Corrupted partition table/drive
I have a machine with three fixed disks: hda = Windows XP (40 gb) hdb = (see below) (60 gb) hdc = ext2 partition for data storage (30 gb) hdb is the disk I'm having serious problems with. Before, the disk had several partitions on it. I am not sure how many primary or secondary partitions there were, although all of them were Linux partitions. My goal was to erase the first three partitions (because I never used them anymore) and combine them into one large ext2 partition for more data storage. (There were a total of five or six between the primary/extended.) Using the Ultimate Boot CD and XFDISK, I deleted the first three partitions, rebooted, and attempted to use the same utility to create one large ext2 partition. However, after it created the partition, XFDISK reported an error writing the partition data. The result is that none of the hdb partitions are accessible. I cannot boot from any hdb partition and the partition utilities I've tried have not been able to see the hdb partitions. One partial exception is R-Linux, which I ran from a bootable CD. While it cannot read all of the partition data, it did see a partial file structure for the partitions while performing a scan of the drive, even though it was sketchy and the filesizes were not accurate. I also attempted to use a gparted live CD, and it could not even see hdb (it does see the other two just fine). Using gpart on the command line returns: '*** Fatal error: cannot get sector size on dev(/dev/hdb).' When I open a terminal and type in 'gpart -C 29437,16,255 /dev/hdb' to try forcing it to recognize the drive configuration, it gives the same error. The BIOS reports that the drive is there. It detects it automatically. I've been trying to figure this out for awhile. So far, no real success with anything. Any suggestions are appreciated. - We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list.
mp3 organizer
I am trying to find a good mp3 organizer that will run under Debian. Features: organizing mp3 audio files (by ID3v1/v2 data) into subfolders by artist or category, rewrite ID3 tags, etc. Is anyone aware of such a package?Thanks.J Merritt Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min.
Re: Disk/filesystem scan utility
Ron Johnson wrote:fsck (FileSystemChecK) is the canonical tool. - - - -Best done on an unmounted filesystem, so if you need to run itagainst / you should boot into a Live CD and run it from there.Is this a general question, or do you have a possibly bad disk?Oftentimes, when I boot the kernel, a file system integrity check is forced during bootup. This typically happens after I have used Windows XP. Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min.
Disk/filesystem scan utility
What disk/filesystem utilities are available for scanning physical hard drives and filesystems for physical errors, filesystem errors, etc. in Debian? Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out.
Video conversion
I am looking for a good, feature full video conversion package that will allow for conversion between various video formats, containers, audio formats, etc., in the associated video file. Is there a package that can be installed under Debian with all the associated dependencies? Any ideas? Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free.
Solid POP3 client
I am looking for a solid POP3 client for use with Debian. I know people have their personal preferences, etc., but I am looking specifically for a client that would provide a high level of functionality and options. When using Windoze, I used Pegasus Mail for years and liked it a lot. Selective mail downloads, highly configurable, good functionality, etc. I've read that some versions of Wine can handle Pegasus, so that was an option I was considering. However, I would like to use a true Linux package and just make the switch from Win-based apps altogether.Any suggestions based on the above thoughts/criteria? Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.
Re: GRUB and loading WinXP
Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:What works for me (as generated during the sarge net install) is:title Microsoft Windows XP Professionalroot(hd0,0)savedefaultmakeactivechainloader +1Paul ScottThat's similar to what was there previously. I will try to add those lines again. As I remember, it would only work part of the time, but would always give garbled characters whether or not it actually worked. Yahoo! Autos. Looking for a sweet ride? Get pricing, reviews, & more on new and used cars.
GRUB and loading WinXP
I am using GRUB bootloader to load various OSes on a machine. The machine is set to boot from hdb. For some reason anytime I want to boot Windoze (loaded on hda1) I get garbled text and the machine locks up. I figure there is a flaw in the menu.lst syntax for the WinXP entry. Can someone take a look at the following and tell me what the problem is. Tx for any help.title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-2-686 root (hd1,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-686 root=/dev/hdb2 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-686 savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-2-686 (recovery mode) root (hd1,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-686 root=/dev/hdb2 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-686 savedefault boot ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST # This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian # ones. title Other operating systems: root # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS # on /dev/hda1 title Microsoft Windows XP Professional rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/hda5. title Mandrakelinux 10.1 root (hd1,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 ro acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent initrd /boot/initrd.img savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/hda5. title linux-nonfb (on /dev/hda5) root (hd1,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 ro acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda6 initrd /boot/initrd.img savedefault boot # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/hda5. title failsafe (on /dev/hda5) root (hd1,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 ro failsafe acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda6 initrd /boot/initrd.img savedefault boot Relax. Yahoo! Mail virus scanning helps detect nasty viruses!
Re: Running Debian on P166 MMX, 2 gig HDD laptop
> > Anyway, every time I boot up from GRUB, it goes straight to the login prompt, and once you login, you're left at the command line. I am used to the autoboot sequence where it goes directly to the GUI login screen and you just load KDE or Gnome or whatever environment you want. In this case, I am trying to load KDE and have had no success.> > What steps do I need to take to get this to work?> "[KS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:apt-get install (gdm or kdm or xdm)installing an x-display-manager should do the trick of automaticallytaking you into gui mode after bootup.OK, I tried that and it boots up saying, "Starting K Display Manager: kdm." at the end of the boot sequence. Then it goes to the login, no K display manager. I log in and then su, then run kdm again, and it just sits. What am I missing? Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year.
Running Debian on P166 MMX, 2 gig HDD laptop
I recently installed Debian on an old Dell Latitude XPi. Because of limitations of the system, I had to forego booting from CD and instead create boot and driver diskettes on floppy and load a netstat CD to get the base install done. I installed a minimal set of packages including kde-base, amarok, mozilla, and a few others via aptitude. The installation took up only about 50% of the drive, actually less I think. The install was a success and Debian seems to "like" this machine pretty well.Anyway, every time I boot up from GRUB, it goes straight to the login prompt, and once you login, you're left at the command line. I am used to the autoboot sequence where it goes directly to the GUI login screen and you just load KDE or Gnome or whatever environment you want. In this case, I am trying to load KDE and have had no success.What steps do I need to take to get this to work?Thanks in advance.JM Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year.
Getting a list of installed packages
Is there a way to get a list of installed packages in Debian, preferably from the command line and preferably in a text file? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. JM Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever.
Re: Using Linux on old Dell Latitude XPi CD
--- J Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded 4 floppy images and wrote them. The > boot > process was going just fine until I came to the net > detect part. I tried to detect with DHCP, which > normally works without a hitch. This time, it said > the > autoconfig failed. I tried a manual setup and that > wouldn't do it either. The net drivers seem to load > correctly, as it starts PC Card services and does > not > give an error. I cannot access any Debian mirrors. > Any > suggestions on how to get the network to go? TX > On second thought, I removed the net card that was in the slot (a 3C Megahertz 10/100 PCMCIA card) and replaced it with another that I had on hand (a Netgear card of some sort). It worked with the Netgear. I'm surprised it didn't work with the 3C. Strange. Hopefully perhaps it will detect the 3C when I remove the Netgear and replace it with the original card (3C). The base system is now installed on the notebook. Thanks for the suggestions. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using Linux on old Dell Latitude XPi CD
--- Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can boot from floppies and do a net-install, no > CD at all. Of course you can also use the CD if you > want. > > Debian should run just fine in 2 gig, just select > packages carefully (don't use the Desktop task, do > the manual package selection). I downloaded 4 floppy images and wrote them. The boot process was going just fine until I came to the net detect part. I tried to detect with DHCP, which normally works without a hitch. This time, it said the autoconfig failed. I tried a manual setup and that wouldn't do it either. The net drivers seem to load correctly, as it starts PC Card services and does not give an error. I cannot access any Debian mirrors. Any suggestions on how to get the network to go? TX __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using Linux on old Dell Latitude XPi CD
I have an old laptop I wanted to try to get to work. It came with Win 98, which I removed and replaced with XP. However, the machine has these specs: PMMX 166 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 2 gig HDD and the HDD was too small to install SP2 onto the machine. As a result, I am convinced that Linux is the way to go. Don't know if Debian is the right package or not. Sarge might be too robust for this machine particularly w/ HDD size limitations. The other problem I have is that the CD drive is not bootable. Apparently the BIOS doesn't support it. I tried to do a flash upgrade and it said "Battery must be installed." So I gave up on that and am wondering if I can create a bootable floppy with some super-small distro of Linux and somehow get around this that way. Does anyone have any suggestions? How can I get an old notebook that can only boot from floppy or HDD to successfully install Linux, and work within the limits of the 2.0 gig hard drive size? I would need a breakdown of the process, from creating the floppy to installing the package onto the hard drive, preferably from a CD. I hope I'm not reaching too far here. TX JM __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/cdrom mounting and umount -l
OK, the lazy unmount via 'umount -l' worked. I was able to unmount and re-mount two different discs. No problems reported. I take it this is something that should not be done under normal circumstances? Is there any issue with using lazy unmount (I assume it's called lazy for a reason)? __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/cdrom mounting
> On Monday 17 October 2005 17:19, J Merritt wrote: > > >> So what I do > is shell out, su, and > > 'mount -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom'. This works fine > for reading a single CD > > or DVD. However, after I enter the command, it > will not allow me to > > 'umount /dev/cdrom'. It keeps saying the device is > busy. --- Justin Guerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should check out the fuser command. The -m > switch may help. Once you > figure out which process is accessing the mounted > disk, you can stop that > process. > > Alternately, if you can't stop the process, you can > do a lazy unmount. > Check the umount man page for a complete > description. > > As others have said, you'll have to install the > autofs package to get > automounting, or use one of the other suggested > solutions. > Recently I ran 'apt-cdrom add /dev/cdrom' to add repository index to Synaptic. The disc would not eject even after apt-cdrom had unmounted it. I did a 'umount /dev/cdrom' and it said the device was not mounted, of course. It would not eject, period. Therefore, I logged out to the Debian GUI start page and logged back in. In that case, it ejected as soon as I closed out the KDE session. This error is in addition to the device not being able to umount once it has been mounted by almost any process. I have installed autofs but have not been using it long. Perhaps there is some other conflict here? Anyone have any ideas? __ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mouse scroll wheel part II
Just to be sure, the wheel works fine in Mdk and XP. TX __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mouse scroll wheel
Small prob: The mouse is working perfectly except for the scrolling wheel, which stopped working out of the blue. I checked the KDE control center and everything appears to be set up correctly there. What could be causing this? Any possible course of action? TX __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Synaptic Package Manager read failure
I was attempting to work with the repository list in Synaptic. After disabling the two Sarge DVD entries (contrib main), re-enabling them, and reloading the deb list, I keep getting an error message that won't go away. If I recheck the two entries "on," it still produces the same message, which is: W: Couldn't stat source package list cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20050607)] unstable/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/Debian%20GNU_Linux%203.1%20r0a%20%5fSarge%5f%20-%20Official%20i386%20Binary-2%20(20050607)_dists_unstable_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20050607)] unstable/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/Debian%20GNU_Linux%203.1%20r0a%20%5fSarge%5f%20-%20Official%20i386%20Binary-2%20(20050607)_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20050607)] unstable/contrib Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/Debian%20GNU_Linux%203.1%20r0a%20%5fSarge%5f%20-%20Official%20i386%20Binary-1%20(20050607)_dists_unstable_contrib_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) W: Couldn't stat source package list cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20050607)] unstable/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/Debian%20GNU_Linux%203.1%20r0a%20%5fSarge%5f%20-%20Official%20i386%20Binary-1%20(20050607)_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory) Suggestions? Thanks very much in advance. __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/cdrom mounting
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Do you have automount installed? I don't think that it is installed by>default. Automount is not installed. Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free.
/dev/cdrom mounting
I have been using Debian for about 2 months now after having used Mandrakelinux 10.1 for a much longer time. In Mandrake, the DVD/CD-writer will automount and auto-unmount whenever you insert or eject DVD/CD media. It has other issues, however. I like the way k3b works on the Debian side. Better than how it works on the Mandrake side. In Debian, however, I'm having a problem that I'm sure has a simple solution. I do not have automount enabled. I'm assuming it's something you do with /etc/fstab (?). So what I do is shell out, su, and 'mount -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom'. This works fine for reading a single CD or DVD. However, after I enter the command, it will not allow me to 'umount /dev/cdrom'. It keeps saying the device is busy. What do I need to do to get it to eject the media? How can I enable automounting the way it does it in Mdk? Or is it part of the same issue? TIA Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free.
