Re: [newbie] M9.1beta1 install
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 14 January 2003 06:11 am, Anne Wilson scribbled nervously: > On Monday 13 Jan 2003 10:16 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > > I've just had a very trying experience trying to install this. > > > > 1) ps2 mouse scrole wheel not detected at all, hardly important though. > > > > 2) no /swap partition detected > > Although 9.1 is downloaded I haven't had time to look at it, so I'm reading > with interest. Just wanted to comment - 9.0 didn't see my swap partition - > it installed another. I have two swap partitions > > Anne Hi Anne, have you checked the cooker list at all for this particular weirdness? I've heard this a few times, but no one has yet really followed up on it. On my box the 9.1 install saw the swap partition without a problem. - -- Mark - -- Powered By Mandrake Liinux 9.0 || Toshiba Portege ICQ# 27816299 - -- Saying Open Source DRM is the same as saying Military Intelligence. Repeating it makes my brain hurt! author Unknown... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+JHuLJuZ1geTzHgERAhseAJ4qJZdIiaTnX/S06eB3OjzSvg9JFACgy5zv 9W1Z5wwG1JeOyKVVRmkOJls= =Lzmr -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.1beta1 install
Dennis Myers scribbled nervously after reading Mark's message: > On Sunday 12 January 2003 06:56 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: >> > 3) Bootloader refused non install , insisted on being installed >> > >> > 4) refused opportunity to create boot disc >> > >> > 5) upon reboot , found lilo had not been installed after >> all,though it certainlyleft you the impression it had. >> >> I ALWAYS use an expert install (press f1 when the cdrom first >> boots and at boot: type expert) since it gives one more options. >> lilo can be installed on the first sector of the boot partition >> (hda7 in your case), boot disk option is available. >> >> jerry > I used expert install on my second harddrive with cdrom as secondary > slave and ide0 disabled. Install was flawless, except I couldn't > get kmail to work (might have been firewall problem if I could find > the firewall) sound card is recognized but can't find the volume > control, it is very sparse for apps with only one cd. Oh yeah, I > forgot that I had hdc mounted on my main hda and so when it changed > the partitions with the OS install on hdc my hda boot up install > failed on errors on /dev/hdc1, couldn't get a recovery so had to > reinstall and wipe /usr and the /hdc1 and /hdc6 partitions to get > hda back. Dumb mistake. Any hoo, I am not thrilled with the default > KDE icons colors etc and wish I knew why kmail can recieve but not > send. Said that senders address was missing a ? can't remember. > Will try again on beta 2. Charge on, -- > Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Dennis, I'm curious as to the type of error you got with Kmail, because I've been running it under 9.1 and it's working just fine. I'm wondering what I've done, or you've done differently. -- Mark "Stupidity has no moral high ground. It can't see that high!" Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.1beta1 install
On Monday 13 Jan 2003 10:16 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > I've just had a very trying experience trying to install this. > > 1) ps2 mouse scrole wheel not detected at all, hardly important though. > > 2) no /swap partition detected Although 9.1 is downloaded I haven't had time to look at it, so I'm reading with interest. Just wanted to comment - 9.0 didn't see my swap partition - it installed another. I have two swap partitions Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.1beta1 install
Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 12 January 2003 06:56 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: 3) Bootloader refused non install , insisted on being installed 4) refused opportunity to create boot disc 5) upon reboot , found lilo had not been installed after all,though it certainlyleft you the impression it had. I ALWAYS use an expert install (press f1 when the cdrom first boots and at boot: type expert) since it gives one more options. lilo can be installed on the first sector of the boot partition (hda7 in your case), boot disk option is available. jerry I used expert install on my second harddrive with cdrom as secondary slave and ide0 disabled. Install was flawless, except I couldn't get kmail to work (might have been firewall problem if I could find the firewall) sound card is recognized but can't find the volume control, it is very sparse for apps with only one cd. Oh yeah, I forgot that I had hdc mounted on my main hda and so when it changed the partitions with the OS install on hdc my hda boot up install failed on errors on /dev/hdc1, couldn't get a recovery so had to reinstall and wipe /usr and the /hdc1 and /hdc6 partitions to get hda back. Dumb mistake. Any hoo, I am not thrilled with the default KDE icons colors etc and wish I knew why kmail can recieve but not send. Said that senders address was missing a ? can't remember. Will try again on beta 2. Charge on, Yep, I think its going to be an f1 expert install next time. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.1beta1 install
Jerry Barton wrote: 3) Bootloader refused non install , insisted on being installed 4) refused opportunity to create boot disc 5) upon reboot , found lilo had not been installed after all,though it certainlyleft you the impression it had. I ALWAYS use an expert install (press f1 when the cdrom first boots and at boot: type expert) since it gives one more options. lilo can be installed on the first sector of the boot partition (hda7 in your case), boot disk option is available. jerry Yes, I agree, I will have to go the f1 expert route next time, I have always had the choice of expert install in the first of the install windows before, seems like something had changed. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.1beta1 install
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 13 January 2003 23:16, John Richard Smith wrote: I've just had a very trying experience trying to install this. 1) ps2 mouse scrole wheel not detected at all, hardly important though. 2) no /swap partition detected 3) Bootloader refused non install , insisted on being installed 4) refused opportunity to create boot disc Up to here I agree, same experience. Bootloader is no big deal, just use a Slackware boot floppy (or CD) and boot by typing "linux mount root=/dev/hdwhatever your / partition is" on the prompt. 5) upon reboot , found lilo had not been installed after all,though it certainlyleft you the impression it had. 6) upon reboot old M9.0 lilo and /etc/lilo.conf presents for booting,but, 7) fsck M9.0 completed, but, 8) fsck M91beta1 fails, with error message, repair filesystem 2# fsck /dev/hda7 (M91beta) fsck ext2:filesystem unsupported feature(s) (/dev/hda7) e2fsck:get newer version of e2fsck , repair system : yes Just wondering: I always get that crap after I use diskdrake to prepare partitions. (C)Fdisk is the way to go, providing you reboot before you try to format the freshly created partitions. Don't know why though=:o( After hosing my fresh install I used ext3.fsck BTW. Seemed to work allright. and what should I try next ? I'm back on M9.0 desktop, with a formatted /dev/hda7 John I haven't given up on it yet. Not by a long chalk. I just want to understand the issues a bit better, I've come to distrust error messages these days, I guess the developers only have a limited librarry of messages to use at any given time and plump for one that sounds nearest and may give you a clue. What I want to know is what was it about my /hda7 file system that the bootloading process didn't like. I know hda7 was formatted, well it certainly felt like it was, it was the only partition I formatted, it used to be M8.2 , but is now formatted over Also , why didn't drakx find the /swap partition . Now when I chose the partition to format, and it did so I didbn't see any way of knowing what file system it was formatting in, but as it must of been the default, and in the past that has always been ext2 I assumed it would be ext2 again. Maybe I'm wrong. As you can see I didn't have to do any partitioning. I simply reused an existing partition.So I don't think this has anything to do with the partition table . Something about the nature of the install troubled M9.0's original lilo/lilo.conf boot process from booting, nothing I did to try and repair it except formatting hda7 again helped to resolve it. It seems like it's a file system matter/issue. I suppose I could skip the formatting process in M9.1beta1 install, altogether, after all I've successfully formatted hda7 now , so it should in theory install. Maybe that's what I will do tonight when I get some more time to do this. Anyone got any other ideas ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.1beta1 install
> > jerry > I used expert install on my second harddrive with cdrom as secondary slave and > ide0 disabled. Install was flawless, except I couldn't get kmail to work > (might have been firewall problem if I could find the firewall) sound card is > recognized but can't find the volume control, the only volume control ap i could see was gnome-volume-control aumix won't compile actally LOTS of thing won't compile...but it is a 1cd distro after all >it is very sparse for apps with > only one cd. Oh yeah, I forgot that I had hdc mounted on my main hda and so > when it changed the partitions with the OS install on hdc my hda boot up > install failed on errors on /dev/hdc1, couldn't get a recovery so had to > reinstall and wipe /usr and the /hdc1 and /hdc6 partitions to get hda back. > Dumb mistake. Any hoo, I am not thrilled with the default KDE icons colors > etc and wish I knew why kmail can recieve but not send. Said that senders > address was missing a ? can't remember. Will try again on beta 2. Charge on, I had the same problem with kmail. > -- > Dennis M. linux user # 180842 > > Jerry -- -- Registered Linux User #300600 Registered Linux Machine #185855 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] M9.1beta1 install
On Sunday 12 January 2003 06:56 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: > > 3) Bootloader refused non install , insisted on being installed > > > > 4) refused opportunity to create boot disc > > > > 5) upon reboot , found lilo had not been installed after all,though > > it certainlyleft you the impression it had. > > I ALWAYS use an expert install (press f1 when the cdrom first boots and at > boot: type expert) since it gives one more options. lilo can be installed > on the first sector of the boot partition (hda7 in your case), boot disk > option is available. > > jerry I used expert install on my second harddrive with cdrom as secondary slave and ide0 disabled. Install was flawless, except I couldn't get kmail to work (might have been firewall problem if I could find the firewall) sound card is recognized but can't find the volume control, it is very sparse for apps with only one cd. Oh yeah, I forgot that I had hdc mounted on my main hda and so when it changed the partitions with the OS install on hdc my hda boot up install failed on errors on /dev/hdc1, couldn't get a recovery so had to reinstall and wipe /usr and the /hdc1 and /hdc6 partitions to get hda back. Dumb mistake. Any hoo, I am not thrilled with the default KDE icons colors etc and wish I knew why kmail can recieve but not send. Said that senders address was missing a ? can't remember. Will try again on beta 2. Charge on, -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] M9.1beta1 install
I've just had a very trying experience trying to install this. 1) ps2 mouse scrole wheel not detected at all, hardly important though. 2) no /swap partition detected 3) Bootloader refused non install , insisted on being installed 4) refused opportunity to create boot disc 5) upon reboot , found lilo had not been installed after all,though it certainlyleft you the impression it had. 6) upon reboot old M9.0 lilo and /etc/lilo.conf presents for booting,but, 7) fsck M9.0 completed, but, 8) fsck M91beta1 fails, with error message, repair filesystem 2# fsck /dev/hda7 (M91beta) fsck ext2:filesystem unsupported feature(s) (/dev/hda7) e2fsck:get newer version of e2fsck , repair system : yes y y y y y etc etc have to do , Alt-SysRq -b to get it to reboot, first I try reinstalling M9.0's lilo again, no luck, same result, so eventually after trying failsafea, nonfb, and many such efforts, I resirt to and f1 job on M9.0 cd1 and after getting root privelages I format /dev/hda7 , and she reboots normally. So what's with this "e2fsck:get newer version of e2fsck ", and what should I try next ? I'm back on M9.0 desktop, with a formatted /dev/hda7 John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
