Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello Frank Thanks for that vote of confidence! No joy with df ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt bash: /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# df

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello Frank Thanks for that vote of confidence! No joy with df ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt bash: /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# df

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 14:47, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello Frank Thanks for that vote of confidence! No joy with df ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt bash: /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt: No such file or directory [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Monday 28 Mar 2005 14:47, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello Frank Thanks for that vote of confidence! No joy with df ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt bash: /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt: No such file or

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 15:00, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello Frank Thanks for that vote of confidence! No joy with df ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt bash: /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt: No such file or directory [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 15:29, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Monday 28 Mar 2005 14:47, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello Frank Thanks for that vote of confidence! No joy with df ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Monday 28 Mar 2005 15:00, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello Frank Thanks for that vote of confidence! No joy with df ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt bash: /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt: No such file or

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread James Henry Maiewski
Hello, I lost count of the number of times my blind experimentation (along with sheer stupidity (like the time I uninstalled the package installer DOH!). Do not be afraid of this. However, the best advice I ever got on this list was to mount your /home directory on a seperate

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I lost count of the number of times my blind experimentation (along with sheer stupidity (like the time I uninstalled the package installer DOH!). Do not be afraid of this. However, the best advice I ever got on this list was to mount your /home directory

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread SnapafunFrank
James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I lost count of the number of times my blind experimentation (along with sheer stupidity (like the time I uninstalled the package installer DOH!). Do not be afraid of this. However, the best advice I ever got on this list was to mount your /home directory

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I lost count of the number of times my blind experimentation (along with sheer stupidity (like the time I uninstalled the package installer DOH!). Do not be afraid of this. However, the best advice I ever got on this list was to mount your /home directory

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
I think you will find that at present both Mikkel and I are enjoying time with our families, it being easter and all. Yes - I totally understand that. Simply posting that stuff because i have the head space to do it. We will assist you no matter what you decide but I believe you need to make

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Okay - I tried this. At the cd it said home not set so I added / after looking down at the vi instructions - hope that was right, now thinking it should have been ~! Anyway - rebooted and it stalled at ALSA again. In windows explore2fs, now see only hda2, hda3

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread SnapafunFrank
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Okay - I tried this. At the cd it said home not set so I added / after looking down at the vi instructions - hope that was right, now thinking it should have been ~! Anyway - rebooted and it stalled at ALSA again. In windows explore2fs,

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: Hi Mikkel: Rosemary has sent me directly some info which I think you ought to be privy to. Her lilo.conf gives the devfs=nomount append only on the one she appears able to boot with. ( albeit that it stalls at ALSA later ) Her append lines also include resume=/mnt/hda8

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-25 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
This is strange. You are mounting hda6 on /mnt, and then the CD-ROM is mounting on /mnt/cdrom. It is not normal proactice to mount anyting on /mnt, as you normaly have mount points for removable devices in this directory. In your case, your CD-ROM is mounted there, as well as your Windows

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-25 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Frank suggested I install explore2fs and post the fstab file. Here it is /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /mnt ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-24 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Frank suggested I install explore2fs and post the fstab file. Here it is /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /mnt ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-24 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Frank suggested I install explore2fs and post the fstab file. Here it is /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /mnt ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-23 Thread SnapafunFrank
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Frank suggested I install explore2fs and post the fstab file. Here it is /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /mnt ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Frank suggested I install explore2fs and post the fstab file. Here it is /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /mnt ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-22 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 21 March 2005 07:26 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Card reader arrived today so thought I would try it out! Big mistake! I read instructions on a board and following that took a look using HardDrake - don't know if this is it or not.

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-22 Thread SnapafunFrank
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 21 March 2005 07:26 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Card reader arrived today so thought I would try it out! Big mistake! I read instructions on a board and following that took a look using HardDrake - don't know if this is it or

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Frank suggested I install explore2fs and post the fstab file. Here it is /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /mnt ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-21 Thread Philippe Landau
i am so sorry to hear about that, Rosemary ... i was so sure it would work, i never heard of anyone getting problems for pluging in a usb drive ... otherwise i would have told you to make a backup first. do you also think that maybe your version of mandrake has some underlying problems ? ALSA is

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Philippe Landau wrote: i am so sorry to hear about that, Rosemary ... i was so sure it would work, i never heard of anyone getting problems for pluging in a usb drive ... otherwise i would have told you to make a backup first. do you also think that maybe your version of mandrake has some

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-21 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Philippe Landau wrote: i am so sorry to hear about that, Rosemary ... i was so sure it would work, i never heard of anyone getting problems for pluging in a usb drive ... otherwise i would have told you to make a backup first. Hey - not your fault. do you also think that

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-21 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Reinstalling Mandrake should be a last resort. It isn't something you should have to resort to. Knowing what you did before you had the problem is always a good place to start... Mikkel I have also posted to a local user group, and if I cannot get it going myself have the

Linux maintenance - fresh install (Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-21 Thread Philippe Landau
i am so sorry to hear about that, Rosemary ... i was so sure it would work, i never heard of anyone getting problems for pluging in a usb drive ... otherwise i would have told you to make a backup first. Hey - not your fault. thanks :-) do you also think that maybe your version of mandrake has

Re: Linux maintenance - fresh install (Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-21 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
thanks :-) do you also think that maybe your version of mandrake has some underlying problems ? ALSA is the sound server, right ? For some reason it hung there too when a I attempted to install a USB mouse a few weeks ago. someone mentions the