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AussieJohn, (hd0,0) might be his recovery partition, actually. He should give the output of:

fdisk -l

So I decided to give kde4.1 final a try on mdv2008.1

Wow, what a great idea this folderview is. I always like to keep the view files I am working on, on the desktop. But you can't do this anymore, the kde4 devs wanted to give you a cleaner and more functional desktop. Now files are in a "container" called folderview, so now instead of just a few icons on the desktop, I have a few icons on the desktop, plus a container, plus a path description, plus a scrollbar!, plus a horizontal bar under the file description, plus a toolbar continously popping up when I mouse over the folder view container and worst of all I cannot even figure out how to resize to get rid of the scrollbar.  I managed to make it smaller but can't figure out how to make it bigger nor how move it. I moved it accidentally a few times but don't know what I did exactly...

But what is the content of /boot/grub/menu.lst and device.map (the files installed on your harddisk)

try the other options then hda5 first else hda1

do you have any other disks attached (internal/external)?

anyway I am going to bed now, sorry 

you are in the live-cd now, right? can you give the output of mount?  (and the content of the 2 files I previously asked for)

Your drive might be mounted read-only....

I have a feeling you are using they wrong option under boot, you are seeing something similar to this?:

/boot is right where it should be, the loader should be written to /dev/hda not hda1

Are there any files in /boot/grub?

if so please give menu.lst and device.map

my guess is the bootloader got installed on the wrong drive/partition...

What makes you think your vista install is corrupted?

that' s what microsoft or lenovo must have told him  installing linux messes up your windows install

 

  

their helpdesks must be so incopmpetent that they don' t even know how to add a bootloader (and I am not sure that using a recovery cd will even be helpful in replacing the vista bootload, I think it will just result in the vista image being replacd to the vista partition but leaving the grub bootsectors intact....)

I wouldn' t give up hope so fast. It sounds more like a trivial permissions error than anything else

edit: you would not have gotten into a gui with mandriva if it were unable to write to the root directory (where 99% sure /boot/grub/menu.lst is located too), if the disk cannot be mounted read/write the graphical enviroment will fail to start and dump you to a console (dos-like screen)

did you downgrade the packages I suggested? You might also have to select dhcpcd instead of dhclient in the advanced section of network setup.

yeah I forgot distrib-coffee is busy and slow nowadays max 130-140kB/s but it is the most up-to-date mirror; proxad is quite fast (850-900kB/s) and up-to-date and so are most other french mirrors, nluug in Holland is a good one too 

but I have never had an upgrade replace my fstab file. Maybe something has changed since the last time I ran Mandriva.

The upgrade didn't replace it, it just created a new file called fstab.rpmnew, like it does with all config files. In rpmdrake you are presented with the differences between the files and can merge/select old or new file but not with uprmi. But I prefer upgrading with urpmi because you can leave it unattended in rpmdrake you have to make a selection to continue.

I upgraded many times w/o problems but your mileage may very. Be aware though to do it online and not use the installer because there is a bug in the mandriva installer on free/powerpack that will hang the upgrade process.

I useally run etc-update after the update to update/merge (or keep existing files) config files but look at what you are replacing (I know /etc/fstab will be replaced with a blank fstab file)

any release info for beta 2?

I still believe they can do it but only 4.2 or 4.3 will be what we would have expected 4.0, ie a successor to 3.5.x, to be.

The framework (phonon, plasma, nepomuk etc) looks very promissing and way better than any desktop around but the implentation still is pretty sucky....

no kaffeine, no amarok, no preview in the open file dialogue, folder view....nope kde 4.1 won't be my thing :sad:

Because of the modular design of Plasma, a new panel could be quite easily written with autohide functionality.

why didn't they if it was so easy to do?

most likely the keys will already be recognised but if you use kde kmilo the program needed to use those keys was not included, so install kmilo first and then see if they work.

On 2 computers I with different cards I have had a lot of problems connecting with drakx-net-0.35-1mdv2008.1, the latest version of drakx-net, downgrading to drakx-net-0.34-1mdv2008.1, the version from /main/release solved a lot of problems.

I suggest you install smart-gui (a different package manager) set up the sources and use it to downgrade, or maybe someone can give you some commandline to copy and paste into a terminal

Maybe try again, I guess you have little to loose....

maybe report it at mandriva's bugzilla ;)

https://qa.mandriva.com/index.cgi

maybe you could try to get your hands on 2008.0 and see if that works

glad it worked, I guess there is a bug somewhere because the speedtouch 330 supposedly used to work out of the box in 2008.1

http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=...=speedtouch+330

(from what I can tell the modem works on one computer with 2008.1 but not the other)

libkdepim1-kmail-3.5.9-12mdv2008.1.i586 seems a package from the mde repos and libkdepim2-common-3.5.9-9mdv2008.1.i586 from main release. (I know because I just checked the repos)

I guess there is a bug somewhere in the packaging, easiest thing to do would be to uninstall and reinstall the correct verion or leave like it is and wait untill mde fixes the package

or you could try to run smart fix 

hi welcome to mub :)

what were you trying to do, seems like you were trying to downgrade a package (using urpmi not smart?)

do you still have mde stuff installed or their repos setup? 

stupid question, but did you try the partition tool (diskdrake) from the control center?