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  3. Which tablet to consider for Linux (Mandriva)?

    in Laptops and Portable Devices

    Posted

    I'm thinking of buying a graphics tablet. I've used one Aiptek model in the past, but I was not very happy with it's operation in Linux.

     

    I wanted to ask your advice on the make and model that would work in a modern Linux (I've got the latest Mandriva Free installed). I would at least like to have the pressure option work on the pen. The function keys would also be nice.

     

    If you have any experience or have heard any comments from other users, I would appreciate your input.

     

    I've at least found Trust tablets and Wacom's bamboo tablets in local stores.

     

    Thanks.

     

     

    [moved from Hardware by spinynorman]

  4. Machinarium

    in Games

    Posted

    I paid for it also and have played it for a while. It's quite nice, but I don't know how long it will last. They say it's 30 scenes long and I doubt I want to play it again after playing it once. But let's see.

     

    I want to support a game house that will develop games for linux so I paid this 15 euros (+ tax) mainly for support.

  11. Installing Mandriva with both LMV and RAID1

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    OK, thanks. I did try that, but I'm unable to choose both RAID1 and LVM.

     

    For the filesystem type I can choose either Linux RAID or Linux Logical Volume Manager, but not both. So I think I need to do one of them first. I don't seem to be able to do both in the installation phase.

     

    I tried first with LVM as my first choice and again with RAID installation. Neither gave me the option to do both (at least I couldn't find a way).

  12. Installing Mandriva with both LMV and RAID1

    in Installing Mandriva

    Posted

    I'm installing Mandriva 2010.0 and making a clean install. I have two 1.5 TB HDDs and I want to create an LVM system but I also wish to build the drives into a RAID1 array.

     

    In Mandriva installation GUI I can choose to build it RAID or LVM, but can I do both in the origianl installation phase? Or should I build LVM first, leave the second HDD clean and add these two disks later to RAID1?

     

    This will be my network file and print server.

  14. Advice needed on building network storage

    in Networking

    Posted

    OK, I've used Openfiler a few weeks now, but I'm beginning to think, this is not what I was looking for.

     

    I want to

    • have one centralized storage for all my files (photos, documents, videos etc.)
    • have the possibility to control user & group rights for the storage
    • possibly use it as an FTP or even an HTTP server later on
    • add a USB-printer to access it from all my PCs (not possible with Openfiler - and this is a must for me)
    • make the files available for my PS3 to view (act as a media server for my PS3) - don't know if it's possible with Openfiler
    • build RAID1 (OK with Openfiler)
    • build LVM (OK with Openfiler)

    What other options are there for building this? I could also use Mandriva as the OS (perhaps with a lean window manager). It is a full tabletop PC anyway, so I should be able to build RAID1 and LVM with any Linux flavour basically, but what do you suggest?

  18. Mandriva 2010 ISO Confusion

    in Software

    Posted

    Once EasyURPMI gets version 2010.0, I can add the plf repos to my system.

    The EasyURPMI repos don't have 2010.0 yet? Did I get the sources for the wrong version when I just used the autodetect option and copied the lines into my konsole?

    The system downloaded several updates already! :unsure:

  19. Advice needed on building network storage

    in Networking

    Posted

    I read somewhere that one has to be root before the directories can be copied - and sure enough, that was true! I managed to start the transfer with root rights and everything is going smoothly.

     

    I just don't get it; why do I have to be root in order to copy directories and subdirectories with cp command? I still have the ownership of the original folder I'm trying to copy to and the directories I'm trying to copy from.

     

    Well, that's solved.

  20. Advice needed on building network storage

    in Networking

    Posted · Edited by dude67

    Yep, I deleted the VG and created a new one with the same name as before. I created one with the same name, but for some reason I couldn't name the shares the same I had before. So I deleted the VG and created a new with a new name. Then I could go on creating the shares with the same names as before.

     

    OK, I forgot to mention that I created the volumes as Raid arrays and I added the two into a RAID1 array. All went fine and I have one 1.5 TB disk visible. :thumbs:

     

    But I'm stuck with this one annoying problem: I cannot copy directories - only files - from my WD nas to my new LVM disk. I would very much like to leave this system to copy the some 70 Gigs of files within several directories and subdirectories overnight, but I can only transfer one set of files within one directory (without any subdirectories at the same time).

     

    I have created the shares as public shares. I have created the local folders for the mount points (added to my /etc/fstab) in my Mandriva system (e.g. /home/netstorage/images/photos).

     

    Here's one line of my /etc/fstab

    //192.168.254.1/netstorage.images.photos /home/netstorage/images/photos cifs username=%,uid=500,gid=503 0 0

    Now this uid=500 is myself (naturally) and gid=503 is called "family". I've also changed the gid to 500, but same difference.

     

    Whenever I try to copy a directory containing directories, I get "permission denied".

    $ cp -rf /home/networkdrive/Pictures/Photos /home/netstorage/images/photos/
cp: cannot create directory `/home/netstorage/images/photos/2007': Permission denied
cp: cannot create directory `/home/netstorage/images/photos/2008': Permission denied
<snip>

    But when I create the subdirectory manually under that upper directory, I can copy the files into that subdirectory with no problems at all (if there are no subdirectories to be copied):

    $ cp -rf /home/networkdrive/Pictures/Photos/2007 /home/netstorage/images/photos/2007/
$

    What am I missing here?

     

    I'm also having problems mapping the drives in WinXP home. I cannot map them at all and cannot see the shares. But I would need to study that a bit more.

  22. Advice needed on building network storage

    in Networking

    Posted

    Wow, thanks. He's final solution is way out of my league though... :unsure:

     

    But I can try some of the commands he tried along the way. I'll post back when I've had time to test it.

     

    I'm not in risk of losing any data - I only need to move the data back to the new disks if I redo the LVM disks. But perhaps I can learn something about it, if I still try to fix it. Then again, I may want to just go and do it all again as I may want to do some changes to my shares anyway.

     

    If I start from the top, my approch could be a bit different.

     

    I have 2 similar 1.5 TB hdds. Maybe I should RAID1 them and do the backups (snapshots?) in my external nas (WD MyBook WE 1TB). As you pointed out, it may be best to have the backups in a totally (physically) different hw - something that can be carried out should something go wrong with the first hw set.

     

    But if I have understood correctly, I can still set it up like that, if I manage to salvage this current setup. Is that not so?

     

    If I want to do the shares again, I would need to start the setup from the top as I have some 100 GB worth of data already transferred to the disks' shares. I have set up several main shares and created folders underneath the shares. Basically this is OK, but it looks funny as the shares are (translations from Finnish names) named like this: networkstorage.images.photos | networkstorage.images.graphics | networkstorage.files.documents | networkstorage.files.sys-files etc. My idea was to have them under the storage like this:

    - networkstorage
|- images
	|- photos
	|- graphics
|- files
	| -documents
	|- sys-files

     

    But I still have to mount them separately (also in windows, I would need to map the network drives to the letters individually). So perhaps I should just create the first tier folders in my Openfiler LVM setup and do the rest from the local PCs in my LAN.

     

     

    ====

    But this is starting to be more about building and fixing LVM than just building network storage. Perhaps you - as an admin - can cut this thread half-way through and move it into a new thred with a more suitable topic name (like Building an LVM network storage - or something along those lines).

  23. Advice needed on building network storage

    in Networking

    Posted

    OK, it did more than I bargained for. I did first the pvmove and then when trying to remove the /dev/sdb1 I seem to have deleted everything from the volume group I had. I used this:

    pvremove -vff /dev/sdb1

    Now I cannot see the /dev/sdb1 anymore, but also /dev/sdc4 is empty!

    pvdisplay /dev/sdb1
No physical volume label read from /dev/sdb1
Failed to read physical volume "/dev/sdb1"

    And when I try to find the one the I should have with this:

    # pvdisplay /dev/sdc4

    I get a long list of Couldn't find device with uuid 'wt7... and finally at the end:

    --- NEW Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdc4
VG Name
PV Size 1.36 TB
Allocatable NO
PE Size (KByte) 0
Total PE 0
Free PE 0
PV UUID FJ9GCo....

     

    I went into the GUI and I cannot find any volume groups anymore.

     

    When I look at the Block Devices, I can still see the partitions, but no Volume Group. I cannot add any VGs so I guess I need to start from the top. Or perhaps there's a table somewhere I could fix... But that's for tomorrow.

     

    I'll do one reboot and call it a day.

  24. Advice needed on building network storage

    in Networking

    Posted

    OK, I started with the howto "removing an Old disk" but the first command got me... I got this

    # pvmove /dev/sdb1
Required device-mapper target(s) not detected in your kernel

    I didn't know what to do. I tried this:

    # pvmove /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc4
Required device-mapper target(s) not detected in your kernel

    OK, no help.

     

    Then I googled a bit and found this bit of advice from a debian-user site:

    > # pvmove /dev/hda7 /dev/hda5

    > mirror: Required device-mapper target(s) not detected in your kernel

    please try:

    modprobe dm-mirror

    I did that and the magic worked! B)

     

    # pvmove /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc4
/dev/sdb1: Moved: 0.1%
/dev/sdb1: Moved: 0.2%
/dev/sdb1: Moved: 0.3%
...

    Now it's moving the files, although a bit slow.

    :thumbs:

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