RE: [newbie] problem installing Mandrake 7.1
I'd make sure you format the partitions before advancing. I had so many problems installing 7.1 I resorted to Expert mode, at which point the problems vanished & all worked as required. On Wednesday, July 05, 2000 3:04 PM, Nikola Pizurica [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > I have Mandrake 7 and it was very easy to install. I've downloaded ISO > image of LM 7.1 and right now I'm trying to install it. > Everything is OK till it comes to screen for choosing Linux partition. > Since I've already have one, I choose it, select mount point, then > click "Done" and then I get screen where it asks me if I got other > CD's. I say no. Then, when t is about to offer packages to install, I > get this error: > depslist.ordered mismatch against hdlist files > > Then it returns me to screen with partitioning. Then after clicking > "Done" again, I get some kind of "division with zero" error. > So, what's going on? > > Nikola > > BeOS User Group of Yugoslavia "WorldSecure Server " made the following annotations on 07/05/00 13:23:50 -- The opinions expressed within this email represent those of the individual and not necessarily those of Lombard North Central. The contents of this Email may be privileged and are confidential. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee(s), nor copied in any way. If received in error, please advise the sender, then delete from your system. Should you wish to use Email as a mode of communication, Lombard North Central PLC are unable to guarantee the security of Email content outside of our own computer systems. Lombard North Central PLC Registered in England No 337004 Registered Office 3 Princess Way Redhill Surrey RH1 1NP A Member of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group ==
RE: [newbie] Unpacking tar & gz files
I normally put tarballs in /usr/src/packages, but it's up to you where they go. You have to make the distinction between binary & source tarballs. With a source tarball, leave it in /usr/src/linux, untgz using "tar xvfz ", cd to the directory created. Normally you then need to type "./configure", followed by "make" and "install", but see the README in the package. Binary tarballs can normally be extracted as above and the binaries put in /usr/local, where the path will find them. On Thursday, June 29, 2000 7:12 PM, Neil Rowley [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Hi, > > As a recent convert to Mandrake 7 I find myself in a tiz over those so > called" tarball" and "gzipped" packages. Having recently downloaded > Realplayer G2 and an upgraded version of the Netscape Browser it's > pretty obvious that they are not RPM programs. On seeking help about > this there is plenty of guidance out there on the use of commands such > as "tar xzf" etc. but to where and how do you move the file package > from the "home" directory" and what do I do the editing with ? > > Probably a simple matter really but for me a demo would be much > appreciated ! > > Neil "WorldSecure Server " made the following annotations on 07/03/00 11:55:04 -- The opinions expressed within this email represent those of the individual and not necessarily those of Lombard North Central. The contents of this Email may be privileged and are confidential. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee(s), nor copied in any way. If received in error, please advise the sender, then delete from your system. Should you wish to use Email as a mode of communication, Lombard North Central PLC are unable to guarantee the security of Email content outside of our own computer systems. Lombard North Central PLC Registered in England No 337004 Registered Office 3 Princess Way Redhill Surrey RH1 1NP A Member of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group ==
RE: [newbie] /mnt/cdrom: device is busy
lsof /dev/cdrom will show who currently controls the cdrom (I believe it stands for "list owner of" but might be wrong on that). For instance if you get the result ttys1 mc blah blah it means MIdnight Commander is looking at /mnt/cdrom On Friday, June 30, 2000 6:07 PM, John Ward [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > I'm wondering something. I was trying to unmount my cdrom. However whenever > I tried it kept coming back and saying it was busy. I tried several times > then finally gave up and rebooted. What should I have done to find out if > it was busy? I wasn't doing anything with it. I had mounted it, looked > through it, realized I didn't need it and tried to unmount it. I was in the > / directory when I tried unmounting it and I was root. > > Thanks. > > John Ward > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --C:\WINDOWS\RUN C:\WINDOWS\CRASH C:\ME\FDISK /usr/src/linux > and > --Linux: Because rebooting is for adding new hardware "WorldSecure Server " made the following annotations on 07/03/00 09:23:09 -- The opinions expressed within this email represent those of the individual and not necessarily those of Lombard North Central. The contents of this Email may be privileged and are confidential. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee(s), nor copied in any way. If received in error, please advise the sender, then delete from your system. Should you wish to use Email as a mode of communication, Lombard North Central PLC are unable to guarantee the security of Email content outside of our own computer systems. Lombard North Central PLC Registered in England No 337004 Registered Office 3 Princess Way Redhill Surrey RH1 1NP A Member of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group ==
RE: [newbie] X-server crash
When the display falls back, try CTRL-ALT-F2 to switch to a free console. Sounds like something is playing with your permissions. To be on the safe side, once you have the machine back up & running, back up /etc/Xfree86/XF86Config and your home dir - if it does go AWOL again you can over-write the config files wiht those copies & get on with life until you track down what is hammering X. There aren't many instances where you have to reinstall Linux from scratch - at the outside, reinstall the X server rpm, the base X rpms and manually configure with xf86config. On Wednesday, June 28, 2000 10:28 PM, Dennis Myers [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Here is a problem I have had a couple of times. I spend time on the > net one night and everything is ok, I boot up the next day and my > X-server won't boot, the screen just flashes off and on black to blue. I > can't get in to server because I had it set to Boot to X-server. So > both times I have had to re-install Linux as a new install, and since I > haven't figured out how to back up data, I lose stuff. Nothing real > important, but a pain to get back on the system. First, why do I lose > the x-server (Window in KDE)? How do I get back the server without > re-install, I have tried to do just an update but that fails. This is > an annoying problem cause I thought linux was more stable than this, or > more likely it's something I am doing. Any suggestions would be greatly > appreciated. Dennis "WorldSecure Server " made the following annotations on 06/29/00 13:12:31 -- The opinions expressed within this email represent those of the individual and not necessarily those of Lombard North Central. The contents of this Email may be privileged and are confidential. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee(s), nor copied in any way. If received in error, please advise the sender, then delete from your system. Should you wish to use Email as a mode of communication, Lombard North Central PLC are unable to guarantee the security of Email content outside of our own computer systems. Lombard North Central PLC Registered in England No 337004 Registered Office 3 Princess Way Redhill Surrey RH1 1NP A Member of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group ==
[newbie] 7.1 installation
I have installed Mandrake 7.0 on several occaisions, each time having odd problems - network not configured, mouse not found, X config failures etc. This time, my newly acquired GPL 7.1 has sprung a double-whammy : (1) hung on X config in the installation - a reboot started the system ok, leading to (2) kernel error msgs - no supermount support (1) seems due to a corruption of the card database, since running xf86config I get errors relating to several Trident cards not being found in the d/b. (2) is rather odder - I presume some of the mods haven't been installed. I presume I'll have to reinstall, since on this evidence there's no telling what else is not installed correctly. Next time it will be a text-mode install, if possible. Firtstly, is it just me, or is there a history of installation oddities with Mandrake 7.x ? Secondly, how do I do a text-mode installation ? For the record, I'm not a Linux newbie (been running SuSE on my main pc for 3 years) just a mandrake almost-newbie. H/W spec - P120, 68Mb, 4.3Gb hdd, 52x EIDE CD-ROM, S3ViRGE/2Mb, serial mouse, Yamaha Sa-X soundcard, 3C509 Combo NIC. The same h/w experiences no trouble installing SuSE 6.4, RH 6.1, Corel, Storm & FreeBSD 3.3 & 4.0. TIA, Paul. ps sorry about the clag below - I'm behind a corporate firewall and using Exchange :( "WorldSecure Server " made the following annotations on 06/29/00 10:53:04 -- The opinions expressed within this email represent those of the individual and not necessarily those of Lombard North Central. The contents of this Email may be privileged and are confidential. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee(s), nor copied in any way. If received in error, please advise the sender, then delete from your system. Should you wish to use Email as a mode of communication, Lombard North Central PLC are unable to guarantee the security of Email content outside of our own computer systems. Lombard North Central PLC Registered in England No 337004 Registered Office 3 Princess Way Redhill Surrey RH1 1NP A Member of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group ==
