Re: [newbie] Install HP iPaq
Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I have an HP iPAQ 2200 which when I connect to Linux is detected in Control Panel/Hardware/Other devices. However I do not know which software prog to use. Any suggestions as to how to get this up and working please. Thanks. This started me playing with http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce to talk to my Itronix T5200, and it works well, except for the Midnight Commander virtual filesystem. I had to do some tweeks to get that to work. I don't know if this is because of the version of WindowsCE on the device, because the Itronix is a HPC instead of a Pocket PC, or if the MC package just didn't get upgraded with the rest of the packages. (It is older then the rest.) In any case, I can access the file system over the serial link. Next step is to make the network link work instead of the PPP over serial link. It works for accessing the network and Internet from the HPC, but I would like to get sync working that way as well. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] install camera using PTP
This is my output from folowwing instructions on http://www.desktoplinux.com/cgi-bin/board/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowPostBoard=distributionsPost=350 Sorry it is long. I had the camera plugged in and turned on. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ gphoto2 --list-ports Devices found: 8 Path Description -- serial:/dev/tts/1Serial Port 1 serial:/dev/tts/2Serial Port 2 serial:/dev/tts/3Serial Port 3 serial:/dev/tts/4Serial Port 4 serial:/dev/tts/5Serial Port 5 serial:/dev/tts/6Serial Port 6 serial:/dev/tts/7Serial Port 7 usb: Universal Serial Bus [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ gphoto2 --auto-detect Model Port -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ gphoto2 --list-files *** Error *** Could not detect any camera *** Error (-105: 'Unknown model') *** This was from gphoto --auto-detect -debug, and actually was a very long series of numbers and names. I've just copied a part of it, assuming it was checking a number of different cameras. 0.307432 gphoto2-port(0): Could not find USB device (vendor 0xd64, product 0x1001). Make sure this device is connected to the computer. 0.307710 gphoto2-port(0): Could not find USB device (class 0x6, subclass 0x, protocol 0x). Make sure this device is connected to the computer. 0.307977 gphoto2-port(2): Freeing port... 0.308144 gphoto2-port(2): Closing port... Model Port -- 0.308899 gp-camera(2): Freeing camera... 0.309090 gphoto2-port(2): Freeing port... 0.309266 libgphoto2/gphoto2-filesys.c(2): Clearing fscache LRU list... 0.309437 libgphoto2/gphoto2-filesys.c(2): fscache LRU list already empty 0.309625 gphoto2-filesystem(2): Internally deleting all folders from '/'... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ gphoto2 --auto-detect --debug The camera is clearly not being detected. Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install HP iPaq
Noel McG. wrote: Hello, I have an HP iPAQ 2200 which when I connect to Linux is detected in Control Panel/Hardware/Other devices. However I do not know which software prog to use. Any suggestions as to how to get this up and working please. Thanks. You can take a look at http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce/kde/ I have not tried it yet, so I don't know how well it works. I have a completely different Windows CE device, and it does not sync using USB. (Itronix T5200) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Install HP iPaq
Hello, I have an HP iPAQ 2200 which when I connect to Linux is detected in Control Panel/Hardware/Other devices. However I do not know which software prog to use. Any suggestions as to how to get this up and working please. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] install bootsplash theme in mandrake 10.1 PowerPack
Hi, I have download the new bootsplass theme in kde-look.org.. but how to install in my Mandrake 10.1 Power Pack edition? anybody can help me? Thank you. Teddy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 09:33 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 09:41 am, Andy Yankovich wrote: I would like to install 2 third-party commercial software items. One is Forte-Agent 2.0 from an internet download; the other is an almost 1 GB program on a CD - Logos Libronix Bible Software. Is there a way I can do this on Linux? Is the method included in MDK manuals anywhere? Thank you for your help. Andy For the Bible software try [as root] urpmi bibletime -a Hi guys, sorry about sending this to reply instead of to list. I dtried the above and got this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] andy]# uprmi bibletime -a bash: uprmi: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] andy]# urpmi bibletime -a To satisfy dependencies, the following 3 packages are going to be installed (3 MB): bibletime-1.4.1-3mdk.i586 libsword4-1.5.7a-1mdk.i586 sword-1.5.7a-1mdk.i586 Is this OK? (Y/n) Y The following packages have bad signatures: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/bibletime-1.4.1-3mdk.i586.rpm: Invalid signature ((SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) (MISSING KEY) GPG#78d019f5 NOT OK) /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libsword4-1.5.7a-1mdk.i586.rpm: Invalid signature ((SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) (MISSING KEY) GPG#78d019f5 NOT OK) /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/sword-1.5.7a-1mdk.i586.rpm: Invalid signature ((SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) (MISSING KEY) GPG#78d019f5 NOT OK) Do you want to continue installation ? (y/N) N What is the correct next step? thanks, andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software
On Saturday 29 Jan 2005 23:03, Andy Yankovich wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 09:33 pm, you wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 09:41 am, Andy Yankovich wrote: I would like to install 2 third-party commercial software items. One is Forte-Agent 2.0 from an internet download; the other is an almost 1 GB program on a CD - Logos Libronix Bible Software. Is there a way I can do this on Linux? Is the method included in MDK manuals anywhere? Thank you for your help. Andy For the Bible software try [as root] urpmi bibletime -a Hi guys, sorry about sending this to reply instead of to list. I dtried the above and got this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] andy]# uprmi bibletime -a bash: uprmi: command not found [EMAIL PROTECTED] andy]# urpmi bibletime -a To satisfy dependencies, the following 3 packages are going to be installed (3 MB): bibletime-1.4.1-3mdk.i586 libsword4-1.5.7a-1mdk.i586 sword-1.5.7a-1mdk.i586 Is this OK? (Y/n) Y The following packages have bad signatures: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/bibletime-1.4.1-3mdk.i586.rpm: Invalid signature ((SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) (MISSING KEY) GPG#78d019f5 NOT OK) /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libsword4-1.5.7a-1mdk.i586.rpm: Invalid signature ((SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) (MISSING KEY) GPG#78d019f5 NOT OK) /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/sword-1.5.7a-1mdk.i586.rpm: Invalid signature ((SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) (MISSING KEY) GPG#78d019f5 NOT OK) Do you want to continue installation ? (y/N) N What is the correct next step? thanks, andy Y and enter is the next step. All the blurb about bad signatures is just because you don't have the relevant keys installed, as long as your package source is OK you don't have to worry. HTH, Simon. -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ GnuPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xE94E2292 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 02:50 pm, Elwyn wrote: On Tuesday 18 Jan 2005 19:13, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 17:41, Andy Yankovich wrote: I would like to install 2 third-party commercial software items. One is Forte-Agent 2.0 from an internet download; the other is an almost 1 GB program on a CD - Logos Libronix Bible Software. Is there a way I can do this on Linux? Is the method included in MDK manuals anywhere? Thank you for your help. Andy Aren't these Windows applications? derek Yep, sounds like it. Like Derek said there are other bits of software out there to do some of that. With the Bible software I'm not sure. It's usually engineered for a Windows environment. Bibletime You might manage with Cross Office... But I don't have that installed anymore as it was effectively a small security hole :( Among other things Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 02:50 pm, Elwyn wrote: On Tuesday 18 Jan 2005 19:13, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 17:41, Andy Yankovich wrote: I would like to install 2 third-party commercial software items. One is Forte-Agent 2.0 from an internet download; the other is an almost 1 GB program on a CD - Logos Libronix Bible Software. Is there a way I can do this on Linux? Is the method included in MDK manuals anywhere? Thank you for your help. Andy Aren't these Windows applications? derek Yep, sounds like it. Like Derek said there are other bits of software out there to do some of that. With the Bible software I'm not sure. It's usually engineered for a Windows environment. You might manage with Cross Office... But I don't have that installed anymore as it was effectively a small security hole :( Among other things Elwyn there are RPMs for bibletime-1.4.1-3mdk.i586 that a properly configured urpmi should give you. as much as I am sure you like forte, give pan a try (kicks forte's agent to the curb) -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website=http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org; Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 07:03, Pablo Ortuzar wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 20:13, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 17:41, Andy Yankovich wrote: I would like to install 2 third-party commercial software items. One is Forte-Agent 2.0 from an internet download; the other is an almost 1 GB program on a CD - Logos Libronix Bible Software. Is there a way I can do this on Linux? Is the method included in MDK manuals anywhere? Thank you for your help. Andy Aren't these Windows applications? While it is possible to run some Windows applications under Linux using 'Wine' to provide an adaptation layer between Linux and Windows apps, you will find it much easier to simply find an equivalent application written for Linux. Good resources to find Linux apps are SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/ and Freshmeat http://freshmeat.net/ as well as www.google.com/linux/ Having identified an application you would like to try you should then search for a Mandrake RPM package of it before resorting to compiling the application yourself. In many cases you will discover that the application is already on your CDs or available in online sources such as the 'contrib' folder on any Mandrake mirror site. derek You could try bibletime. It's included in the 10.1 PowerPack cd's. Click on configure your computer: you will be asked for your root password. Click on Software management and then on Install; choose bibletime.en and accept all dependencies. Bibletime (http://www.bibletime.info/index.html) is based off Sword (http://www.crosswire.org/sword/index.jsp) who provide massess of downloadable translations and aids. Bbiletime apparently now has a friendly download tool for the modules. For internet downloads, try KGet, which is an add-on for KDE, in the Software Manager ready for install, look under the menu at System/Configuration/Packaging/Install Software to see what you have available to install right now. Then pop over to the Twiki to learn about configuring other sources of software for installation. And best of all, its all free :-) If you really must run Windows software the best option is Win4Lin, followed by Crossover Office version of Wine, but they cost money. Just Google. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Install third-party commercial software
I would like to install 2 third-party commercial software items. One is Forte-Agent 2.0 from an internet download; the other is an almost 1 GB program on a CD - Logos Libronix Bible Software. Is there a way I can do this on Linux? Is the method included in MDK manuals anywhere? Thank you for your help. Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 17:41, Andy Yankovich wrote: I would like to install 2 third-party commercial software items. One is Forte-Agent 2.0 from an internet download; the other is an almost 1 GB program on a CD - Logos Libronix Bible Software. Is there a way I can do this on Linux? Is the method included in MDK manuals anywhere? Thank you for your help. Andy Aren't these Windows applications? While it is possible to run some Windows applications under Linux using 'Wine' to provide an adaptation layer between Linux and Windows apps, you will find it much easier to simply find an equivalent application written for Linux. Good resources to find Linux apps are SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/ and Freshmeat http://freshmeat.net/ as well as www.google.com/linux/ Having identified an application you would like to try you should then search for a Mandrake RPM package of it before resorting to compiling the application yourself. In many cases you will discover that the application is already on your CDs or available in online sources such as the 'contrib' folder on any Mandrake mirror site. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software
On Tuesday 18 Jan 2005 19:13, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 17:41, Andy Yankovich wrote: I would like to install 2 third-party commercial software items. One is Forte-Agent 2.0 from an internet download; the other is an almost 1 GB program on a CD - Logos Libronix Bible Software. Is there a way I can do this on Linux? Is the method included in MDK manuals anywhere? Thank you for your help. Andy Aren't these Windows applications? derek Yep, sounds like it. Like Derek said there are other bits of software out there to do some of that. With the Bible software I'm not sure. It's usually engineered for a Windows environment. You might manage with Cross Office... But I don't have that installed anymore as it was effectively a small security hole :( Among other things Elwyn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 18 Jan 2005 19:50, Elwyn wrote: On Tuesday 18 Jan 2005 19:13, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 17:41, Andy Yankovich wrote: I would like to install 2 third-party commercial software items. One is Forte-Agent 2.0 from an internet download; the other is an almost 1 GB program on a CD - Logos Libronix Bible Software. Is there a way I can do this on Linux? Is the method included in MDK manuals anywhere? Thank you for your help. Andy Aren't these Windows applications? derek Yep, sounds like it. Like Derek said there are other bits of software out there to do some of that. With the Bible software I'm not sure. It's usually engineered for a Windows environment. Forte-agent is an offline newsreader, isn't it? There are several of those freely available for Linux. I'm sure one of them would feel comfortable to you, but you may have to look at a few to find the one you like best. You might manage with Cross Office... But I don't have that installed anymore as it was effectively a small security hole :( Among other things I'm sure I have seen *some* Bible software, though I can't remember what. You'd have to google for that. I do recall, though, that BibleWorks runs under Wine, so maybe you could google to see if your package will as well. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB7WpokFAvMr/nNX8RAnaUAJsFLrHi46t+gklJQbowOCEkN4ZsIACfdaU4 ydKRaKACec1nMCTZnJqMcEw= =KcAM -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 20:13, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 17:41, Andy Yankovich wrote: I would like to install 2 third-party commercial software items. One is Forte-Agent 2.0 from an internet download; the other is an almost 1 GB program on a CD - Logos Libronix Bible Software. Is there a way I can do this on Linux? Is the method included in MDK manuals anywhere? Thank you for your help. Andy Aren't these Windows applications? While it is possible to run some Windows applications under Linux using 'Wine' to provide an adaptation layer between Linux and Windows apps, you will find it much easier to simply find an equivalent application written for Linux. Good resources to find Linux apps are SourceForge http://sourceforge.net/ and Freshmeat http://freshmeat.net/ as well as www.google.com/linux/ Having identified an application you would like to try you should then search for a Mandrake RPM package of it before resorting to compiling the application yourself. In many cases you will discover that the application is already on your CDs or available in online sources such as the 'contrib' folder on any Mandrake mirror site. derek You could try bibletime. It's included in the 10.1 PowerPack cd's. Click on configure your computer: you will be asked for your root password. Click on Software management and then on Install; choose bibletime.en and accept all dependencies. -- Pablo Ortúzar Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software
Bibletime is a really great package. It's available on the club in contribs and requires some Sword packages as well, also available on the club in contrib. It works with Sword modules, of which there are tons available. I'll bet you'll be impressed with it. Make sure you have your contribs mirror setup in urpmi, then install it from MCC. Rick Kunath Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 02:50 pm, Elwyn wrote: On Tuesday 18 Jan 2005 19:13, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 17:41, Andy Yankovich wrote: I would like to install 2 third-party commercial software items. One is Forte-Agent 2.0 from an internet download; the other is an almost 1 GB program on a CD - Logos Libronix Bible Software. Is there a way I can do this on Linux? Is the method included in MDK manuals anywhere? Thank you for your help. Andy Aren't these Windows applications? derek Yep, sounds like it. Like Derek said there are other bits of software out there to do some of that. With the Bible software I'm not sure. It's usually engineered for a Windows environment. You might manage with Cross Office... But I don't have that installed anymore as it was effectively a small security hole :( Among other things Elwyn Thank ya'll Agent can be replace with Linux-based softwareand not lose much. But the Logos Libronix Digital Bible Library ran me several hundred dollars and I use it quite frequently. There is no other comperable bible software even for windows OS. All serious bible software packages I've come across are win compatible and integrated with IE 5 or better. Libronix won't work well without IE6! Won't work with Mac either, as far as i know. Anyone here familiar with Opera browser in a wine-based envirnment? From what I read (from Chris's post) Opera shoud work inplace of IE6. Don't know anything about wine - other than the liquid kind. Opera has three choice: RPM packages type, DEB packages type, and tar.gz, type. Info at: http://www.opera.com/support/search/supsearch.dml?index=344 Like Elwyn, maybe I'll be forced to run Linux and Windows both. Is it possible to run both OS's side by side on split screens if my Win XP and Mandrake are both on what used to be C:? Thank you all very much. You're a nice bunch. A major, huge help. Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 03:09 pm, Rick Kunath wrote: Bibletime is a really great package. It's available on the club in contribs and requires some Sword packages as well, also available on the club in contrib. It works with Sword modules, of which there are tons available. I'll bet you'll be impressed with it. Make sure you have your contribs mirror setup in urpmi, then install it from MCC. Rick Kunath Thanks Rick and Pablo. sounds great. Your posts crossed my last one as I was typing (at least that's what I try to call what I do). I joined the club last night so I'm not sure where 'contrib' is or how one uses 'contirbs mirror stup in urpmi'. . Anyone know if that's covered in the manuals? Andy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install Question
On Saturday 08 January 2005 11:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Mikkel, I will try subscribing to the expert list and see if someone can help. Cy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't remember if the standard install offers the option, or if you need to pick expert, but there is an option to have lilo install to the boot partition. I believe there is also an option to install to the MBR of the second hard drive, but that is probably only an expert option. Ether would work in your case, but installing to the MBR of the second hard drive is probably the better option. Then you can just have XP boot of the second drive, and lilo will take it from there. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Someone on this list may remember as well. My problem is that I don't do fresh installs that often. I know how to edit the /etc/lilo.conf to do it, but I don't know where the option show up in the installer. (Only 3 MDK installs so far - one 9.2 and two 10.1.) Mikkel in 10.0 and newer (maybe further back, I forget when it started), there is a window almost at the very end of the install, just before you reboot, it gives you a chance reconfigure damn near anything, including where lilo or grub is and how it is configured. -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website=http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org; Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install Question
On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 13:12, et wrote: On Saturday 08 January 2005 11:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Mikkel, I will try subscribing to the expert list and see if someone can help. Cy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't remember if the standard install offers the option, or if you need to pick expert, but there is an option to have lilo install to the boot partition. I believe there is also an option to install to the MBR of the second hard drive, but that is probably only an expert option. Ether would work in your case, but installing to the MBR of the second hard drive is probably the better option. Then you can just have XP boot of the second drive, and lilo will take it from there. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Someone on this list may remember as well. My problem is that I don't do fresh installs that often. I know how to edit the /etc/lilo.conf to do it, but I don't know where the option show up in the installer. (Only 3 MDK installs so far - one 9.2 and two 10.1.) Mikkel in 10.0 and newer (maybe further back, I forget when it started), there is a window almost at the very end of the install, just before you reboot, it gives you a chance reconfigure damn near anything, including where lilo or grub is and how it is configured. Yes. After every thing is installed and just before the first reboot ( where you asked to remove the install disk). You can set up the boot manager from there. -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install Question
On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 04:00, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 07 January 2005 09:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a new Mandrake CD 10.1 Linux and I have XP already on my system. I installed a FAT32 Hard Drive on the Second IDE interface as a Slave since the CDROM is primary. Can I install Linux on that drive and expect it to BOOT up since Windows XP seems to provide a BOOT from any device? Yes, but be very, very certain that the Mandrake installer understands that you want Mandrake installed on your slave disk (hdb) and not the primary disk (hda). Note that Mandrake will overwrite the FAT32 formatting on hdb and replace it with a native Linux format; the default is ext3, but other options are available. If you use Partion magic to shrink you NTFS partion run the move app program first and after and it will edit the registry and setup any of the windows programs that have moved drives. A little trick I have learned when installing linux on a machine with multiple drives or partions is to leave the drive/ partion unallocated. in other words no file system on a partion on a Linux / Win shared drive and no partion on a drive to used solely by Linux. The Linux installer will defualt to useing the free space. When I first moved over from dos /win file system to Linux file systems I got confused with the change from drives a, c, d, to hda, hdb for IDE drives and hda1, hda2 for partions.REMEBER to back up anything inportant before sizeing partions or installing Linux. As part of the installation process, Mandrake will alter the MBR (master boot record) on your primary drive so that you can choose between Mandrake and XP each time that you boot your system. Will it install without messing with the NTFS drives on the first IDE Interface? Yes. But bear in mind that while Linux can read files on NTFS partitions, writing to them is not supported. However, Linux has no problems accessing FAT32 partitions, so if you want to be able to have the freedom of reading and writing data that can be accessed from either OS, the standard workaround is to shrink the existing XP partition using Partition Magic or similar, and then create a FAT32 partion in the vacant space. Next, move your Windows data to the new partition and fiddle with your Windows applications so that they know where the data lives. Kinda cool for stuff like music and video, and also useful for correspondence, spreadsheets, yada yada... -- cmg -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install Question
Thanks, I certainly appreciate everyone's comments on this thread. I now have a further question. How can I prevent the install of Mandrake Linux from writing a boot record on the Primary drive? Therte is already an XP boot record which permits me to boot from any attached device. Is it feasable to remove the XP drive, attach the FAT32 drive to the Primary Interface, Install Mandrake Linux and then move the drive back to the secondary Interface to permit Windows XP boot record to control where I boot from? Cy Halbach -- Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 January 2005 09:23 pm, Yes, but be very, very certain that the Mandrake installer understands that you want Mandrake installed on your slave disk (hdb) and not the primary disk (hda). Note that Mandrake will overwrite the FAT32 formatting on hdb and replace it with a native Linux format; the default is ext3, but other options are available. As part of the installation process, Mandrake will alter the MBR (master boot record) on your primary drive so that you can choose between Mandrake and XP each time that you boot your system. Will it install without messing with the NTFS drives on the first IDE Interface? Yes. But bear in mind that while Linux can read files on NTFS partitions, writing to them is not supported. However, Linux has no problems accessing FAT32 partitions, so if you want to be able to have the freedom of reading and writing data that can be accessed from either OS, the standard workaround is to shrink the existing XP partition using Partition Magic or similar, and then create a FAT32 partion in the vacant space. Next, move your Windows data to the new partition and fiddle with your Windows applications so that they know where the data lives. Kinda cool for stuff like music and video, and also useful for correspondence, spreadsheets, yada yada... -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install Question
Thanks, I certainly appreciate everyone's comments on this thread. I now have a further question. How can I prevent the install of Mandrake Linux from writing a boot record on the Primary drive? Therte is already an XP boot record which permits me to boot from any attached device. Is it feasable to remove the XP drive, attach the FAT32 drive to the Primary Interface, Install Mandrake Linux and then move the drive back to the secondary Interface to permit Windows XP boot record to control where I boot from? Cy Halbach I don't remember if the standard install offers the option, or if you need to pick expert, but there is an option to have lilo install to the boot partition. I believe there is also an option to install to the MBR of the second hard drive, but that is probably only an expert option. Ether would work in your case, but installing to the MBR of the second hard drive is probably the better option. Then you can just have XP boot of the second drive, and lilo will take it from there. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install Question
Thanks Mikkel, I will try subscribing to the expert list and see if someone can help. Cy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't remember if the standard install offers the option, or if you need to pick expert, but there is an option to have lilo install to the boot partition. I believe there is also an option to install to the MBR of the second hard drive, but that is probably only an expert option. Ether would work in your case, but installing to the MBR of the second hard drive is probably the better option. Then you can just have XP boot of the second drive, and lilo will take it from there. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install Question
Thanks Mikkel, I will try subscribing to the expert list and see if someone can help. Cy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't remember if the standard install offers the option, or if you need to pick expert, but there is an option to have lilo install to the boot partition. I believe there is also an option to install to the MBR of the second hard drive, but that is probably only an expert option. Ether would work in your case, but installing to the MBR of the second hard drive is probably the better option. Then you can just have XP boot of the second drive, and lilo will take it from there. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Someone on this list may remember as well. My problem is that I don't do fresh installs that often. I know how to edit the /etc/lilo.conf to do it, but I don't know where the option show up in the installer. (Only 3 MDK installs so far - one 9.2 and two 10.1.) Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Install Question
I have a new Mandrake CD 10.1 Linux and I have XP already on my system. I installed a FAT32 Hard Drive on the Second IDE interface as a Slave since the CDROM is primary. Can I install Linux on that drive and expect it to BOOT up since Windows XP seems to provide a BOOT from any device? Will it install without messing with the NTFS drives on the first IDE Interface? Cy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install Question
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 13:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a new Mandrake CD 10.1 Linux and I have XP already on my system. I installed a FAT32 Hard Drive on the Second IDE interface as a Slave since the CDROM is primary. Can I install Linux on that drive and expect it to BOOT up since Windows XP seems to provide a BOOT from any device? Will it install without messing with the NTFS drives on the first IDE Interface? Cy Yes! Linux will happily run from the second drive, it's an option that many of us have used. Mandrake installer will happily set it up for you. Just note that the FAT32 partition will be re-formated with the Linux filesystem, so don't leave any data on there you want to keep. Linux will then install a bootloader to the the first HDD's bootsector which will give you a menu on boot to choose between Linux and Windows. The WinXP partitions will be left untouched. Welcome to the world of Linux, if you have any problems along the way, don't hesitate to ask (just provide lots of detail when you do :-) Cheers! John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install Question
On Friday 07 January 2005 09:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a new Mandrake CD 10.1 Linux and I have XP already on my system. I installed a FAT32 Hard Drive on the Second IDE interface as a Slave since the CDROM is primary. Can I install Linux on that drive and expect it to BOOT up since Windows XP seems to provide a BOOT from any device? Yes, but be very, very certain that the Mandrake installer understands that you want Mandrake installed on your slave disk (hdb) and not the primary disk (hda). Note that Mandrake will overwrite the FAT32 formatting on hdb and replace it with a native Linux format; the default is ext3, but other options are available. As part of the installation process, Mandrake will alter the MBR (master boot record) on your primary drive so that you can choose between Mandrake and XP each time that you boot your system. Will it install without messing with the NTFS drives on the first IDE Interface? Yes. But bear in mind that while Linux can read files on NTFS partitions, writing to them is not supported. However, Linux has no problems accessing FAT32 partitions, so if you want to be able to have the freedom of reading and writing data that can be accessed from either OS, the standard workaround is to shrink the existing XP partition using Partition Magic or similar, and then create a FAT32 partion in the vacant space. Next, move your Windows data to the new partition and fiddle with your Windows applications so that they know where the data lives. Kinda cool for stuff like music and video, and also useful for correspondence, spreadsheets, yada yada... -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Install Java for MDK 10.0
Hello all, I have been trying for the past week to install Java on my linux box but I have not yet had any luck. Is there something I am missing? I went to java.com and downloaded the latest version of Java. Followed there directions for installing the .bin file (pretty straight forward). Once I did that I tried to go to a place the required java and it didn't load. Is there another way that I can install it or is there a directory that I need to reference with my firefox browser? Any help would be great. Thanks, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install Java for MDK 10.0
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:48:20 -0500, Lovell Mcilwain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there another way that I can install it or is there a directory that I need to reference with my firefox browser? From: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/java.html#Linux If you installed the JRE 5.0 RPM, this plugin is /usr/java/j2re1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so - and to install it for Mozilla (including Mozilla Firefox), do the following: * Open a terminal * Change to your Mozilla (or Mozilla Firefox) plugins directory * Issue the following command: ln -s /usr/java/j2re1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install Java for MDK 10.0
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 25 Dec 2004 02:48, Lovell Mcilwain wrote: Hello all, I have been trying for the past week to install Java on my linux box but I have not yet had any luck. Is there something I am missing? I went to java.com and downloaded the latest version of Java. Followed there directions for installing the .bin file (pretty straight forward). Once I did that I tried to go to a place the required java and it didn't load. Is there another way that I can install it or is there a directory that I need to reference with my firefox browser? You're probably missing a link. IIRC java does not get installed where Mozilla/FireFox expects it, so you have to go to the plugins directory and create a link to the java .so file. Maybe someone using FireFox can give you more specific instructions. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBzQrAkFAvMr/nNX8RAtFaAJ4w8YZpcoQFi/VAcIxfQe8o/aMiPQCfUpwB 5GOiNIZVq9SvbkK3PjDU8MI= =YGAL -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install can't find CDROM
Thursday at 20:20, Russell W. Behne wrote: I'm trying to install Mandrake on an older pentium box that currently has Windows 98 on it. The 3.1G hard drive is c:, and the CDROM is on D:. I had to make a boot disk using ``dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/cdrom.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k'' because the machine couldn't boot from the cdrom. Now, during the install program start up the boot floppy works fine, but it stops suddenly, saying that it can't find a CDROM. How can I tell it where to find the CDROM? Well, it's been several days now, and still no solution. When I boot this box into its windblows 98, that can read the cdrrom just fine, but when I boot from the Linux boot disk I still get the error ``no CDROM found.'' Doesn't anyone know what to do? -- Mit freundlichen Gren, Russ. *---=[Russell's Quotes]=--* |Marry your son when you will, but your daughter when you can.| |---Benjamin Franklin | | From ``Poor Richard's Almanac'' | *-* What is freedom, really? See this great flash presentation: http://www.isil.org/resources/introduction.swf http://www.TruthAboutWar.org Visit my nursery: http://www.angelfire.com/linux/behnesnursery/ The Behne Family Genealogy Project: http://www.usgenealogy.net/members/rwbehne/ AIM: cacodyal1 Y!: rwbehne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Install can't find CDROM
I'm trying to install Mandrake on an older pentium box that currently has Windows 98 on it. The 3.1G hard drive is c:, and the CDROM is on D:. I had to make a boot disk using ``dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/cdrom.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k'' because the machine couldn't boot from the cdrom. Now, during the install program start up the boot floppy works fine, but it stops suddenly, saying that it can't find a CDROM. How can I tell it where to find the CDROM? -- Mit freundlichen Gren, Russ. *---=[Russell's Quotes]=--* |Marry above thy match, and thou 'lt get a master.| |---Benjamin Franklin | | From ``Poor Richard's Almanac'' | *-* What is freedom, really? See this great flash presentation: http://www.isil.org/resources/introduction.swf http://www.TruthAboutWar.org Visit my nursery: http://www.angelfire.com/linux/behnesnursery/ The Behne Family Genealogy Project: http://www.usgenealogy.net/members/rwbehne/ AIM: cacodyal1 Y!: rwbehne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install problem
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 06:03 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 17 November 2004 02:28 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Aron Smith wrote: I have aquired a Compaq laptop Armada 7400 unfortunely it does not have cdrom drive any way i can get mandrake on this puppy I'd really like to do it 'cause the price was right (free) My Son in Law and I fiddled around with an old IBM thinkpad whose rom was broken. In the end we took it apart and managed to hook up another tempary rom drive to do the job. It worked for us, but of course the temporaty drive didn't fit the thinkpad, so we had to put the old one back after we had installed the OS. Maybe you could extend the ide line another device in much the same way ? John Thankds Guys The nw install is out but I will have to look at it as a learning experience one good thing I was able to run it in the dos emulation command line mode so it will have nix of some kind on it Okie Dokie I purchased an adaptor pin 1 isn't marked on the laptop drive its a IBM transtar I don't want to plug this puppy in backwards as two of the lines go to 12v. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install problem
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 03:39, Aron Smith wrote: I have aquired a Compaq laptop Armada 7400 unfortunely it does not have cdrom drive any way i can get mandrake on this puppy I'd really like to do it 'cause the price was right (free) 3 options: 1)Over a network connection using the network floppy (on the first cdrom in the images directory) read the README's on the install CD for further info. 2) Take out the HD and install it using one with a CD-player then put it back. 3)get an external Cd-rom via pcmcia, usb or par_port. -- Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install problem
Aron Smith wrote: I have aquired a Compaq laptop Armada 7400 unfortunely it does not have cdrom drive any way i can get mandrake on this puppy I'd really like to do it 'cause the price was right (free) My Son in Law and I fiddled around with an old IBM thinkpad whose rom was broken. In the end we took it apart and managed to hook up another tempary rom drive to do the job. It worked for us, but of course the temporaty drive didn't fit the thinkpad, so we had to put the old one back after we had installed the OS. Maybe you could extend the ide line another device in much the same way ? John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install problem
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 02:28 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Aron Smith wrote: I have aquired a Compaq laptop Armada 7400 unfortunely it does not have cdrom drive any way i can get mandrake on this puppy I'd really like to do it 'cause the price was right (free) My Son in Law and I fiddled around with an old IBM thinkpad whose rom was broken. In the end we took it apart and managed to hook up another tempary rom drive to do the job. It worked for us, but of course the temporaty drive didn't fit the thinkpad, so we had to put the old one back after we had installed the OS. Maybe you could extend the ide line another device in much the same way ? John Thankds Guys The nw install is out but I will have to look at it as a learning experience one good thing I was able to run it in the dos emulation command line mode so it will have nix of some kind on it -- When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor, he betrays the interest of his country. --Noah Webster. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Install problem
I have aquired a Compaq laptop Armada 7400 unfortunely it does not have cdrom drive any way i can get mandrake on this puppy I'd really like to do it 'cause the price was right (free) -- When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor, he betrays the interest of his country. --Noah Webster. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Install troubles
Hello. I am new to Mandrake and am having a problem booting from the CD. The CD boots up, I press enter, but, when the kernel is loading, I get the following message: hda: interrupt lost The computer freezes, and I am forced to restart. I am attempting to install Mandrake 10.0. I have an ASRock K7S8X motherboard with an AMD 2800+ processor. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Install problem
I have Mdk 10.0 on hda and just put Slackware 10.0 on hdc then thought I'd put Mdk on hdc's remaining space. The install fails after choosing language and accepting the agreement. Eventually it drops to the shell and says ...exited with signal 8 The last thing I see before the error message is the hard drive detection stage. I've also had Debian on the disk but Mdk won't go with it either. I've also tried the install with Mdk as the only OS on the disk. On a whim I downloaded and burned the 1st disc again (md5sum checks out) and tried with it, but no luck. The RAM (512 MB SDRAM) passes the Memtest86 tests with no problem. Any guesses would be appreciated. Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] install mandrake 10 - missing mouse/keyboard with logitech cordless
Title: Message Hi, I have a logitech cordless keyboard/mouse set: http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=486,CONTENTID=5061 If i boot into dos from a boot disk etc, i do seem to have keyboard and mouse support... (can't test it right now since my floppy seems to be not working - another story!)...however, the kb atleast works if i go into the bios.. however, upon trying to install mandrake, on the 1st screen (where it asks to hit enter or f1 for more info) i have keyboard working...then it boots up some more and starts the gui to select language and go thru all the steps...at this point i have no keyboard or mouse.i was thinking of trying to tell it not to auto scan, but i assume that will be dangerous or at least a lot more tricky getting everything right during the install... any ideas/help/similar experiences/work arounds, greatly appreciated. thanks, Brett.
[newbie] Install troubles on Toshiba notebook - Mandrake 10.0
Hi all, First up, let me introduce myself. I'm Wafa, a grad student of economics, I've been running various versions of Mandrake for over a year now - I started with 9.0 now have 9.2 running smoothly on a Dell desktop at home. The problem is with my Toshiba A45-S121 notebook, on which I'm trying to install Mandrake 10.0. I've kept a 10 GB unformatted partition for it; the rest of my hard drive is being used by WinXP, across two NTFS one FAT32 partition. The problem: When I boot from the Mandrake install cd, less than a minute into the install process (after choosing a standard graphical install), I get an error saying Unable to create ramdrive. I looked at the kernel errors logs, there was something on the lines of the installer trying to access blocks of memory that do not exist. When I hit the space bar to indicate 'ok', the install continues. I reach the language selection screen, am able to use my USB mouse to select click 'Next'. However, the minute I click 'Nest', the installer vanishes, I am back to the text screen. It starts to shut down, i.e. I get messages saying Sending TERM signalsending killall to all processes ... etc. It then says It is now safe to restart your machine. Looking at the lines above this, I noticed that XFree86 had been unable to load a number of modules. This process happened identically twice; once when I hit enter at the main screen, the next time when I hit f1 at the first menu then typed 'linux' at the next menu. Some basic specs of the machine: HDD_Int: Intel ICH4-M Sound:ANALOG DEVICES AD1981B VGA: Intel 852GME CPU: Intel Celeron 2800M RAM: PC2100 Modem:Softmodem (Lucent SCORPIO) USB: Intel ICH4-M (USB2.0) CD_Int: Intel ICH4-M PCMCIA: Toshiba ToPIC100 (Intel 82365 comp) Chipset: Intel 852GME Network: Intel 82562ET (Kinnereth) Should I just try installing 9.2, which I know works fine on my home machine, then upgrade 9.2 to the 2.6 kernel, since that contains some newer acpi support that this laptop needs? Or is there a way out of this? Thanks in advance... Regards, Wafa. -- Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. --Terry Pratchett Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install troubles on Toshiba notebook - Mandrake 10.0
On Tuesday 27 July 2004 07:27 pm, Wafa Hakim wrote: Should I just try installing 9.2, which I know works fine on my home machine, then upgrade 9.2 to the 2.6 kernel, since that contains some newer acpi support that this laptop needs? You might try adding the linux noapic line to see if that gets you any further. You can also try to add the acpi=off line to see if that helps. -- Bryan Phinney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install troubles on Toshiba notebook - Mandrake 10.0
Hi, Thanks - I tried it, but no luck. I got exactly the same error messages, when I tried linux noapic then again when I tried acpi=off. Here are the errors, in more detail: First, there is a dialog box saying: Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk. There was probably a hardware error in reading data. The logs for this stage said: trying to load /tmp/image/Mandrake/base/mdkinst_stage2.bz2 as a ramdisk reading compressed ramdisk: IO_ERROR unsetting automatic The kernel messages at this stage were: hdc:rw=0, want=1351260, limit=1262784 Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 337814 Then the install continued. A small line at the bottom of the screen appeared, saying VERSION file missing. Then the language screen came. At the language screen, for fun I tried selecting another language. Anyway, same story; I clicked 'Next', screen exits. I saw the following error messages on the screen: Couldn't open RGB_DB 'usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb' Gdk-warning: locale not supported GLib-warning: getpwuid_r() failed due to unknown user id(0) at usr/bin/perl-install/install_gtk.pm line 229 then the sending term signal, sending killall signal, etc; finally it tells me it is now safe to restart your computer. Sorry if these messages are less than 100% accurate; I was scribbling them down with a pencil as they appeared. :) Once again, thanks in advance...hope this can be figured out! I like Mandrake too much to want to try another distro just yet... Regards, Wafa. Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. --Terry Pratchett Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 27 July 2004 07:27 pm, Wafa Hakim wrote: Should I just try installing 9.2, which I know works fine on my home machine, then upgrade 9.2 to the 2.6 kernel, since that contains some newer acpi support that this laptop needs? You might try adding the linux noapic line to see if that gets you any further. You can also try to add the acpi=off line to see if that helps. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install troubles on Toshiba notebook - Mandrake 10.0
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 27 July 2004 06:22 pm, Wafa Hakim wrote: First, there is a dialog box saying: Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk. There was probably a hardware error in reading data. This sounds to me as one of the following: a - bad burn of the iso b - CD drive done gone south for the winter Bill -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBBvVczHeHGYMT3rQRAkQsAJ0aXeFGNxduZoVwRqzD9YvgGak+AQCfTpEW TkZBkPhIYUsC0Ui9qZWXkjM= =11rq -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] install 9.1 ppc... mac won't boot from CD1
Just grabbed the 9.1 ppc disks. Burned the ISO images. Trying to boot the machine (beige desktop g3) from the CD fails miserably. Booting by holding the 'c' key after the chimes works fine with my os9 CD, so booting from the cd is possible. Anyone have a success story they'd like to share? Like, how does one get an istallation started? Running the applescript in the /bootX folder fails completely as well... i don't know why. Seems to be unable to find preferences in my system folder and quits. Pointers, tips, directions, rtfm directives all welcome! -- mike higgins Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Install crashes computer
I'm attempting an upgrade as a last ditch effort after getting nowhere trying to troubleshoot a Kernel panic : No init found error. It's Mdk 10.0 Official Can anyone tell me what might be the problem from the error message? Entering step 'Language' Gdk-Warning ** locale not supported by Xlib at /usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps-gtk.pm line 165 Gdk-Warning ** can not set locale modifiers at /usr/bin/perl-install/install_steps_gtk.pm line 165 Entering step 'License' Entering step Configure mouse' Entering step 'Hard drive detection' exited abnormally :-( --received signal 8 (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPAN_DISPLAY: Invalid argument (EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPAN_DISPLAY: Invalid argument sending termination signals. done Sending kill signal (etc) I've used the discs to do several installs, one just yesterday. Also have installed Deb and Slack on the hardware but not this hard disk. Thanks, Curt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] install button not active in rpmdrake
On Wednesday 28 Apr 2004 04:22, Rory wrote: When I browse software install packs in rpmdrake, if I select packages to download, the install button remains greyed out. I'm specifically trying to install packages from contribu and plf. I can install via urpmi in terminal, but not rpmdrake, where it's handier to read info about each pack and then select multiple ones to donwload at once. Any ideas? Thanks, ~Rory If you select MenuSystemSystemConfigurationPackagingBrowse packages then you are running rpmdrake as a normal user in browse only mode and the Install button will be greyed out as you describe. MenuSystemSystemConfigurationPackagingInstall should prompt you for root password, and then you should be able to install packages. If for some reason you are not being prompted for root password, try running kdesu rpmdrake from a terminal or by hitting Alt+F2 derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] install button not active in rpmdrake
When I browse software install packs in rpmdrake, if I select packages to download, the install button remains greyed out. I'm specifically trying to install packages from contribu and plf. I can install via urpmi in terminal, but not rpmdrake, where it's handier to read info about each pack and then select multiple ones to donwload at once. Any ideas? Thanks, ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] install button not active in rpmdrake
By the way, yes, I'm actually checkmarking the packages to download. :) Intall box still remains greyed out. On Tuesday 27 April 2004 11:22 pm, Rory wrote: When I browse software install packs in rpmdrake, if I select packages to download, the install button remains greyed out. I'm specifically trying to install packages from contribu and plf. I can install via urpmi in terminal, but not rpmdrake, where it's handier to read info about each pack and then select multiple ones to donwload at once. Any ideas? Thanks, ~Rory -- ~Rory Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] install windows without disturbing linux
On Thursday 08 April 2004 22:22, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Windows - rather, all MS OS's - require that they're on the first partition. So, if you make some free space on your HDA and install Windows, it will rewrite the MBR to point to IT as the first partition and likely hose up your entire installation of MDK (or any other non-MS OS). When installing, the idea would be to install Windows first and finish that, then install linux afterwards and let lilo (or grub) be the bootloader. Sucks, but that's the safest way. Generally, when I do dual-boots, I create a partition for Windows towards the end of the first drive and leave free space prior to that for linux - after installing Windows, I then make use of the remaining space for linux and let lilo deal with booting. BTW, can't your brother deal with VMware? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time. thanks, he agreed with this :P -- Klemens Arro My software never has bugs; it just develops random features. Using: Mandrake Linux 10 Registered Linux User#: 346118 ICQ#: 179198850 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] install windows without disturbing linux
Hi, how can I install windows without disturbing my mdk 10 linux. I am sharing my computer with my brother and he wants windows :'( I have a partition for it, but I am afraid that, when I install it, it will delete my lilo? thanks. -- Klemens Arro My software never has bugs; it just develops random features. Using: Mandrake Linux 10 Registered Linux User#: 346118 ICQ#: 179198850 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] install windows without disturbing linux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 April 2004 12:30, Klemens Arro wrote: Hi, how can I install windows without disturbing my mdk 10 linux. I am sharing my computer with my brother and he wants windows :'( I have a partition for it, but I am afraid that, when I install it, it will delete my lilo? It partly depends on which version of windows, as to whether you can do it. Win98 has to be on the first partition, but I don't think this is true of later versions - I don't have xp, so I can't be certain. Assuming, then, that you have W2K or XP, simply install windows, which it will do into the partition you have saved for it, but yes it will overwrite your lilo. This isn't a tragedy, however, as you should then boot from your Mandrake cd1, at the splash screen you hit F1, I think, and then type 'rescue'. This should bring up a menu, on which one option is to restore the boot loader. This will bring lilo back with an option to boot into windows. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAdTrZkFAvMr/nNX8RAiuxAJ9FMXUMfwP5JtknoJ0ovDmbH7qCoQCcDkYj b5jn25gSJdFAVdzLVl3zP7c= =Wbqs -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] install windows without disturbing linux
On Thursday 08 April 2004 14:43, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 08 April 2004 12:30, Klemens Arro wrote: Hi, how can I install windows without disturbing my mdk 10 linux. I am sharing my computer with my brother and he wants windows :'( I have a partition for it, but I am afraid that, when I install it, it will delete my lilo? It partly depends on which version of windows, as to whether you can do it. Win98 has to be on the first partition, but I don't think this is true of later versions - I don't have xp, so I can't be certain. Assuming, then, that you have W2K or XP, simply install windows, which it will do into the partition you have saved for it, but yes it will overwrite your lilo. This isn't a tragedy, however, as you should then boot from your Mandrake cd1, at the splash screen you hit F1, I think, and then type 'rescue'. This should bring up a menu, on which one option is to restore the boot loader. This will bring lilo back with an option to boot into windows. Anne Thanks -- Klemens Arro My software never has bugs; it just develops random features. Using: Mandrake Linux 10 Registered Linux User#: 346118 ICQ#: 179198850 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] install windows without disturbing linux
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:43 pm, many eyes viewed Anne Wilson's words:- Assuming, then, that you have W2K or XP, simply install windows, which it will do into the partition you have saved for it, but yes it will overwrite your lilo. I have installed XP, quite a while ago, but it didn't overwrite lilo. It just placed itself first in the windows boot system in front of 98. Charlie. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 + Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced. ...Henry David Thoreau This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.2, KMail v1.5.3 and OpenOffice.org1.1.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] install windows without disturbing linux
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 21:30, Klemens Arro wrote: Hi, how can I install windows without disturbing my mdk 10 linux. I am sharing my computer with my brother and he wants windows :'( I have a partition for it, but I am afraid that, when I install it, it will delete my lilo? thanks. Windows - rather, all MS OS's - require that they're on the first partition. So, if you make some free space on your HDA and install Windows, it will rewrite the MBR to point to IT as the first partition and likely hose up your entire installation of MDK (or any other non-MS OS). When installing, the idea would be to install Windows first and finish that, then install linux afterwards and let lilo (or grub) be the bootloader. Sucks, but that's the safest way. Generally, when I do dual-boots, I create a partition for Windows towards the end of the first drive and leave free space prior to that for linux - after installing Windows, I then make use of the remaining space for linux and let lilo deal with booting. BTW, can't your brother deal with VMware? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Install trouble on a Starmax (PPC)
I'm trying to install Mandrake 9.1 on a Starmax 5000 currently running Mac OS 9.1 with 160 Meg of ram. After a bit of trial and error with the bootx settings I got the installer to run, however it seems to only get part way through the hardware identification process and I get a kernal panic error that says the root cannot be run. The machine has a L2 casche slot processor upgrade card (JoeCard) Browsing the archives, I found reference to possible problems with processor upgrade cards, but nothing certain. Can anyone tell me for sure if disabling the processor upgrade will allow the installer to work? If so, will I be able to enable it afterwards? I can't imagine how slow this machine will be without it. Well, actually I can remember quite well and I don't think it will be pleasant! Further details, the machine has a 20GB IDE hard drive with 2 10GB partitions. SCSI CD ROM, IDE CD-RW and SCSI ZIP. Also installed an ATI Rage 128 video card from a BW G3. I would love to here from anyone who has sucessfully installed mandrake on a StarMax with a processor upgrade. I don't NEED to do this, the max works fine for the kids and has long been replaced for me, but it seems a fitting end for an old friend and a possibly entertaining introduction to Linux :) Regards, Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install Problems
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 00:38:05 -0600 John A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I'm having problems loading X properly. I couldn't get X to run at all under 10.0. And for some reason in 9.2, when I set my monitor resolution as a Flat Panel Display 1024 x 768 the edges of the desktop extend beyond the montor display. In other words, I can't see the perimeter of the desktop, just the center. Any idea why this would be happening? I've been having similar problems. I use the 852 chipset, which is supposed to be similar to the 855. Might want to take a look at an earlier thread where I asked about this: [newbie] Intel 852/855 GM Chipset, 1024x768 Resolution and also: [newbie] Zoomed display in GUI If you're still confused after taking a look at those, come back and we'll see what we can do. -- Job Evers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install Problems
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 18:30, Lee Wiggers wrote: Simple answer for this: PARTITION MAGIC Or try even, Partition Surprise: GPLed Partition Magic clone ...who said I *PAID* for my copies of Partition Magic...? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled culinary vessel will not achieve 100 degrees on the Celsius scale. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install Problems
I can't seem to find either thread you mentioned in the list archives. But they seem to be current only through 11/03. Is this list archived somewhere other than: http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/newbie/ -john smith Job Evers wrote: On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 00:38:05 -0600 John A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I'm having problems loading X properly. I couldn't get X to run at all under 10.0. And for some reason in 9.2, when I set my monitor resolution as a Flat Panel Display 1024 x 768 the edges of the desktop extend beyond the montor display. In other words, I can't see the perimeter of the desktop, just the center. Any idea why this would be happening? I've been having similar problems. I use the 852 chipset, which is supposed to be similar to the 855. Might want to take a look at an earlier thread where I asked about this: [newbie] Intel 852/855 GM Chipset, 1024x768 Resolution and also: [newbie] Zoomed display in GUI If you're still confused after taking a look at those, come back and we'll see what we can do. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install Problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 March 2004 21:21, John A. Smith wrote: I can't seem to find either thread you mentioned in the list archives. But they seem to be current only through 11/03. Is this list archived somewhere other than: http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/newbie/ Yup - it's surprising what you'll find on the TWiki: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MailingLists Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAWhz6kFAvMr/nNX8RArAqAJ9fheiH6m5IWySOX3bBVIo6ourITACfRc8/ ngpfH1OL8pVi/BDHJJu2KOs= =Dgho -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Install Problems
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:21:24 -0600 John A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't seem to find either thread you mentioned in the list archives. But they seem to be current only through 11/03. Is this list archived somewhere other than: http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/newbie/ -john smith A listing of the sites that keep an archive: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MailingLists The twiki is a good source of information, and it seems to improve every time I visit it. Job Evers wrote: On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 00:38:05 -0600 John A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I'm having problems loading X properly. I couldn't get X to runat all under 10.0. And for some reason in 9.2, when I set my monitor resolution as a Flat Panel Display 1024 x 768 the edges of the desktop extend beyond the montor display. In other words, I can't see the perimeter of the desktop, just the center. Any idea why this would be happening? I've been having similar problems. I use the 852 chipset, which is supposed to be similar to the 855. Might want to take a look at an earlier thread where I asked about this: [newbie] Intel 852/855 GM Chipset, 1024x768 Resolution and also: [newbie] Zoomed display in GUI If you're still confused after taking a look at those, come back and we'll see what we can do. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com -- Job Evers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Install Problems
I have an Averatec 5110H laptop - 1.3 GHZ Centrino, Intel 855x graphics card, 512MB RAM, 40 GB HD, Intel 2100 integrated wireless - that I have been trying to install Mandrake on. During the install process I could only get DiskDrake to resize my windows partition down to 34GB. I had defragmented thoroughly, turning of hibernate mode and virtual memory, and there was only about 8 Gb of data on the drive but it wouldn't let me shrink Windows down any smaller. I've tried to reinstall both 9.2 and 10 with the same results Is there another tool I can use to resize Windows without losing the data? Is there something else I need to turn off when I defrag? Also, I'm having problems loading X properly. I couldn't get X to run at all under 10.0. And for some reason in 9.2, when I set my monitor resolution as a Flat Panel Display 1024 x 768 the edges of the desktop extend beyond the montor display. In other words, I can't see the perimeter of the desktop, just the center. Any idea why this would be happening? Any input is appreciated. -john smith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Install Mandrake from HD partition
I downloaded Mandrake Community (3 iso files and an asc file) to a blank partition on a new harddrive. I have windows 2000 on my boot harddrive. How can I use that to 'build' my linux OS on the other partition instead of copying the files to CD's using Nero? Sorry if this is a dumb question, but as it is obvious, I am new to this world of Linux and Open Source. Chris Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] install 9.2 now: upgrade to 10.0 later?
Sorry if this has already been addressed. I have downloaded and installed 10.0rc1 but several things seem to be wrong with it and I am not having any success installing some of the software I would like to use. This makes me want to install the stable 9.2 now and upgrade to the latest and greatest stable packages once it is installed. Then, when 10.0 is stable and released, I would like to upgrade to it. Will the upgrade to 10.0 be possible from 9.2.? Thanks, -=Thinker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install and than no desktop Why???
Hello, Thanks for your help but why does the desktop change like this? I went to the link you gave me at the bottom of your mail but I didn't get it! What shall I do to limit the damage? Thank you Christophe Le Lundi 16 Fvrier 2004 12:13, Derek Jennings a crit : On Monday 16 Feb 2004 9:42 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed some packages from the Mandrake 9.2 discovery pack and then most of my desktop is gone... The menus are changed, softares are gone and I can not access as root. What shall I do? Same thing happend when I tried to install my printer driver. Thak you for your help Christophe Hit Ctl+Alt+F1 to get a text console. Log in as root update-menus -v will restore your menus Ctl+Alt+F7 takes you back to X Your menus will now work OK Visit http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php Define yourself urpmi sources for 'updates' 'contrib', and 'plf' Run your Mandrake Update GUI to get the latest updates. In particular make sure you update the 'rpm' package, or else you will lose your menus again. derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install and than no desktop Why???
On Tuesday 17 Feb 2004 6:11 pm, Christophe Rhein wrote: Le Lundi 16 Fvrier 2004 12:13, Derek Jennings a crit : On Monday 16 Feb 2004 9:42 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed some packages from the Mandrake 9.2 discovery pack and then most of my desktop is gone... The menus are changed, softares are gone and I can not access as root. What shall I do? Same thing happend when I tried to install my printer driver. Thak you for your help Christophe Hit Ctl+Alt+F1 to get a text console. Log in as root update-menus -v will restore your menus Ctl+Alt+F7 takes you back to X Your menus will now work OK Visit http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php Define yourself urpmi sources for 'updates' 'contrib', and 'plf' Run your Mandrake Update GUI to get the latest updates. In particular make sure you update the 'rpm' package, or else you will lose your menus again. derek Hello, Thanks for your help but why does the desktop change like this? I went to the link you gave me at the bottom of your mail but I didn't get it! What shall I do to limit the damage? Thank you Christophe Its a bug! The rpm package on the update mirror fixes it, but in order to get the update you have to define an update source. That 'Easy urpmi' page gives you the instruction to define a source. Go to http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php Tick the boxes for 'contrib', 'updates', and 'plf' and choose a mirror from the drop down list for each one. Press the button and you will see three command line commands to be entered. To save you the trouble here are the commands to use :- urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586 with ../../i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandrake/9.2 with hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia --update updates ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/ with ../base/hdlist.cz (Each of these 3 commands is on a single line) To enter the commands open a terminal window and type su enter to become root user. Then copy/paste the first command into the terminal by highlighting with the mouse to copy to clipboard and press the mouse wheel to paste. So long as you are online you will then see a file being downloaded which is a database of the contents of the online software repository. Repeat for the other 2 sources. You can then run Mandrake Update GUI to get your updates, or the Mandrake Install GUI to install software from the online sources. The 'contrib' source has 100's of applications not on your CDs, and the 'plf' source contains all those packages that are illegal in certain countries with weird laws. This French language guide may help you http://www.zebulon.org.uk/urpmi_fr.html derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install and than no desktop Why???
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 18:07, Derek Jennings wrote: Its a bug! The rpm package on the update mirror fixes it, but in order to get the update you have to define an update source. That 'Easy urpmi' page gives you the instruction to define a source. Go to http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php You may not be able to get that site - if not go to http://www.urpmi.org/easyurpmi/ where you will see the same facility. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Install and than no desktop
Hello, I installed some packages from the Mandrake 9.2 discovery pack and then most of my desktop is gone... The menus are changed, softares are gone and I can not access as root. What shall I do? Same thing happend when I tried to install my printer driver. Thak you for your help Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] install mysql with Mandrake CD's
The errors was that all depencies of mysql was conflicting with mysql-4.0.15.2mdk.. Now that's was weird. By the time you will read, I've already installed mysql with the source tarballs. I'm satisfied by the way I did it but it works. In my case, it seems that I have to start mysqld_safe with another port than the one by default (3306). Another strange thing, my /tmp cannot be read by mysqld_safe. I saw the localhost.err log file. Dit I miss something here? Song. --- song [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I tried to install mysql that come with the CD but I get conflict errors. I did it with rpmdrake GUI (Install Package from the menu) on my mandrake 9.2. Did someone have this problem? TIA Song Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] install mysql with Mandrake CD's
Hi All, I tried to install mysql that come with the CD but I get conflict errors. I did it with rpmdrake GUI (Install Package from the menu) on my mandrake 9.2. Did someone have this problem? TIA Song Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] install question on allocating disk space
(originally sent to OP as private mail... still have a spamblock from outblaze.com, grrr). On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:01:57 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Steve Kaufman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK here goes. I have an AMD 2500+ running at 2700+ on an ASUS motherboard Model : A7N8X V2.0. Running win 2000. C drive is 120 gig. EIDE, E: drive is empty 16 GB EIDE and also a SCSI 12 GB which has about 10 GB free. My suggestion, leave C: as is for now. E could be used for /home, and you might as well install the system on the scsi drive - since scsi is usually faster than IDE. What's on the scsi drive? Could it be easily moved over to another drive? I read that this install takes about 19 gb and I don't really want to partition my main drive although it has 100 GB free. I would like to install Hmm. 19 gigs does seem to be a lot. I have the system loaded now on a 13 gig slice of a 30 meg drive, and the rest is divvied up (5 gig home, 5 gig /usr/local, swap, a spare 5 gig unused slice.) 13 gigs for me at least is a lot of growing room. If nothing else, it gives me ample room for a DVD rip or cd burns etc. I usually stuff all that in /tmp which here is part of the 13 gig overall partition. It's mostly used for a place to hold large files on a temporary basis. If anything, /home could stand a little more room. using my e: drive and me F: drive. Is it possible during installation to allocate mount points on both of these drives or do I really only want to Easily done. Linux doesn't use drive letters of course, so you'll want to determine which devices are really used. Your scsi (G:) is probably /dev/sda, and the first partition is /dev/sda1, for instance. I'd probably want to divvy that in two partitions, 1 for /, and the other for swap (maybe 1 gig or less). Since at this point I plan on installing linux to it's own drive do need to have something to control where I boot from or is it easier to just tell my BIOS to boot from the second drive when I want to boot Linux. This way I don I only have the one OS, but I'd say that it's trivial to set up your MBR on the primary drive. The big consideration I suppose is if you install windows after you install Linux. Linux can boot off of any drive in the system - all it needs to know is where the root drive is. For example, I've had 2 drives in this system - but I boot off of /dev/hdb7, and my MBR is on /dev/hda (or at least it was: I've gone to the 1 disk for right now. hda is empty. One point - you want a scratchpad area at least as large as the largest partition that you are using. It really facilitates moving things around should you ever want or have to do that. For instance, some of my partitions are 5 gigs, and I have enough space in /tmp to host any one of those at one time. Seems like you have enough room for that :). Steve -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Install trouble - Mdrk9.1 - OF 1.0.5
Hi Guys and Girls, Newbie to Linux on PPC! HELP.. I can't install Mandrake 9.1. I'm on a 7300/200 with OF 1.0.5 I've booted into OF and tried 'boot scsi-int/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0, \\yaboot I get the error 'bad partition number using 0' 'no bootable HFS partition'. Any ideas or tutorials around? Cheers, Mark. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] install question on allocating disk space
OK here goes. I have an AMD 2500+ running at 2700+ on an ASUS motherboard Model : A7N8X V2.0. Running win 2000. C drive is 120 gig. EIDE, E: drive is empty 16 GBEIDE andalso a SCSI 12 GB which hasabout 10 GB free. I read that this install takes about 19 gb and I don't really want to partition my main drive although it has 100 GB free. I would like to install using my e: drive and me F: drive. Is it possible during installation to allocate mount points on both of these drives or do Ireally only want to install to one? I know a very little about unix so I'm not even sure I'm I might have a 20 GB drive I can put in as E but I'm not sure yet. Second question Since at this point I plan on installing linux to it's own drive do need to have something to control where I boot from or is it easier to just tell my BIOS to boot from the second drive when I want to boot Linux. This way I don't have to worry that if the install messes up I have to restore anything. I not parinoid but stff happens Thanks Steve
Re: [mandrake] Re: [newbie] install question on allocating disk space
cmg thanks, this should now be text and I have removed the reply to address in my config ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 01/23/04 20:23:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mandrake] Re: [newbie] install question on allocating disk space On Friday 23 January 2004 03:01 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: OK here goes. I have an AMD 2500+ running at 2700+ on an ASUS motherboard Model : A7N8X V2.0. Running win 2000. C drive is 120 gig. EIDE, E: drive is empty 16 GB EIDE and also a SCSI 12 GB which has about 10 GB free. I read that this install takes about 19 gb and I don't really want to partition my main drive although it has 100 GB free. I would like to install using my e: drive and me F: drive. Is it possible during installation to allocate mount points on both of these drives or do I really only want to install to one? I know a very little about unix so I'm not even sure I'm I might have a 20 GB drive I can put in as E but I'm not sure yet. Second question Since at this point I plan on installing linux to it's own drive do need to have something to control where I boot from or is it easier to just tell my BIOS to boot from the second drive when I want to boot Linux. This way I don t have to worry that if the install messes up I have to restore anything. I not parinoid but stff happens Thanks Steve Steve: First, please do us (and you) two favors. Blank out your reply-to setting; otherwise all replies to your post will go only to you and not to the other list members. Second, do not send hmtl-formatted mail to the list. Many list members automatically send all such messages to the bit bucket for security reasons. Mandrake's installation program will recognize your existing Windows partitions as well as your other hard drives. Just point it to the 16 and 12 gb drives. (FWIW, I seriously question the 19 gb requirement; the 16 gb drive should be just fine.) Mandrake will then offer a default partitioning scheme which should work well for most desktop installations, although you can easily modify it. Be sure to format all of the partitions (except /swap) with a journalling filesystem -- ext3 and reiser are the most commonly used. (/swap has its own filesystem format and will take care of itself.) The installation program will also set up the LILO boot loader that will handle all of the dual booting details. No need to keep fiddling with the BIOS. Your assignment is to learn how to restore the MBR in case stuff does happen and you have to start all over again. In DOS and Win9x days, it was done by running the command fdisk /mbr from a DOS boot disk, but I don't think that will work with either Win2K or XP. A suggestion: When it's time to select the security level, go with standard, otherwise you're going to learn far more about permissions than you want. Another suggestion: If your Win2K uses NTFS formatting, consider formatting the SCSI drive with FAT32 as a common data area that can be freely accessed by both Windows and Linux. (Linux can read NTFS, but I understand that writing to it is still problematic.) -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [mandrake] Re: [newbie] install question on allocating disk space
Thanks will do that. Have removed the reply to. ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 01/23/04 20:37:35 To: Steve Kaufman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [mandrake] Re: [newbie] install question on allocating disk space On Saturday 24 January 2004 01:09, you wrote: Kaj, Thanks for the reply. C E and F are all separate physical hard drives C: = 120GB maxtor, E:= 16 GB WD and F: is SCSI and I don't remember manufacturer off the top of my head. Well Steve, in that case your C "drive" will be /dev/hda , and your E "drive" will be /dev/hdb (assuming you have a D "drive" on your first harddisk). Only concern is, that Western Digital drives has a very bad reputation in the *free* world. Maxtor is OK. So assuming I install to the E: drive I should also install the Linux boot loader? or just change the BIOS when I boot to boot from HD1 instead of HD0. I am trying to prevent messing with the boot loader if I don't have to. I would like to have two single bootable disks which I control from the BIOS instead of using a boot loader. Is this just a waste of time? Should I just go ahead and install lilo or grub? Which is better? Yes, install Linux on your E "drive" (which actually is your second hard drive and thusly /dev/hdb). Why on earth do you want to go into the BIOS every time you want to boot an operating system ? If you just install i.e. *lilo* when prompted, you'll have the choice of installing it to i.e. the Master Boot Record (MBR) of your first hard disk, and that way you'll get the choice : boot Windows, DOS, CP/M, OS/2, Linux... or whatever you have available. And Steve : PLEASE remove the "reply to :" field in your mail program. That way our replies go to the list instead of your private mailbox. Kaj Haulrich. -- ** Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer **
Re: [mandrake] Re: [newbie] install question on allocating disk space
On Friday 23 January 2004 11:27 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: cmg thanks, this should now be text and I have removed the reply to address in my config Steve: Thanks. By the way, here's a nifty little (but growing) source of information about Mandrake: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install mandrake 9.2 on AMD k6-2 350MHz
I consulted one of my friends. (An old time Linux hacker). Together we tryed all sorts of things. Like different settings in the BIOS. Installation of Debian, new Harddisk. Everything without luck. According to him the problem is that the machine are not capable of making DMA. He gave up. Right now we are trying to install a Windows version. Thanks anyway Morten Andersen At 00:04 29-12-2003, you wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2003 09:54 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 16:30, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2003 1:23 pm, Lyvim Xaphir droned on: On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 15:56, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2003 9:46 am, Morten Andersen droned on: At 17:02 28-12-2003, you wrote: try linux acpi=ht mem=120M mem=nopentium noapic That results in absolutely nothing. Just black screen. It doesn't even start loading program into memory. at this time, hit 'alt+Ctrl+f3' together and see what the screen says also alt+Ctrl+f4 and see what error messages you get On the screen it says Alt+F3 or Alt+F4 (without Ctrl) I tryed that. I had a heck of a time getting Mdk 9.2 onto a Pentium 266 Laptop, as the CDs were not being read properly. It sounds alot like your problem. I have a Dell Inspiron 3200, that now functions great, but at 266 speeds. Try installing using the network.img image, and setting it up to either upload the files via NFS or FTP. I hope you have a fast connection for either one. Rob I don't think you have to do that; I had the same problem, now that you mention it. I just burned the cdrom.img to floppy and booted from there; after that I was able to install via CDROM. If you have a CD-ROM that can't read the burned disks (I do.) then it is the only way to get Linux on the machine. And when that was the problem, it acted very similar to what was described. Works for me. Rob Well, I'm starting to remember alot of stuff about the AMD K6 install; and I think that my AMD system was freezing at the same point as what Morten described. If the cdrom was incapable of reading the CD then the boot process wouldn't have begun at all. What is happening is a glitch during the load, which for some reason does NOT occur when the system (here) is booted from floppy, and THEN the cd is read. (A problem with the installation process per se) So therefore I was forced to install the Power Pack cd's with a floppy boot on the AMD server; which did work fine. It may be that a cdrom.img floppy/CD install won't work on your machine; is that one of the avenues you tried? Hopefully Mort won't have to go that route, as CD installation is much faster. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Morten Andersen Master of applied mathematics and computer science Amanuensis Interest areas: -e-learning -software engineering -applied math The Maersk Institute of Production technology at Southern Danish University www.mip.sdu.dk Campusvej 55 DK-5230 Odense M Denmark +45 6550-3654 +45 6171-1103 Jabber id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install mandrake 9.2 on AMD k6-2 350MHz
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 05:25, Morten Andersen wrote: I consulted one of my friends. (An old time Linux hacker). Together we tryed all sorts of things. Like different settings in the BIOS. Installation of Debian, new Harddisk. Everything without luck. According to him the problem is that the machine are not capable of making DMA. He gave up. Right now we are trying to install a Windows version. Thanks anyway Morten Andersen Another mobo deal. Sorry about that. If you decide you're interested in selling the AMD, mobo and all, contact me. I've got some mobos here that need AMD K6 CPU's, and have old memory requirements. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Install mandrake 9.2 on AMD k6-2 350MHz
I'm trying to install mandrake 9.2 on my old AMD-K6-2 350 MHz machine. But the installation process freezes on Loading program into memory. There are 128 MB Ram on the machine. Should I just throw out the machine or can I install mandrake on it? Morten Andersen Master of applied mathematics and computer science Amanuensis Interest areas: -e-learning -software engineering -applied math The Maersk Institute of Production technology at Southern Danish University www.mip.sdu.dk Campusvej 55 DK-5230 Odense M Denmark +45 6550-3654 +45 6171-1103 Jabber id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install mandrake 9.2 on AMD k6-2 350MHz
On Sunday 28 December 2003 12:35, Morten Andersen wrote: I'm trying to install mandrake 9.2 on my old AMD-K6-2 350 MHz machine. But the installation process freezes on Loading program into memory. There are 128 MB Ram on the machine. Should I just throw out the machine or can I install mandrake on it? I think 9.2 might be a strain on a 350MHz machine, on top of which the K6 processors were not entirely standard. I'd check whether the motherboard can accept a higher cpu and if it can I'd look out for a used one to fit. Having said that, I wouldn't necessarily give up straight away. I am not running 9.2 (I have 9.1) but I presume that the following will still apply :-) Early in the install process you get a chance to hit F1 for more options. If you do that you will see a brief explanation of the options. Try whatever looks likely, and tell us what happens. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install mandrake 9.2 on AMD k6-2 350MHz
On Sunday 28 December 2003 12:35 pm, Morten Andersen wrote: I'm trying to install mandrake 9.2 on my old AMD-K6-2 350 MHz machine. But the installation process freezes on Loading program into memory. There are 128 MB Ram on the machine. Should I just throw out the machine or can I install mandrake on it? Morten Andersen Master of applied mathematics and computer science Amanuensis Interest areas: -e-learning -software engineering -applied math The Maersk Institute of Production technology at Southern Danish University www.mip.sdu.dk Campusvej 55 DK-5230 Odense M Denmark +45 6550-3654 +45 6171-1103 Jabber id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] when it offers 'hit enter to continue or f1 for other options, hit f1 and type 'linux noapic mem=xxxM' without the quotes, and where xxx is the amount of installed memory minus the amount of shared (video on board) Memory HTH ET Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install mandrake 9.2 on AMD k6-2 350MHz
I tryed the F1 solution. Without any luck. None of the following worked: The patch (with a patch from version: 9.1) linux mem=128M text I never get passed the loading into memory part. Regards Morten Andersen At 13:45 28-12-2003, you wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2003 12:35, Morten Andersen wrote: I'm trying to install mandrake 9.2 on my old AMD-K6-2 350 MHz machine. But the installation process freezes on Loading program into memory. There are 128 MB Ram on the machine. Should I just throw out the machine or can I install mandrake on it? I think 9.2 might be a strain on a 350MHz machine, on top of which the K6 processors were not entirely standard. I'd check whether the motherboard can accept a higher cpu and if it can I'd look out for a used one to fit. Having said that, I wouldn't necessarily give up straight away. I am not running 9.2 (I have 9.1) but I presume that the following will still apply :-) Early in the install process you get a chance to hit F1 for more options. If you do that you will see a brief explanation of the options. Try whatever looks likely, and tell us what happens. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Morten Andersen Master of applied mathematics and computer science Amanuensis Interest areas: -e-learning -software engineering -applied math The Maersk Institute of Production technology at Southern Danish University www.mip.sdu.dk Campusvej 55 DK-5230 Odense M Denmark +45 6550-3654 +45 6171-1103 Jabber id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install mandrake 9.2 on AMD k6-2 350MHz
On Sunday 28 December 2003 12:55 pm, Morten Andersen wrote: I tryed the F1 solution. Without any luck. None of the following worked: The patch (with a patch from version: 9.1) linux mem=128M in a previous post I suggested type 'linux noapic mem=xxxM' without the quotes, and where xxx is the amount of installed memory minus the amount of shared (video on board) Memory also you might want to try acpi=ht. be sure to type it all on 1 line, and you can add each statement just leave a space between I never get passed the loading into memory part. Regards Morten Andersen At 13:45 28-12-2003, you wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2003 12:35, Morten Andersen wrote: I'm trying to install mandrake 9.2 on my old AMD-K6-2 350 MHz machine. But the installation process freezes on Loading program into memory. There are 128 MB Ram on the machine. Should I just throw out the machine or can I install mandrake on it? I think 9.2 might be a strain on a 350MHz machine, on top of which the K6 processors were not entirely standard. I'd check whether the motherboard can accept a higher cpu and if it can I'd look out for a used one to fit. Having said that, I wouldn't necessarily give up straight away. I am not running 9.2 (I have 9.1) but I presume that the following will still apply :-) Early in the install process you get a chance to hit F1 for more options. If you do that you will see a brief explanation of the options. Try whatever looks likely, and tell us what happens. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Morten Andersen Master of applied mathematics and computer science Amanuensis Interest areas: -e-learning -software engineering -applied math The Maersk Institute of Production technology at Southern Danish University www.mip.sdu.dk Campusvej 55 DK-5230 Odense M Denmark +45 6550-3654 +45 6171-1103 Jabber id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install mandrake 9.2 on AMD k6-2 350MHz
At 17:02 28-12-2003, you wrote: try linux acpi=ht mem=120M mem=nopentium noapic That results in absolutely nothing. Just black screen. It doesn't even start loading program into memory. On Sunday 28 December 2003 02:03 pm, Morten Andersen wrote: I tryed: linux acpi=ht. noapic mem=nopentium linux acpi=ht mem=nopentium linux noapic mem=nopentium All resulting in a reboot while loading program into memory. linux acpi=ht. mem=120M Resulting in a freeze while loading program into memory linux acpi=ht mem=100M Resulting in a print out of what looks like register numbers (on a red screen) - reboot. Regards Morten Andersen At 14:19 28-12-2003, you wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2003 01:05 pm, Morten Andersen wrote: I just tryed that first with xxx = 128. That caused the machine to reboot while loading program into memory. Then I tryed xxx=64 that caused an error: Bad EIP value. xxx=100 made the machine freeze while loading program into memory. Regards Morten Andersen just to be sure,,, when you are trying the mem= we are NOT putting xxx then xxx=120 and we are putting it as mem=120M (must have that captial M at teh end) we can and should also try mem=nopentium At 13:54 28-12-2003, you wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2003 12:35 pm, Morten Andersen wrote: I'm trying to install mandrake 9.2 on my old AMD-K6-2 350 MHz machine. But the installation process freezes on Loading program into memory. There are 128 MB Ram on the machine. Should I just throw out the machine or can I install mandrake on it? Morten Andersen Master of applied mathematics and computer science Amanuensis Interest areas: -e-learning -software engineering -applied math The Maersk Institute of Production technology at Southern Danish University www.mip.sdu.dk Campusvej 55 DK-5230 Odense M Denmark +45 6550-3654 +45 6171-1103 Jabber id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] when it offers 'hit enter to continue or f1 for other options, hit f1 and type 'linux noapic mem=xxxM' without the quotes, and where xxx is the amount of installed memory minus the amount of shared (video on board) Memory HTH ET Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Morten Andersen Master of applied mathematics and computer science Amanuensis Interest areas: -e-learning -software engineering -applied math The Maersk Institute of Production technology at Southern Danish University www.mip.sdu.dk Campusvej 55 DK-5230 Odense M Denmark +45 6550-3654 +45 6171-1103 Jabber id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Morten Andersen Master of applied mathematics and computer science Amanuensis Interest areas: -e-learning -software engineering -applied math The Maersk Institute of Production technology at Southern Danish University www.mip.sdu.dk Campusvej 55 DK-5230 Odense M Denmark +45 6550-3654 +45 6171-1103 Jabber id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Morten Andersen Master of applied mathematics and computer science Amanuensis Interest areas: -e-learning -software engineering -applied math The Maersk Institute of Production technology at Southern Danish University www.mip.sdu.dk Campusvej 55 DK-5230 Odense M Denmark +45 6550-3654 +45 6171-1103 Jabber id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install mandrake 9.2 on AMD k6-2 350MHz
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 07:45, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2003 12:35, Morten Andersen wrote: I'm trying to install mandrake 9.2 on my old AMD-K6-2 350 MHz machine. But the installation process freezes on Loading program into memory. There are 128 MB Ram on the machine. Should I just throw out the machine or can I install mandrake on it? I think 9.2 might be a strain on a 350MHz machine, on top of which the K6 processors were not entirely standard. I don't think it has ever been a processor issue; I think it has always been a support chipset issue. Unless you happen to be talking about the K5 series; now the early versions of THOSE did have problems. Most of the time when stuff like this happens with a K6 it's a mobo or memory thing. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install mandrake 9.2 on AMD k6-2 350MHz
Morten, FYI...I have an AMD K62-550 running at 375 and it installed MDK 9.2 with no modifications. I think the memory is something like 64 megs, I'd have to go check the server, but I think that's correct. No hitches in the installation whatsoever; it's an older mobo too. As far as yours, it may be a bad memory setting in the bios or you may get some results from changing your memory out or making other config changes. Try installing lesser memory or different memory. The problem is definitely not the cpu. Unless of course the cpu is defective. But I doubt that. LX On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 07:35, Morten Andersen wrote: I'm trying to install mandrake 9.2 on my old AMD-K6-2 350 MHz machine. But the installation process freezes on Loading program into memory. There are 128 MB Ram on the machine. Should I just throw out the machine or can I install mandrake on it? Morten Andersen Master of applied mathematics and computer science Amanuensis Interest areas: -e-learning -software engineering -applied math The Maersk Institute of Production technology at Southern Danish University www.mip.sdu.dk Campusvej 55 DK-5230 Odense M Denmark +45 6550-3654 +45 6171-1103 Jabber id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install mandrake 9.2 on AMD k6-2 350MHz
On Sunday 28 December 2003 18:33, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 07:45, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2003 12:35, Morten Andersen wrote: I'm trying to install mandrake 9.2 on my old AMD-K6-2 350 MHz machine. But the installation process freezes on Loading program into memory. There are 128 MB Ram on the machine. Should I just throw out the machine or can I install mandrake on it? I think 9.2 might be a strain on a 350MHz machine, on top of which the K6 processors were not entirely standard. I don't think it has ever been a processor issue; I think it has always been a support chipset issue. Unless you happen to be talking about the K5 series; now the early versions of THOSE did have problems. Could be that is what was in the back of my mind :-) Most of the time when stuff like this happens with a K6 it's a mobo or memory thing. In which case, more detail about the hardware might help? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install mandrake 9.2 on AMD k6-2 350MHz
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 13:37, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2003 18:33, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 07:45, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2003 12:35, Morten Andersen wrote: I'm trying to install mandrake 9.2 on my old AMD-K6-2 350 MHz machine. But the installation process freezes on Loading program into memory. There are 128 MB Ram on the machine. Should I just throw out the machine or can I install mandrake on it? I think 9.2 might be a strain on a 350MHz machine, on top of which the K6 processors were not entirely standard. I don't think it has ever been a processor issue; I think it has always been a support chipset issue. Unless you happen to be talking about the K5 series; now the early versions of THOSE did have problems. Could be that is what was in the back of my mind :-) Most of the time when stuff like this happens with a K6 it's a mobo or memory thing. In which case, more detail about the hardware might help? Anne I agree, I think it would definitely help. Some configuration changes, either bios or hardware, might help to get info too. A different behavior from the install process would be useful. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install mandrake 9.2 on AMD k6-2 350MHz
On Sunday 28 December 2003 9:46 am, Morten Andersen droned on: At 17:02 28-12-2003, you wrote: try linux acpi=ht mem=120M mem=nopentium noapic That results in absolutely nothing. Just black screen. It doesn't even start loading program into memory. I had a heck of a time getting Mdk 9.2 onto a Pentium 266 Laptop, as the CDs were not being read properly. It sounds alot like your problem. I have a Dell Inspiron 3200, that now functions great, but at 266 speeds. Try installing using the network.img image, and setting it up to either upload the files via NFS or FTP. I hope you have a fast connection for either one. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install mandrake 9.2 on AMD k6-2 350MHz
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 15:56, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2003 9:46 am, Morten Andersen droned on: At 17:02 28-12-2003, you wrote: try linux acpi=ht mem=120M mem=nopentium noapic That results in absolutely nothing. Just black screen. It doesn't even start loading program into memory. I had a heck of a time getting Mdk 9.2 onto a Pentium 266 Laptop, as the CDs were not being read properly. It sounds alot like your problem. I have a Dell Inspiron 3200, that now functions great, but at 266 speeds. Try installing using the network.img image, and setting it up to either upload the files via NFS or FTP. I hope you have a fast connection for either one. Rob I don't think you have to do that; I had the same problem, now that you mention it. I just burned the cdrom.img to floppy and booted from there; after that I was able to install via CDROM. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install mandrake 9.2 on AMD k6-2 350MHz
On Sunday 28 December 2003 1:23 pm, Lyvim Xaphir droned on: On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 15:56, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2003 9:46 am, Morten Andersen droned on: At 17:02 28-12-2003, you wrote: try linux acpi=ht mem=120M mem=nopentium noapic That results in absolutely nothing. Just black screen. It doesn't even start loading program into memory. I had a heck of a time getting Mdk 9.2 onto a Pentium 266 Laptop, as the CDs were not being read properly. It sounds alot like your problem. I have a Dell Inspiron 3200, that now functions great, but at 266 speeds. Try installing using the network.img image, and setting it up to either upload the files via NFS or FTP. I hope you have a fast connection for either one. Rob I don't think you have to do that; I had the same problem, now that you mention it. I just burned the cdrom.img to floppy and booted from there; after that I was able to install via CDROM. If you have a CD-ROM that can't read the burned disks (I do.) then it is the only way to get Linux on the machine. And when that was the problem, it acted very similar to what was described. Works for me. Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Linux Counter #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install mandrake 9.2 on AMD k6-2 350MHz
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 16:30, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2003 1:23 pm, Lyvim Xaphir droned on: On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 15:56, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2003 9:46 am, Morten Andersen droned on: At 17:02 28-12-2003, you wrote: try linux acpi=ht mem=120M mem=nopentium noapic That results in absolutely nothing. Just black screen. It doesn't even start loading program into memory. I had a heck of a time getting Mdk 9.2 onto a Pentium 266 Laptop, as the CDs were not being read properly. It sounds alot like your problem. I have a Dell Inspiron 3200, that now functions great, but at 266 speeds. Try installing using the network.img image, and setting it up to either upload the files via NFS or FTP. I hope you have a fast connection for either one. Rob I don't think you have to do that; I had the same problem, now that you mention it. I just burned the cdrom.img to floppy and booted from there; after that I was able to install via CDROM. If you have a CD-ROM that can't read the burned disks (I do.) then it is the only way to get Linux on the machine. And when that was the problem, it acted very similar to what was described. Works for me. Rob Well, I'm starting to remember alot of stuff about the AMD K6 install; and I think that my AMD system was freezing at the same point as what Morten described. If the cdrom was incapable of reading the CD then the boot process wouldn't have begun at all. What is happening is a glitch during the load, which for some reason does NOT occur when the system (here) is booted from floppy, and THEN the cd is read. (A problem with the installation process per se) So therefore I was forced to install the Power Pack cd's with a floppy boot on the AMD server; which did work fine. It may be that a cdrom.img floppy/CD install won't work on your machine; is that one of the avenues you tried? Hopefully Mort won't have to go that route, as CD installation is much faster. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install mandrake 9.2 on AMD k6-2 350MHz
On Sunday 28 December 2003 09:54 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 16:30, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2003 1:23 pm, Lyvim Xaphir droned on: On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 15:56, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2003 9:46 am, Morten Andersen droned on: At 17:02 28-12-2003, you wrote: try linux acpi=ht mem=120M mem=nopentium noapic That results in absolutely nothing. Just black screen. It doesn't even start loading program into memory. at this time, hit 'alt+Ctrl+f3' together and see what the screen says also alt+Ctrl+f4 and see what error messages you get I had a heck of a time getting Mdk 9.2 onto a Pentium 266 Laptop, as the CDs were not being read properly. It sounds alot like your problem. I have a Dell Inspiron 3200, that now functions great, but at 266 speeds. Try installing using the network.img image, and setting it up to either upload the files via NFS or FTP. I hope you have a fast connection for either one. Rob I don't think you have to do that; I had the same problem, now that you mention it. I just burned the cdrom.img to floppy and booted from there; after that I was able to install via CDROM. If you have a CD-ROM that can't read the burned disks (I do.) then it is the only way to get Linux on the machine. And when that was the problem, it acted very similar to what was described. Works for me. Rob Well, I'm starting to remember alot of stuff about the AMD K6 install; and I think that my AMD system was freezing at the same point as what Morten described. If the cdrom was incapable of reading the CD then the boot process wouldn't have begun at all. What is happening is a glitch during the load, which for some reason does NOT occur when the system (here) is booted from floppy, and THEN the cd is read. (A problem with the installation process per se) So therefore I was forced to install the Power Pack cd's with a floppy boot on the AMD server; which did work fine. It may be that a cdrom.img floppy/CD install won't work on your machine; is that one of the avenues you tried? Hopefully Mort won't have to go that route, as CD installation is much faster. LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install on old hardware
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 06:21:31 + E wrote: |have you tried the alternet kernels? and have you tried the 'noapic' ? After countless attempts at installing 9.1, using alt0 and alt1 - along with the stock kernel, with and without 'noapic', the farthest I can get is packages beginning to install but halting at glibc in one case and perl in another using noapic with alt0, IIRC - it installed perl but when installing perl-base, it suddenly re-booted. I just now tried Libranet 2.7-Classic,and it gave me the same '0Kernel panic: Attempting to kill idle task! In idle task - not syncing ' message (from my O P) as it began the base system install. Any other suggestions? -- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion. Thomas Jefferson, September 28, 1820 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install on old hardware
On Monday 17 November 2003 03:15 am, C. Tresenriter wrote: After several attempts to install 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2 on a PT-5VMD mobo (VIA MVP3 chipset), I finally got through the formatting stage and packages began to install and then crashed with a (now) familiar message that I've seen at different stages - sometimes right after booting, sometimes when formatting failed: CPU: 0 Oops: 0002 EIP: 0010:[c010be96] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010002 eax: 07d10001 ebx: c0255460 ecx: edx: e00 esi: 000e00 edi: ebp: c0217e74 esp: c0217e4c ds: 0018 es: 0018 Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=c0217000) Stack: ff00 c0176888 0010 0202 0008 00d02400 c02554cc (etc two more rows here) Call Trace[c0176888] [c0189763] . (and two more rows here) Code 00 83 c4 0c c7 43 60 00 00 00 00 eb a1 90 fc 06 1e 50 55 57 0Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! In interrupt handler - not syncing The processor is an AMD K6 - 400 with 131 MB RAM and a Seagate 4.3 Gb hard disk. I'm guessing it's hardware related. Anyone have a clue what's happening? TIA have you tried the alternet kernels? and have you tried the 'noapic' ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Install on old hardware
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 06:21:31 + E wrote: [] |have you tried the alternet kernels? and have you tried the 'noapic' ? linux noapic goes as far as formatting the first partition and hangs with the caps lock and scroll lock lit up on the keyboard. I seem to remember doing an alternate kernel install with 7.0 or 8.1, starting the install with the second disk and being given a choice of kernels. I tried starting with the second disk (this is 9.0), it asked for the first one and I said 'alt1' at the prompt... it seems to be working- it's gone farther than every other attempt so far. (later) I had put the third disc in before I had to leave, just got home and found the hard drive and CD ROM lights both lit and a blank screen but it wouldn't wake. Re-booted and it gets as far as recognizing the HD and CD ROM, then Verifying DMI Pool Data and just sits there. I'll run through it again and see what happens. -- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Install on old hardware
After several attempts to install 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2 on a PT-5VMD mobo (VIA MVP3 chipset), I finally got through the formatting stage and packages began to install and then crashed with a (now) familiar message that I've seen at different stages - sometimes right after booting, sometimes when formatting failed: CPU:0 Oops: 0002 EIP:0010:[c010be96] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010002 eax: 07d10001 ebx: c0255460 ecx: edx: e00 esi: 000e00 edi: ebp: c0217e74 esp: c0217e4c ds: 0018 es: 0018 Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=c0217000) Stack: ff00 c0176888 0010 0202 0008 00d02400 c02554cc (etc two more rows here) Call Trace [c0176888] [c0189763] . (and two more rows here) Code 00 83 c4 0c c7 43 60 00 00 00 00 eb a1 90 fc 06 1e 50 55 57 0Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! In interrupt handler - not syncing The processor is an AMD K6 - 400 with 131 MB RAM and a Seagate 4.3 Gb hard disk. I'm guessing it's hardware related. Anyone have a clue what's happening? TIA -- The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James, 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] install problems with Mandrake 9.1 on a Mac 8600 w/G3 upgrade
Hi everyone! I am new tothis list and I hope someone can help me on this problem I am trying to install Linux mandrake on a Mac 8600 which has a newertech maxpowr G3 300Mhz processor 497megs of ram. It also has a ATI Rage 128 video card installed, 30GB Harddrive w/ mac os 9.0 The problem is that when I try to boot into Linux Mandrake it comes to a point and tells me that it can't find my cdrom? I am useing bootx 1.2.2 I have tryed to install it several times,I am about ready to give up. I would be grateful If I got any help on this. Thanks Jim -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] install and start ssh on Mandrake 9.0 ?
I need to install and start ssh on Mandrake 9.0 in order to retrieve files using another Linux box. How do I do this? Thanks, -=Thinker Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
