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That's a relief. Does anyone have a timeline for this? When CE will be updated, I mean. Or is it a continuous process? --Akshun J

You disabled harddrake AND magicdev and you STILL have problems. Hmmm, this is why I gave up on Mandy at 9.0. That freakin' buggy supermount. Grrr... --Akshun J

That doesn't seem right... CE should be a new cooker snapshot soon, right? Otherwise it would be worthless as a testbed if it always lagged behind OE, right? When doesn CE get the cooker update? --Akshun J

Hi all. I have a 2nd harddrive that Mandrake 10 keeps supermounting in fstab under /mnt/hd. I would like to mount it differently, but everytime I make a change to fstab, Mandy adds another /mnt/hd supermount entry after I reboot. Driving me nuts! Disabling supermount with supermount -i disable does not work. Is kudzu to blame for this? If so, how do I disable it? And I thought supermount was dead in favor of magicdev??? --Akshun J

Thanks a bunch for the quick reply! Hmmm. I have a DVD of Mandy 10 CE, and I want to try it out as I have some funky hardware combos and I want to make sure the installer doesn't wig out. Will CE continue to be updated? --Akshun J

I am considering becoming a club member, but the value to me is access to the extra software packages. Does anyone know how often extra software is released? Is there a request process? --Akshun J [moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman]

I'm sure this question has been asked before, but I couldn't find anything useful after searching the forum. I remember reading somewhere that Mandrake's "official / community / cooker" was very much like Debian's "Woody (stable) / Sarge (testing) / Sid (unstable). Is this true? If so, are there cooker ISO's available? And as of right now, is Mandy 10 CE the same as Mandy 10 official? Thanks! --Akshun J

Actually, that did solve the problem. Disabling the service from the Control Center, that is... Sorry, for talking out of my azz. :( --Akshun J

Actually, the problem is identical to Andrew's. My same keys become the same numbers. And I'm using the same computer. I was just chiming in to say that the numlock suggestion would not work to fix this particular problem. Should I still start another thread, though? --Akshun J

I'm not sure that's the problem. I just finished installing MDK 9.1 on my I-Buddie and I have the same issue. It sees the letters on the left of the keyboard as the number pad. Pressing the numberlock key simply locks out the keyboard from ANY input. I thought I could modify something from the Mandrake Control Center, but my root password obviously encompasses some of the letters that have been remapped. So, I can't become root, and I can't change anything. I'm PISSED! :x I think I have to reinstall unless another kind soul has a better suggestion... --Akshun J

I have TWO Mandrake 9.0 boxes. The first is an Athlon XP with a DVD-Rom that I booted from. It reads CDs at 42x or something similar. I booted from the CDs (checked with MDSUM) and everything was smooth as silk. However, my second box (a Duron) did not go so smoothly. That one has a 52x CD-Rom and every time I reached the midpoint of the package installation process, it would pop up an error message about not installing all the packages properly. My tried for four nights to get this thing working, but to no avail. Then I tried (as the above person suggested) booting the images from my harddrive across the Windows partition. That worked like a champ, and I was cranking in no time. I found the instructions on how to do this on the Mandrake site in the installation documentation. Sorry, but I don't recall the link. It involves copying the images from each CD onto your harddrive (Windows partition) and then making a boot disk. When you boot, it asks you where on your harddrive to look for the images, and then it goes to town... My working theory is that some of the superfast CD-Roms currently on the market are over-powered. I remember first seeing the one currently in my Duron box at Best Buy. I was so impressed with the speed, but when I got it home, I couldn't believe how noisy it was! It actually shook my entire box and made it rattle on the floor beneath it. The kicker is that I don't think Windows spins this puppy at top speed. I think Windows puts a cap on the throttle. I don't think Mandrake's installation tool, however, has such a cap. Thus, it had issues reading from it properly. However, it seems to read from it well enough now that I have Mandrake installed. I claim to have ZERO technical knowledge in this area. This is simply what I think based on some limited and very basic observations. Hope this helps! --Akshun J

Hey guys. I am having the EXACT same problem on my AMD Duron box, except it's not a laptop, and the CD-Rom is relatively new and pretty reliable. Everything seems to install okay until I get to the point where it asks me for the 3rd CD. With 2 minutes left in the install, it seems to be copying and installing the kernel sources and headers, and then when it appears to finish, it tells me that some pretty important stuff was not installed and that my CD-Rom or the media may be faulty. Then it dumps me back to the software selection screen. As if that's not nutty enough, if I eliminate any software requiring that 3rd CD, it kicks me the SAME error message after installing everything from the 2nd CD. And so on, if you catch the pattern. I used these SAME CDs to do a very clean install on my Athlon XP box, so I'm baffled at this point. Does anyone know what the issue here might be? Also, as I have now screwed up my MBR, I don't seem to be able to boot into Win2000. I do have the "mythical" Win2000 bootdisk, but it simply puts me into DOS. Does anyone know the DOS command (for fdisk, I think) to restore my MBR so I can boot into Win2000? I'm thinking I will try the HD install at this point, and bypass the CD-Rom business altogether. Thanks in advance for any help or advice! --Akshun J