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Does anyone know where the file that contains the right-click menu for XFCE is as i would like to modify it? Cheers. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Apparently it works with the command at boot. I had it working on my sister's laptop for the first time! I got it to boot into Xmode on mine but i did not get xfce, it just stopped with the mouse cursor on the screen, still it is improvement. I guess 128MB is really too short. I will try to do a light-weight version that would be less than 250MB. Hope it is possible.

Thanks for the swap thing. But i can't find it in the Services menu of the Mandrake control center. Any idea where i could go to turn the swap activation off?

OK, now I have no more problem with the short memory (using xfce4 and kernel 2.6.3-4mdk) on the laptop but i STILL have the activating swap problem and it even now appears on my laptop-it didn't use to do that. Basically, all loads well until the Mandrake boot sequence starts. It then prints the following message: and hangs. This really is the last problem on my list. Any ideas? Any way i could modify the init or linuxrc scripts so that the swap partitions or whatever is blocking my progress does not happen? Also, can it be due to the fact that i formatted my main partition as ReiserFS and not ext3? Ok, I just had a look on my desktop (256MB RAM) and it booted fine. The next item after the activation of swap is the activation of RAID devices. Does anyone know how to deactivate that or should i start thinking about building a custom kernel? Cheers

Does anyone knows how you can get the cdrom and all that to mount automatically when inserted and unmount when the button is pressed in XFCE4? Thanks. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

My mistake, My kernel is in fact 2.6.3-7 :P , Got a bit carried away there :D Thanks for the comments, i will test that. Yes, there are linux partitions on all computers i tested the cd on. Do you reckon that if i used a desktop environment such as blackbox or icewm i would be able to run the CD on 128MB? I just want to create a CD that could be used by chemists (I am a chemist). When i try knoppix and the likes i can run the live distribution with only 128MB. Is the mklivecd fundamentally different from Knoppix ? My last question would be, is clp or squashfs best? Cheers

Hi there, I have been using anna's rpms for Mdk10 and I encountered a few problems: 1- When trying the CD on a PIII 850 laptop with 128MB of RAM, I have issues with loading the whole directories (/home, /var, etc...) and I ultimatly can not load an X session. I can however load a command line session. (I use a 2.6.7 kernel). When I am doing the same on my bog standard AthlonXP1600+ with 256MB of RAM I have no problem. 2- When trying the CD on my father's Fujitsu-Siemens AthlonXP2600+ 512MB of RAM, it freezes trying to load a "reverse engineered driver" for the nForce chipset that is on the board (The computer runs FC2 quite happily). 3- When trying the CD on my sister's Fujitsu-Siemens laptop it hangs telling me that it tries to load swap partitions. I guess the CD is fine and that i only encounter freak problems, but they are still quite annoying. I was wondering I switching from the 2.6 to the 2.4 kernel would improve the problem number 1 in particular. The CD is less than 500MB and I run MDK10 with Gnome2.4, and a few apps including OpenOffice 1.1, XMMS and Mplayer for a total of about 1.1GB. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

I succeeded!!!! :D :D :D Thanks Anna for the files you posted with your original posts, i used them straight out of the box on a new Mandrake10 install (on one partition this time :P ) and it worked!! Just 16mins for about 1.7GB and compressed it to about 650MB. I am writing this from my livecd :P . Pretty sweet!!! :D Next step customising and adding installer and new functionality. I will keep you posted.

Yes, i know, but i wrote this for those who want to put any image on the bootsplash. This is the only way it works for me. Doing it this way, you enable the new theme for all users not just you (mind you you might be the only person to use your computer :D ).

Hi Anna, Nice to have an answer from the expert! :D I am trying a new build without the files taking the most space in the home directory, I don't know when it will be finished as it seems to take forever, anyway, i am revising for exams so time is not too important :P Also, i tried several 2.6 tmb kernels (notably the 2.6.4-1 and 2.6.5-1) As far as i know both have cloop 2.01 or 2.02 included BUT, when trying to make a live cd, it tells me that the cloop.o module is not present! A modprobe cloop confirms it. The 2.6.4-7 doesn't work as you pointed in your previous posts. Anyway, i will post the command i used and the result of the last build later on.

Thanks. Will try.

I have a few software that i compiled and installed from source and i was wondering how to uninstall them if i feel the need?

Hi everybody, I've just tried to create a livecd from my mdk10 with the 2.4.22 tmb kernel. The cd boots fine but after the /etc and /var directories have been created i get the following error: I've tried it with a home directory worth 500MB, so that might be the problem. I also have a separate partition for my /home directory. My system is pretty straightforward: AthlonXP 1600+, 256MB RAM, 10GB HDD (3GB+1.5GB for linux) + 400MB HDD, Geforce4 MX, Pinnacle Rave studio TVCard, Sound card, 2 network cards (1 realtek on board and 1 Davicom PCI), 1 DVD/CDRW, 1DVD. There you go!! :P Any help appreciated. Thanks a lot.

Hi everybody, this is my first post so i hope it will be useful. I was looking at Anna's posts on how to create your own mandrake liveCD and asked myself how i could change the bootsplash of KDE and the bootsplash when MDK10 is loading. I will have to look at how to personalise the loading bootsplash before writing about it here. First let's look at a case where you have themes installed on your system and that you are running MDK-10 (official or community does not matter). This should work on any version of Mandrake provided you have bootsplash themes installed. Here we go: 1. Create your images: a. One with the dimensions 400x248 that you will call splash_top.png b. One with the dimensions ???x??? that you call splash_bottom.png In addition, you can also create one for the icon band. 2. In a console type: a. su b. cd /usr/share/apps/ksplash/Themes c. Copy one of the available theme folders in /usr/share/apps/ksplash/Themes d. Rename the folder you copied (do not rename to something like FOLDER.old as the theme would not work afterwards). Alternatively to c+d, just change the images in the theme folder you chose. e. Copy your new images to your theme folder and to the locale subfolder of the theme's folder as well (if available). f. Edit the Theme.rc file in your theme's folder (I will post how a bit later on) g. Go to the KDE configuration panel and change the splash to your theme using ksplash. Now if you want to do the same in MDK 9.1 with no themes installed: 1. Prepare your images as above. 2. Just replace the images in the /usr/apps/ksplash/pics folder as root. Voila. I will update this post later on. Have fun. If anyone knows an easier way, let me know be responding to this post.