[expert] Partitions
The saga continues. I have been reading my copy of the 9.1 Mandrake The Definitive Manual or in my case the confusion manual. To review I installed 9.2 on my second HD and got it bootable. Now I am trying to back up certain files from my /home directory using drakbackup. The default directory for saving the files is /var/lib. Using this directory overloads my / partition. I tried diskdrake as root to try and reduce my /home partition and move /var into the empty space. I could not unmount /home to resize it. I also noticed that my hdb drive was partitioned but not mounted. Also IIRC Anne did a TWiki on moving her /usr directory. I was unable to find it. Anne if you are reading this where did you put it? Thanks, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.1 /home in 9.2
I have installed 9.2 on my second HD. Using fstab I was able to open my 9.1 home directory in 9.2. My 9.1 desktop with icons appeared in 9.2. As I use 9.2, add programs and data, will this affect my use of the home directory when I go back to 9.1? Is there a way to access files in one program from the other? I can access files in windows from 9.1. However they are both on the same HD. I was amazed at how easy 9.2 loaded onto the second HD. Once I got the bootloader figured out with wobo's help. Once I get /home figured out I should be ready to play with 9.2. Thanks, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.1 /home in 9.2
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: You can always use your /home with several different installations. In fact it's a Good Thing(TM) to save ressources. There are noissues about that as far as data file are concerned. There are issues aboout the various subdirs which are created by the apps you use. As long as a newer version of a program uses the same file structure and ways to configure as the older version you just have to watch out for your old configuration files not to be overwritten by the newer ones. The hassle starts when a program changes this stuff. So before I share my /home with a newer distribution I back up the complete home-dir. Making backups is a Good Thing(TM)! wobo Thanks wobo. Now I need to learn how to back up to my second HD. When do you sleep. It had to be after midnight in DE when you replied. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.2 install
Installed 9.2 rc2 today. Everything went fine. It even found my unused second HD and installed the program there. Then a problem occurred. It seems I changed lilo in the MBR so now only 9.2 would boot up. Got back to 9.1 by using the rescue disk on CD1. An article I read about dual boot of Mandrake said the bootloader should be on the HD instead of the MBR. Unfortunately, without a reinstall I don't know how to change it. I have windows installed and that was picked up by 9.2. Suggestions please. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 install
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Gary Montalbine [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:33:59 -0400: Installed 9.2 rc2 today. Everything went fine. It even found my unused second HD and installed the program there. Then a problem occurred. It seems I changed lilo in the MBR so now only 9.2 would boot up. Got back to 9.1 by using the rescue disk on CD1. An article I read about dual boot of Mandrake said the bootloader should be on the HD instead of the MBR. Unfortunately, without a reinstall I don't know how to change it. I have windows installed and that was picked up by 9.2. Suggestions please. Go back into 9.2 which has installed the lilo in MBR. Login as root into a terminal (by typing 'su' and giving the root password in the next line). 1. Type 'lilo -u' which removes lilo from the MBR. 2. Type 'lilo -b /dev/hda5' if your root partition of 9.2 is on hda5. Reboot with your CD1 of 9.1. At the Welcome screen type F1. At the prompt type 'rescue'. The installer starts but switches to rescue mode soon. Choose the first option Re-install LILO in MBR or similar. It looks for a Mandrake 9.1 installation and hopefully finds yours. After that you can start again from 9.1 and choose a way to integrate 9.2 into your 9.1 LILO. I had to do this today (because of carelessness) and it worked. wobo wobo I am back in 9.1. using the rescue disc. How do I get to choose between 9.1 and 9.2 at bootup? Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] 9.2 install
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Have you installe 9.2 LILO in the BR of the root partition of 9.2? I so, do this: In 9.1 edit your /etc/lilo.conf (as root, of course) and add: other=/dev/hda5 label=man92 Assuming your root partition of 9.2 is on hda5. Then do a nice '/sbin/lilo' with your 9.1 and you are done. Afterwards you can set your lilo.conf in 9.2 so that you don't have to see a second lilo menue. But, as they say, there are many ways to grill a dog, and I'm sure you'll read other ways here to do that. wobo It worked. I can now boot either program. I am using a second HD so I put the bootloader for 9.2 in hdb1 and changed lilo in 9.1 as you suggested and it worked. Thanks wobo. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] md5sum
I downloaded 9.2rc2 ISO's into a directory. Downloaded the file 9.2rc2.md5sums.asc into the same directory. Tried to do a md5sum --status. Didn't work. Tried md5sum --check. Didn't work. md5sum with each rc2 CD gives me a letter/number combination. However I have nothing to check it against. I think my problem is that I do not know what to do with the 9.2rc2.md5sums.asc file. How do you open it or use it? I remember that when I did the 9.1 ISO's a simple md5sum command checked all three CD's at once. What am I missing? I have read the md5sum help and info files. Thaks, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] md5sum
Try this Gary; Open a terminal, navigate to the directory where the ISOs and .asc file are. At the command prompt type this: md5sum -c 9.2rc2.md5sums.asc enter You won't see much until it's done a disk but the processor will grunt. A LOT. g HTH Charlie - -- It worked. Except two out of the three CD's were bad. Maybe I can learn how to use resync now. Thanks, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] md5sum
Charlie M. wrote I posted a link (yesterday? the day before? last week? too often? ;-) to Greg Meyer's page that will teach you how, plus I and others have posted examples recently. It ain't a hard thing to do Gary. :-) Here's another example, just fill in the blanks, be sure you have write permissions in that directory or that you run it as super user, then hit enter. eg..: rsync -Pv --stats --progress ftp.sunet.se::Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeLinux-9.2rc2-CD#.i586.iso /targetdirectory/diskname and number Hint: after you enter the information to the point that you're in the target directory in the command above, just hit the Tab button to use auto-complete. Saves wear and tear on keyboards. And fingers. g HTH Charlie It worked but didn't. Rsync seemed to work. However the files were not corrected. I ended up downloading them again. File sizes were the same as the bad ones. Thanks for your help. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] dev/sound
I am trying to get a program working that wants to access my Soundblaster Live card through /dev/sound. Specifically the audio file in that directory. However all the files in dev/sound are empty. Soundblaster and audio programs work. Is there some other way to access the sound card? I am using ML9.1. Thanks, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dev/sound
ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 09:46, Gary Montalbine wrote: I am trying to get a program working that wants to access my Soundblaster Live card through /dev/sound. Specifically the audio file in that directory. However all the files in dev/sound are empty. Soundblaster and audio programs work. Is there some other way to access the sound card? I am using ML9.1. /dev is a 'virtual file or directory', but really should have a /dev/sound/audio. are you loading devfs? what program? maybe a link from /dev The program is linpsk. A ham radio program that takes the audio output from the radio into the line in on the sound card. It takes the audio from the sound card and puts it in a display window showing the waveform and from that you get text. The program asks for /dev/audio. This points to /dev/sound/audio which is an empty file. In fact all the files in /dev/sound are empty. How can I tell if I am loading devfs? Where is it? Thanks, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dev/sound
ed tharp wrote: well they are virtual files they should be empty and I bet you do have devfs running as long as you are running a pretty recent version of MDK. I have spent the about the last three hours searching Google trying to learn about devfs. I am pretty certain that it is running and starts on bootup. However I am confused about virtual files and how they work. If a program points to dev/sound/audio and there is nothing in the file, how does it get executed? One other item of interest is that hardrake identifies my sound card correctly. If I go to control center then information then sound it does not recognize my sound card. (?) Thanks for your help, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dev/sound
Thanks for everyones help. Devfsd works and I also have some reading references to increase my knowledge. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] dev/sound
KevinO wrote: Here are the 'ps' and 'grep' commands being used to show that devfsd is currently running: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:58pm-kevin ps auxw | grep devfs root64 0.0 0.1 1756 888 ?SAug16 0:00 devfsd /dev kevin12769 0.0 0.1 1800 620 pts/1S14:58 0:00 grep devfs I did the ps and grep commands. I got almost the same thing. Except where kevin is listed as the user in the bottom line my user is root. Would this make a difference? I have devfs directory in /etc. Is this the same? Thanks, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MDK Book - rant ;( - and FYI
Well spoken Kevin. I agree. I asked for URPMI information after the 9.0 book was released. I don't see much difference in the two books except for the pages not falling out. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake Update through MCC and new kernel
David Guntner wrote: James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 18:26, Avi Schwartz wrote: Mandrake should change their kernel installation instructions in the latest Security Advisory since they say there: To upgrade automatically, use MandrakeUpdate. If you want to upgrade manually, download the updated package(s) from one of our FTP server mirrors and upgrade with rpm -Fvh *.rpm. Not quite... if you do Fvh... things could get real spooky. You never upgrade or freshen a kernel.. It always has to be installed (ivh ) otherwise all of the proper scripts to bind it to your computer will not get run and the end result will be.. a bit bucket. One set of instructions said to use urpmi kernel. I did and it worked. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ntp error
James Sparenberg wrote: Cheaters way to configure it. If you have the wizards installed. (urpmi wizards will get it.) It will give you a new icon on the left called Server Configuration. Chose Time Wizard from the list (it's at the bottom scroll down.) and it will give you a list of working time servers... and set things up to a working condition. James Noticed that the only wizards rpm available in Mandrake Club was for the old ML distributions. Will the rpm also work in 9.1 or should I just try it and see. I am only trying to find a time standard to sync my box. I use nistime via windows. Would like to find a Linux counterpart. Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] rpm --rebuild
I am using the commercial 3 CD set of LM 8.2. I have tried to do a rpm --rebuild of rpmfind and a rpm --rebuild of db3...src.rpm. I keep getting errors in the g++, gcc and cpp0 links. Apparently there are two versions installed and they are intermixed. I doubt that I am the only one having this problem. Is there a patch or other fix for this problem? I cannot find anything in the archives or elsewhere. Thanks, Gary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] rpm --rebuild
etc/alternatives was were I changed the symlinks. That seemed to correct the symlink problem. Everything went fine until I got to the g++ -c error near the end of the build. I can not find a libgcc3.2. I have libgcc3.0.4 installed which matches the g++, gcc and cpp files. HoytDuff wrote: Look at the links in /etc/alternative and soo if that helps Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
