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  1. Mandriva on eee PC 1005HA

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    I installed Mandriva 2009 on a Brazilian version of Asus 1000, but I don't remember all steps. I found some information at:

    http://www.eeextra.com/linux/first-impressions-about-mandriva-20091-on-the-eeebox.html

    http://www.eeextra.com/linux/installing-mandriva-2009-on-the-eee-box.html

    http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=100478

    Lots of alternatives at:

    http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

    I hope that helps. If I remember the specific steps that worked for me I will let you know.

     

    Paulo

  3. Problem burning Mandriva 2008 ISO DVD

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    There's absolutely no reason to upgrade for burning that ISO properly. As John said, the problem is just with mastering a DVD with a file being larger than 4G, while with ISO's there's nothing to worry about. And anyway, to fix the 4GB compiling problem, you do ***NOT*** need tha latest K3B version, but rather cdrkit 1.1.5 or newer.

    The compiling error you got suggests that you are missing xorg-devel, as well as some more devel packages. You can't compile anything without them. And anyway forget compiling from source, this is a wee bit further than step one.

     

    It's already solved, John...read above. If using Mandy 2008, just try burning your files.

     

    Well, I solved my problem going to command line and using cdrecord.

    Thanks to all and a happy 2008. :thumbs:

    Paulo

  5. Problem burning Mandriva 2008 ISO DVD

    in Software

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    If you downloaded the ISO at a FAT32 partition, then its surely broken. FAT32 can't handle files larger than 4G.

    mkisofs unpatched cannot handle single files larger than 4G too, but there's no problem with ISO images, no matter how big they are. Just burn them to DVD as IMAGES- not as files.

     

    I downloadedthe ISO at a ext3 partition. I am burning ISO images. I read somewhere that k3b can't burn more than 4 Gb (my ISO has 4,3 Gb). In the K3B site, they say about k3b 1.0.4:

     

    * K3b now silently allows the burning of files bigger than 4 GB if an appropriate version of genisoimage or mkisofs is installed ("silently" means that I did not introduce any new messages)

    * I was not able to find the aweful "disabled DMA" bug but I introduced a little workaround which hopefully solves it for many of you (BTW: K3b from svn trunk does support DVD burning with cdrecord.)

    * Never use growisofs parameter -dvd-compat with DVD-RW media in restricted overwrite mode (some drivesdo not like that)

    * Unmount medium before DVD formatting

     

    I tried to install version 1.0.4, but running ./configure, there is an error message: "checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths!". But I don't know what I should do to "check my installation and add the correct paths"!

  8. How to switch from GDM to KDM? [solved]

    in Software

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    You could just try creating the file 'desktop' in /etc/sysconfig with the line: "DISPLAYMANAGER=KDM" in it (w/o the quotes). Do it as root, and be sure the file has the correct permissions. Mine is 100664 and that should be fine.

     

    You then should be able to logout and have the KDM login - a reboot shouldn't be necessary.

     

    Crashdamage,

    Thank you very much. It worked!

    Cheers,

    Paulo

  9. How to switch from GDM to KDM? [solved]

    in Software

    Posted · Edited by paulopen

    I was using Mandriva 2007.0 with KDE. Then, I changed from KDM to GDM and I am not able anymore to go into graphical mode. I read an article with an explanation of how to change back to KDM in text mode, but it says that I have to make the environment variable DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" in the file /etc/sysconfig/desktop, but I can't find that file under my /etc/sysconfig/. Any hints?

    Thanks

    Paulo

  11. MIME types messed up

    in Software

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    I read several posts with similar problmes, but still don't know how to sove mine.

     

    I am usiing Mandriva 2006 and I am a newbie. My problem is that when I clicked on a .ram file, MPlayer tried to open it but was unsucesful. Then, I tried to change de file associations through the session configuration menu, associatiint .ram files with Real Player for linux.

     

    Now I receive a message "it was not possible to find the MIME type appplecation/octet-stream" every time I boot up or open any software. I tried to undo what I had done, but the problem continues. Any hints?

     

    Paulo

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