Re: [newbie] Re: DrakX is Working - DrakX Installation Instructions

2000-05-17 Thread Romanator

Alan,

I will have to read the guide about the sync rate. But, everything appears to be okay, 
now. However, I could not
find my Dell monitor in the list( should I select Dell SVGA?), and my 3COM 3C905C 
Ether link Card was not on the
list. I will have to check MandrakeSoft's web page for hardware support. Also, the 
screen went blank and Linux
Mandrake 7.0 would not boot up. Due to the fact that I could not reboot into Linux, I 
ran the install again. First,
I deleted the partition, clicked on the Auto allocate button, and reinstalled Linux 
Mandrake 7.0 again. Now, it's
back to normal.  Go figure...Was this the wrong way to go about it?
I also noticed that if the screen saver time is adjusted to 15 minutes instead of 1 
minute - a crash can occur.
Even after several cold boots. I'll see if I can repeat this. If I can repeat this 3 
times in a row, then it could
be a bug that should be reported.
Linux Mandrake 7.0 indicated in the help file, that if you set your time ahead of your 
BIOS, the system could
crash. Have you ever heard of this? I will have to check this out again.

Roman
(The penguins have stopped laughing)



Alan Shoemaker wrote:

 Romannt is running the video at a different synch rate
 than Linux therefore you need to adjust the monitor for Linux
 (which shouldn't bother the nt settings at all).

 Alan

 Romanator wrote:
 
  Hi Alan,
 
  The monitor works fine in Windows NT4. The shift happens in as soon as I get in to 
KDE.
 
  Roman
 
  Alan Shoemaker wrote:
 
   Romanadjust your monitor (buttons on front, directions in
   monitor owner's manual).
  
   Alan
  
   Romanator wrote:
   
Hooray!! I am up and running. However, the the desktop display has a larger 
black border on the left side
rather than sitting evenly in the center. My hard drive, sound card auto 
configured, except for the
monitor. An out-of-sync message appeared. The desktop display is lopsided the 
left border is a lot larger
than the right border.
   
My D drive has disappeared, and I have about 15 Gig. of space which I have to 
resize. E shifted to D.
I am ordering the full version of PM so that I can gain some space.
   
Thank you for your help.
   
Roman
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
   
 Romandelete hda5 and then push the Auto Allocate button.

 Alan

 Romanator wrote:
 
  Hi Alan,
 
  I had draw and write this out as there is no print screen.
  The auto allocation only works if my disk has not been
  partitioned yet or is empty. I have tried as best as
  possible with ASCII to show my page setting:
 
  I can see in the DrakX installation:
 
  The Setup file systems
 
  File system types:   Ext2SwapFATOtherEmpty
  -
  |  hda |
  
-
 
  |---
  --
  ||||
  |||
  ||   C  ||D|
  |   E   |
  ||||
  |||
  |
  --
  |---
  ||Choose action||Details
  
  |---|
  |Device: hda5
  ||Mount point   |
  |DOS drive letter: D (just a guess)
  |---|
  |Type: DOS FAT16
  ||   Resize |
  |Size: 2047 MB (10%)
  |---||
  ||   Delete ||
  |---||
  ___
  __
  |Clear all  |
  |Auto allocate||
  Undo   |
  -
  
  ___
 
  |
  Done
  |
  

 
  Note:
  hda is the entire drive
  hda1 is the 1st partition or drive C
  hda5 is the 2nd partition or drive D
 
  1. In the comments section, the following was copied(I could
  not find any other way of copying the instructions)

Re: [newbie] Re: DrakX is Working - DrakX Installation Instructions

2000-05-17 Thread Paul

On Tue, 16 May 2000, Romanator wrote:

Looks like /dev/hda5 WAS your D-drive then...

Hooray!! I am up and running. However, the the desktop display has a larger black 
border on the left side
rather than sitting evenly in the center. My hard drive, sound card auto configured, 
except for the
monitor. An out-of-sync message appeared. The desktop display is lopsided the left 
border is a lot larger
than the right border.

My D drive has disappeared, and I have about 15 Gig. of space which I have to resize. 
E shifted to D.
I am ordering the full version of PM so that I can gain some space.

Thank you for your help.

Roman

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Re: [newbie] Re: DrakX is Working - DrakX Installation Instructions

2000-05-17 Thread Romanator

Sure was. I did notice when I booted up(I must have walked away from the computer, it 
booted into console
mode.
Is this normal?

Roman

Paul wrote:

 On Tue, 16 May 2000, Romanator wrote:

 Looks like /dev/hda5 WAS your D-drive then...

 Hooray!! I am up and running. However, the the desktop display has a larger black 
border on the left side
 rather than sitting evenly in the center. My hard drive, sound card auto 
configured, except for the
 monitor. An out-of-sync message appeared. The desktop display is lopsided the left 
border is a lot larger
 than the right border.
 
 My D drive has disappeared, and I have about 15 Gig. of space which I have to 
resize. E shifted to D.
 I am ordering the full version of PM so that I can gain some space.
 
 Thank you for your help.
 
 Roman

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Re: [newbie] Re: DrakX is Working - DrakX Installation Instructions

2000-05-17 Thread Romanator

Hi Alan,

If you ever get a chance to see it on another computer, you will notice the visual 
similarities.
Enough said about Windows.

Roman

Alan Shoemaker wrote:

 RomanI use netscape 4.72 in Linux Mandrake 7.0 and my
 search engine of choice is Google.  I don't use windows, at
 least not very often, and never browse or do email with it.

 Alan

 Romanator wrote:
 
  Alan,
 
  If you have IE5 on your computer, NeoPlanet is a browser by Lycos.
 
  Roman
 
  Alan Shoemaker wrote:
 
   Romanhow could you adjust the monitor (buttons on front of
   monitor) for Linux w/o being in Linux to see what needs to be
   adjusted and how the adjustments are coming along?!!
  
   I have no idea what neoplanet is.
  
   Alan
  
   Romanator wrote:
   
Alan,
   
I assume I should change this while I'm in Linux. All changes should always be 
done in root?
On another topic, have you noticed the similarity the look of Netscape and 
Neoplanet by Lycos?
   
Roman
   
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
   
 Romannt is running the video at a different synch rate
 than Linux therefore you need to adjust the monitor for Linux
 (which shouldn't bother the nt settings at all).

 Alan

 Romanator wrote:
 
  Hi Alan,
 
  The monitor works fine in Windows NT4. The shift happens in as soon as I 
get in to KDE.
 
  Roman
 
  Alan Shoemaker wrote:
 
   Romanadjust your monitor (buttons on front, directions in
   monitor owner's manual).
  
   Alan
  
   Romanator wrote:
   
Hooray!! I am up and running. However, the the desktop display has a 
larger black border on the left side
rather than sitting evenly in the center. My hard drive, sound card 
auto configured, except for the
monitor. An out-of-sync message appeared. The desktop display is 
lopsided the left border is a lot larger
than the right border.
   
My D drive has disappeared, and I have about 15 Gig. of space which I 
have to resize. E shifted to D.
I am ordering the full version of PM so that I can gain some space.
   
Thank you for your help.
   
Roman
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
   
 Romandelete hda5 and then push the Auto Allocate button.

 Alan

 Romanator wrote:
 
  Hi Alan,
 
  I had draw and write this out as there is no print screen.
  The auto allocation only works if my disk has not been
  partitioned yet or is empty. I have tried as best as
  possible with ASCII to show my page setting:
 
  I can see in the DrakX installation:
 
  The Setup file systems
 
  File system types:   Ext2SwapFATOtherEmpty
  -
  |  hda |
  
-
 
  |---
  --
  ||||
  |||
  ||   C  ||D|
  |   E   |
  ||||
  |||
  |
  --
  |---
  ||Choose action||Details
  
  |---|
  |Device: hda5
  ||Mount point   |
  |DOS drive letter: D (just a guess)
  |---|
  |Type: DOS FAT16
  ||   Resize |
  |Size: 2047 MB (10%)
  |---||
  ||   Delete ||
  |---||
  ___
  __
  |Clear all  |
  |Auto allocate||
  Undo   |
  
-
  
  
___
 
  |
  Done
  |
  

 
  Note:

Re: [newbie] Re: DrakX is Working - DrakX Installation Instructions

2000-05-17 Thread Romanator

Alan,

While reviewing the options on my Linux desktop, I decided to select shutdown. The 
computer rebooted and went to the
command prompt boot. I typed in dos to run WinNT4, and access Netscape Navigator to 
communicate with you.
Next, I selected shutdown in WinNT4, the computer appeared to reboot but the entire 
screen was black. I let it run for
quite a long time. It's quite possible that I was tampering with too many options on 
the desktop?

Roman

Alan Shoemaker wrote:

 Romanok, why do you ask about what monitor to choose after
 you've successfully installed Linux?  It's during the install
 you need to know what the make  model of your monitor is.  If
 you've successfully completed the install w/o
 inputting/choosing the correct make  model of your monitor
 then you must have input/chosen something that worked.  So why
 worry about it after the fact?

 You've said at least twice no that the screen went black, but
 never revealed under what conditions this happened.  Also,
 what does 'would not boot up' mean?  What happens instead?  At
 what point in the boot process does 'would not boot up'
 actually occur and exactly what is it that happens?

 Alan

 Romanator wrote:
 
  Alan,
 
  I will have to read the guide about the sync rate. But, everything appears to be 
okay, now. However, I could not
  find my Dell monitor in the list( should I select Dell SVGA?), and my 3COM 3C905C 
Ether link Card was not on the
  list. I will have to check MandrakeSoft's web page for hardware support. Also, the 
screen went blank and Linux
  Mandrake 7.0 would not boot up. Due to the fact that I could not reboot into 
Linux, I ran the install again. First,
  I deleted the partition, clicked on the Auto allocate button, and reinstalled 
Linux Mandrake 7.0 again. Now, it's
  back to normal.  Go figure...Was this the wrong way to go about it?
  I also noticed that if the screen saver time is adjusted to 15 minutes instead of 
1 minute - a crash can occur.
  Even after several cold boots. I'll see if I can repeat this. If I can repeat this 
3 times in a row, then it could
  be a bug that should be reported.
  Linux Mandrake 7.0 indicated in the help file, that if you set your time ahead of 
your BIOS, the system could
  crash. Have you ever heard of this? I will have to check this out again.
 
  Roman
  (The penguins have stopped laughing)
 
  Alan Shoemaker wrote:
 
   Romannt is running the video at a different synch rate
   than Linux therefore you need to adjust the monitor for Linux
   (which shouldn't bother the nt settings at all).
  
   Alan
  
   Romanator wrote:
   
Hi Alan,
   
The monitor works fine in Windows NT4. The shift happens in as soon as I get 
in to KDE.
   
Roman
   
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
   
 Romanadjust your monitor (buttons on front, directions in
 monitor owner's manual).

 Alan

 Romanator wrote:
 
  Hooray!! I am up and running. However, the the desktop display has a 
larger black border on the left side
  rather than sitting evenly in the center. My hard drive, sound card auto 
configured, except for the
  monitor. An out-of-sync message appeared. The desktop display is lopsided 
the left border is a lot larger
  than the right border.
 
  My D drive has disappeared, and I have about 15 Gig. of space which I have 
to resize. E shifted to D.
  I am ordering the full version of PM so that I can gain some space.
 
  Thank you for your help.
 
  Roman
  Alan Shoemaker wrote:
 
   Romandelete hda5 and then push the Auto Allocate button.
  
   Alan
  
   Romanator wrote:
   
Hi Alan,
   
I had draw and write this out as there is no print screen.
The auto allocation only works if my disk has not been
partitioned yet or is empty. I have tried as best as
possible with ASCII to show my page setting:
   
I can see in the DrakX installation:
   
The Setup file systems
   
File system types:   Ext2SwapFATOtherEmpty
-
|  hda |

-
   
|---
--
||||
|||
||   C  ||D|
|   E   |
||||
|||
|
--
|---
||Choose action||Details

|   

Re: [newbie] Re: DrakX is Working - DrakX Installation Instructions

2000-05-17 Thread Paul

On Tue, 16 May 2000, Romanator wrote:

Sure was. I did notice when I booted up(I must have walked away from the computer, it 
booted into console
mode.
Is this normal?

Roman

Depends on what you call normal.
If you check /etc/inittab and the default bootmode there says 3 then it is
normal. If it says 5, then that's not normal.

3 mean multi-user console login, 5 is multi-user graphical login.
Under no circumstance make 0 (REBOOT) or 6 (SHUTDOWN) the init default!!

Paul

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Re: [newbie] Re: DrakX is Working - DrakX Installation Instructions no KDE and sector errors

2000-05-17 Thread Romanator


I changing the following:
1. Logged on as roman (user)
2. Graphics card. I changed my default card setting to NVIDIA GeForce
256
3. Graphics resolution was changed from 32-bit to 16-bit. It appears
that Linux prefers 32-bit.
4. I used the default setting for my monitor, as I could not find my
Dell monitor. I have Dell M780.
5. Desktop themes. I changed to different desktop themes. I can't remember
the name of the window that allowed me to scroll through
the desktop themes. I tried all sorts of themes but kept the window
using the KDE default colors. Sorry, my Linux syntax is still poor.
6. Added my static TCP/IP settings, hoping to log on. I added all of
my IP numbers.
Some of these items needed a root password, so I typed it in when prompted
7. Changed the hour settings from i.e. 22:00 to 11:00. I found out
later that this should have been changed with another feature.
8. Changed the screen saver time from 1 minute pause to 15 minutes
I was tired, panicked and reinstalled. It seemed to work for the rest
of the night. I turned on my computer today. At the boot prompt, typed
in: linux
My KDE disappeared this morning. It went in to console mode.
__
Last Night's Installation Notes(Tuesday)
I was getting the following errors from last night's installation:
Reinstall
A) Clicked on hda5 or D partition, and then clicked on the Delete button
B) Clicked on the Auto allocate button.
A message followed up:
sector #8385993 (61498 MB) and sector #6506388 (3702 MB) are
overlapping!
Clicked on the OK and Done buttons.
C) The first install worked okay - after several hours on it. After
adjusting the screen saver to 15 minutes, and I changed to time from
the
24 hr. format to AM/PM. I was prompted that if I would like to start
up in X automatically to
select restart or reboot.
D) When I rebooted the screen was completely
dark. Linux did not reboot.
I didn't know what to do, so I rebooted and
reinstalled Linux Mandrake 7.0 Power Pack again.
Reinstalled Again
E) During the install, I deleted the same partition and was prompted
again with the message:
sector #8385993 (61498 MB) and sector #6506388 (3702 MB) are
overlapping!
F) I clicked on the OK button to proceed with the installation and
another error message appeared:
sector #6506388 (3702 MB) and sector #8385993 (61498 MB) are
overlapping!
The install went okay and ran for a while, then the screen went black
on
me. Linux would not boot up. No blinking I-beam - nothing.
**
I repeated the installation as shown above, clicked on the Auto allocate
button and another error appeared:
#6506388.37878788 (3702 MB) and sector #8385993 (61498 MB) are
overlapping! at /usr/bin/perl - install/common.pm ... Line 205
propagated at /usr/bin/perl - install/diskdrake.pm Line 47
G) I clicked on the OK and Done buttons and the installation proceeded.
I woke up this morning and KDE was gone. However, Linux Mandrake started
up in console mode.
When I typed: startx , X windows started up.
Is this a bug, or should I resize the partition before reinstalling?
Partition Magic 4.0 does not work in Win NT4.
Roman
Registered Linux Mandrake 7.0 User -2733


Alan Shoemaker wrote:
Romanso, something was wrong with x-windows and
needed
fixing. In a case like that there are key-combinations to try
(for instance ctl-alt-f2,f3,f4,f5 or f6 could have gotten you
to a console where you could login and re-run Xconfigurator to
fix the problem.
Tampering with what settings?
Alan
Romanator wrote:
>
> Alan,
>
> While reviewing the options on my Linux desktop, I decided to select
shutdown. The computer rebooted and went to the
> command prompt boot. I typed in dos to run WinNT4, and access Netscape
Navigator to communicate with you.
> Next, I selected shutdown in WinNT4, the computer appeared to reboot
but the entire screen was black. I let it run for
> quite a long time. It's quite possible that I was tampering with
too many options on the desktop?
>
> Roman
>
> Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> > Romanok, why do you ask about what monitor to choose after
> > you've successfully installed Linux? It's during the install
> > you need to know what the make  model of your monitor is.
If
> > you've successfully completed the install w/o
> > inputting/choosing the correct make  model of your monitor
> > then you must have input/chosen something that worked. So
why
> > worry about it after the fact?
> >
> > You've said at least twice no that the screen went black, but
> > never revealed under what conditions this happened. Also,
> > what does 'would not boot up' mean? What happens instead?
At
> > what point in the boot process does 'would not boot up'
> > actually occur and exactly what is it that happens?
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > Romanator wrote:
> > >
> > > Alan,
> > >
> > > I will have to read the guide about the sync rate. But, everything
appears to be okay, now. However, I could not

Re: [newbie] Re: DrakX is Working - DrakX Installation Instructions no KDE and sector errors

2000-05-17 Thread Alan Shoemaker

Romanso a newbie (you) on a newly installed and working
system changed the graphic card, color depth and Monitor: then
rebooted.  Yep, that'd likely hose the x-server all right. 
Roman, don't fix what ain't broke!!  Especially when you don't
really know what you're doing!

Alan

P.S. and you really ought to quit sending mail to this list in
html format.  Half the folks on the list won't even read html
posts (and some email clients can't display html).  It also
screws up the archives.


Romanator wrote:
 
 I changing the following:
 
 1. Logged on as roman (user)
 2. Graphics card. I changed my default card setting to
 NVIDIA GeForce 256
 3. Graphics resolution was changed from 32-bit to 16-bit. It
 appears that Linux prefers 32-bit.
 4. I used the default setting for my monitor, as I could not
 find my Dell monitor. I have Dell M780.
 5. Desktop themes. I changed to different desktop themes. I
 can't remember the name of the window that allowed me to
 scroll through
 the desktop themes. I tried all sorts of themes but kept the
 window using the KDE default colors. Sorry, my Linux syntax
 is still poor.
 6. Added my static TCP/IP settings, hoping to log on. I
 added all of my IP numbers.
 Some of these items needed a root password, so I typed it in
 when prompted
 7. Changed the hour settings from i.e. 22:00 to 11:00. I
 found out later that this should have been changed with
 another feature.
 8. Changed the screen saver time from 1 minute pause to 15
 minutes
 
 I was tired, panicked and reinstalled. It seemed to work for
 the rest of the night. I turned on my computer today. At the
 boot prompt, typed in: linux
 My KDE disappeared this morning. It went in to console mode.
 
 __
 
 Last Night's Installation Notes(Tuesday)
 I was getting the following errors from last night's
 installation:
 
 Reinstall
 A) Clicked on hda5 or D partition, and then clicked on the
 Delete button
 B) Clicked on the Auto allocate button.
 A message followed up:
 sector #8385993 (61498 MB) and sector #6506388 (3702 MB) are
 
 overlapping!
 Clicked on the OK and Done buttons.
 
 C) The first install worked okay - after several hours on
 it. After
 adjusting the screen saver to 15 minutes, and I changed to
 time from the
 24 hr. format to AM/PM. I was prompted that if I would like
 to start up in X automatically to
 select restart or reboot.
 
 D) When I rebooted the screen was completely dark. Linux did
 not reboot.
 I didn't know what to do, so I rebooted and reinstalled
 Linux Mandrake 7.0 Power Pack again.
 
 Reinstalled Again
 E) During the install, I deleted the same partition and was
 prompted
 again with the message:
 sector #8385993 (61498 MB) and sector #6506388 (3702 MB) are
 
 overlapping!
 
 F) I clicked on the OK button to proceed with the
 installation and
 another error message appeared:
 sector #6506388 (3702 MB) and sector #8385993 (61498 MB) are
 
 overlapping!
 
 The install went okay and ran for a while, then the screen
 went black on
 me. Linux would not boot up. No blinking I-beam - nothing.
 **
 
 I repeated the installation as shown above, clicked on the
 Auto allocate
 button and another error appeared:
 #6506388.37878788 (3702 MB) and sector #8385993 (61498 MB)
 are
 overlapping! at /usr/bin/perl - install/common.pm ... Line
 205
 propagated at /usr/bin/perl - install/diskdrake.pm  Line 47
 
 G) I clicked on the OK and Done buttons and the installation
 proceeded.
 
 I woke up this morning and KDE was gone. However, Linux
 Mandrake started up in console mode.
 When I typed: startx , X windows started up.
 
 Is this a bug, or should I resize the partition before
 reinstalling? Partition Magic 4.0 does not work in Win NT4.
 
 Roman
 Registered Linux Mandrake 7.0 User -2733
 
 
 
 Alan Shoemaker wrote:
 
  Romanso, something was wrong with x-windows and needed
 
  fixing.  In a case like that there are key-combinations to
  try
  (for instance ctl-alt-f2,f3,f4,f5 or f6 could have gotten
  you
  to a console where you could login and re-run
  Xconfigurator to
  fix the problem.
 
  Tampering with what settings?
 
  Alan
 
  Romanator wrote:
  
   Alan,
  
   While reviewing the options on my Linux desktop, I
  decided to select shutdown. The computer rebooted and went
  to the
   command prompt boot. I typed in dos to run WinNT4, and
  access Netscape Navigator to communicate with you.
   Next, I selected shutdown in WinNT4, the computer
  appeared to reboot but the entire screen was black. I let
  it run for
   quite a long time. It's quite possible that I was
  tampering with too many options on the desktop?
  
   Roman
  
   Alan Shoemaker wrote:
  
Romanok, why do you ask about what monitor to
  choose after
you've successfully installed Linux?  It's during the
  install
you need to know what the make  model of your monitor
  is.  If

Re: [newbie] Re: DrakX is Working - DrakX Installation Instructions

2000-05-16 Thread Romanator

Hooray!! I am up and running. However, the the desktop display has a larger black 
border on the left side
rather than sitting evenly in the center. My hard drive, sound card auto configured, 
except for the
monitor. An out-of-sync message appeared. The desktop display is lopsided the left 
border is a lot larger
than the right border.

My D drive has disappeared, and I have about 15 Gig. of space which I have to resize. 
E shifted to D.
I am ordering the full version of PM so that I can gain some space.

Thank you for your help.

Roman
Alan Shoemaker wrote:

 Romandelete hda5 and then push the Auto Allocate button.

 Alan

 Romanator wrote:
 
  Hi Alan,
 
  I had draw and write this out as there is no print screen.
  The auto allocation only works if my disk has not been
  partitioned yet or is empty. I have tried as best as
  possible with ASCII to show my page setting:
 
  I can see in the DrakX installation:
 
  The Setup file systems
 
  File system types:   Ext2SwapFATOtherEmpty
  -
  |  hda |
  
-
 
  |---
  --
  ||||
  |||
  ||   C  ||D|
  |   E   |
  ||||
  |||
  |
  --
  |---
  ||Choose action||Details
  
  |---|
  |Device: hda5
  ||Mount point   |
  |DOS drive letter: D (just a guess)
  |---|
  |Type: DOS FAT16
  ||   Resize |
  |Size: 2047 MB (10%)
  |---||
  ||   Delete ||
  |---||
  ___
  __
  |Clear all  |
  |Auto allocate||
  Undo   |
  -
  
  ___
 
  |
  Done
  |
  

 
  Note:
  hda is the entire drive
  hda1 is the 1st partition or drive C
  hda5 is the 2nd partition or drive D
 
  1. In the comments section, the following was copied(I could
  not find any other way of copying the instructions)
  Two common partition are:the root partition ( / ), which
  is the starting point of the file system's directory
  hierarchy,
  and /boot, which contains all files necessary to start the
  operating system when the computer is first turned on.
 
  Since I did not want to reformat the entire 20 Gig. drive, I
  selected the 2nd button - which is hda5
  
***
 
  This is were the confusion sets in:
 
  2a) Click on the 2nd button of hda5. Don't forget that this
  is a factory install from Dell.
  2b) Under choose action, click on the Mount point button.
  Another window pops up asking:
  Where do you want to mount device hda5?
  Next to the Mount point field appears: /
  I can click on the OK button and it adds this to hda5
  2c) If  I click on the drop down arrow, select and replace (
  / ) with ( /boot ), the button will show /boot.
  A drop down arrow shows the following selection.
 
  /
  /boot
  /home
  /mnt/dos
  /mnt/iso
  /tmp
  /usr
  /va
 
  3a. If I click the 2nd blue button ( hda5 ), select the
  delete button, it will indicate that the partition D or hda5
  is empty.
  3b) By clicking on the auto allocate button a message
  appears:
  partitions sector #6506388.37878788 (3702 MB) and sector
  #8385993 (614938 MB are overlapping!
  at /usr/bin/perl - install/common.pm line 205. ...
  propagated at /usr/bin/perl - install/diskdrake.pm line 47
  3c) I clicked on the OK button and all of the Ext2, Swap
  were all there.
 
  Sounds confusing?
 
  Sorry about the long email, and I hope you understand what I
  am getting at. I cannot reformat the entire drive - just
  about 1/2 of D.
 
  Roman




Re: [newbie] Re: DrakX is Working - DrakX Installation Instructions

2000-05-16 Thread Romanator

Hi Alan,

The monitor works fine in Windows NT4. The shift happens in as soon as I get in to KDE.

Roman

Alan Shoemaker wrote:

 Romanadjust your monitor (buttons on front, directions in
 monitor owner's manual).

 Alan

 Romanator wrote:
 
  Hooray!! I am up and running. However, the the desktop display has a larger black 
border on the left side
  rather than sitting evenly in the center. My hard drive, sound card auto 
configured, except for the
  monitor. An out-of-sync message appeared. The desktop display is lopsided the left 
border is a lot larger
  than the right border.
 
  My D drive has disappeared, and I have about 15 Gig. of space which I have to 
resize. E shifted to D.
  I am ordering the full version of PM so that I can gain some space.
 
  Thank you for your help.
 
  Roman
  Alan Shoemaker wrote:
 
   Romandelete hda5 and then push the Auto Allocate button.
  
   Alan
  
   Romanator wrote:
   
Hi Alan,
   
I had draw and write this out as there is no print screen.
The auto allocation only works if my disk has not been
partitioned yet or is empty. I have tried as best as
possible with ASCII to show my page setting:
   
I can see in the DrakX installation:
   
The Setup file systems
   
File system types:   Ext2SwapFATOtherEmpty
-
|  hda |

-
   
|---
--
||||
|||
||   C  ||D|
|   E   |
||||
|||
|
--
|---
||Choose action||Details

|---|
|Device: hda5
||Mount point   |
|DOS drive letter: D (just a guess)
|---|
|Type: DOS FAT16
||   Resize |
|Size: 2047 MB (10%)
|---||
||   Delete ||
|---||
___
__
|Clear all  |
|Auto allocate||
Undo   |
-

___
   
|
Done
|


   
Note:
hda is the entire drive
hda1 is the 1st partition or drive C
hda5 is the 2nd partition or drive D
   
1. In the comments section, the following was copied(I could
not find any other way of copying the instructions)
Two common partition are:the root partition ( / ), which
is the starting point of the file system's directory
hierarchy,
and /boot, which contains all files necessary to start the
operating system when the computer is first turned on.
   
Since I did not want to reformat the entire 20 Gig. drive, I
selected the 2nd button - which is hda5

***
   
This is were the confusion sets in:
   
2a) Click on the 2nd button of hda5. Don't forget that this
is a factory install from Dell.
2b) Under choose action, click on the Mount point button.
Another window pops up asking:
Where do you want to mount device hda5?
Next to the Mount point field appears: /
I can click on the OK button and it adds this to hda5
2c) If  I click on the drop down arrow, select and replace (
/ ) with ( /boot ), the button will show /boot.
A drop down arrow shows the following selection.
   
/
/boot
/home
/mnt/dos
/mnt/iso
/tmp
/usr
/va
   
3a. If I click the 2nd blue button ( hda5 ), select the
delete button, it will indicate that the partition D or hda5
is empty.
3b) By clicking on the auto allocate button a message
appears:
partitions sector #6506388.37878788 (3702 MB) and sector
#8385993 (614938 MB are overlapping!
at /usr/bin/perl - install/common.pm line 205. ...
propagated at /usr/bin/perl - install/diskdrake.pm line 47
3c) I