SilverSurfer60

What medium are you using to install, i.e. downloaded and burned dvd, a live cd or something else? If it is a dvd is it one you created? The reason for the failure to boot looks like a bad install to me.

That does seem to be a problem one which I suffered with myself. Follow Willie's suggestion and you should be able to install cups and much more besides.

Before we start analyzing things here I would like to ask a question as your explanation is a little mixed up or it could be me that's a bit thick. First when you say Windows is running well how are you starting your Windows, by this I mean are you starting them from the grub menu? I ask this as there are a number of reasons why Linux would not boot and of course we need to know which way to go forward. Don't worry about the Linux partition not showing up in Windows as Windows knows nothing about Linux.

Good morning K1n6, at least it's morning where I am. In response to your last posting I will be in uncharted waters for myself as I have never had to make the choices you are going to make, so please take my thoughts as just thoughts and not as words from an expert. Maybe someone with more experience could offer better advice here. Anyhow I see things this way. You should not need to fill your windows partitions as they are partitions and in all sense separate drives. With this in mind when you begin to install I would be inclined to select custom partitioning as suggested by Ianw1974. This way you will be sure to partition and format the correct section of your hard drive. I do believe your understanding is for a hard drive with just the one windows partition, because normally Windows is very greedy and will use the whole of the available space and the Mandriva installer is able to regain the unused space from Windows and resize the Windows partition. Therefore in your case you will probably need to select the partition that you want to install to. I sincerely hope you understand my explanation and indeed my understanding is correct. If your are in any doubt post back before installing as you could quite possibly overwrite one of your Windows installs. I would hate to think I gave you the wrong information and you had to reformat and start all over.

Right, I have had a cup of coffee so I will try and answer your question :) After installation you should finish up with:- /dev/sda1 = Windows /dev/sda2 = Windows /dev/sda3 will no longer be but will become /dev/sda5 /home /dev/sda6 /swap /dev/sda7 / your CD/DVD will be mounted under 'media:cdrom' regardless of what it is. I say mounted because that is the terminology used instead of the Windows Letters. As far as I know the above is correct, if it is not someone will put me in my place, and correct any mistakes. Where your portable drive would be mounted I am not sure. I need another cup of coffee now. :D

Maybe you need to use ndiswrapper with a windows driver. I also have a realtek card, albeit a pc card, and it will not work with the realtek drivers supplied in Mandriva. Ndiswrapper and the windows driver works with no problems.

Hello and Welcome to Mandrivausers.org affectionately known as MUB. I can answer some of your questions but not all. 1. 14gb is more than enough to install Mandriva. 2. Not too sure how things will behave here. The Use Free Space option usually partitions a Windows installation and uses the free space that Windows does not use on the given drive. 3. Mandriva installation will create the required partitions for you in the space you select. 4. It is certainly possible to triple boot, but I have not done this myself so I will leave that to someone who has. A thing to note about Linux is that drive letters are not used as they are in windows. Partitions are referenced like :- Drive c: becomes /hda/ and D: becomes /hdb/ etc. Each drive then has its own partitions which are referenced :- /hda1/ /hda6/ etc. If you are not using Drive E: for anything then this would be the drive to install to. At this moment I would wait until some of the more enlightened users come onboard to tell you how to do this. It may take a few hours before you get further replies as there are different timezones involved and some of the others will be sleeping. I hope this helps some of your queries.

Just a thought but are you restarting the server in between changes?

Compaq seem to prefer F10 for set-up.

Welcome to MUB. Ian has beaten me to it so I'll just leave the welcome.

HI there and welcome to the board. You get the error because the system cannot find your grub start-up menu. You say you installed on to your second drive, do you have anything on your primary drive as in windows or something? Having gone through the boot set-up where did you choose to put the Mandriva boot record, as you can choose in the set-up. If you have set your secondary hard drive as the boot drive in your bios then I would say your grub menu is on your primary drive.

Well I used Postfixadmin from the repos for setting up and managing a server for quite a while. I have no need for one now. It was quite easy to learn and once set up maintaining it was a breeze. Maybe worth a look.

Whilst I am also from the era when the ruler ruled I find the spell checker quite useful as it is very easy to transcribe a couple of letters and not notice it. At least the spell checker highlights the fact. I still re-read any posting as spell checkers and such don't always get it right especially when it comes to things to and too. So many people get these wrong. :) And I still had a mistake.

Hello and welcome to the board. In order to help you will you please give us some more information i.e. what sort of connection (wired or wireless), what have you tried so far, and have you searched the forums (as this topic has been covered before I think) ? Thank You.

Please ignore my previous post. I've just checked my system and the only place I could find libalsa-oss0 was in /usr/share/doc/ so that file is not required. Check your /etc/modprobe.preload and make sure that libalsa-oss0 is not listed. If it is then either delete it or comment it out. That should get rid of the errors. I don't expect that to correct your problem but at least you will get rid of a few lines.

Hello there, one thing you can look for and that is you have libalsa-oss0 on your sytem. As root run locate libalsa-oss0 and take note of where it is. If it is not found install it. That's as far as I can go.

Welcome to the board first of all. Now before you go rushing off could you supply us with some info on your set-up? Sound card, mixer settings etc. From what you describe it appears you are getting feed-back caused by settings in your mixer. Do you have a microphone plugged in? If so make sure that you don't have the settings for that up at full as well as the output.

Sussed it. Set to allow all users to mount/unmout the the drive. Works a treat now. [solved]

What about the kde accessibility slow keys tool? Check in kde control center to see if it is turned on. Just a thought

Thank you Scarecrow, disabled harddrake with exactly the same result. Did a cold boot after battery removal and total power-down. No change I'm afraid. It seems like this is an oddball as there are not many suggestions. Any others are more than welcome.

I've been running Mandriva 2008 on my Satellite s1800 for a few weeks now, and working quite well. An annoying problem is that after suspend-to-disk the floppy drive is continually being accessed on resume. The problem seems to manifest during the suspend-to-disc as I find the following in syslog upon resume Jan 13 17:32:57 tosh kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 This happens even with no disc in the drive. I still use floppies now and then as I don't have flashy flash drives. I could put up with this but once in this state I cannot mount a floppy, unless I open mcc and close it again. This releases the drive. Any ideas anybody please?

By the description it sounds like the system is reading the key position reversed i.e. on when it should be off and visa versa. I don't know the answer though.

Probably a silly question, but are you unable to set the contrast/darkness with controls on the monitor?

I don't think it's a cock-up as I don't have the facility to change contrast/darkness in the kde control center either. I think kde has changed that facility or rather dropped it from the newer release. Unless anyone knows different of course. :P

FWIW I have run Helixplayer with Realplayer codecs on every release since starting with Mandrake 10.0 with little or no problems. I did once download from realplayers site to see if it was any better and found no difference in performance and stability. To run as a plugin for Firefox is infinitely easier now as there is no copying of plugins to the correct folder, it is handled by the mozilla-plugin from the repos. Most definitely as Scarecrow says run as an ordinary user.