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no newbie ideas here, but the command lsof can be used to see which files are opened it would take some reading / programming to identify the culprit you may use top to find the process id, and then you might get a cross between lsof output and pid ok, this is the extreme way of doing it the other nasty way is to us konqueror and find which files have changed in the last 3 seconds say then well find the culprit uninstall beagle, and kate (?) as well report to thread on what top tells you, unlikely X the culprit, so what are the other processes? stop as many services as possible, and as many software, or applets also could be a cron backup or whatever so you will need to look into this (unlikely because cron run at most every minutes, but maybe whatever it does takes time) disconnect even internet maybe

it is out now see (torrent links at the end) http://www.mandriva.com/download it is a clearer page than it ever used to be (at last) Not perfect but better Still this link below confused me on the page: Wiki and torrent? I think that link is not ready yet. The link to cds are fine http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Torrent/mandri...vd.i586.torrent Nevermind, this is all crystal clear at this address http://torrent.mandriva.com/public/ Also on linuxtracker.org I have seen one of the torrent (Early seeders have worked hard it seems)

You can report on bugzilla, however I hope it is fixed in 2007.1, saying that should be fixed in 2007.0 as well thanks for the feedback PS: I did not think of getting a rpm from another source, as I was not sure it would be compatible

use a distro and make it so secure that you get locked out (grsecurity + aparmor + an IDS + SELinux not all compatible together) Just try sidux just to check that it is the fastest starting (that is what I read from an enthousiastic poster) +1 openBSD plus new version scheduled in May (that was my next thing to try since it is supposed to be secure and that would simpler that what I suggested above) How about taking one of these orphan debian package and look after it? That must be challenging enough: pulling people together, organising the work development... maybe even coding

Have same problem of incompatibility of clamav and Klamav version. Did the delete database trick worked? Alternative might be to get source instead of using urpmi but for these I do not want ot waste time, I'd rather use urpmi

also maybe choose http or ftp rather than rsync once you are on easy-urpmi pull down menus You can learn about rsync later

not a raid solution, but here an alternative a NAS unit like the Linksys NSLU2. I recalled does spin down the HD connected on the USB after 5 min (you need to double check). There might be some issue in terms of HD formating/compability etc, so some reading would be required. I've lost track of the thread :-( to some extent really just posting about the HD shutdown/ spin down part of the question

maybe an ignorant comment, but what cp, rsync or whatever got to do with ntfs? ntfs-3g would be in the middle between the 2 HD/partitions. The weak link is ntfs3g not rsync. even if ntfs-3g is working ok, is it still beta? you should be driven by biggest size of file you will handle and by how easy to recover / access the file. No idea if fat32 is better than ntfs, but not all live distro have ntfs-3g oops not talking raid anymore, are we? sorry not providing much help here

Please see for example http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS4146178789.html Brazilian made latops similar to OLPC. Not sure what stage the project is at. http://www.classmatepc.com/ Well done mandriva! Google 114000 hits http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=c...driva&meta=

2007.1 will be out soon I suppose it uses 2.0 so upgrading from 1.5.x to 2.0.x will be soon obsolete

not really, well yes faster than usb 2.0 hence better my take is 2d highest risk of loosing data at home is theft/burglary and PC going walky. So a separate HD is a plus, hence my view against raid 1

rsync on a IDE in a USB drive enclosure that is my take what about those NAS at 40£ + cost of HD? they spin down Also law of series: get a raid1 and 2 HD from same manufacturer hot close to each other, one goes the other is likely to go as well So much for raid1 if both dies

Sounds very good especially >>Many enhancements and bugfixes to rpmdrake software installation / removal tool Youpeee I just wished they stoped saying that every time... sighhhh especially if you are going to help with people installing 2007.1 the errata will be worth reading http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandriva/2007.1/Errata

All distros are much of a much, and somehow can usually do the same thing, the ease or the way to achieve x or y is not the same though. mandriva is good for newbie while at the same time allowing progression. The package manager urpmi is pretty good The community is great. ubuntu is marketed as beginners friendky, but my experience was different, and I am not the only one saying that the freedom to try many distros is great install mandy, give it a try. Better setup a dual boot linux It is best to concentrate one one distro (say mandy :-) as main OS and to learn, and use another partition to try other distro or lean other things (say BSD :P ) brother printer, I never come accross this, would need to google to help video card, will be supported the same on any distro note ATI stop making new linux driver for the 9xxx series since now it is an old series I think this is a skill issues, not a distro issue. a learning curve issue it is. I often install tar.gz and struggle occasionally BUT most of things are in rpm repositories or equivalent software so you should not need to feel the pain

to unpack say /home/user/download/firefox.tar.gz do mkdir /home/user/firefox2 tar -xzvf /home/user/download/firefox.tar.gz -C /home/user/firefox2 then cd /home/user/firefox2 ./firefox it will complain some glibc error or libc error or some error su then root password urpmq -i glibc (to list the various version urpmi -v glibc_version_that_is_neeeded (to install) then go to konqueror options/preference menu or whatever then file type txt, subtype html and change the association from firefox 1.5 to 2.xx

I was just thinking of use choosing profile 1 or 2 at boot SUrely he/she will now how many monitor are present that day hence I like the lilo solution, I was just thinking at what lower level, last chance, to do the choice good question... never thought of that I know Xorg.0.log tell you what screen was detected so one would need to start X do some magic with grep with Xorg.0.log then restart X with the right profile... Cannot think of anything else surely that info can be accessed via command lshw or via /proc I do not know

raid is a good thing but it does not "dispence", should not stop you from having backups if what you have is important >>backing up to DVDs does not appeal to me at all Add another IDE or USB HD (or better? IDE in USB enclosure) and run rsync with a cron job consider the cost of one more HD against loss/time/money if everything goes missing

I thought you could include bash code in .xinitrc in your home folder maybe also /etc/rc.local if that is run before X (cannot remember for sure) so you could ask a question there as well

did you try ./mythtv-setup wherever mythtv directory is ./ means in the current directory this is required if not in the path for executable also you can do a find or use locate (install package slocate) to find where mythtv-setup lives

webcam? start from there and see if it helps http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html

ok, sorry I confused you You have been offered 2 solutions One with live / rescue cd. The most comprehensive solution Mine, not well explained, + letting you find out and learn a bit more. Have you tinkered and pressed e by now? So when you boot normally from the HD what does it say at the top? if you select linux then press e can you edit the boot command line? if not then you do not have grub and you can forget my suggestion (well most of it) and go with other posters

what does it read first line of the boot? which 2 lines? where it says linux, press e, then only 2 lines will be present...

Sil3114 is software raid cheap=software If it is hardware raid then it is OS independent, no? I always see the same recommendation for HW raid in forums 3ware but read the comments there "Linux Software RAID vs. Hardware RAID" for a story http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/008696.html People seems still happy with 3ware, I just give the link because it is a healthy debate. Paranoia is good otherwise look into HW linux databases

I think you need to tell people which bootloader you are using... for sure if it is grub you can just press e and edit the lines (2 of them) where it says hd(0,x) replace the first 0 by 1 (0=hda, 1=hdb) same with any other info in these same line where hda should become hdb then press b to boot if this work you can then edit /boot/grub/menu.lst LST not 1st

http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl1_dd.htm no truncation