Re: Mandrake 8.2 Coming soon.

Re: Mandrake 8.2 Coming soon.

[Thomas Ward]

Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 12:02:37 -0500
From: Gregory Nowak <
greg@romualt.dhs.org
>
To:
speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.2 Coming soon.
Reply-To:
speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Why rpms? Is rpm the default package format for Mandrake?
Greg
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 05:18:27AM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hello, everyone. As of 3:30 AM. Saturday morning I successfully made a
> Speakup setup diskette for Mandrake 8.2.
> I expect once I get Mandrake 8.2 fully configured, installed, I will
prepare
> some kernel rpms, and setup disks for general distrobution.
> I feel in the next couple of weeks or so Linux Mandrake 8.2 will probably
be
> the next distrobution to be Speakup enabled.
> I'm really new at this so alot of testing and trials are currently in
order
> before I release the final rpms/diskette images.
> Just thought I'd let everyone know what is in the works.
>
>

Re: Mandrake 8.2 Coming soon.

[Thomas Ward]

Yes, rpm is the default package manager for Mandrake. Actually, it is safe
to say it is the package manager for almost all the major distributions
including: Red Hat, Mandrake, Turbolinux, Open Linux, Suse, and some others
I haven't mentioned.
DDebian and Slackware are the only ones I know of that don't use rpm as the
default package manager.
Second, reason for using rpm is once I get a standard kernel made for
Mandrake 8.2 all someone will need to do is download the packages and run an
rpm -Uv filename.i586.rpm and it will upgrade your existing kernel with my
speakup one.

Mandrake 8.2 Coming soon.

[Thomas Ward]

Hello, everyone. As of 3:30 AM. Saturday morning I successfully made a
Speakup setup diskette for Mandrake 8.2.
I expect once I get Mandrake 8.2 fully configured, installed, I will prepare
some kernel rpms, and setup disks for general distrobution.
I feel in the next couple of weeks or so Linux Mandrake 8.2 will probably be
the next distrobution to be Speakup enabled.
I'm really new at this so alot of testing and trials are currently in order
before I release the final rpms/diskette images.
Just thought I'd let everyone know what is in the works.

Re: Mandrake 8.2 Coming soon.

[Erik Heil]

Hi,
Speaking of Mandrake and general distros, I'm unsuccessfull in getting the
CD to boot after I create it on the Speakup FTP server.  Also, one of my
friends has also experienced the same problem.  Perhaps something is broken
in the ISO image?  Also, it would be greatly apprreciated if a new updated
ISO would be created which contains the latest kernels, etc.
--Erik

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <slingshooter@valkyrie.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Cc: <awesome-dave1@juno.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 5:18 AM
Subject: Mandrake 8.2 Coming soon.


> Hello, everyone. As of 3:30 AM. Saturday morning I successfully made a
> Speakup setup diskette for Mandrake 8.2.
> I expect once I get Mandrake 8.2 fully configured, installed, I will
prepare
> some kernel rpms, and setup disks for general distrobution.
> I feel in the next couple of weeks or so Linux Mandrake 8.2 will probably
be
> the next distrobution to be Speakup enabled.
> I'm really new at this so alot of testing and trials are currently in
order
> before I release the final rpms/diskette images.
> Just thought I'd let everyone know what is in the works.
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Re: Mandrake 8.2 Coming soon.

[Igor Gueths]

You mean the Debian Cd right? 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Erik Heil <eheil@rcn.com>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.2 Coming soon.


> Hi,
> Speaking of Mandrake and general distros, I'm unsuccessfull in getting the
> CD to boot after I create it on the Speakup FTP server.  Also, one of my
> friends has also experienced the same problem.  Perhaps something is broken
> in the ISO image?  Also, it would be greatly apprreciated if a new updated
> ISO would be created which contains the latest kernels, etc.
> --Erik
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Ward" <slingshooter@valkyrie.net>
> To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Cc: <awesome-dave1@juno.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 5:18 AM
> Subject: Mandrake 8.2 Coming soon.
> 
> 
> > Hello, everyone. As of 3:30 AM. Saturday morning I successfully made a
> > Speakup setup diskette for Mandrake 8.2.
> > I expect once I get Mandrake 8.2 fully configured, installed, I will
> prepare
> > some kernel rpms, and setup disks for general distrobution.
> > I feel in the next couple of weeks or so Linux Mandrake 8.2 will probably
> be
> > the next distrobution to be Speakup enabled.
> > I'm really new at this so alot of testing and trials are currently in
> order
> > before I release the final rpms/diskette images.
> > Just thought I'd let everyone know what is in the works.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Mandrake 8.2 Coming soon.

[Janina Sajka]

On Sat, 18 May 2002, Erik Heil wrote:

> I'm unsuccessfull in getting the
> CD to boot after I create it on the Speakup FTP server. 

This doesn't make sense, but I suspect you're speaking of the
Speakup Modified Red Hat Distribution. If not, don't bother with
the rest of this message.

There is a problem booting from CD ROM with the latest version of
the Speakup Modified Red Hat Distribution. This problem is known
and has been discussed at length on the Speakup list about a week
ago. A fix is in the works.

Meanwhile, there are a couple of workarounds:

1.)	If you can boot from a floppy, do so but be sure to not
let the system see the CD ROM as you boot. Keep it out of your
drive, or just keep the drive open until prompted to indicate
what media contains the boot images.

2.)	Create a bootable CD ROM with nothing on it except the
floppy boot image from the images directory. Boot with this disk,
and swap to the first installation CD ROM when prompted as above.

3.)	First create three iso files on your hard disk using dd,
one for each of the CD ROMs. Then boot with either a floppy or a
bootable CD ROM as described above, and point the installer to
the appropriate drive partition and directory when prompted.

Re: Mandrake 8.2 Coming soon.

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Janina. He is refering to the Debian Cd, just forgot to specify it in the post. I know because I have talked to him at length about this, and I also experienced the same problem. As a result, I ended up installing my system from a Dos batchfile.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Janina Sajka <janina@afb.net>
To: <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.2 Coming soon.


> On Sat, 18 May 2002, Erik Heil wrote:
> 
> > I'm unsuccessfull in getting the
> > CD to boot after I create it on the Speakup FTP server. 
> 
> This doesn't make sense, but I suspect you're speaking of the
> Speakup Modified Red Hat Distribution. If not, don't bother with
> the rest of this message.
> 
> There is a problem booting from CD ROM with the latest version of
> the Speakup Modified Red Hat Distribution. This problem is known
> and has been discussed at length on the Speakup list about a week
> ago. A fix is in the works.
> 
> Meanwhile, there are a couple of workarounds:
> 
> 1.) If you can boot from a floppy, do so but be sure to not
> let the system see the CD ROM as you boot. Keep it out of your
> drive, or just keep the drive open until prompted to indicate
> what media contains the boot images.
> 
> 2.) Create a bootable CD ROM with nothing on it except the
> floppy boot image from the images directory. Boot with this disk,
> and swap to the first installation CD ROM when prompted as above.
> 
> 3.) First create three iso files on your hard disk using dd,
> one for each of the CD ROMs. Then boot with either a floppy or a
> bootable CD ROM as described above, and point the installer to
> the appropriate drive partition and directory when prompted.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 

Re: Mandrake 8.2 Coming soon.

[Gregory Nowak]

Why rpms? Is rpm the default package format for Mandrake?
Greg


On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 05:18:27AM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hello, everyone. As of 3:30 AM. Saturday morning I successfully made a
> Speakup setup diskette for Mandrake 8.2.
> I expect once I get Mandrake 8.2 fully configured, installed, I will prepare
> some kernel rpms, and setup disks for general distrobution.
> I feel in the next couple of weeks or so Linux Mandrake 8.2 will probably be
> the next distrobution to be Speakup enabled.
> I'm really new at this so alot of testing and trials are currently in order
> before I release the final rpms/diskette images.
> Just thought I'd let everyone know what is in the works.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: Mandrake 8.2 Coming soon.

[Shaun Oliver]

greg,
mandrake is an rpm based distrobution as is suse and a few others.
hth


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