla 1.0 and IE 5.1
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Worked very well, the short time I had it installed on 9.1. Just watch out that it will change things, Like it changes the startup splash screen to something with a wild west look (no biggie... on screen for just a few seconds), the K button changes to a blue star (haven't figured out how that icon works yet), options may seemily dissappear (you can get it all back through kde's control center) Upgrading has caused some to wonder what happened to certain features, but it is all still there, hiding someplace in the KDE control center. If you use our search, you will find some info about these things. I would say to try what ever is easiest... you can always rpm -e kdebase, delete /home/user/.kde and start all over too.
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SUCCESS :D This time it fully boots and installs a brand new system using kernel kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk. Only thing that concerned me was during initial boot, I saw kernel-2.4.22.10mdk show. Will check into that later.
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Good news/Bad news: It boots (and autorun stuff works in windows) but I can't get past stage 2. It is freezing while trying to load mdkinst_stage2.bz2 as a ramdisk. Now I see another script in that misc folder that is called "make_mdkinst_stage2" I guess I should have run that before building the new ISO?
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Woo Hoo ! We got a ISO for CD1 and it actually resembles a real working model. Don't know how good it really is yet, but it is 677.7 MB and includes basically the same stuff as a regularly issued MDK CD1, except with kernel-sources, and all the updated rpms, including today's updated apache2 files. Can't wait to find someplace to see if this actually installs. Maybe I can do a tut sometime, but basically I ftp'd to a cooker site and copied most of their stuff under /mandrake/9.2/i586 except for the 2.4 gig RPM folder. I copied the rpms I needed from my 9.2 "torrent" disc and replaced files with the updates and added the kernel-source package. Don't know why it wasn't working before... maybe there was a new file on cooker today, cause I redid a few files from there. from terminal: [root@localhost misc]# gendistrib --distrib ../../Mandrake_9.3/ & [root@localhost misc]# sh MakeCD --discsize 734000000 -t /home/scoopy -a /home/scoopy/Mandrake_9.3/
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UPDATE: I seem to have taken care of those ending errors and I got the hdlists to update to the rpms I want included (using genhdlist script), but I still am not getting MakeCD to produce the first ISO. Still trying things and looking for any tips.
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from the special Mandrake errata page: http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/lgerrata.php3 Which is also why I suspect that it has not been released yet. PS: We still :woops: you iphitus... it was just too evil to pass up.
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Sorry to burst that bubble... but, YOU ARE WRONG AGAIN :P Checking my notes from the infamous Torrent release, I see: 40c8812dce7b9f8fb0a3b364af62b974 MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk1of3.i586.iso e07fe7b1474eb3ba35cac3dfd479777e MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk2of3.i586.iso 2b6ffc5957533c927f14197ec99a0372 MandrakeLinux-9.2_disk3of3.i586.iso which happens to match what they have. :( Now, under normal circumstances... I would have to be the and delete this post... but seeing how this release has been recalled due to the problems that have surfaced --- We will leave it up for your humiliation.
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Anyone know of any good easy tutorials on how to make Mandrake ISO's. I duplicated the tree and replaced some files and then used this command: [root@localhost misc]# sh MakeCD --discsize 734000000 -t /home/scoopy -a -s /home/scoopy/Mandrake_9.3/ which fails to give me CD1. --- CD 2 and CD 3 look like they should be OK, and I get a small 4th CD. The last errors show the likely cause of me not getting the CD1 iso: REJECTED master disc 1 chkauth-0.3-0.1.92mdk.noarch (not selected) REJECTED master disc 1 drakfirsttime-0.92-4.2.92mdk.noarch (not selected) REJECTED master disc 1 gnome-pilot-conduits-2.0.10-1.1.92mdk.i586 (not selected) REJECTED master disc 1 mailman-2.1.2-9.2.92mdk.i586 (not selected) REJECTED master disc 1 ncftp-3.1.6-0.1.92mdk.i586 (not selected) The overload (CD4) is most likely cause I included kernel-source... and yes, I don't know what I am doing ;)
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looks like this belongs to lufupa. Note to an admin: click on this member and view the error it throws up.
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I found it Gnubie... it ended up in the mod only forum and I don't have the power to move it back... somebody will
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lost posts being recovered ...
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dalek, the reference is only to your status with this board, and not to anything technical. With 40 some posts, you are still new to this forum. I believe you have already been offered the alternative: http://mandrake-forum.org/index.php?showto...00&st=1830&hl=# and, please..., let's stay on topic, which for this thread, is another great resource produced by aRTee.
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I agree with the gFTP/proFTPd combo ... along with webmin for us GUI types that like to avoid the cli stuff.
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8) Please fasten your seatbelts. We will be taking off momentarily
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Glad you found something that helped. I was RTFM too and found something interesting at: http://k3b.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/index.pl/faq I cannot select my ATAPI CD-ROM as reading device in the cd copy dialog. K3b currently uses cdrdao to copy CDs. Since the most recent version of cdrdao (1.1.7) does not support ATAPI devices you can only select SCSI devices in the copy dialog. To be able to use your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM as reading device you may either enable ide-scsi or install the cvs version of cdrdao which supports ATAPI devices for reading.
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Officially... they have probably all been recalled. You would have to check the club mirrors or at www.mandrakeclub.com New ones are to be issued shortly: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/lgerrata.php3
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Maybe something to do with SCSI emulation? Do you have that enabled? I don't and I get this pop-up everytime I start k3b No support for ATAPI with cdrdao You will not be able to use all your reading devices as copy sources since there is at leasst one not configured to use SCSI emulation and your system does not support ATAPI with cdrdao. Solution: The best and recommended solution is to enable ide-scsi (SCSI emulation) for all writer devices. This way you won't have any problems. I have no problems with burning data, but I would if I would try copying from CD to CD, until I configure SCSI. (not to hijack the thread, but I think this could be the solution to the problem) How do I enable SCSI emulation?
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As root in a console type # update-menus -v That should fix it and that is what all the "clubbies" are doing. The other options you seek are in kde's Control Center or Look and Feel section.