Re: [newbie] Mandrake Killed!
Oh, the shame of it! I'm having to run Win98 to get online! Whew! At least that didn't have to last long. I turned out that I had the wrong device in lilo.con specified to be the ide-scsi. How I got back in business was to install a second Mandrake in another partition (replacing Corel Linux which I learned to dislike heartily). Then I could get at my original Mandrake and fix it. I've got a smaller partition available; maybe I'll put Peanut there for a little more insurance. -- Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA Using Linux to get where I want to go...
[newbie] Mandrake Killed!
Oh, the shame of it! I'm having to run Win98 to get online! In tweaking my Mandrake 7.0 installation, I managed to have lost access to it. I'm pretty sure it's the ide-scsi line I put in rc.local, and it causes a hang at the line: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 The boot floppy I created when I installed Mandrake doesn't seem to give me a way to get past the problem so that I can edit rc.local. I tried to install Debian in another partition as a way to get at rc.local, but for some reason I couldn't get a boot floppy prepared, and I'd rather not lose my Mandrake lilo. I had on hand the tomsrtbt floppy version of Linux, and that boots OK, but I can't figure how to mount my Mandrake filesystem. I did the following without success: cd /mnt mkdir mandrake mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb8 /mnt/mandrake I got the generic mount failure message offering a half dozen different possibilities as the reason for failure. Suggestions? Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
Re: [newbie] Mandrake Killed!
LaneI had the same trouble with tomsrtbt and my scsi system (my error was - EXT2-FS: 08:07: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features). The method I used to access my file system in an emergency was to use Peanut like you tried to use Debian, installed on a partition of a hard drive. It doesn't require a very big partition. Give it a try at: http://metalab.unc.edu/peanut/ Alan Lane Lester wrote: Oh, the shame of it! I'm having to run Win98 to get online! In tweaking my Mandrake 7.0 installation, I managed to have lost access to it. I'm pretty sure it's the ide-scsi line I put in rc.local, and it causes a hang at the line: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 The boot floppy I created when I installed Mandrake doesn't seem to give me a way to get past the problem so that I can edit rc.local. I tried to install Debian in another partition as a way to get at rc.local, but for some reason I couldn't get a boot floppy prepared, and I'd rather not lose my Mandrake lilo. I had on hand the tomsrtbt floppy version of Linux, and that boots OK, but I can't figure how to mount my Mandrake filesystem. I did the following without success: cd /mnt mkdir mandrake mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb8 /mnt/mandrake I got the generic mount failure message offering a half dozen different possibilities as the reason for failure. Suggestions? Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
RE: [newbie] Mandrake Killed!
I just switched from mandrake 6 - to - 7.0 and cannot get the modem going again. Can you point me in a direction? I have tried the ln -s operation, the configuration tool and all I can get is a message saying the modem is busy. Kamau -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 2:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [newbie] Mandrake Killed! LaneI had the same trouble with tomsrtbt and my scsi system (my error was - EXT2-FS: 08:07: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features). The method I used to access my file system in an emergency was to use Peanut like you tried to use Debian, installed on a partition of a hard drive. It doesn't require a very big partition. Give it a try at: http://metalab.unc.edu/peanut/ Alan Lane Lester wrote: Oh, the shame of it! I'm having to run Win98 to get online! In tweaking my Mandrake 7.0 installation, I managed to have lost access to it. I'm pretty sure it's the ide-scsi line I put in rc.local, and it causes a hang at the line: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 The boot floppy I created when I installed Mandrake doesn't seem to give me a way to get past the problem so that I can edit rc.local. I tried to install Debian in another partition as a way to get at rc.local, but for some reason I couldn't get a boot floppy prepared, and I'd rather not lose my Mandrake lilo. I had on hand the tomsrtbt floppy version of Linux, and that boots OK, but I can't figure how to mount my Mandrake filesystem. I did the following without success: cd /mnt mkdir mandrake mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb8 /mnt/mandrake I got the generic mount failure message offering a half dozen different possibilities as the reason for failure. Suggestions? Lane Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA __ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
