SilverSurfer60

I have not used gparted so can't possibly comment on it, but I have used the method I suggested in the first reply post and done so successfully. is why I suggested the method I did. 21 gig should be ample for / , according to your last post it seems to be that size now. If you do not have important data in the fragments of partitions you can consolidate them into meaningful partitions without losing anything. If I read your post correctly.

Hello there, the reason you cannot resize /hdb1 is that your other partitions are in the way so to speak. As food for thought you need to somehow have a link/alias from your existing /mnt/hdb1 to the extended 10gb. Going by my calculations you have too much data in your existing /home to be able to back it up. If you could back it up into the free 10gb you would then be able to could make the 10gb into another partition (not /home) and back up into it, delete your existing /home and /swap, resize your /hdb1 and create another swap. Create a new /home in the space you have left. Move the backed up data into the new /home, delete the partition you had the data in, and then resize the new /home. I hope that all makes sense. Maybe someone will have a much better way of doing things.

Fish is working fine for me now with 2008.1, how odd that mine failed with 2008.0 but worked for you, now 2008.1 works for me but not for you. Up until 2008 fish worked with all the releases.

2008.1 has worked out of the box for me by selecting the correct video adaptor during the set up. This is the first version I have not used Aussie John's method. Also with the compiling method whenever I let the compiler script change the xorg.conf I had to go in manually and delete the 'fontpath' option. This is a clean install mind you as I have never done an upgrade.

I obviously read the question. Anyway locate -e ko.gz | grep `uname -r` should give the same result I do believe.

For the headache, stop pulling your hair out. :P

lsmod (as root)

Welcome to MUB Sharafi. It sounds like you have an incorrect path to the sources. You can correct this by starting 'Configure Your Computer', enter your root password when required. Once the application is started select 'Configure Media Sources' answer yes when you get a box asking if you wish to continue. You will then get a list of the sources available to install from. You will need to check the path of each item in the list. To do this select an item (do not clear the tick mark) and then select edit from the choices at the right hand side. You will then be presented with a dialouge which wiil describe the path that that item is expecting. If it is not pointing to the correct place i.e. your installation disk you will need to change it. Quite a straight forward point and select. When you have corrected any mistakes click on save changes and you should be good to go.

I had the same problem of the fish protocol dying after an update. Did a google and turned up many such problems and no real solution. Started using sftp instead until a fix is produced.

When you say you installed from a live CD did you do this from the desktop after booting up from the CD?

Uninstalling beagle shouldn't make any difference to kde, it's one of the first things to go on my system after a new install. The only thing it uninstalls is kerry.

If I understand correctly it should be a matter of re-creating each user again with the same details you had in your previous installation, in the section where you create users after entering the root password. The only thing might be the password for each user unless you already know it and can enter it for them.

Not too difficult this one, before you start to install in a shell type 'df' to get your current partition configuration and take note of it. When you install, at the partitioning section choose to use current partitions, and when faced with the partition page enter the partition and mount points that you noted at the beginning. When you get to the formatting page make sure that the /home partition is not selected. All the user configurations will be as they were beforehand. If you have configurations in other directories (/etc) and the like then you will need to back those up before you start. One gottcha with this is that between 2006 & 2008 quite a lot has changed and it maybe that contents of /etc and the like may have well changed also. I hope all this makes sense to you & good luck.

It is certainly a lot easier if you use the Mandriva driver as the ones from else where need to be compiled into the kernel. It can be done as this is how I used to do it before the drivers where added to the repos.

Without being rude or anything I would suggest installing Mandriva 2008.0 as this is the latest stable distro. Especially as you are new to Linux.

Before you do anything with the drive dfrag it. When you do install Mandriva will take care of the partitioning for you. Take a look at the link Dude67 is pointing you to.

It is possibly a permissions problem with the mysql server. I have just been through all this and it took me a week to find out I had the wrong permissions on the data directory. As soon as the ownership and group were changed to mysql then all was well. Of course this is only the case if the data directory is not in the default directory. Another possibility is that /etc/my.cnf is not allowing network clients to access the database. If the client is run on localhost then it should be OK. Try to access the database from a shell with [somebody@somewhere]$mysql -u root If you get the mysql prompt then the server is running correctly. Just enter 'quit' at the mysql prompt. Error "#2002 is a very obscure output and basically means the data directory is not accessible for whatever reason.

That's one hell of a time difference in Scotland :o

Hello there Mark, I only tried Ubuntu live CD and didn't like it so I cannot give any advice on that distribution. I have tried others but found Mandriva to my liking and have stuck with it. Hence my knowledge of other distributions is very limited. Did you try my last suggestion? Booting from the live CD without installing. If you use this method you do not need to partition anything as the whole system is run from the CD and not your hard drive. By all means try another distribution it is your computer and to me Linux is Linux. I'm just pleased to try and be of assistance :)

You are quite correct, your system is 64bit although from reading posts it should still operate with little or no problems. Unfortunately that's where my knowledge of 64bit systems ends. You could try Scarecrows suggestion, also you could try and boot from the Live CD without installing it. If the latter does not work then you have an incompatibility problem!!! Just what is beyond my experience.

Are you on a 32bit or 64bit system?

From what I see Mark you have a rather small '/' partition and a rather large '/home' partition. The '/swap' is fine. What I suggest is use 'custom partition'. increase your '/' partition by 10 or 15 gigabyte, keep the same size for your swap and the use the remainder for '/home'. To do this you will need to clear the partitions already set for sda6 sda7 and sda8, then set the partitions as just mentioned and format those three partitions. That will clear the data and you can do a clean install on those partitions. I know it's a drag having to re-install but this way you know it will be a clean install. Good Luck, we are always here if things don't go right. Do not resize your windows partitions. Just leave them as they are.

Stay with sda1 and you should be fine. See you on Mandriva.

I am trying to keep this as simple as possible K1n6 Paranoia so that it is understandable. The Live CD is meant to be a bootable system and run from the CD without installing, however, there is the availability of installing via a desktop shortcut that is placed on the desktop when you boot up. This release is meant to be burnt to a CD. If you want to commit to using Mandriva there is the 2008.0 release which is a DVD iso, therefore is meant to be burnt to a DVD. This one you install as an operating system. During the install you need to select to use the current Linux partitions. This selection will re-format only the operating system partition of the hard drive, in your case it should be /dev/sda5 There are major differences between the Live CD install and the system DVD install. The one difference that you will see is the choice of graphical desktop you want to install i.e. you can choose KDE or GNOME. Many more differences you will notice if you choose to go down this route. With the Live CD install I believe you do not have the choice of graphical desktop, user set-up etc. It is much quicker as most of the choices are made for you depending on the hardware you have on your computer. A word of caution here! The iso for the DVD (2008.0 Free) is a very large file, as it contains a complete release of the Mandriva package. I sincerely hope I have not confused you even more, but I can think of no other way to describe all of the above. It's all about choice you see.

It is quite possible you have a less than perfect burn on your dvd. If you have a fast connection to the web (as in broadband) it may be worth your while downloading the dvd iso. Lower the burn rate in your burning program so that you get a good dvd burn and re-install. If you take this option you will not need to re-partition your drives just use current partitions when you get to that part of the install. For me that would be the better option, however if someone else disagrees or you do not wish to take that option then delay your install and see if a better answer comes along.