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Well, the cleanest way to install is to burn those .iso files to CDs, but if you don't have a CD-Writer it's supposed to be possible based on these instructions from: http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main...tall_from_ISO_i The disk install can also use ISO images from a local hard disk (put all ISO images in the same directory). You can get install/images/boot.iso from a mirror, burn it to CD and boot it. Once the installer is started, it will ask the hard disk, the partition and the directory were the ISO images are located. If this directory contains more than one bootable ISO image, the installer will ask which one it should use. ------- Caveats: I have no actual experience doing this, so can't provide any further tips. Regarding the MCC/urpmi sources, I would think it would set them up in your /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg based on the location of the .iso files. If you have those .iso file on an NTFS partition, I am skeptical that this will work as indicated above. They might need to be on an fat32 partition, I dunno. Hopefully someone who has actually done this will reply with some tips based on actual experience. If you can't get this to work and you don't have a CD-Writer but you do have a broadband connection, another option available to you is to do a network install from a mandriva mirror. Please advise if you want info on how to do that.

http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_network/x6968.html You might try some of the broadband tests and tools at: http://www.broadbandreports.com/tools

Great! Glad it worked out, darby. And a belated welcome to MUB to you. This site is a great place to learn more about your linux system, so please consider staying around and participating.

There is a howto for recovering lost urpmi Install CD sources, see this: http://mandriva.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/U...st_sources_cds_ which says: If you find you do not have all your cds listed as sources, try urpmi.addmedia --distrib cdrom removable://mnt/cdrom with the CD in your drive. The rest of that web page is an excellent overall urpmi reference. Disclaimer: I have not had a need to try this, but I am assuming it works.

Referring to /libjavaplugin_oji.so would mean that this file is in the root, or /, directory, which of course is not the case. It's probably in something like (but check on your system): /usr/java/jre1.5.0_04/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so So, from the present working directory where you are trying to create a symbolic link to it, your command would be: ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_04/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so .

Besides the above, also see: http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/bashref/ Also, see sample chapters in .pdf format of several linux books on programming topics at: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/q/linux_chapters Lots of stuff that you can find online with google searching, including great example scripts.

Q: Can i do all my command line scripting in perl? or do I have to learn shell Programming? Yes, probably. But shell programming is so fundamental and pervasive and easy, it is well worth learning IMO. You will find lots of shell script examples that you might want to understand and use and adapt, so I'd say it's well worth the effort to learn it in addition to perl. It's also much easier to learn than perl, though perl is more powerful. Q: What language is Bash shell programming in? C++ or B? It's own language, just like DOS/Windows command language is it's own language. See the references in my first post. Note that different shells will have their own language (e.g., tcsh), but bash is typically the default shell. Also see: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=12505 for a full thread on a question similar to yours.

Well, shell scripting and perl will cover much of the territory. You also might want to get versed in things like: regular expressions: http://marvin.ibest.uidaho.edu/~heckendo/CS310/regex.html shell utils: gawk, sed, grep, etc. Others will chime in with additional suggestions. For general system background knowledge, it might also be useful to have a general understanding of the C language; e.g., what a header file is, how source files are compiled, etc. Here's a nice general programming reference site: http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/

I assume you've learned about shell scripting for the bash command interpreter. If not: http://www.linuxcommand.org/writing_shell_scripts.php http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/ http://www.bashscripts.org/ What specific kinds of things are you trying to do? For example, are you thinking of strictly command-line scripting? Or getting into web and/or database apps? X apps? Compiled programs? Depending on your answer, that could open up a vast subject. Without more specifics, it's a bit like asking: "I want to learn music. Which instrument should I study?"

The Mandrakelinux directory, though it exists at ftp://ftp.rutgers.edu, is empty. Don't know why. Perhaps it's temporary, I dunno. So Easy-Urpmi is giving you a bum reference on this one. I think you'll need to try a different mirror, at least for now. You can double-check what Easy-Urpmi gives you by navigating in a browser to the mirror site.

If you installed from an rpm, execute this command as the root user: rpm -e <packagename> If you're not sure of the packagename, rpm -qa will display a list of installed packages from which you can identify the name of the one you want to delete. Be sure to read the rpm manual page (man rpm). If you installed from a .tar or .tar.gz file, read the readme files, but you probably could just delete the install directory.

I suggest you try a different mirror. You can use the Software Media Manager to change them (Menu -> Configuration -> Packaging -> Software Media Manager). Use the Easy-Urpmi link at the top of this page to get mirror sites and the relative path to the synthesis/hdlist. Also, some good links: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=10600 https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=10611

There were recent security updates for X with the advisory dated 9/13. Did the update you referred to included those X updates and then immediately after that is when these problems occurred? As root, you could check /var/log/Xorg.0.log (there might be some earlier history log versions as well, so hopefully you have logs to compare both a good and bad startx event) to see if there are any definitive error messages (besides any other relevant messages you might get when doing startx from the CLI). As polemicz indicated, post them if you have problems resolving the errors, along with any other relevant info.

Now that you've got your urpmi sources configured, I'd like to suggest this good overall urpmi reference: http://mandriva.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi If you're not already aware of it, you might that it'll come in handy from time to time.

This is just a theory, but KDE is probably just trying to restore the previous session that froze when you were configuring something. That could happen if the KDE Session Manager option for On Login is set to "Restore previous session". See below. You can view and change this option with: Menu -> System -> Configuration -> Configure Your Desktop -> Components -> Session Manager. For example, try changing it to "Start with an Empty Session." The text below is from the KDE Help documentation: You may choose one of three options on what should happen when you log into KDE: Restore previous session If this option is checked, KDE will save your current session's state when you logout. KDE will restore your session on the next login, so you can continue to work with a desktop just like you left it. Restore manually saved session Instead of restoring KDE to the state it was when you logged out last, it will be restored to a specific state that you have saved manually. Start with an empty session If you choose this option, KDE will never restore sessions that it has saved.

A quick google search suggests that it's likely just an informational message rather than an indication of a problem. http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e...5-Apr/3178.html You're not seeing any device malfunction, are you? There is also some information about the DEVPATH environment variable in the hotplug man page (man hotplug).

Yves, I think I found the problem. Copy the id_dsa.pub key into the authorized_keys2 file on the remote server, NOT authorized_keys. Thus the line in your original post above needs to be: $ cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh me@remote "cat - >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2" I found this out when I tried to setup ssh using public key authentication into a new 2006 install. When I copied the id_dsa.pub key into authorized_keys it didn't work, but when I copied it into authorized_keys2, then it began working. I guess this has to do with SSH Protocol Version 2 being used. I hope this works for you.

The quiet option is a mount option for vfat file systems that means (from the mount man page): "quiet - Turn on the quiet flag. Attempts to chown or chmod files do not return errors, although they fail. Use with caution!" Regarding the last two fields (the 0 0) - this is from the "Rute User's Tutorial" at http://rute.2038bug.com (this is an excellent reference manual): "The fifth field (i.e., the first 0 above) tells whether the file system contains real files. The field is used by the dump command to decide if it should be backed up. This is not commonly used. The last field tells the order in which an fsck should be done on the partitions. The / partition should come first with a 1, and all other partitions should come directly after. Placing 2's everywhere else ensures that partitions on different disks can be checked in parallel, which speeds things up slightly at boot time." (So 0 would mean that no fsck would be done - file system checks at bootup would be prompted, for example, after an unclean shutdown.) See your /etc/fstab for reference.

Here are some good doc manual packages for LE2005 to install using the MCC software installer or urpmi from the CLI: mandrake-doc-Drakxtools-Guide-en-10.2-2mdk mandrake-doc-common-10.2-2mdk mandrake-doc-Starter-en-10.2-2mdk

Doing an 'urpmf /bin/sh' shows that it's part of the bash package. So you might want to reinstall the bash rpm (probably with the --replacepkgs parameter).

Yes, especially since it's a spare partition. Many dual-booters between Windows and Linux use a fat32 partition (which is a vfat file system type in Linux) for this purpose, including me. So, use vfat as the proper file system type for the mount command (mount -t vfat ....), or for use in /etc/fstab.

To reconfigure your video options, run the following command as the root user: XFdrake Pick the closest monitor you can find to yours, or pick one of the Generic ones. Be sure to select the Test option so you can test your changes. One of the Options is to start X when booting. After making the changes using XFdrake, you can either reboot or go directly into KDE with the following command (as a regular user, not as root): startx startkde

Schedule Estimation: http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrivaLinux2006 Note that it won't be available in public mirrors until after a month after the official release (Club members have exclusive access to it first).

Great! Glad to hear that your boot menu is now all set up the way you want it.

Read the section on level 4 in /usr/share/doc/msec-0.45.1/security.txt You probably also need a line in /etc/hosts.allow to specifically allow the IP addresses of those machines that you want to ssh into your box: sshd:<ip_address>:ALLOW man hosts.allow (for syntax on specifying ip addresses)