Re: [newbie] Can't install jpackage sources
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 August 2004 17:54:05, Trey Sizemore wrote: I've got Mandrake 10.1 beta1 installed and am in the process of doing some upgrades. I've managed to get main, contrib, and PLF sources installed, but I'm having some issues getting jpackage. I think this is where I get the java packages from. Here's the error I'm getting (I've tried several jpackage mirrors with the same result): [EMAIL PROTECTED] trey]# urpmi.addmedia jpackage ftp://ftp.uio.no/linux/Mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/i586/media/jpackage with media_info/hdlist.cz added medium jpackage examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.plf.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.contrib.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.main.cz] retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of jpackage... ftp://ftp.uio.no/linux/Mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/i586/media/jpackage/media _info/hdlist.cz ...retrieving failed: curl: (9) Couldn't cd to media_info retrieval of source hdlist (or synthesis) failed no hdlist file found for medium jpackage examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.jpackage.cz] problem reading synthesis file of medium jpackage unable to update medium jpackage Is this a problem with the mirrors or can I do something different? Thanks. Start with urpmi.removemedia -a and start over from scratch. The media additions that are copied below are what I'm using. They work. That's the best I can say about anything related to Mandrake mirrors today. I added PLF at the bottom so you just skip that one when you copy and paste if your choice has worked. I just like to give a complete answer. (-; The tree structure for the mirrors has changed again and that's causing aggravation and confusion. It should, I sincerely hope, be temporary. This will get you the jpackage list and whatever you wanted to install: urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/i586/media/main with media_info/hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/i586/media/contrib with media_info/hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia jpackage ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrakelinux/devel/cooker/i586/media/jpackage with media_info/hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandrake/cooker with hdlist.cz The reason I'm pushing you to the proxad mirror is simple, I know it's current. The rest I ain't so sure about. Have fun! Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Beta 1) for i586 kernel 2.6.8-0.rc2.2mdk 18:03:29 up 4 days, 6:56, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.24, 0.29 All is well that ends well. -- John Heywood -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBGBKlZqvqlrLPr5YRAtxzAJ0ar+e04zqW/nOgvqhGnzLcUB6hzACfUk4K TleiPuYqGHbU7dAmCQNhJxw= =0NqX -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] Can't install jpackage sources
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 09 August 2004 19:18:07, Trey Sizemore wrote: whack Thanks, still getting the same errors as I posted earlier. Maybe there's something wrong with the mirror? Anyone else having an issue with this? Thanks. It's quite possible the trouble that I was having updating is still causing us grief. I'll try an update and see what I get... You're right so I went and looked. The hdlist3.cz and the media info sub directory in the jpackage directory are all missing. That makes it a little tough, doesn't it. rant I told you there were mirror problems at present. What I don't understand is why the head honchos at Mandrake always make these changes sometime during the AlphaBetaRC part of the release cycle. It's almost as though all the please test and report any bugs blah blah blah is nothing but crap. How can you test what you can't access for installation? /rant It's been a rather frustrating day, sorry. I don't mean to unload on you. You could always download the entire jpackage directory contents and install whatever parts you need manually. You'll still be able to use urpmi in the directory, you just won't have a graphical connection to read through the package list. There's a way to generate an hdlist in a directory full of packages so that you could use it as a local source, but it escapes me at the moment. Hold on: In the directory containing the rpms, I would do: genhdlist ./ I suppose that's the best I can do for now, sorry again. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrakelinux release 10.1 (Beta 1) for i586 kernel 2.6.8-0.rc2.2mdk 20:21:53 up 1:07, 1 user, load average: 0.20, 0.33, 0.71 Remember: Silly is a state of Mind, Stupid is a way of Life. -- Dave Butler -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBGD5JZqvqlrLPr5YRAkz9AKCBF48Tr4nE4ediUHLwLOWoOXvW4QCfdSjG JkUsj7ZzKGGYbtYdfHlp1oE= =G+ui -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] Can't install Mandrake-Linux?
Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 03 August 2004 11:43 pm, Lanman wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 03 August 2004 06:22 pm, Lanman wrote: Has anyone heard of a Mandrake install causing a black-screen right at the beginning of the install? I've been trying to install Mandrake 10.0 and 9.2 on an ECS K7VMM board with a Duron 650 CPU and 512MB of ram, and right after I press the Enter button to start the install, the screen goes black, and nothing else happens. Just to make sure, I installed Fedora Core 2 without a single problem. I thought I'd try it because it has a 2.6 kernel, and I was concerned that the kernel was the problem. FC2 installed without a single problem - Video and Monitor were properly detected by Anaconda, and all my hardware was detected and set up without any grief at all. Any thoughts? Suggestions? I've tested the Ram and it's fine, and I've checked and rechecked the BIOS which is also set properly. Try starting the install kernel with noapic nolapic boot parameters. Thanks Greg! That did the trick! First time in 8 or 9 years that this has been a problem for me! Who'd a thunk it, except you! Mandrake is one of the few kernels that has apic enabled by default on UP kernels. I've run into this a bazillion times, so it is always the first thing I try when a machine won't boot, oir boots with certain hardware not working. Greg; Go Figure! It's a first for me! But I won't forget it from now on! Thanks again, Dude! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake-Linux?
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 06:22 pm, Lanman wrote: Has anyone heard of a Mandrake install causing a black-screen right at the beginning of the install? I've been trying to install Mandrake 10.0 and 9.2 on an ECS K7VMM board with a Duron 650 CPU and 512MB of ram, and right after I press the Enter button to start the install, the screen goes black, and nothing else happens. Just to make sure, I installed Fedora Core 2 without a single problem. I thought I'd try it because it has a 2.6 kernel, and I was concerned that the kernel was the problem. FC2 installed without a single problem - Video and Monitor were properly detected by Anaconda, and all my hardware was detected and set up without any grief at all. Any thoughts? Suggestions? I've tested the Ram and it's fine, and I've checked and rechecked the BIOS which is also set properly. Try starting the install kernel with noapic nolapic boot parameters. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake-Linux?
Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 03 August 2004 06:22 pm, Lanman wrote: Has anyone heard of a Mandrake install causing a black-screen right at the beginning of the install? I've been trying to install Mandrake 10.0 and 9.2 on an ECS K7VMM board with a Duron 650 CPU and 512MB of ram, and right after I press the Enter button to start the install, the screen goes black, and nothing else happens. Just to make sure, I installed Fedora Core 2 without a single problem. I thought I'd try it because it has a 2.6 kernel, and I was concerned that the kernel was the problem. FC2 installed without a single problem - Video and Monitor were properly detected by Anaconda, and all my hardware was detected and set up without any grief at all. Any thoughts? Suggestions? I've tested the Ram and it's fine, and I've checked and rechecked the BIOS which is also set properly. Try starting the install kernel with noapic nolapic boot parameters. Thanks Greg! That did the trick! First time in 8 or 9 years that this has been a problem for me! Who'd a thunk it, except you! Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can't install/use WebDAV.
Where is your conf file? Here is the lines that I insert in my httpd2.conf: ### == LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so DAVLockDB /dav/DAVLock Directory /dav DAV On AuthType Basic AuthName WebDAV Server AuthUserFile /dav/.DAVlogin /Directory ### == Your dav directory is world writable, right? well, I type 'ps -ef | grep httpd' and see the service running under 'apache' user... so, I made this: mkdir /dav chmod -R 775 /dav chown -R apache.apache /dav And I create the password file: htpasswd -c /dav/.DAVlogin flavio (flavio is the user running Calendar on win98 client station). Made this, I try to publish my calendar but no file is writing in /dav directory... and I don't know how to test if my WebDAV server is running I put a single txt file in /dav directory and try to see it on my win98 client station like this: http://192.168.200.50/dav/test.txt but I got a 'page not found' error... Can you see something wrong ? Thank you again. Flávio Henrique Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can't install/use WebDAV.
Hi Todd, thank you for the answer... but look, On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 09:41:20AM -0300, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi guys. I trying to test Mozilla Calendar with WebDAV but I having some problems... I go to my Mandrake Control Center and I hit Mounted Points (I don't know exactly how to say it in english, because I use another idiom), after I hit WebDAV's mounted points I receive the message: The package davfs must be installed. Do you wish to install now? Points', like if I did hit No. I use the add/remove/update packages to see something else, but I can't see this package... Someone can help me with this ? You don't need to create a mount point or format a partition for mod_dav, it will just work with Apache once you have davfs and mod_dav installed (just use urpmi). Ok. Made. The trick, then, is setting up your Apache directory with the proper permissions. You need to turn webDAV on for the directory, and specify an .htaccess file if you want. For example: Location /calendars DAV On AuthType Basic AuthName WebDAV Calendars AuthUserFile /var/www/calusers LimitExcept GET HEAD OPTIONS Require valid-user /LimitExcept /Location And of course restart Apache. Ok. Made. Except for the lines: LimitExcept GET HEAD OPTIONS Require valid-user /LimitExcept to no have problems with autentications in my tests... It takes some tinkering to figure out how to publish a calendar using Mozilla, though.i Here is my problem. Because I really don't know what should be happen when I publish a calendar. ( I think should create a file in my /dav/ directory ) I using apache2 in a Lan (I mean without access from Internet, just in my internal network) I install my apache2 and test in my network and works ( I type http://192.168.200.50 and the page from Linux server opens) BUT In some tutorials that I read seems that I need a VirtualHost set in my httpd2.conf, so I need to use something like http://www.myhost.com is this right ? I can't use http://192.168.200.50/dav/ ? I looking for some help to test if my webDAV is working but I can't find. Some tips will be great. Thank you Flávio Henrique Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can't install/use WebDAV.
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 03:30:27PM -0300, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi Todd, thank you for the answer... but look, On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 09:41:20AM -0300, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi guys. I trying to test Mozilla Calendar with WebDAV but I having some problems... I go to my Mandrake Control Center and I hit Mounted Points (I don't know exactly how to say it in english, because I use another idiom), after I hit WebDAV's mounted points I receive the message: The package davfs must be installed. Do you wish to install now? Points', like if I did hit No. I use the add/remove/update packages to see something else, but I can't see this package... Someone can help me with this ? You don't need to create a mount point or format a partition for mod_dav, it will just work with Apache once you have davfs and mod_dav installed (just use urpmi). Ok. Made. The trick, then, is setting up your Apache directory with the proper permissions. You need to turn webDAV on for the directory, and specify an .htaccess file if you want. For example: Location /calendars DAV On AuthType Basic AuthName WebDAV Calendars AuthUserFile /var/www/calusers LimitExcept GET HEAD OPTIONS Require valid-user /LimitExcept /Location And of course restart Apache. Ok. Made. Except for the lines: LimitExcept GET HEAD OPTIONS Require valid-user /LimitExcept to no have problems with autentications in my tests... It takes some tinkering to figure out how to publish a calendar using Mozilla, though.i Here is my problem. Because I really don't know what should be happen when I publish a calendar. ( I think should create a file in my /dav/ directory ) I using apache2 in a Lan (I mean without access from Internet, just in my internal network) I install my apache2 and test in my network and works ( I type http://192.168.200.50 and the page from Linux server opens) BUT In some tutorials that I read seems that I need a VirtualHost set in my httpd2.conf, so I need to use something like http://www.myhost.com is this right ? I can't use http://192.168.200.50/dav/ ? I looking for some help to test if my webDAV is working but I can't find. Some tips will be great. Naw, you don't need a virtual host unless you want one. Since you don't have any restrictions set, you should just be able to publish the calendar by specifying the IP and directory from Mozilla Calendar. For example, http://192.168.200.50/dav/calendar.ics . Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can't install/use WebDAV.
Naw, you don't need a virtual host unless you want one. Since you don't have any restrictions set, you should just be able to publish the calendar by specifying the IP and directory from Mozilla Calendar. For example, http://192.168.200.50/dav/calendar.ics . Todd Ok. I trying this, but no files is write in /dav/ directory... It works for you ? can you plz check my httpd2.conf to see anything suspicius ? Thanx. Flávio Henrique Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can't install/use WebDAV.
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 09:41:20AM -0300, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi guys. I trying to test Mozilla Calendar with WebDAV but I having some problems... I go to my Mandrake Control Center and I hit Mounted Points (I don't know exactly how to say it in english, because I use another idiom), after I hit WebDAV's mounted points I receive the message: The package davfs must be installed. Do you wish to install now? Points', like if I did hit No. I use the add/remove/update packages to see something else, but I can't see this package... Someone can help me with this ? You don't need to create a mount point or format a partition for mod_dav, it will just work with Apache once you have davfs and mod_dav installed (just use urpmi). The trick, then, is setting up your Apache directory with the proper permissions. You need to turn webDAV on for the directory, and specify an .htaccess file if you want. For example: Location /calendars DAV On AuthType Basic AuthName WebDAV Calendars AuthUserFile /var/www/calusers LimitExcept GET HEAD OPTIONS Require valid-user /LimitExcept /Location And of course restart Apache. It takes some tinkering to figure out how to publish a calendar using Mozilla, though. Note that if you ever plan on using webDAV with Windows and connecting via Windows Explorer (network connection) that it will not work if you require authentication. There is something broken in MS's implementation (surprise); there are a few hacks/workarounds out there, but I decided not to bother. I've also found that webDAV works a lot better with Apache 1.3 compared to 2.x. Here's a pretty good site for walking you through the process: http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/10825_2176771_2 HTH, Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Can't install packages using CD writer
Rana D'Costa wrote: Hi! I'm trying to install packages(drakwizard smbwizard) from the installation CD#1 on my computer(which has the OS Mandrake Linux 9.1) but when I press install in the rpmdrake 9.1 window, a message pops out sayin' Insert the CD in the cd writer and also the tray of my CD Writer(Hewlett Packard 8100 series) comes out. So, after inserting the tray of my cdwriter with the CD on it, when I press OK the computer freezes. Mouse and keyboard doesn't work. Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem? Or is there if any a workaround? Thank you. --AD Is the drive mounted at the time ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't install packages using CD writer.
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 11:26, Rana D'Costa wrote: I've Mandrake Linux 9.1 as my OS. I want to install packages using my CD writer(as rpmdrake 9.1 doesn't give any other choice) which is /mnt/cdrom. After executing the command 'mount', I got the following information about my CD writer: none on /mnt/cdrom type supermount (ro, dev=/dev/scd0, fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso 885 9-1, codepage = 850, umask=0) My CD writer is ATAPI Hewlett Packard Plus 8100 series. Now I wanna mount my cd writer before installing packages using rpmdrake. I tried: mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom also: mount /mnt/cdrom and I also tried: mount /dev/scd0 In all of these above stated cases my system freezes and mouse or keyboard doesn't work. I also tried without mounting the device but still have the problem. Can anyone tell me how I can fix this problem? Thanks. --AD I'd be curious as to what your /etc/lilo.conf looks like... -- Mon Jul 21 13:55:00 EST 2003 13:55:00 up 7 days, 5:58, 2 users, load average: 0.33, 0.36, 0.24 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Him:Your skin is so soft. Are you a model? Her:No, [blush] I'm a cosmetologist. Him:Really? That's incredible... It must be very tough to handle weightlessness. -- The Jerk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't install packages using CD writer
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 15:54:28 -0400 Rana D'Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem? Or is there if any a workaround? well, a 'workaround' is to copy the contents of the installation CDs to /usr/src/mdkcd1, etc. then change the path in the MCC to your HD instead of the CDs. this is not a solution, obviously, you should not experience this problem. try in a terminal as root: urpmi drakwizard and report back! schnell! raus! -- Joehill Registered Linux user #282046 ++ He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book. -- B. Franklin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't Install Adobe acrobat for Madrake 8.2 PPC
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 13:15, Pablo E. Fernandez L. wrote: I have downloaded this file from adobe: linux-ar-405.tar.gz Then typed: tar -zxvf linux-ar-405.tar.gz cd ILINXR.install ./INSTALL Typed accept for user license. enter to install in default directory /usr/local/Acrobat4. Type y to create directory. And then stops because /usr/local/Acrobat4 directory cannot be created, I have tried as su. Do I have to erase that directory and then reinstall as su? Thanks in advance Pablo You have to install as root -- __ / \\ @ __ __@ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / //celular: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax: +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com //pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't Install Adobe acrobat for Madrake 8.2 PPC
Hi, You should try to use a RPM file for AcroReader. You can get it from http://rpm.pbone.net Cheers, Kishi Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 13:15, Pablo E. Fernandez L. wrote: I have downloaded this file from adobe: linux-ar-405.tar.gz Then typed: tar -zxvf linux-ar-405.tar.gz cd ILINXR.install ./INSTALL Typed accept for user license. enter to install in default directory /usr/local/Acrobat4. Type y to create directory. And then stops because /usr/local/Acrobat4 directory cannot be created, I have tried as su. Do I have to erase that directory and then reinstall as su? Thanks in advance Pablo You have to install as root -- __ / \\ @ __ __ @ Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] / // // /\ / \\ // \ // Bello Ingenieria S.A, ICQ: 65910258 / \\ // / \\ / // // / // celular: +58 416 609-6213 /___// // / _/ \__\\ //__/ // fax : +58 212 952-6797 www.bisapi.com // pager : [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't install with 8.2
Micheal, I have at least 64mb for sure. This machine is an IBM PC 300GL. I tried making a dos boot disk with the win.exe program but got some type of error saying that it is not a Win32 application. Wut Else can I try? Jag --- Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 07:21, Jagpal Singh wrote: I get the error could not uncompress second stage ramdisk when installing with the CD for ver 8.2. Please help?!?!?! How much memory do you have? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Can't install with 8.2
I have a 233mmx IBM300pl system with 160mb ram and it is running linux and this email went through it to get to this list.. so they work well enough.. I had to use rawrite on the mandrake CD to make a linux boot disk.. (I think the directory on the cd that contains the images is called /images) so in windows, insert the mandrake8.2 CD. browse the cd till you find the directory called dosutils in there is a file called rawritewin.exe run that. when the app comes up, click the browse button next to the image file box and browse to the cdrom and the /images folder, once in there, chose the cdrom.img file. then click the write button with a good blank floppy in your a drive. thats it, put the floppy in, restart the system.. I did that several times with my 300pl, and it always worked for me. The other thing I did was to go to IBM's web site and get the latest bios for the system.. rgds frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jagpal Singh Sent: Wednesday, 19 June 2002 2:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't install with 8.2 Micheal, I have at least 64mb for sure. This machine is an IBM PC 300GL. I tried making a dos boot disk with the win.exe program but got some type of error saying that it is not a Win32 application. Wut Else can I try? Jag --- Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 07:21, Jagpal Singh wrote: I get the error could not uncompress second stage ramdisk when installing with the CD for ver 8.2. Please help?!?!?! How much memory do you have? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't install with 8.2
et wrote: you might have 64 megs stuck in the box, but if you have 8 megs for the shared on board video you then only have 56 megs max and NEED to tell that to the installer. when you first hit enter to install, try f1, then, without the quotes; mem=54 and do the text install. it will be slow if it runs On Tuesday 18 June 2002 02:16 pm, you wrote: Micheal, I have at least 64mb for sure. This machine is an IBM PC 300GL. I tried making a dos boot disk with the win.exe program but got some type of error saying that it is not a Win32 application. Wut Else can I try? Jag --- Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 07:21, Jagpal Singh wrote: I get the error could not uncompress second stage ramdisk when installing with the CD for ver 8.2. Please help?!?!?! How much memory do you have? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com You have either a bad CD or a bad drive or a little combination of both. The could not uncompress second stage RAMdisk is a dead giveaway. My webserver/mailserver IS a PC300GL desktop with the CL5465 embedded on board and memory is autodetected successfully with 8.2 and 8.1 and both install successfully on it. It also serves as printserver, so I am running 8.1 cause the 8.2 driver for my printer was unsuccessful. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't install with 8.2
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Jagpal Singh wrote: I get the error could not uncompress second stage ramdisk when installing with the CD for ver 8.2. Please help?!?!?! did you burn the cd yourself, or did you purchase the install cd somewhere? it sounds like you've got bad media. mark -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't install with 8.2
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 07:21, Jagpal Singh wrote: I get the error could not uncompress second stage ramdisk when installing with the CD for ver 8.2. Please help?!?!?! How much memory do you have? -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re:[newbie] Can't install on Dell (Kaj)
Hello Kaj, I´m in the middle of a exam-period so I haven´t been enable to read all my mails, I have too much to do. That means that I haven´t touched my new machine either. I just want to thank you for the help. I´m going to follow your advice, I will post my question to the expert list and hope for the best. /Edvard _s_p_r_a_y_ Här börjar Internet! Skaffa gratis e-mail och gratis Internet på http://www.spray.se Anmäl ditt intresse för Spray ADSL bredband! http://www.spray.se/adsl/intresse Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[Fwd: Re: [newbie] Can't install kernel.]
Duh, I meant to send this to the list, sorry. Franki wrote: Hi all, I wanted to install the cooker 2.4.12-3enterprise kernel, I can't be bothered compiling my own nowdays, if the standard does what I want, thats usually good enough for me. So I downloaded the i586 rpm, I downloaded the 2.4.12-3 kernel headers and attempted to install them.. I got no modules, and a lot of unresolved module links as a result, (all of them) I checked the 2.4.3-20mdk enterprise kernel with software manager: the files list showed a lot of modules. Also see the information tab (sorry, can't copy and paste from software manager). And check the information tab for the secure kernel. I think there maybe just isn't a secure 2.4 kernel yet, maybe the 2.4 kernel must stabilize a bit more before Mandrake starts patching for a secure version. so I downloaded the source, and installed that, (like I said, I don't really want to compile the whole thing, but as you can imagine, I need modules. :-) Can anyone tell me how to install the binary 2.4.12-3 enterprise kernel so that I have modules? of is the enterprise a cut down kernel for servers or something?? what replaced 2.2.19-4.1mdksecure kernel for 2.4? ie the secure kernel?? rgds Frank HTH, -Frans (who received his LM8.1 CD's about one hour ago so I guess I'll have an interesting day :) ) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Can't install pump
Try using an earlier version of Pump compiled for 7.2. Worst case, go to http://rpmfind.net and grab the source for an earlier version, closer to your distribution and rpm --rebuild pump-0.x.xx-x.src.rpm -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Donnie Green Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Can't install pump I am running LM7.2 and cannot install pump. I attempted to install pump-0.8.11-1.i386.rpm but received the following error: error:failed dependencies libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by pump-0.8.11-1 So I tried to install glibc-2.2.2-10.i386.rpm but received an error that I needed glibc-common. When I tried to install glibc-common-2.2.2-10.i386.rpm I received the following error: error:failed: dependencies: glibc 2.2.2 conflicts with glibc-common-2.2.2-10 I did a rpm -qa| grep glibc and saw that glibc-2.1.3-16mdk is installed. Please help I don't know what is going on. _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
Re: [newbie] Can't install -- more clues
Anthony and all, During installation of 7.2 1) I want to make a boot disk, but it fails: An error occurred, mkbootdisk failed 2) When I try to install lilo or grub, it fails: Installation of bootloader failed The following error occurred: Fatal: open /dev/hda: No such file or directory 3) When I test X, it fails, saying: (WW) xf86ReadBIOS: Failed to open /dev/mem (No such file or directory) 4) On occasion, lilo will load, but when I boot to Linux, it says, Kernel panic: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 I'm not sure what 03 is, but I have to assume 5 refers to hda5 which is mounted at /. But everything up to this point in the installation pretends to work, including the installation of all the packages. I've tried reputedly, about a dozen attempts so far. I tried making Ext2 partitions with the Mandrake installer and with Partition Magic 6 in Windows. I've tried using Ext2 partitions as well as ReiserFS partitions using the Mandrake installer. I've tried installing from a CD-RW that I burned from the downloaded ISO, and I've tried installing from a CD-R, even of a different brand. I've tried diagnosing problems with my HD with both Partition Magic 6, and with Norton's Disk Doctor 2001, and there aren't any problems. And Windows has no problems accessing its own partitions, of course. I've tried wiping the mbr so that lilo or grub get a clean shot at installation (although not in conjunction with these other things). If my computer had a neck, I would choke it to death. What is going on?!! Miark - Original Message - From: "Anthony" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 7:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't install -- more clues So what exactly is the problem? I don't think ReiserFS filesystems do bad sector checking. At least I don't remember getting asked that when I formatted my Linux partitions to that. Have you tried jsut checking the swap partition and then moving on? Nobody has even guessed at my problem yet, but I have more clues that may help you help me. Here's the full scenario: I'm installing 7.2 for dual-boot with Win98. When I get to DiskDrake in set-up, I choose to make the three following partitions: * Logical, ReiserFS, 5 GB, mounted at / * Logical, ReiserFS, 1 GB, mounted at /home * Logical, Linux swap, 500 MB It says that it's formatting the Reiser partitions, but it only says that for about 2 seconds. Then, when it asks which partitions on which to check for bad sectors, it _only_ lists the swap partition. If I go back and make the Reiser partitions Linux native, then everything is fine. Well, it's as close to fine as it will get. Now I remember somebody on this list saying that what I want to do is possible. Were they wrong? How do I implement ReiserFS and make it work? Miark -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
Re: [newbie] Can't install -- more clues
Miark wrote: Anthony and all, During installation of 7.2 1) I want to make a boot disk, but it fails: An error occurred, mkbootdisk failed 2) When I try to install lilo or grub, it fails: Installation of bootloader failed The following error occurred: Fatal: open /dev/hda: No such file or directory 3) When I test X, it fails, saying: (WW) xf86ReadBIOS: Failed to open /dev/mem (No such file or directory) 4) On occasion, lilo will load, but when I boot to Linux, it says, Kernel panic: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 I'm not sure what 03 is, but I have to assume 5 refers to hda5 which is mounted at /. But everything up to this point in the installation pretends to work, including the installation of all the packages. I've tried reputedly, about a dozen attempts so far. I tried making Ext2 partitions with the Mandrake installer and with Partition Magic 6 in Windows. I've tried using Ext2 partitions as well as ReiserFS partitions using the Mandrake installer. I've tried installing from a CD-RW that I burned from the downloaded ISO, and I've tried installing from a CD-R, even of a different brand. I've tried diagnosing problems with my HD with both Partition Magic 6, and with Norton's Disk Doctor 2001, and there aren't any problems. And Windows has no problems accessing its own partitions, of course. I've tried wiping the mbr so that lilo or grub get a clean shot at installation (although not in conjunction with these other things). If my computer had a neck, I would choke it to death. What is going on?!! Miark - Original Message - From: "Anthony" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 7:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't install -- more clues So what exactly is the problem? I don't think ReiserFS filesystems do bad sector checking. At least I don't remember getting asked that when I formatted my Linux partitions to that. Have you tried jsut checking the swap partition and then moving on? Nobody has even guessed at my problem yet, but I have more clues that may help you help me. Here's the full scenario: I'm installing 7.2 for dual-boot with Win98. When I get to DiskDrake in set-up, I choose to make the three following partitions: * Logical, ReiserFS, 5 GB, mounted at / * Logical, ReiserFS, 1 GB, mounted at /home * Logical, Linux swap, 500 MB It says that it's formatting the Reiser partitions, but it only says that for about 2 seconds. Then, when it asks which partitions on which to check for bad sectors, it _only_ lists the swap partition. If I go back and make the Reiser partitions Linux native, then everything is fine. Well, it's as close to fine as it will get. Now I remember somebody on this list saying that what I want to do is possible. Were they wrong? How do I implement ReiserFS and make it work? Miark -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit. Did you set your Linux boot partition below the 8Gb point? 73 -bruce-
Re: [newbie] Can't install -- more clues
Bruce, Yes, the boot partition starts at roughly 2 GB, and all my Linux partitions live below cylinder 1024. Thanks for bringing that up. I have, perhaps another clue to the problem. I used Partition Magic to look at the Ext2 partitions since my last installation failure, at it said that 2 of the root partition's 4.5 GBs are used. The installation of packages wasn't a psych-out. One other clue: the floppy drive does work when I make a replication disk. So the failure to make the boot disk has nothing to do with the drive itself (although we pretty much expected that). Miark - Original Message - From: "Bruce Howland" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 9:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't install -- more clues Miark wrote: Anthony and all, During installation of 7.2 1) I want to make a boot disk, but it fails: An error occurred, mkbootdisk failed 2) When I try to install lilo or grub, it fails: Installation of bootloader failed The following error occurred: Fatal: open /dev/hda: No such file or directory 3) When I test X, it fails, saying: (WW) xf86ReadBIOS: Failed to open /dev/mem (No such file or directory) 4) On occasion, lilo will load, but when I boot to Linux, it says, Kernel panic: Unable to mount root fs on 03:05 I'm not sure what 03 is, but I have to assume 5 refers to hda5 which is mounted at /. But everything up to this point in the installation pretends to work, including the installation of all the packages. I've tried reputedly, about a dozen attempts so far. I tried making Ext2 partitions with the Mandrake installer and with Partition Magic 6 in Windows. I've tried using Ext2 partitions as well as ReiserFS partitions using the Mandrake installer. I've tried installing from a CD-RW that I burned from the downloaded ISO, and I've tried installing from a CD-R, even of a different brand. I've tried diagnosing problems with my HD with both Partition Magic 6, and with Norton's Disk Doctor 2001, and there aren't any problems. And Windows has no problems accessing its own partitions, of course. I've tried wiping the mbr so that lilo or grub get a clean shot at installation (although not in conjunction with these other things). If my computer had a neck, I would choke it to death. What is going on?!! Miark - Original Message - From: "Anthony" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 7:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't install -- more clues So what exactly is the problem? I don't think ReiserFS filesystems do bad sector checking. At least I don't remember getting asked that when I formatted my Linux partitions to that. Have you tried jsut checking the swap partition and then moving on? Nobody has even guessed at my problem yet, but I have more clues that may help you help me. Here's the full scenario: I'm installing 7.2 for dual-boot with Win98. When I get to DiskDrake in set-up, I choose to make the three following partitions: * Logical, ReiserFS, 5 GB, mounted at / * Logical, ReiserFS, 1 GB, mounted at /home * Logical, Linux swap, 500 MB It says that it's formatting the Reiser partitions, but it only says that for about 2 seconds. Then, when it asks which partitions on which to check for bad sectors, it _only_ lists the swap partition. If I go back and make the Reiser partitions Linux native, then everything is fine. Well, it's as close to fine as it will get. Now I remember somebody on this list saying that what I want to do is possible. Were they wrong? How do I implement ReiserFS and make it work? Miark -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit. Did you set your Linux boot partition below the 8Gb point? 73 -bruce-
RE: [newbie] Can't install -- more clues
I didn't have this problem when I installed and I just got Mandrake a few days ago. I too have 7.2 and dual-boot with Windows 98. I did my partitions with Diskdrake, but also set up a /usr partition. I just used the drop down menu for filesystems to select ReiserFs for all the partitions except the swap, I had the swap as "Linux Swap." Then I was on my way. I had no message concerning the checking of bad sectors though, just the formatting. I don't think this helps you out much, but at least it gives you a working "control" to compare with... Sincerely and respectfully, Hans N. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Miark Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 7:42 PM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] Can't install -- more clues Nobody has even guessed at my problem yet, but I have more clues that may help you help me. Here's the full scenario: I'm installing 7.2 for dual-boot with Win98. When I get to DiskDrake in set-up, I choose to make the three following partitions: * Logical, ReiserFS, 5 GB, mounted at / * Logical, ReiserFS, 1 GB, mounted at /home * Logical, Linux swap, 500 MB It says that it's formatting the Reiser partitions, but it only says that for about 2 seconds. Then, when it asks which partitions on which to check for bad sectors, it _only_ lists the swap partition. If I go back and make the Reiser partitions Linux native, then everything is fine. Well, it's as close to fine as it will get. Now I remember somebody on this list saying that what I want to do is possible. Were they wrong? How do I implement ReiserFS and make it work? Miark
Re: [newbie] Can't install -- more clues
Well, your experience confirms that my plan is possible. That's definitely worth something. This morning I took my daily crack ... at the problem, that is, and DiskDrake complained the partition table was too corrupted! That's strange because In Win98, ScanDisk says nothing, and neither does Norton Disk Doctor, or Partition Magic 6! And I know that PM6 and Norton complain when the partition table is messed up--it happened only yesterday. Maybe that's my problem--I have some strange partition table problem, and only Linux is sensitive enough to speak up about it. That would explain why it couldn't find /dev/hda or the zoneinfo data. Does anyone know how I can fix something like that? Miark - Original Message - From: "Hans N." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 8:52 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Can't install -- more clues I didn't have this problem when I installed and I just got Mandrake a few days ago. I too have 7.2 and dual-boot with Windows 98. I did my partitions with Diskdrake, but also set up a /usr partition. I just used the drop down menu for filesystems to select ReiserFs for all the partitions except the swap, I had the swap as "Linux Swap." Then I was on my way. I had no message concerning the checking of bad sectors though, just the formatting. I don't think this helps you out much, but at least it gives you a working "control" to compare with... Sincerely and respectfully, Hans N. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Miark Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 7:42 PM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] Can't install -- more clues Nobody has even guessed at my problem yet, but I have more clues that may help you help me. Here's the full scenario: I'm installing 7.2 for dual-boot with Win98. When I get to DiskDrake in set-up, I choose to make the three following partitions: * Logical, ReiserFS, 5 GB, mounted at / * Logical, ReiserFS, 1 GB, mounted at /home * Logical, Linux swap, 500 MB It says that it's formatting the Reiser partitions, but it only says that for about 2 seconds. Then, when it asks which partitions on which to check for bad sectors, it _only_ lists the swap partition. If I go back and make the Reiser partitions Linux native, then everything is fine. Well, it's as close to fine as it will get. Now I remember somebody on this list saying that what I want to do is possible. Were they wrong? How do I implement ReiserFS and make it work? Miark
Re: [newbie] Can't install -- more clues
So what exactly is the problem? I don't think ReiserFS filesystems do bad sector checking. At least I don't remember getting asked that when I formatted my Linux partitions to that. Have you tried jsut checking the swap partition and then moving on? Nobody has even guessed at my problem yet, but I have more clues that may help you help me. Here's the full scenario: I'm installing 7.2 for dual-boot with Win98. When I get to DiskDrake in set-up, I choose to make the three following partitions: * Logical, ReiserFS, 5 GB, mounted at / * Logical, ReiserFS, 1 GB, mounted at /home * Logical, Linux swap, 500 MB It says that it's formatting the Reiser partitions, but it only says that for about 2 seconds. Then, when it asks which partitions on which to check for bad sectors, it _only_ lists the swap partition. If I go back and make the Reiser partitions Linux native, then everything is fine. Well, it's as close to fine as it will get. Now I remember somebody on this list saying that what I want to do is possible. Were they wrong? How do I implement ReiserFS and make it work? Miark -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Press any key to continue, or any other key to quit.
Re: [newbie] Can't Install ICEvm
On Sunday 18 February 2001 12:26, you wrote: I can't install ICEwm. I am tring to install it via RPM. When I try rpm -i (the package ) I get mod errors libICE.so.6 is needed by icewm-0.9.42-1 libSM.so.6 is needed by icewm-0.9.42-1 libX11.so.6 is needed by icewm-0.9.42-1 libXext.so.6 is needed by icewm-0.9.42-1 libXpm.so.4 is needed by icewm-0.9.42-1 I've checked in /usr/X11R6/lib and they are all there, complete with the same ver number. I checked to see if they were found by the ld.so by checking the ld.so.conf file and the file has /usr/X11R6/lib listed but it will not work..If anyone can help me please feel free. I think that these are part of the XFree86-libs package. If you did not install X from rpm, then rpm will not find them, if you did install from rpm, then your rpm database might have gotten hosed (not an uncommon occurance with rpm). Since you seem to actually have all of the dependencies, you could try installing with the --nodeps parameter. -- Alex (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
Re: [newbie] Can't Install
On Sunday 12 November 2000 04:39 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Mandrake 7.1 running on a P133 with a 10 gigabyte hdd and 80mb ram. I have been trying to install Star office, when I try to run the install program it says that executables can only been run on local drives. Ezra IIRC, you didn't 'chmod 777 SO bin's)' and/or you didn't install as the user, no?You've got 'nough ram, but your cpu's a little weak for runnin X and SO, it's a hog. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
RE: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0
Title: RE: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0 SAme problem I'm having exactly the same. -Original Message- From: Simon Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 1:08 PM To: Mandrake send, Mandrake send Subject: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0 Dear List, I'm hoping some kind soul will help me with this... I'm a Mac user so keep it simple;-))) I'm attempting to install Mandrake 7.0 on an old Compaq. I start up with the boot floppy that came with the Mandrake pack, I also have CD disk one in the CD drive. The machine boots on the floppy Ok. It then says: boot: Loading CDrom.rdz.. Loading vmlinuz... (wait) Initializing CD rom In second stage install (wait) I am then asked to choose a language (I choose Uk English and hit return) I then choose the 'recommended install' and hit return I then choose to 'Install' rather than 'Upgrade' and hit return I then get an error message saying "An error occurred, No available partitions" I have not formatted the hard drive yet, I'm expecting to be given that option in the next window. I am *not* wanting a dual boot system, Linux only!! Any ideas? Many thanks Simon Martin London Uk -- Simon Martin London Uk PGP KEY ID 0x1C6F4419 @ http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/ *Please note my e-mail address is now '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'*
Re: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0
I have not formatted the hard drive yet, Im expecting to be given that option in the next window. I am *not* wanting a dual boot system, Linux only!! Any ideas? Yes, run fdisk and delete all existing partitions. Then repeat the steps you've described. My guess is that your hard drive has a single DOS partition and LM install doesn't like to overwrite hallowed Windows ground. Cheers --- Larry
RE: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0
Title: RE: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0 I tried doing fdisk and leaving no partition no help -Original Message- From: Larry Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 2:09 PM To: Simon Martin Cc: Mandrake send, Mandrake send Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0 This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet Service. To view the original message content, open the attached message. If the text doesn't display correctly, save the attachment to disk, and then open it using a viewer that can display the original character set.
Re: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0
Title: RE: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0 When you ran fdisk did you create any partitions? You need to have an existing partition table for the LM installer to work from. When you fdisk you need to create (and set active) a primary partition. You may also create an extended partition if you like. You need to reboot after running fdisk and creating a partition. - Original Message - From: Duval, Dominique To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ; Simon Martin Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 3:13 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0 I tried doing fdisk and leaving no partition no help -Original Message- From: Larry Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 2:09 PM To: Simon Martin Cc: Mandrake send, Mandrake send Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0 This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet Service. To view the original message content, open the attached message. If the text doesn't display correctly, save the attachment to disk, and then open it using a viewer that can display the original character set.
RE: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0
I did create a partition. and made it active. -Original Message- From: Paul Hefferan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 2:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0 When you ran fdisk did you create any partitions? You need to have an existing partition table for the LM installer to work from. When you fdisk you need to create (and set active) a primary partition. You may also create an extended partition if you like. You need to reboot after running fdisk and creating a partition. - Original Message - From: Duval, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dominique To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' mailto:'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' ; Simon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 3:13 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0 I tried doing fdisk and leaving no partition no help -Original Message- From: Larry Marshall [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 2:09 PM To: Simon Martin Cc: Mandrake send, Mandrake send Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0 This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet Service. To view the original message content, open the attached message. If the text doesn't display correctly, save the attachment to disk, and then open it using a viewer that can display the original character set.
RE: [newbie] Can't Install
Actually I got it worked out. For some reason it would not work when I tried to use the boot floppy. Booting from CD worked fine. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Chiang Sent: September 18, 2000 3:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Can't Install I'm using Mandrake 7.1 which I downloaded and burned to CD. In the graphical configuration. It gets to the Setup Filesystems and I get an error: An error occurred An error has ocurred - no valid devices were found on which to create new filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause of the problem. I previously installed on the exact same system, but with a different HD. I'm now trying to do this on a 20 GB Fujitsu. The drive is fine. I just wiped NT off of it. My MB supports the full capacity of the drive as well. When I previuosly installed it was on a 2 GB hard drive. Is there a problem installing with a larger capacity drive??? The 20 GB has no partitions on it. I wiped them all with Dos6.22 Fdisk before I started. Jim
Re: [newbie] Can't install NIC's........
Jeremy, the same thing happened to me when I installed Mdk 7.0 originally. I was able to use the netconf command from the terminal window, and then added them as needed. Your first device is eth0. It's all really simple with the gui or the text based menu system. You will need to know what the module of the device isso you can add it to the text based menu system if needed. If you still have difficulties, please e-mail me off the list and I will guide you thru this as needed. Best of luck with it! Steve Weltman (from Beijing) - Original Message - From: Jeremy Wood To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 11:26 PM Subject: [newbie] Can't install NIC's Hi gang, I just subscribed to this list, and hope that someone can help. I just installed Linux Mandrake 7.1 Deluxe on a Celeron 333 desktop computer. The install went very smoothly. Unfortunately , the install didn't 'detect' any of my two NIC's that are installed. I've had no luck finding any information about how to 'manually' install a NIC, even after searching hundreds of websites etc. Any info out there usually has to do with installing drivers AFTER Linux has already detected your NIC initially. i.e when I go to HardDrake and see a list of my hardware, there is no plus sign next to Network Interface device etc. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated, since the NIC's are the most important part of me using Linux in the first place! Thanks, Jeremy Wood p.s Both my NIC's aren't listed in the compatible hardware list at Linux-mandrake.com, however they both come with Linux drivers...and colleagues have used them in their machines with Linux without a hitch.
Re: [newbie] Can't install Star Office into KDE...
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, you wrote: Tried to install the Star Office No Joy. I tried, logging in as "root" and clicking on the rpm file and let it "do its thing" ... eventually opening a window that let me click "install" Then I logged on w/ one of my user accounts and typed "/opt/Office51/bin/setup" into the terminal emulation window (using KDE that's the only way I've figured out how to "run" commands), and TTHAT *seemed* to install something; but, even after reboot, no new icons/no new programs (in applications, or anywhere). There are two types of installation. One is for the network install and the other is the workstation install. If i remember right, you su to root, do the the install with a /net or something option. After that you login as a user and do the local install which copies roughly 2 Mb of data. It should work fine after that... Hope that helps... -- Get your free POP3 e-mail from http://www.HotPOP3.com/ Please report spam to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Great China Click eXchange - Build Network Finance for You And get up to 20% commission from your 5-tier referrals http://www.gccx.com/public/index.php3?referrer=hotpop3
Re: [newbie] can't install x-windows....rest of computer is f(*ed up!
try typing: startx if that doesn't take you into a GUI then as root type: Xconfigurator this will take you into the x setup. After you get everything configured and tested there will be an option to allow you to startx automatically Eunice Thompson - Original Message - From: "Paul John Kiener" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 5:25 AM Subject: [newbie] can't install x-windowsrest of computer is f(*ed up! hello, can anyone help me with this problem. 1st, i tried to install linux. i had the opportunity to have linux take over my whole computer, since i ended up formatting everything. so i had autoallocate allocate and create the partitions in the linux setup. then, i installed it. after installing the packages, i reached the part where it said it was going to install x-windows. so i waited. then the screen turned black for like 2 seconds, then it went to a screen full of gray x's. i shutdown the comp. rebooted, and it started in the mandrake dos type thing where it asks for my localhost login. after that, all i get is this prompt... [paul@localhost paul]$ and from there i don't know what to do. i tried to re-install linux over again to setup x-windowsbut no avail either. help please! God bless! peace! Paul John "Stiff-man" Kiener [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Can't Install
If you have your CD set up on the IDE channel, either Master or Slave on Channel 0 or 1, Mandrake -SHOULD- detect it. Note however that there are a few "generic" CD_ROM's which do not identify themselves as such. Mandrake will be unable to detect these as CD devices. This is a problem with the hardware, NOT with Mandrake, as the device is not identifying itself as a CD-ROM... This sounds like what you are seeing... -JMS -Original Message- From: Higgs, Derek (Derek)** CTR ** [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 12:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Can't Install Hi, I am new to the world of Linux. I just purchase LINUX-Mandrake 7.0 deluxe and it tells me to install from the floppy. I am attempting to setup my machine to duel boot(Linux / Win 98). It does not recognize my cd rom and I can't go any furhter. It asks me whether I have a SCSI or Other. I choose other because I have and IDE. It then shows me a list of manufactures, my brand is not listed. I chose the last option which said ide... and it asked me for a module. I have a generic brand IDE cd rom (Brand Name: AFREEY Speed: 50X) I have a ASUS motherboard Pent III 550mhz with 128mg ram. Your immediate help will be greatly appreciated. God Bless, Derek Higgs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0
I don't have a solution, however I just wanted to say that I had the same error when trying to boot of the CDROM. However when I made boot disks and used them it worked fine. This is with ISO image 7.0. Aaron - Original Message - From: Edgar Manik To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 10:37 AM Subject: [newbie] Can't install Mandrake 7.0 Hi, Every time I want to install mandrake 7.0 (floppy or cdrom boot), it always stop at installation program, with the message "Failed to mount ramdisk. This shouldn't be happened, Rebooting..." Anybody know or have experience this problem. I am getting frustrated to install mandrake, even after I download the update for cdrom.img and hd.img. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks... Cheers,
Re: [newbie] Can't install with giant Maxtors?
I'll try to do that, I THINK I know how to find the archive. I know I don't have this here since I only joined the list a few minutes before sending my email. M Thompson wrote: Please search the mailing list archive for an e-mail that I sent regarding UDMA controllers and ATA66. It was a recent E-mail. Matt From: Rodger Boots [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Can't install with giant Maxtors? Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 02:51:15 -0600 Attempting a first-time installation. The goal is to end up with an Apache server providing FTP to the outside world and internet access (proxy server??) and storage space to home machines. What I bought was 2 36.5 gig Maxtor IDE drives which I'm under the impression Linux will RAID together into one redundant 36.5 gig space. These are the master slave on the primary IDE (the only port that supports ATA66). On the secondary port is a CDROM drive that can handle 4 disks as 4 separate drive letters and an LS120 superfloppy drive. The first problem I ran into was the motherboard BIOS wasn't new enough to handle 30 gig drives. That has been fixed now. But Linux can't seem to figure out how to partition those drives. It doesn't matter if I let the installation program try Disk Druid or Fdisk, either way there is an error message (not there long enough to read it, though). It doesn't matter if LBA is on or off and it doesn't matter if I boot from the floppy or the CD, the result is the same. So I guess what I need to know is: 1) Should LBA be enabled or not? 2) Do I need a newer version of Linux? 3) Could the problem be that I'm not using a REAL floppy drive? -- Windows: 32 bit graphical interface for a 16 bit patch for an 8 bit operating system written for a 4 bit processor by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Windows: 32 bit graphical interface for a 16 bit patch for an 8 bit operating system written for a 4 bit processor by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
Re: [newbie] Can't install with giant Maxtors?
Please search the mailing list archive for an e-mail that I sent regarding UDMA controllers and ATA66. It was a recent E-mail. Matt From: Rodger Boots [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Can't install with giant Maxtors? Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 02:51:15 -0600 Attempting a first-time installation. The goal is to end up with an Apache server providing FTP to the outside world and internet access (proxy server??) and storage space to home machines. What I bought was 2 36.5 gig Maxtor IDE drives which I'm under the impression Linux will RAID together into one redundant 36.5 gig space. These are the master slave on the primary IDE (the only port that supports ATA66). On the secondary port is a CDROM drive that can handle 4 disks as 4 separate drive letters and an LS120 superfloppy drive. The first problem I ran into was the motherboard BIOS wasn't new enough to handle 30 gig drives. That has been fixed now. But Linux can't seem to figure out how to partition those drives. It doesn't matter if I let the installation program try Disk Druid or Fdisk, either way there is an error message (not there long enough to read it, though). It doesn't matter if LBA is on or off and it doesn't matter if I boot from the floppy or the CD, the result is the same. So I guess what I need to know is: 1) Should LBA be enabled or not? 2) Do I need a newer version of Linux? 3) Could the problem be that I'm not using a REAL floppy drive? -- Windows: 32 bit graphical interface for a 16 bit patch for an 8 bit operating system written for a 4 bit processor by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Can't install boot loader?
Dave, I lost your original message. Please post your original message along with the advice that I previously gave. I forget the specifics of your situation. Matt From: "Dave" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Can't install boot loader? Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:08:32 -0500 hey all! Well I got the install to work using Matt's advice. Here's the next problem: it won't install the bootloader. Any ideas? I've tried doing fdisk /mbr and then reinstalling...no luck. Thanks -Dave p.s. I would of checked the archives, but they are down right now. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Can't install...
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