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If you put GRUB into the MBR it should be no problem to erase r & r since there is no special boot code anymore (the mbr isn't that big, there is only place for one boot loader, which then would be grub) It seems that different versions of r & r behave in different ways, don't know which version I had since win xp sucked and linux runs without any problems now on my thinkpad I completely wiped xp, therefore no r & r and no problems. but even if you retain the r & r it should be bootable through grub (at least for me it worked) btw. I doubt there is much "special code" in there, the preboot environment/ r & r is just a very trimmed down win something, so in the end it is just a slightly modified nt /xp bootloader sitting in the mbr (grub booted the r & r without any problems on my thinkpad)

What type of Thinkpad is it ? is /dev/sdb6 a seperate /boot, judging from your screenshot it seems to be so what is your current /etc/fstab in Mandriva ? btw. I had installed Grub to the MBR and was still able to boot into the rescue partition on my thinkpad. windows seems to be the XP-install and windows1 the recovery partition, they are both on the same hdd, so they should both be bootable on my r60 Lenovo put the installation on the first partition and the rescue and recovery part on the second partition. you could even erase the rescue and recovery partition completely if you have a rescue and recovery CD (you can make them whith the thinkvantage tools, there should be an entry in the menu

Nobody forces you to use MCC if you are masochistic enough btw Mandriva does not force you to do it THEIR way as *buntu, which is a VERY good thing! I for my part ripped out the UUID of the fstab of my Ubuntu installation and after that I had much less trouble

http://blog.mandriva.com/2008/01/18/grokla...and-turbolinux/ should make Mandriva's position clear enough. btw. on Jan. 16. there was nothing to read on mandriva.com, but at least we needed not to wait for the official anouncement for weeks, it was there on the 17. Maybe LSB is a bit slow in following technical development ? In the end LSB mainly standardizes File Hierarchy and which core libraries should be at what place. So since it seems to be just a followup to LCC, all the "Mandriva-bows-to-Microsoft" Hype by some little kids is "much ado about nothing"

do you have partitioned the drive with a different partitioning program (e.g. Partition Magic) before ? Sometimes different partitioning programs tend to get in their ways.

I never have used it personally (I'm just to lazy for it), but I hope it will not fade away, since it is always good to have a choice.

The idea sounds not bad, but it reminds me a bit of United Linux. Yep nothing to find on mandriva.com

sorry the answer is a bit late googled a bit, it seems that your modem has some router functions, but they seem to be somewhat difficult to reach. for the network-setup, yes a switch is better than a hub, a router is not needed inside your network personally I would set it up this way: PC1 connected to modem throuhg eth0, to switch through eth1 the other PCs connected to the switch PC1 is used as router (NAT and routing are principally the same) it houses the firewall, maybe a proxy, maybe I would even think of setting up an internal DNS. you would not need firewalls on the other PCs, since the firewall is on PC1. (if you would use the setup in 3. you would need firewalls set up on ALL PCs). 4. technically PC1 is the router/proxy-server for the others 5. Yes 6. Have you a DHCP-Server rinning ?, maybe your modem provides one ? otherwise DHCP would not make much sense. The DNS-Server for all your PCs should be the DNS of your provider, unless you set up an internal DNS-root (which is what I did). 7. You only need one DHCP-server (the service in MCC is for the server not the client), you have no dhcp-server installed on the other PCs (you don't need it there, they're just clients)

Link to the RAID-thread https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...591&hl=raid

what type of controller do you use, some raid-controllers are supported directly in linux, have you already tried if your controller gets detected, some raid-controllers can be used in linux, but not in raid-mode, is it a s-ata or p-ata controller ? btw, if it is an onboard-raid-controller, you could just as well install a software raid directly under linux, since these controllers are no real hardware-controllers in most cases.

do you have any problems with your updated 2008, otherwise you could just keep it, 2006 is no longer supported, so you won't get any security updates for this

sorry for the double post, our windows-boxes at work are sucking !!!

Best thing would be to ask / tell about these specific problems you have, so it should be somewhat easier to sort them out one by another, otherwise you would propably end up with someone writing a "network-bible" style megapost that doesn't help you very much. I just would not know where to begin, since I don't know how much you already know about networking. e.g. are your PCs able to communicate with each other ?, does the PC that does NAT have connection to the internet ?, have you actually activated firewalling on the PCs, have you configured the firewall in a specific manner ?

This external card offers not that much performance, because it offers only the connection-speed of PCI-Ex1, which is somewhat slow, so even if the card itself is a fast one, you loose to much performance because of the low data-transfer, btw. I don't know if any of these external cards is supported by any linux-driver. btw. you seem to have an ati-xpress 1100 chipset, this means an x300 graphics-core with shared memory, not the best thing for gaming imho, and afaik this chipset is not very well supported by the fglrx-driver

ati's drivers are somewhat buggy to say the least, while they work ok on my x1400 and x1950 they don't work on my x850. have you tried the fglrx-driver from mandriva or the one directly from ati ?

I can't tell for Mandriva 2006, because it's some time ago I used it, but with 2007/2007.1 and 2008 I had no problems connecting my 3i and 3xx, they showed up as usb-mass-storage devices, only with my new v8 Mandriva 2008 insists that it is a camera :huh: , bluetooth works fine with 2008, although it is a bit slow

at the moment I'm using a HP Color Laserjet 2550, which works fine under Mandriva 2008, HP Toolbox works too (did not work reliably back in 2006, have never used the printer on 2007/2007.1).

propably not, the bootscreen is not affected by the type of bootloader you use

Maybe for everyday live/private use 64bit offers no benefit at the moment (but for me using 64 bit did not pose any problems), but when it comes to huge databases, suddenly 64bit might be well worth considering (performance is NOT only speed) it always depends on what you want to achieve for adobe reader and flash: there are free alternatives that work (at least for me), oh and these alternatives are available as 64bit packages

you can use swfdec for 64bit Mandriva, it's a free flash alternative and it works reasonably well.

this means you have NO Hardware3D-Acceleration, seems you should install the proper drivers for your graphic-card first. without hardware-3D even Linux-native 3D-Games won't work, so it's primarily a problem with your graphics driver not cedega you seem to have an ati-card, so you need the fglrx-driver.

I have no problem running Mandriva 2008 i586 on two 64bit-Systems, one AMD Opteron and a Core2Duo, but I had neither problems running Mandriva 2008 x86-64 on these two systems. I can't wrap it in numbers but 64bit seems to be a bit faster than 32bit and at least my Core2Duo runs about 1° cooler with 64bit. One problem might be that 64bit-java does not support some java-applets (at least suns jre), swfdec works not perfect but good enough (I can use youtube with it). btw. you can install 32bit apps on 64bit systems, no problem on Mandriva, you just need the repositories for both 64bit and 32bit, the system will fetch the dependencies for you.

beware, the kernel got updated and so did the source, therefore you should use the newest version from the online repositories. kernel-source-2.6.22.12-1mdv is the most recent version

Ah, ok. Don't know, never tried it, since I mainly use gnome, sorry.

do you mean this: compiz-decorator-gtk-0.6.2-2mdv2008.0.i586 RPM ??? found it on rpmfind, but it is in the official repositories of Mandriva, there is a version for kde and gtk