RE: Mandrake 9 in the install party?

2002-09-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Someone should state the obvious: Mandrake 9.0 has not yet been released. It has not been through enough testing. Not something I'd be happy to inflict on other people's computers. If it weren't for the major features enhancements (maninly KDE3 and koffice 1.2) I would have thought that this wou

RE: Gentoo install problem (GRUB problem?)

2002-09-21 Thread Martin Polley
Oleg wrote: >Heh, you can say that again, 1.4rc1 of Gentoo (aka latest) has that annoying bug that you should add init=/dev/hdX to the kernel line in >grub or you get kernel panic, and devfs is really not so good, lots of errors, read-only filesystem when it should be rw and so on. >In 1.2 I

RE: Mandrake 9 in the install party?

2002-09-21 Thread Assaf Flatto
Title: RE: Mandrake 9 in the install party? To ease all your minds - i'll be bringing a burner and atleast a 100 empty medias in order to make copies for those wishing to have copies made for them. Assaf -Original Message- From: Sagi Bashari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturd

Re: Gentoo install problem (GRUB problem?)

2002-09-21 Thread Oleg
>Thanks for the input (and to Noam), but in the meantime I found the >solution to the problem. I just ran grub-install, and it worked fine. Oh, ok then. >I guess there are some cases that the Gentoo install instructions do not >cover... Heh, you can say that again, 1.4rc1 of Gentoo (aka latest)

RE: Gentoo install problem (GRUB problem?)

2002-09-21 Thread Martin Polley
Actually, in this case, /dev/hdd IS hd2, because GRUB does not count hdb (because it is a CD burner, not a hard drive). (So actually, the first part of what you wrote is correct--hd2 IS the 3rd hard disk, which in my case is /dev/hdd.) Thanks for the input (and to Noam), but in the meantime I fou

Re: kernel 2.4.19 anyone?

2002-09-21 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 02:23:20AM +0300, Mark Veltzer wrote: > It's better than 2.4.18 redhat but actually you're always better off using > vanilla (the ugly driver code that RH puts in which rightly doesn't belong in > the kernel isn't something you want even if you have the specific hardware

Re: kernel 2.4.19 anyone?

2002-09-21 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 01:41:32AM +0300, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi fellows.. > > I was wondering if someone could share his/her experience with vanilla kernel > 2.4.19 Been running various 2.4.19 related kernels here for quite some time, no problems detected. > I have used so far (in the las

Re: kernel 2.4.19 anyone?

2002-09-21 Thread Mark Veltzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 22 September 2002 01:41, you wrote: > Hi fellows.. > > I was wondering if someone could share his/her experience with vanilla > kernel 2.4.19 > > I have used so far (in the last few months at least) RedHat's 2.4.18 > kernel, but it seem my b

kernel 2.4.19 anyone?

2002-09-21 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi fellows.. I was wondering if someone could share his/her experience with vanilla kernel 2.4.19 I have used so far (in the last few months at least) RedHat's 2.4.18 kernel, but it seem my board decided that enough is enough and acpi=off parameter doesn't impress it at all (and there is no A

Re: Mandrake 9 in the install party?

2002-09-21 Thread Oded Arbel
Sagi Bashari wrote: > On 9/21/2002 4:26 PM, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> anyone will bring mdk 9 to the install party? (betas final... what >> ever) >> >> > I can download the ISOs to the server that I'll being with me. Some > people said that they'll bring machines with a burner

Re: gentoo vs debian

2002-09-21 Thread Oded Arbel
alex khalil wrote: >Good Folks > > If both x86 and PowerPC architecture are relevant, why would one prefer >Gentoo over Debian? > > Me personally ? drop both and go with Mandrake - currently the best distro that does both architectures (Red Hat is the only other contender for the "best distr

Re: perl regex question

2002-09-21 Thread Oded Arbel
Gal Hammer wrote: >On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Arie Folger wrote: > > > >>Ah, I guess you don't realize what I am trying to do. There is an experimental >>feature in Perl that allows code to be executed within a regex, so that >>conditional statements can be built in. Such code is announced by (?{ and

Re: Mandrake 9 in the install party?

2002-09-21 Thread Diego Iastrubni
áSaturday 21 September 2002 18:55, Sagi Bashari ëúá: > BTW - what about empty medias? yes... what about empthy medias? which is better: me to bring medias for my own? or "buy" medias there? I understood hat there will be medias avilable there ===

Re: Mandrake 9 in the install party?

2002-09-21 Thread Eliran
Diego Iastrubni wrote: >Hi all > >anyone will bring mdk 9 to the install party? (betas final... what ever) > Can I bring an empty media and you will burn it for me ? (I won't bring a computer :-)) -- http://www.rootshell.be/~eg";>Eliran G ===

Re: gentoo vs debian

2002-09-21 Thread Amir Tal
On Saturday 21 September 2002 14:28, Oleg Kobets wrote: > optimization, speed, mazochistic notions :- > > That's about all. specially the last one ;) if you are not into compiliing EVERYTHING from source, dont even think aoubt going there. optimization is a good reason, but be prepared to sp

Re: Mandrake 9 in the install party?

2002-09-21 Thread Oleg Kobets
yes i have it and i will bring it. Oleg. - Original Message - From: "Diego Iastrubni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Linux-IL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 4:26 PM Subject: Mandrake 9 in the install party? Hi all anyone will bring mdk 9 to the install party? (bet

Re: Mandrake 9 in the install party?

2002-09-21 Thread Sagi Bashari
On 9/21/2002 4:26 PM, Diego Iastrubni wrote: >Hi all > >anyone will bring mdk 9 to the install party? (betas final... what ever) > > I can download the ISOs to the server that I'll being with me. Some people said that they'll bring machines with a burner with them so we can make copies. If t

Mandrake 9 in the install party?

2002-09-21 Thread Diego Iastrubni
Hi all anyone will bring mdk 9 to the install party? (betas final... what ever) - diego To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail

Re: Gentoo install problem (GRUB problem?)

2002-09-21 Thread Oleg Kobets
> > grub > > root (hd2,0) > > setup (hd2) > > quit > > > > (My Gentoo install is on /dev/hdd, which comes out ad hd2 because of the > > CD burner on /dev/hdb). Then you just create an appropriate > > /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Have you created and edited /boot/grub/menu.lst ? Do you aware that hd

Re: gentoo vs debian

2002-09-21 Thread Oleg Kobets
optimization, speed, mazochistic notions :- That's about all. - Original Message - From: "alex khalil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Linux-IL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 10:12 AM Subject: gentoo vs debian > Good Folks > > If both x86 and PowerPC architect

gentoo vs debian

2002-09-21 Thread alex khalil
Good Folks If both x86 and PowerPC architecture are relevant, why would one prefer Gentoo over Debian? alex "no-flamefest-intended-but-hopping-in-asbestos-suit" khalil = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the wo