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  1. I finally solved my problem. I searched for all the repositories I could find not just the ones on the urpmi list. I finally found one that was not normally included in the easy to find list. I activated that and have not had any trouble since. Thank you all for you suggestions and help. I did not think of the new releases aand when ramfree17 suggested that I started my search for mirrors other than those in urpmi as thy are the they are the most used sources for many distros. It may be of interest that the Ga Tech source let me in for Fedora at the same time closed me down for Mandriva. I will say that the Fedora downloard have been slow though.
  2. I do not have the complete message but here is what I believe is the important part: retriving source hdlist ....retiving failed: curl: (9) Server denied you to change to the given directory. Retrival of source hdlist (or synthsis) failed. I received this message from every US repository as reported by easy-urpmi. This all within the last 7 days. Just to make sure that it was not an install problem I have reinstalled Mandriva three times in this period. The only thing that works is the updates from rpmdrake. I can not use rpmdrake to install any sofeware that is not on the distribution disks. I have not been able to configure either urpmi or ramdrake to install software. I see that the curl error code 9 is: FTP access denied. The server denied login. How would I get access?
  3. Is urpmi for Mandriva 2007 not working or is it unavailable in Mandriva Free 2007? I have tried to install all the US repositories fron easy-umpri with out any success. Urmpi keeps giving an error that it could not find hdlist.cz and also that one of the subdirectories does not exist. How to make it work as I wish to install software not on the cds? The updates do work however by using rpmdrake. This is frustrating to say the least.
  4. It will cost a little more but you could do an installation of Mandrive 2007 to a regular external USB drive. This is what I have done. I run my Mandrive 2007 from an 80 GB drive in a USB enclosure so that I do not have to modify my internal drive. The installation is the same as installing to an internal drive except you have to specify that the bootloader be placed om the MBR of the EXTERNAL drive. Also you will have to generate a initrd.img file which forces the the preload of the necessary USB drivers. On previous Mandy releases for my computer I was able to only use --with-usb int the mkinitrd but with Mandy 2007 I had to resort to the same set of preloads as is necessary for Fedora Core. The command forn being: mkinitrd --preload ehci-hcd --preload usb-storage --preload scsi_mod --preload sd_mod /boot/initrd-<kernel version>.img <kernel version> I have encloseues with Western Digital, Seagate and Maxtor drives installed. All work great. Note that inorder to do this you BIOS must be set to boot from USB. If your BIOS can not be set to boot from USB you can make a cd that will boot and transfer control to the USB drive. I have been using USB drives for my linux distros for a little over a year. It seems that the biggest bunch of linux USB users I have noticed are on the Fedora Forum where There are lots of threads and install howdos for USB in that forum.
  5. I have a Dell although not with the video board you have. With mine I had problems with the video also. Dell uses some of the main memory for video, at least on some models, and you can set the BIOS to select the amount of memory for video. Mine came set for too small amount for the video to work good in linux. I reset the memory from 1 MB to 8 MB and my video problems went away. My suggestion check the BIOS setting fot the alloted memory and if possible set to a higher amount. Jim
  6. I, like AussieJohn, started linux at age 67- six months ago. I have found linux to be a good way to keep the brain active, Windows only offers use not mental exercise. I have tried several versions, all installed on external USB hard drives. Now on disk and being used- Mandriva 2006, PCLinuxOS .92, SimplyMepis 3.4-1.rc1, Kanotix, Fedora Core 3 & 4, My first computer was a IBM clone purchased about 1980 made by Columbia Computer. Since then I have bought 4 different brands and put together another 12 from parts. The company I sold before retiring had 4 of my computers running when I left. The first computer I ever had anything to do with was a PDP with manual switch input to program. Lots of toggle switches to set and a push button to input. Magnet core storage. It is a lot easier today. Jim
  7. Zenith sorry I got windy and forgot the question. How to install: In the past I have found that many installers have problems with partitioning usb drives as the some times do not see a none linux usb drive. If you run into this problem get a SimplyMepis liveCD and use it to partition your drive. That said here goes: 1. Set your compurt to boot from cd. Boot your Mandriva install disk. 2. Answer each question as it comes. All the stuff, language etc. 3. When you get to install section there will be a section about how and where to install. If you have partitioned the USB drive select the Install on existing partitions option. Then select the sdX drive partitions you wish to use. I use 3; 1 for / usually about 10GB 1 for swap 1GB and 1 for /home also 10GB. Different people like other sizes, all will work. Allow the installer to format the partition again- some partitions software does not do a complete format job. (Partition Magic for one). Mandriva will then format and install the software using the packages you select. If you have not partitioned the drive see if Mandriva sees it and if so, let Mandriva do it. Specifing the partitions you want- While most use at least 3 only 2 are absolutly necessary. One for the software and data and one for swap. After installing the software, passwords etc. Remove the install disk. Shut down - make sure your computer is set to boot from USB- Reboot and enjoy. On the off chance that it does not boot up DO NOT panic. Just post a message in the install forum and answers will come forth. In that event it will help to have a liveCD linux distro. Not ablolutly necessary but useful. oldman
  8. Zenith I have installed 10.1, 2005LE and 2006 on external hard drives. Of the three the easiest to install was 2006 i586. It is also the easiest to use IMHO. I did not install the Mandriva supplied version but the open source download version. I have found it best if possible to have your hard disk partitioned before starting your install. When I partition my hard drive I use ext3 format and if necessary reformat at install time. Due to the various flavors of usb drives some my require more work than others in order to boot. You may have to install a custom initrd with the necessary usb modules. If you have boot problems it is much easier to sort them out if you use a livecd such as PCLOS or MEPIS. At this time I have 4 distros on USB drives- 1 drive has Mandriva 2006 and Sarge installed. A second drive has PCLinuxOS 9.1 and Kanotix installed. Since my computer can boot from USB I do NOT put my boot loader in the MBR of my internal hard drive. All boot loaders are placed on my external drive. I usually put one distro in the MBR of the external drive with the others in their respective partitions and chain load them. oldman
  9. Mandriva 10.1 installs and works on a USB external drive. The only problem I have been having is getting it to "see" my USB zip drive and the Windows fat32 partition that is on the USB external drive. It sees my internal hd Windows XP partition easily. I put lilo in the MBR of the USB drive as my computer will boot from USB. I have also used a boot cd to boot when USB booting is disabled. The boot cd is the mkrescue cd that can be created by MDK 10.1. I have tried to used MDK 2005LE from USB but have not been successful getting it to boot- either from USB or a rescue cd. It did install though by using the alt2 option at installation boot up. Jim
  10. Mish I have found that Mandriva 10.1 is more tolerant of USB devices than 2005LE. I have tried both, installed on an external USB HD. 10.1 works , 2005LE does not. For 2005LE all I get is a Kernal panic which at this time I don't want to sort out, I'll just use 10.1. My machine is a Dell Dimension 3000, Pentiun 4, 512MB, 80GB IDE hard drive. The hard drive has the normal (for now) 3 partitions installed by Dell. Keep trying, Jim
  11. AussieJohn When installing MDK 10.1 I used the automatic install system. I used the install on existing partition option. MDK detected my linux formated USB drive and offered it for installation. I tried some of the other options later but as long as I had the linux usb drive available it did not even offer to install on my windows based internal hd. It just used my preformated swap partition and even did not show the option during the install. When I indicated to install / on sda1 and /home on sda3(swap is sda2) it asked if I wanted to formant the partitions or not. On different installs I have chosen both. When MDK did the format it said it would format / as ext3 and /home as ext2:vfat. No changes were allowed- just turn off the format. When trying to format the /home as ext2:vfat I got a message that MDK did not know how to do this and entered a loop of repeating the format ext2:vfat message. The only way out was the power cutoff. Then I Installed by not letting MDK format the partitions. I got a complete install and everything seemed ok. Reboot then boom a whole series of error messages starting with: There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. .....could not read network connection list. //.DCOPsever_localhost_0... please check the "dcopserver". Then another series of messages in the same vain. Finally I got the KDE splash screen. It stopped at )% Setting up interprocess communications. After approx 90 seconds I got the following message: No write access to $HOME directory(/). KDE is unable to start. When I install with /home located in / MDK runs fine. I do realize that a separate /home partition in much better. I think the the problem may be related to installing on an external USB drive. It is interesting though that I have had no problem installing pclinuxos (a MDK livecd clone) using a seperate /home partition on a USB drive. As yet I have not tried a manual install- it maybe that it would not have the problem. Again thanks for the advice and help. This forum is great- lot of information to read and digest. Jim (oldman)
  12. John,J.T and all: I was able to install Mandrakelinux 10.1 Offical with no problem. Before installing I partitioned and formated my USB drive using Norton Partition Magic. During the installation MDK suggested I install on the existing linux partitions on sda which is the USB drive. The only problem was that MDK would not boot. I had used 3 partitions: 1 for /, 1 for swap and 1 for /home. After playing around I reinstalled using only / and swap, home being place in / , ie only two partitions. Wrote lilo in MBR of sda did the configurations, Quit. REBOOT and started to run MDK 10.1. I have found that MDK is a fight compared to Windows, the password protection is driving me crazy- it takes a lot of getting used to. Now to get the system to do what I want. Next problem is compiling the modem driver. I do have the Intel driver but have had trouble compiling it. I will get there though. This 67 year old dog does not let a bone go. Thanks to all Jim
  13. I am new to linux and have been trying several LiveCD's. I have been able to install SimplyMepis on a USB hard drive with no problem. I would like to install Mandriva LE2005 but the installer does not see my USB drive. Does anyone have a clue about how to proceed? I have ordered Ver 10.1 disks as Mandriva sells that version already installed on an external HD. It may be that 10.1 is more tolerant. Thanks for your time and thoughts. Jim Computer: Dell Dimension 3000, Pentium 4, 512MB Main drive (hda) 80GB- 3 partitions, 2 for Dell and C: for Win XP USB drive (sda) 80GB- 4 partitions, 3 for linux and 1 for windows Linux are / 15GB ext3 swap 2GB and /home 32GB
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