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Generally no :) You'd just have eth0, eth1 maybe and lo as well as wlan0 and perhaps wmaster0 too depending on wireless card.

For some reason it's wanting to find vbaexpress-1.2-1.i386 in your /root/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/ directory. Perhaps you need to download the vbaexpress and extract into this exact location and then see what happens?

Yes, of course, but I thought about filtering it down to one device. When I run it on mine, I get loads - mainly because of the xen kernel and so is hard to find the info I want immediately :) Just so you see what I mean: [root@esprit ~]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1A:4B:65:D4:3E inet6 addr: fe80::21a:4bff:fe65:d43e/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:2520 (2.4 KiB) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:2936 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2936 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:4157928 (3.9 MiB) TX bytes:4157928 (3.9 MiB) peth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF UP BROADCAST NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Interrupt:18 Memory:e4000000-e4010000 vif0.0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF inet6 addr: fe80::fcff:ffff:feff:ffff/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:2520 (2.4 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:468 (468.0 B) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:77:BC:68:97 inet addr:10.1.1.12 Bcast:10.1.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21b:77ff:febc:6897/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1B-77-BC-68-97-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) xenbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FE:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:2352 (2.2 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) whereas: [root@esprit ~]# ifconfig wlan0 wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:77:BC:68:97 inet addr:10.1.1.12 Bcast:10.1.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21b:77ff:febc:6897/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) less info :) of course means you need to know what the adapter is called, but then once you know it, it's simple. Atheros interfaces tend to be ath0, broadcomm I'm unsure of as I don't have one of these.

Glad to hear you got there in the end. I'm looking to upgrade one of my machines this weekend, a nice new shiny clean install of Mandriva 2010 x86_64 so I hope it'll go well :)

Hmm, so I'm assuming if you got IP address or not for the adaptor? When connected, you can get connection information from Network Manager and see if an IP address is assigned, or you can always get it from the console with: ifconfig wlan0 or whatever the wireless device is called.

I can only think that the dual arch release means it has the 32 bit and 64 bit version on the same disk that detects which one to install. But I could be wrong.

Can you tell us what happens? Does it attempt to connect and then nothing? I've been in a hotel recently, and found that I couldn't connect to the access point. First time it was protected by a WEP key, and they gave me two different keys to connect. The next time they had changed it and it was an open network and still I couldn't connect. This was in Poland. However, in another different hotel, all was working fine. I don't believe it's country specific, but I think more to do with the access point and I don't know why. I didn't have Windows to check/test to see if it would work, and so I couldn't rule out whether it was a problem with my wireless adaptor or whether it was a problem with the operating system. But if you find it's working in Windows, then I would say it's something under Linux just I have no idea what as I've yet to fix it myself and since I was only there a day or two, I didn't spend much time looking at it.

Free can do an upgrade, it's not dependent on version, but there are lots of things to take into consideration when doing upgrades. First, any config files for new packages, are always saved as filename.conf.rpmnew where filename is relative to whatever the package is/was being upgraded. Secondly, profiles for Gnome/KDE can be problematic although the upgrade should take care of it. Also upgrades for more than one release gap are not supported and so are likely to be problematic. For example, 2009.0 and 2009.1 can be upgraded to 2010.0 but 2008.1 cannot because it's more than two step versions away. Of course, there's nothing to stop you doing 2008.1 to 2009.0 or 2009.1 and then 2010.0. I did an upgrade from Mandrake 10.0 to Mandrake 10.1 and then to Mandriva LE2005 ages ago and that was more problematic because of the severe changes between 10.0 and 10.1 but it worked with a lot of tweaking :)

You can do some diags here from the LiveCD. If you boot it, and I hope it'll work this way, then do something like this: find / -name squashfs* when you find the exact path, then do: rpm -qf /lib/modules/x.x.x.x-desktopx.x.x.x/squashfs_lzma.ko.gz or whatever the name of the file is from the above command, you can then see if you have some missing packages. Maybe you need to install the squashfs packages or dkms_squashfs or something similar that might exist on the LiveCD, just not installed by default from the Mandriva Free. It might even be squashfs-kernel - find some packages like this: urpmf --name squashfs and see what list is returned, and you can choose to install the one that matches your kernel. Repeat if you find any more missing modules after installing squashfs.

If 2008.1 is running good, go with this. You can always add all repos from easyurpmi, including enabling the backports repos to see if it will give you what you need.

There will of course always be a time when older machines are not supported anymore. Mainly because that the hardware no longer exists, or is extremely rare to come across, and so it's support is dropped. This is to be expected, other the kernel would become so huge and so bloated that it wouldn't be of any use anymore. The same happens with Windows, so older hardware will always become obsolete at some point. That is why a newer distro cannot always be seen as usable for you and as such you'll always be better sticking with an older distro at this point for older hardware. The saying "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" comes to mind :) You know I have a really old machine at home that I always thought about using some day as a Linux firewall, or something because it's a Dual Processor P133, 128MB ram, 2GB + 4GB disks and Matrox G200 video card. The stats aren't great, and I know that probably even now most distros simply won't run on it. I've not attempted to do anything with it, because for a start, it won't boot from CD-ROM, which means I'd have to make a floppy disk set to get it to start and read the installation CD. That might not even be possible now, so my chances of getting that machine going are next to nothing, unless I want to put Windows 95 on it or something like Windows NT 3.5x or 4.x. Maybe Red Hat 9 or something real old would be a goer on this if I am able to make a floppy disk set.....oh, and I do remember putting maybe Mandrake 7.1 on this machine I think or if not this one, it was definitely the one I had after which was an AMD K6-2 450MHz, forget amount of ram but probably 256MB or 512MB, forget amount of disk space but probably 10GB.

GlusterFS allows you to do two-way sync also although I've never used it: http://www.gluster.com/community/documentation/index.php/GlusterFS but it's certainly interesting, because if you're using NAS/SAN storage like I've been playing around with recently with Openfiler, you can install glusterfs under Openfiler and expand your capabilities. Might be a bit too much for simple use though. But worth a mention.....

It depends what you want to do. I generally have stuck with ext3 mostly if I want compatibility across distros. Sometimes, when I've installed CentOS or Red Hat I only have an option of ext3 and nothing more, so meant I didn't want to have to reformat my whole system. xfs is good with very large files, and it's also very quick in creating the filesystem on large partitions, whereas ext3 will take a long time. I find ext4 fast, and I used this under Ubuntu 9.04 when I had it installed and liked it very much. Tux likes jfs and I've never tried it, but it's supposed to be good too. Reiserfs is OK also and I used to use this up until a while ago also, but stopped when I found CentOS and Red Hat had no support for it unless you use CentOS Plus kernels but even then it's not available for use during installation, so is a reason why I switched to ext3 to save formatting all the time and having to move data around.

OK, this is all possible during installation, and this is what I did: Mandriva partitioning Go to custom partitioning Go to toggle advanced partitioning I created two partitions on sda and sdb, first of around 200MB and the second using rest of the disk which in my test case was around 10GB and set both of these to Linux Raid. I then add first two partitions to md0 and the other larger two to md1. Then set the md0 partition as /boot as this cannot be inside an LVM volume. Then go to raid tab and click type and change to Linux Logical Volume Manager. Then click add to LVM and I set the partition as vg. Then in vg tab, create partitions that you want. I created lvswap of 1024M and rest of disk to /. And you then have RAID and LVM :) I did this all in GUI installer, nothing from command line.

I'm unsure, normally I'd expect RAID first and then LVM inside of this. I'll have a play around and see what I can come up with. In a few hours I should have Mandriva 2010 downloaded from bittorrent.

I'll download it and give it a go and see if I can find a way around it with a manual method.

Essentially, you should be doing the raid first, and then the LVM partitions inside the array. You might have to go into advanced partitioning in the Mandy installer to allow you to do this, but I've never tried it so cannot say for sure. I remember someone commented on my raid installation post a while ago that there is the advanced partitioning which allows you to do more. I can test it easily enough though under VMware if required but I hope the advanced partitioning will help.

Based on options 1, 2 and 4 you can use samba for this and set permissions and also configure and access your printer. Option 3 you can install vsftpd and apache. Not sure about option 5 and PS3 stuff, but I'm sure I saw someone do that somewhere (if not in a post on this site). Options 6 and 7 will be fine with any distro that has LVM and RAID support which will probably be all of them :) But yeah, if you want to do all that you need to have your own Linux distro installed and configure it as you require. Openfiler is just NAS/SAN storage.

Theoretically the order shouldn't cause a problem, but obviously in this case it does :D Strange huh!

I'm not in the office right now, but I have Xubuntu 9.04 and everything was working fine from what I remember. I'll have to try upgrading it to Xubuntu 9.10 and see what happens. If nobody else has any ideas, I'll let you know on Friday.

Try dropbox, as long as you have an internet connection, it will save the files, and they will appear on both machines when they synchronise. https://www.dropbox.com/ you get 2GB for free. Or if you get referral, you'll get an extra 250MB for free, so I can give you a referral link if you want. I've been using dropbox for a while now and it's really cool. Files are encrypted before being saved on the external server. otherwise, locally without internet access, you'll be needing things like rsync, etc.

Mine looks like this: 127.0.0.1 esprit localhost.localdomain localhost esprit being my hostname for the machine, but you can put host-001 or whatever your hostname is. Note, I also have the localhost.localdomain in there too, and I don't have problems with Firefox. Maybe, reset yours something like: 127.0.0.1 host-001 localhost.localdomain localhost and see what happens.

If you have the CD/DVD media, try running an upgrade of 2010 with the 2010 media to try and fix any problems with bootup, etc. You could probably even use a rescue CD and see what the grub config looks like, and stuff like this, but the upgrade method might be easier to reset a load of files. The upgrade method may help to bring back some sanity to the install. Without knowing what files got replaced by etc-update it would be hard to figure out what went wrong, unless it's the grub config that got replaced somehow but it looks like it's booting so it's probably not that but something else weird. Alternatively, if you do get to a console that you can login with as root, and then find out what runlevel you have: runlevel should be 3 probably if X is not running, you can then run mcc and configure your display etc and maybe get xorg up and running.

That at least explains why xguest never saw the disk errors at least, so seems we do have some sort of issue. If you can check the disk in another machine as soon as, we can then see which is the cause of the problem. Of course, you might want to copy any valuable data off the disk as soon as possible before it does die completely should the disk be at fault.

I can't say that I've seen a Linux release yet, and I searched a short while ago.