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Pupeno | 23 Jan 2003 05:45
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Hello, I'm Pupeno


Hello, I'm Pupeno, offically known as José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández.
I'm currently a Mandrake user and although I think that's the best 
distribution out there fore newbies, I think a lot is missing and I think Ark 
Linux may be the answer.
I'm also a KDE developer (co-maintainer of KDE Accessibility) and I have some 
ideas of how a distribution should be to be really user friendly and I'd like 
to share it with you and if you want, contribute in the design, and maybe, in 
the development too.
I'm currently slowly (56k) downloading the alpha6 iso image to test it and 
after that, I'll be able to give you my comments.
I'm also often in FreeNode in #kde, #kde-devel, #kde-accessibility, etc and I 
will now, go to #arklinux too, so we can talk there if you want.
Is there any guidelines, text, documentation or something of how Ark Linux 
should be ?
Thanks.
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Troels Tolstrup | 16 Jan 2003 03:38

getting involved.

Hi.

I read the news about arklinux on both slashdot and osnews. What 
actually triggered me to investigate it was the comments on slashdot 
made by bero.

I am a programmer and would like to get involved. I wasn't able to 
locate any list archives or anything so i dont really know anything 
much about the direction, organization, whats lacking, etc.

I guess i really should start out by downloading it and trying it, which 
i will do the next time im at work. But i figured it wouldnt hurt to 
collect information and getting introduced beforehand.

Mvh
Troels
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Bernhard Rosenkraenzer | 26 Jan 2003 16:49
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Ark Linux 1.0 Alpha 6 released

Ark Linux 1.0 Alpha 6 has been released, and is available for download on 
your favorite mirror (http://www.arklinux.org/download.php).

                             RELEASE-NOTES
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                        Ark Linux H2O - ALPHA 6
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Ark Linux
=========

What's New?
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- Some of the new packages include:

	kernel-2.4.20-14ark
	XFree86-4.2.99.3-0.20030117.1ark
	kdebase-3.1.0-0.cvs20030106.3ark
	kdelibs-3.1.0-0.cvs20030107.1ark
	celestia-1.2.5-1ark
	qt-3.1.1-2ark
	synaptic-0.31-1ark
	mplayer-0.90-0.cvs20030112.1ark
	xine-0.9.17-1ark
	mondo-1.52_20021119-2ark

- Many other incremental updates

- New FTP mirror sites:
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Peter Hutnick | 27 Jan 2003 05:08
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Support page problem

The "answer" to the question about installing from a floppy is no answer
at all.

Could someone please send the actual answer to the list and fix the
support page?

A clip from the page follows:

# How do I install Ark Linux on a system with a non-bootable CD_ROM? Will
boot floppy images be made available? Or ftp/http installers be available?

* © 2002-2003 by Ark Linux. Send comments and feedback to info at arklinux
dot org. Everything on this server was created using Linux. Use and/or
redistribution of the content of this pages is subject to our terms of
service. If you like Ark Linux, please consider making a donation.
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Sergio Visinoni | 27 Jan 2003 11:16
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Re: Support page problem

* Peter Hutnick (peter-lists <at> hutnick.com) wrote:
> * © 2002-2003 by Ark Linux. Send comments and feedback to info at arklinux
> dot org. Everything on this server was created using Linux. Use and/or
> redistribution of the content of this pages is subject to our terms of
> service. If you like Ark Linux, please consider making a donation.

This problem has been fixed.
But since it depends on bug #0 (world is full of stupid ppl) it'll probably
show up again... thanks for reporting.

Greetings,
Sergio Visinoni
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Taranis | 27 Jan 2003 20:32
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Re: Support page problem

But what about those of us that really want to know the answer to the
question?  I have an older system that cannot boot to the CD-ROM (BIOS
doesn't support it) and I want to give Ark a try.  Do you have a boot floppy
image available?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sergio Visinoni" <piffio <at> arklinux.org>
To: "arklinux" <arklinux <at> arklinux.org>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 5:16 AM
Subject: Re: Support page problem

* Peter Hutnick (peter-lists <at> hutnick.com) wrote:
> * © 2002-2003 by Ark Linux. Send comments and feedback to info at arklinux
> dot org. Everything on this server was created using Linux. Use and/or
> redistribution of the content of this pages is subject to our terms of
> service. If you like Ark Linux, please consider making a donation.

This problem has been fixed.
But since it depends on bug #0 (world is full of stupid ppl) it'll probably
show up again... thanks for reporting.

Greetings,
Sergio Visinoni
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Andrew Mcphee | 27 Jan 2003 22:27

Linux

Hi,

I installed ArkLinux ... very easy red hat based distro for idiots.
Unfortunately it boots directly into a GUI but at a screen resolution
higher than my Samsung MultiSync Monitor can support. I can 'break out'
of the GUI to the "shell" command line deal but what I need to know is
where to go to edit the config file that sets the screen resolution.

Any of you Linux Gurus' know or can guess at what I should look for ?
Looks like I'm  gonna need a Linux in a Nutshell Book .......

Hardware: ATI All in Wonder AGP (rage128 chipset) , Abit K7G w/duron 700
, 256 megs ram 

Andrew
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Bernhard Rosenkraenzer | 27 Jan 2003 22:35
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Re: Support page problem

On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Peter Hutnick wrote:

> The "answer" to the question about installing from a floppy is no answer
> at all.

Yes, the "let anyone write" approach to support turns out not to work. 
There are too many people who intentionally wrote in bad answers (and 
questions).
We've decided to take the support page down for now, replacing it with an 
FAQ (still in development).

> # How do I install Ark Linux on a system with a non-bootable CD_ROM? Will
> boot floppy images be made available? Or ftp/http installers be available?

The answer is that at the moment, you can't install without a bootable 
CD-ROM drive - our boot image is 2.88 MB (doesn't fit into 1.44 MB because 
of the large amount of drivers).

Of course, there are several possible ways to go about creating a smaller 
image (all of them involve editing the creation scripts) - the easiest is 
probably just insisting that every CD-ROM is IDE, and all graphics cards 
are VESA compliant (-> remove all other CD and fb drivers).

I currently don't have much time - are there any other volunteers to do 
this?

LLaP
bero

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Bernhard Rosenkraenzer | 27 Jan 2003 22:40
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Re: Linux

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Andrew Mcphee wrote:

> Unfortunately it boots directly into a GUI but at a screen resolution
> higher than my Samsung MultiSync Monitor can support.

Hmm... This is odd, because it boots to 1024x768, and installation runs in 
1024x768 too.

If not, chances are you've found a bug in the X configuration part of the 
installer. If you can, please send me the XF86Config file the installer 
generated for you and one that works for your hardware. (Chances are the 
installer misdetected the timings for your monitor. Take a look at the 
"HorizSync" and "VertRefresh" lines in the config file.)

> I can 'break out'
> of the GUI to the "shell" command line deal but what I need to know is
> where to go to edit the config file that sets the screen resolution.

The file you want to edit is /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.
A fairly easy to use editor in text mode is "nano".

LLaP
bero

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Timothy R. Butler | 28 Jan 2003 00:27

GRUB Problems...


Hi, 
  Has anyone here run into problems getting Grub to boot Ark? I installed Ark 
the end of a large hard disk (120 GB), and it seems to have installed Grub 
into the MBR alright, but all I get is a text based "grub shell" (not sure if 
that is the right name for it) that won't boot Ark (or give any indication 
how to).

  I tried fiddling around, and it seemed to happily locate the kernel of 
Mandrake Linux (installed closer to the beginning of the the drive), but even 
when it picked that Kernel, the end result was a Kernel panic.

  Ideas?

  Thanks,
       Tim

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