ted_zas

Hello, A little while ago I purchased some DVDs to help understand Linux, Great part is they have extensions that are .swf and from what I can find out I need to add plug-ins to see them. I have tried repeatedly to download updates and get back a series of cannot do this because of that files. WOW. I've included some of the screens from the there is a problem screens. I know the odds are good it is a simple fix but I keep looking in the wrong direction. Thanks for all the help. ted

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here is what the updating programs file ends up stating

There was a problem during the installation:

mozilla-firefox = 1.0.6 is needed by (installed) yelp-2.12.2-2mdk.i586

medium "update_source" uses an invalid list file:

mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method

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this is what the file says when I attempt to update firefox.

----------- Install Action Summary -----------

Macromedia Flash Player 7 will be installed in the following directory:

Mozilla installation directory = /home/ted/.mozilla

Proceed with the installation? (y/n/q): y

cp: cannot stat `/home/ted/Desktop/libflashplayer.so': No such file or directory

cp: cannot stat `/home/ted/Desktop/flashplayer.xpt': No such file or directory

NOTE: Please ask your administrator to remove the xpti.dat from the

components directory of the Mozilla or Netscape browser.

chmod: cannot access `/home/ted/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so': No such fil e or directory

chmod: cannot access `/home/ted/.mozilla/plugins/flashplayer.xpt': No such file or directory

Installation complete.

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Another question I had was did the 20+ other files in this download really load?

Again thanks for the help. ted

Perform another installation? (y/n):

Hello, I know that I did try to get the fdisk before but came up with nothing and did not persue it. Finally tried it again this time probably in the correct sequence of things. The following is what came up.

[root@localhost mnt]# cd /

[root@localhost /]# mount /dev/sdb1/ -t vfat /mnt/portable

mount: special device /dev/sdb1/ does not exist

[root@localhost /]# fdisk /dev/sdb

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 19881.

There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,

and could in certain setups cause problems with:

1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)

2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs

(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): v

Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition 1: head 255 greater than maximum 64

Partition 1: sector 255 greater than maximum 32

Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition 2: head 255 greater than maximum 64

Partition 2: sector 255 greater than maximum 32

Warning: partition 1 overlaps partition 2.

Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition 3: sector 0 greater than maximum 32

19053329 unallocated sectors

I take it that getting my files off of this drive (without a lot of expense) is a lost cause.

I do want to thank everyone for all the time, patience, and advice.

If nothing else I am now a little more familiaar with a few of the commands. I still have not been able to get back to the root. When I go ' /var/log/messages ' I end up with a not allowed warning. I put in the password but I think that is for another forum?

Anyway thank you all your great. ted

It's not sdbl using the letter "l", it's sdb1 using the number "1". You were suppose to run as root:

 

# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/portable

Hello All, I know that I really am messing something up here. I have deleted and remade teh /mnt/portable directory. I did go to HardDrake to confirm that the drive is being seen there. First the HardDrake results then those from my terminal. Note, I also did try the 'sdb1' and 'sdb' with the same results. I thought maybe without the '1' it would show. It didn't so we are still close, real close

Identification

Vendor: ?LaCie

Description: ?LaCie Hard Drive USB

Disk identifier: ?Maxtor 6E020L0

Media class: ?hd (Mass Storage|SCSI|Bulk (Zip))

Bus identification

Vendor ID: ?1439

Device ID: ?849

Connection

Bus: ?SCSI (USB) (1)

Channel: ?0

Logical unit number: ?0

Device

Old device file: ?/dev/sdb

New devfs device: ?/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc

Partitions

Primary partitions: ?2 (sdb1, sdb2)

Misc

Device USB ID: ?5

Geometry: ?19881/64/32 (CHS)

Disk controller: ?1

Module: ?usb-storage (usb-storage)

------------ from terminal window -------------

[root@localhost ~]# ls -l /mnt

total 36

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 16 20:46 cdrom/

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 16 20:46 cdrom2/

drwxrwxrwx 0 root root 0 Sep 3 23:21 floppy/

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 4 00:17 portable/

drwxrwxrwx 15 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 win_c/

dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Aug 16 22:47 win_c2/

drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Dec 31 1969 win_d/

[root@localhost ~]# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/portable

mount: /dev/sdb1 is not a valid block device

[root@localhost ~]#

Thanks for your patience. ted

mkdir /mnt/portabel

 

You typed the above, and then:

 

mount /dev/sdb1 -t vfat /mnt/portable

 

the slight difference being the spelling of "portable" which is why it didn't work. Make sure /mnt/portable exists, or even /mnt/portabel as it was originally created as:

 

ls -l /mnt

 

and then change accordingly to the spelling of portable, or create portable. You should find that once it's created, the mount point will be accessible, and hopefully you should see your files.

 

Try again let us know how you get on.

Hello, I think I should of check my spelling and then fixed it. I did retype it into the /mnt/portable directory, I hope.

It seems like we keep getting closer and closer. I want to say that I will not be able to respond to your assistance for the next few days so plese do not give up on me just because I have not tried the next suggestion. I have to leave town and attend some family matters in another state for a few days. I am in Michigan and need to go to Wisconsin, USA, As soon as I get back I will try any additional suggestions. At times investing in a laptop sounds like a good idea and this is one of them but it is not the time right now.

Anyhow as I said I believe that I did change the directory name. The following is a copy of the screen.

[ted@localhost Desktop]$ su

Password:

[root@localhost Desktop]# ls /mnt/

cdrom/ cdrom2/ floppy/ portabel/ win_c/ win_c2/ win_d/

[root@localhost Desktop]# mk

bash: mk: command not found

[root@localhost Desktop]# mkdir /mnt/portable

[root@localhost Desktop]# mount /dev/sdbl -t viat /mnt/portable

mount: unknown filesystem type 'viat'

[root@localhost Desktop]# mount /dev/sdbl -t vfat /mnt/portable

mount: special device /dev/sdbl does not exist

[root@localhost Desktop]# mount /dev/sdb -t vfat /mnt/portable

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,

missing codepage or other error

In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try

dmesg | tail or so

[root@localhost Desktop]# /mnt/portable

bash: /mnt/portable: is a directory

[root@localhost Desktop]# ls -1 /mnt

cdrom/

cdrom2/

floppy/

portabel/

portable/

win_c/

win_c2/

win_d/

[root@localhost Desktop]#

Thanks for your patience and help. I'll be back in a few days.

ted

OK, I take it you have two drives you're trying to connect to your computer?

 

I think what you might need to do is this:

 

fdisk /dev/sdb

 

and then press "x" for advanced features, and then I think "v" for verify partition info, since it seems to think it's got problems with them as above (does not end on cylinder boundary message). And then see what it says.

 

To mount manually, try this:

 

mkdir /mnt/portable
mount /dev/sdb1 -t vfat /mnt/portable

 

and then see if you can see anything in /mnt/portable?

Hello ianw, I really need to apologize. It sounds like I was not clear. To start with yes I have two drives. Let me explain and then maybe it will be clearer. My old PC I had win 98 and then also loaded mandrake 2006 on it. I had two drives in that PC. The second drive I believe had only win programs but with the way things loaded and went they worked and I am trying to become familiar with linux. I know that went I went to the file manager I could see all the files. Linux did not care if they were windows or linux. That was great. The mother board went out on that computer. I went an got a different PC (not brand new but better). It has/ had one drive with XP on it. I installed a second drive on the new PC and loaded Mandrake 2006 on the second drive of the new PC. I then proceeded to try and talk with / look at the files on the drives from my old / broken PC. I know the drives are good the motherbaord went bad. I have installed the old drives into a USB hard drive attachment thinking that with linux I would see the drive and files separate from the PC. Before you started to help me I could not see the aux USB drive. It now sees it as /sdb but will not let me see any of the files.

When I say I tried the second drive I am saying that I took the drive out of teh USB aux and installed the other drive in it and then tried to see the files in that drive. I could not. The system did and does see the /sdb drive but will not read the files.

At no time have I had or do I have two separate USB hard drives attached attached at the same time. I have tried them one at a time. I just wanted to see it one could be read where it was not reading the other file.

I did not mean to cinfud\se the issue. If I knew how to draw a daigram I would.

I do appreciate the help. I did try your suggestions and appear to have misunderstood them as they were not accepted. I have attached a copy if the window.

[root@localhost Desktop]# mkdir /mnt/portabel

[root@localhost Desktop]# mount /dev/sdb1 -t vfat /mnt/portable

mount: mount point /mnt/portable does not exist

[root@localhost Desktop]# /mnt/portable

bash: /mnt/portable: No such file or directory

[root@localhost Desktop]#

I have added the suggested line to the fstab as

/dev/sda1 /mnt/removable

mount /dev/sdb -t vfat /mnt/portable

When I type /mnt/portable it comes up nothing exists.

I apologize for the confusion. I will only (have been) work with only one ofthe hard drives at a time. It is installed in a USB device,

I just thought that if it is not seeing one when I switched to the other it might see it.

I also do not understand why I cannot see the files on the hda in the system. Maybe solving that will lead to what the problem is with the other,

Thank you, ted

Type this at the prompt, does it show /dev/sdb?

 

fdisk -l

Hello ianw1974

I sure appreciate the help

I ran it twice - ech time after I swaped out a harddrive in the USB to verify that it was being seen.

(MY NOTE - THIS IS FROM THE FIRST DRIVE FROM THE PC THAT THE MB BLEW ON)

Disk /dev/sdb: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes

64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 57241 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sdb1 1 10563 10816132 1c Hidden W95 FAT32 (LBA)

Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.

/dev/sdb2 * 2375 10579 8401413 3 XENIX usr

Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.

/dev/sdb3 1 1 0 10 OPUS

Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition table entries are not in disk order

[root@localhost Desktop]#

(MY NOTE - THIS IS FROM THE SECOND DRIVE FROM THE PC THAT THE MB BLEW ON)

Disk /dev/sdb: 20.8 GB, 20847697920 bytes

64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 19881 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sdb1 1 10563 10816132 1c Hidden W95 FAT32 (LBA)

Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.

/dev/sdb2 * 2375 10579 8401413 3 XENIX usr

Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.

/dev/sdb3 1 1 0 10 OPUS

Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.

I know we are getting close. I keep remembering on how before I could see all the files in a tree structure. I still does not bring the drives up when I try to read all the drives on the system.

Thanks for your patience and taking the time. ted

Hello, I attempted the /var/log/messages and since I did not get any type of log statement I am sure I am missing some steps. I then followed the 'lsmod' suggestion and receieved the following. I would of deleted most of it and only copied what I think is important but that is why I am in trouble. If I knew what is important I would know how to get what I am looking for. So what follows is what popped up on the screen. Sorry for all the unnecessary data.

I did power the PC up with the USB disconnected and then connected it after everything was running.

[ted@localhost Desktop]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost Desktop]# ls
Screenshot-1.png  yelp.desktop
[root@localhost Desktop]# /var/log/messages
bash: /var/log/messages: Permission denied
[root@localhost Desktop]# ls /mnt/
cdrom/  cdrom2/  floppy/  win_c/  win_c2/  win_d/
[root@localhost Desktop]# ls /var/log/messages
/var/log/messages
[root@localhost Desktop]# ls /var/log/messages
/var/log/messages
[root@localhost Desktop]# /var/log/messages
bash: /var/log/messages: Permission denied
[root@localhost Desktop]# /mnt/
bash: /mnt/: is a directory
[root@localhost Desktop]# /etc/fstab
bash: /etc/fstab: Permission denied
[root@localhost Desktop]# /s /etc/fstab
bash: /s: No such file or directory
[root@localhost Desktop]# ls /etc/fstab
/etc/fstab
[root@localhost Desktop]# lsmod
[root@localhost Desktop]# lsmod
Module				  Size  Used by
sg					 34044  0
raw					 6592  1
md5					 3584  1
ipv6				  234016  8
snd_seq_dummy		   2532  0
snd_seq_oss			31136  0
snd_seq_midi_event	  5696  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq				46960  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss			48960  0
snd_mixer_oss		  16896  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_ens1371			20224  0
gameport			   11112  1 snd_ens1371
snd_rawmidi			19616  1 snd_ens1371
snd_seq_device		  6828  4 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec		 83900  1 snd_ens1371
snd_pcm				79784  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_ens1371,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer			  20548  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc		  8392  1 snd_pcm
snd					46116  10 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_ens1371,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_de
vice,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore			   7008  1 snd
ppdev				   7364  0
lp					 10024  0
parport_pc			 32612  1
parport				31976  3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
ipt_IFWLOG			  2788  1
ipt_psd				43428  1
ip_set_iptree		   5544  2
ipt_REJECT			  4256  4
ipt_LOG				 6272  7
ipt_state			   1312  7
ipt_pkttype			 1184  4
ipt_set				 1920  2
ipt_CONNMARK			1696  0
ipt_MARK				1984  0
ipt_ROUTE			   4260  0
ipt_connmark			1216  0
ipt_owner			   2432  0
ipt_recent			  9292  0
ipt_iprange			 1312  0
ipt_physdev			 1744  0
ipt_multiport		   2112  0
ipt_conntrack		   1792  0
iptable_mangle		  2016  0
ip_set_portmap		  3840  0
ip_set_macipmap		 3780  0
ip_set_ipmap			3872  0
ip_set_iphash		   5924  0
ip_set				 18876  11 ip_set_iptree,ipt_set,ip_set_portmap,ip_set_macipmap,ip_set_ipmap,ip_set_iphash
ip_nat_irc			  1824  0
ip_nat_tftp			 1216  0
ip_nat_ftp			  2560  0
iptable_nat			20212  3 ip_nat_irc,ip_nat_tftp,ip_nat_ftp
ip_conntrack_irc	   70352  1 ip_nat_irc
ip_conntrack_tftp	   3088  1 ip_nat_tftp
ip_conntrack_ftp	   71408  1 ip_nat_ftp
ip_conntrack		   40824  9 ipt_state,ipt_conntrack,ip_nat_irc,ip_nat_tftp,ip_nat_ftp,iptable_nat,ip_conntra
ck_irc,ip_conntrack_tftp,ip_conntrack_ftp
iptable_filter		  2080  1
ip_tables			  20416  20 ipt_IFWLOG,ipt_psd,ipt_REJECT,ipt_LOG,ipt_state,ipt_pkttype,ipt_set,ipt_CONNMARK
,ipt_MARK,ipt_ROUTE,ipt_connmark,ipt_owner,ipt_recent,ipt_iprange,ipt_physdev,ip
t
_multiport,ipt_conntrack,iptable_mangle,iptable_nat,iptable_filter
tulip				  47936  0
af_packet			  16392  2
floppy				 55444  0
video				  14052  0
thermal				10920  0
tc1100_wmi			  5092  0
processor			  17876  1 thermal
fan					 3172  0
container			   3008  0
button				  4848  0
battery				 7460  0
ac					  3268  0
ide_cd				 37988  0
sd_mod				 16240  0
loop				   14504  0
ntfs				  212792  1
nls_iso8859_1		   3680  3
nls_cp850			   4480  2
vfat				   10592  2
fat					45980  1 vfat
supermount			 31956  1
intel_agp			  20636  1
agpgart				29032  1 intel_agp
hw_random			   4244  0
usbmouse				4160  0
usblp				  10976  0
usbhid				 44544  0
usb_storage			82020  0
scsi_mod			  121064  3 sg,sd_mod,usb_storage
tsdev				   5984  0
uhci_hcd			   29136  0
usbcore			   108348  6 usbmouse,usblp,usbhid,usb_storage,uhci_hcd
evdev				   7648  0
ext3				  124744  2
jbd					48568  1 ext3

When I go into Hardrake I see the following information which I did not get before. There is now an 'sdb' in the harddrive section with the following data.

Identification
Vendor: ?LaCie

Description: ?LaCie Hard Drive USB
Disk identifier: ?Maxtor 36147H8
Media class: ?hd (Mass Storage|SCSI|Bulk (Zip))
Bus identification
Vendor ID: ?1439
Device ID: ?849
Connection
Bus: ?SCSI (USB) (1)
Channel: ?0
Logical unit number: ?0
Device
Old device file: ?/dev/sdb
New devfs device: ?/dev/scsi/host4/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
Partitions
Primary partitions: ?2 (sdb1, sdb2)

I cannot find out how to get into the files on the drive? I know that before all this it was possible to look at all the drives and files which were displayed as folders,

I know we are getting closer and I sure appreciate all the help.

Thanks, ted

Hi,

 

As you can tell a calling me a newbie would be a boost to my status. I finally got to the file. Here is a list of its contents

 

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details

/dev/hdb6 / ext3 defaults 1 1

/dev/hdb8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0

/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0

none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0

/dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hdb7 swap swap defaults 0 0

 

I'm not sure of if anythig like a '/dev/xxx/' should be in front of the '/mnt/removable

 

Thanks for your patience and help.

ted

Hello, I am not that confident at what is going to happen when I do this so I will attempt to post the data in steps.

I am running Mandrake 2006 DE. I think it means the December edition from the linux shop I gotthe disks from. Before my PC blew this did see the USB drive Ihad connected. When I looked it showed all the files in a manner that windows does. After I reload it into a different computer it does not even show the drives it see as icon (folders) just as hda1 etc.

The data / services are

[ted@localhost Desktop]$ su

Password:

[root@localhost Desktop]# ls /mnt/

cdrom/ cdrom2/ floppy/ win_c/ win_c2/ win_d/

[root@localhost Desktop]# chkconfig --list

acpi 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

acpid 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

alsa 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

atd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

crond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

cups 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

dm 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off

haldaemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

harddrake 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

hplip 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

iptables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

keytable 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

kheader 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off

mDNSResponder 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

mandi 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

messagebus 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

netplugd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off

network 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

nfslock 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

nifd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

ntpd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

numlock 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

oki4daemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off

partmon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

portmap 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

rawdevices 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

shorewall 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

sound 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

syslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

xfs 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

xinetd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off

xinetd based services:

cups-lpd: off

cvs: off

rsync: off

[root@localhost Desktop]#

I hope this helps. I will attempt the changes you suggested then hopefully add to this. I am sending this now so I do not lose it.

Thanks for all the help. ted

Hi,

As you can tell a calling me a newbie would be a boost to my status. I finally got to the file. Here is a list of its contents

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details

/dev/hdb6 / ext3 defaults 1 1

/dev/hdb8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0

/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0

none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0

/dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hdb7 swap swap defaults 0 0

I'm not sure of if anythig like a '/dev/xxx/' should be in front of the '/mnt/removable

Thanks for your patience and help.

ted

Hello,

If I do this right the sanpshot should show that on my new PC the Primary drive is Windows. The second drive I partitioned to be Windows and Linux (Mandrake 2006). The boot window from the mnadrake software is on the first drive.

I have one of the old drives (from my blown PC) inserted in an USB hard drive storage box. I have tried both old hard drives in the box. Linux apparently does not see either of them. I am sure they are good and the data is there. I am just as sure that Mandrake has the ways to read the files it is the operator that ahs the problem. I sure do apprecaite the help. ted

just in case it does not show

DEVICE DIRECTORY TYPE TOTAL FREE USED

dev/hdb6/ ext3 5.8 3,5 2.3

dev/hdb8 /home ext3 23.7 23.5 148.7 m

dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c 19

dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c 37.9

dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_d vfat

I do not appear able to see the USB drive that has the hard drive?

I hope this goes thru. thanks.

I know I should of backed up the files. Lets say dumb and not as wise.

Recently my PC blew a cap on the motherboard of an older PC that had two hard drives in it. The drives had Win 98 and Linux (Mandrake) partitions. Somehow in my trials I installed Linux on both drives. They worked and it worked well (for me anyhow - someone that knows what they are doing may have other opinions).

Since I am sure the hard drives are good I purchased another (not as old) PC that had a drive with XP in it.

So I took the two hard drives from my blown unit and attempted to try running the new PC with them in it. I had removed the HD that came with it and installed my HDs one at a time in it. I did check (and switch and reswitch) the jumpers on the drives. All to have No Luck with reading the drives.

I then put the XP drive back into the new PC and installed one of the old hard drives as a slave. No Luck. The MANAGE - DISK MANAGEMENT window would see the drive as being partitioned but not assign a letter to it or allow me to assign a letter to it. I did the same with the other drive with the same results.

Then got the bight idea of trying to do this with a USB AUX drive by removing the USB HD and replacing it with one of my old HDs. XP saw it but same results. NONE.

Now I did not want to mess up the XP and its NTFS (?) so I purchased a brand new hard drive, installed it in my new PC as a secondary and loaded Mandrake. I knew that this would see the files because in my old system it saw all the files on my HDs. It saw what I had on the USB Aux.

Since I have two HDs in the new PC. One with XP and the secondary one with Mandrake I planned on using the USB to read the old HDs.

So I am attempting to use the USB method / connection to get to the files with Mandrake.

However now I feel a lot dumber than before this entire mess started. For some reason I am not able to read any of the disks. I go to what I think are the appropiate areas to see the drives and all I can see are the files for the user. I am signed on as the administrator.

Mandrake comes up great. In fact it works faster and better in start up / shut down than the XP. So I am fairly sure that the problem lies with the person typing this request for help.

I am sure there is a simple way to get to the files on the old HDs I'm just not there yet.

Any and all advice is sure appreciated.

Thanks for all the help.

ted

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Hello,

Recently my PC blew a cap on the motherboard. So I took the two hard drives from it and installed them in a different PC. I had both partitioned with Mandrake and Win 98. No I have not been able to read the drives. That is just one problem. I put the drive that came with the newer(?) -replacement- PC and attempted to read the old drives with XP pro. No luck.

I went and purchased a new drive and installed my 2006 Mandrake on it. I hoped that that would read the the files in the old drives. Still no luck. I then went to one of the mirrors that I am directed was directed to and updated the files for 2006. I purchased the disks late last year and did do this before with no problems.

After installing the mirrors I have a new icon on my desktop. It has a folder picture and two smaller icons attached to it. The name is 'core.5917'. I have tried to determine if it is a valid file but have not been able to find out anything about it. Is 'core.5917' something that should be there?

Thanks for all the help. I am sure that after finding out about this new file and what to do with it I can go back to banging my head on how to read the old drives. That has me since I know before with mandrake I could see all the drives. Anyhow thanks for the help.

ted

What's "2006DE"? :o

Never heard of such a thing before... 2006 german, probably? Is there such a Mandriva Edition out there?

Hello, I think the 2006DE is linuscdshop's way of stating it is the december edition? Thanks, ted

What happens when you enter the startx command from the command line?

 

If that takes you into KDE, then you probably just need to select the option to "Launch the Graphical Environment When Your System Starts" from the Boot section of the Mandrake Control Center.

 

Regarding which version you have, check out the contents of the /etc/version file. That will tell you.

Thanks for the help. I tried the suggestion and ended up with a screen of errors. I took that as 'I must of really messed up during the install.' So I reinstalled it again. But this time I only 'X' one graphic KDE selection. Then went through the CD install. This time it came up with the KDE screen and appears to be working -so far-. I have a habit of fixing the fixed. It sure looks good and I appreciate the help. Thanks, ted

I have installed 10.1 - 10.2 ? During the install process when it asks what features I want I selected KDE and the other GUI. I also have 98 on this unit. A few weeks ago it was working and then during a brain storm I did something that corrupted the drives. I have reinstalled and in the process had to repurchase the set of disks. My CD reader is not the best and am in the process of getting a CD newer one. I thought I had bought replacement CDs but ended up with a new set (2206DE). This is why I am not sure of the version on the unit any more. Anyway I tried to reinstall the older on but the new one is on 2006DE? After the installation the unit keeps booting up with the shell and I do not know how to get the KDE to work. Sure would appreciate some help - direction- thanks a lot. ted