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  1. right away I'm running mdk 10 on a p4 2.8 HT, quite fast, under :

    [william@localhost william]$ rpm -qa | grep kernel
    kernel-smp-2.6.3.4mdk-1-1mdk
    kernel-source-2.6.3-7mdk
    kernel-2.6.3.4mdk-1-1mdk
    kernel-2.6.3.7mdk-1-1mdk

    2.6.3.7, but it also runs with 2.6.3.4

  2. figured out where vmlinux is (/mnt/gentoo/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-gentoo-r1/vmlinux) and has symlinked to /mnt/gentoo/boot and after lilo command I got:

    [root@poseidon william]# lilo
    Added failsafe
    Added windows
    Added floppy
    Added Linux_263-14 *
    Fatal: Kernel /mnt/gentoo/boot/vmlinux is too big

    Sorry if I'm being stupid in doint that, but what is going wrong here?

    Here is my mkd lilo.conf (mandy is controlling lilo)

    # File generated by DrakX/drakboot
    # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file
    
    boot=/dev/hda
    map=/boot/map
    default="Linux_263-14"
    keytable=/boot/us.klt
    prompt
    nowarn
    timeout=200
    message=/boot/message
    menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
    image=/boot/vmlinuz
    label="failsafe"
    root=/dev/hda5
    initrd=/boot/initrd.img
    append="failsafe acpi=ht resume=/dev/sda5 devfs=nomount"
    read-only
    other=/dev/hda1
    label="windows"
    table=/dev/hda
    other=/dev/fd0
    label="floppy"
    unsafe
    image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-14mdk
    label="Linux_263-14"
    root=/dev/hda5
    initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.3-14mdk.img
    vga=794
    read-only
    image=/mnt/gentoo/boot/vmlinux
    label=gentoo
    read-only
    root=/dev/sda3
    initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.3-14mdk.img

  3. Indeed, mandy recognizes my second HD. I've added the root partion to fstab and got it mounted. The issue is that (maybe I misunderstood cannon's tutorial) when I add:

    image=/mnt/gentoo/boot/vmlinux to mdk's  lilo.conf and run lilo I got an error message saying the vmlinux was not found, of course the dir is empty!!!

    That's the problem here...Even having installed a bootloader on my second hd (what is completely unnecessary), some files should be there in /gentoo/boot dir, isn't it?

    Thanks for your input cybrjackle.

  4. Well...I've followed the instructions comprised on the gentoo handbook and after 2 nights trying to get it installed on my second HD (sda), following the instruction of its handbook, I think I got it successfuly installed. The only and maybe the major problem is that I can't see any file in neither /boot nor /. Of couse I'm running mandrake as root, but these dirs are empty??!! and it will be impossible to point /mnt/gentoo/boot/vmlinux if there's no file there!!

    As additional information, gentoo installation was as follows:

    1) Using latest gentoo live CD
    2) Ext3 filesystem for all partitions
    3) Stage3
    4) Latest portage version
    5) USE="-gtk -gnome qt kde dvd alsa cdr (the same suggested in the tutoriall)
    6) gentoo-dev-sources kernel
    7) genkernel to get it compiled
    8) LILO as the bootloader (I got an error message saying that sda was not the first disk, after lilo command in the terminal)

    I won't give up to get it installed here and indeed cannon's tutorial will be great, but where's initrd.img in my gentoo mounted partition?

    Thank you all guys.

     

    edite to correct: /mnt/gentoo/boot/vmlinux, instead initrd.img

  5. I have 2 hard drives, one dual booting XP and Mandy and another that I will try to get Gentoo installed. (it's a USB device)

    If I succeed in getting Gentoo installed, how do I go about enabling it to be shown in lilo, so that I can get logged? Is there any tutorial covering this issue? Please, let me know.

    Thanks.

     

    edited to change top descrip.

  6. This is my new fstab after attaching the zip drive to the computer.

    [william@poseidon william]$ cat /etc/fstab
    /dev/hda5 / ext3 noatime 1 1
    none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
    /dev/hda7 /home ext3 noatime 1 2
    none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
    none /mnt/hdc supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,--,umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
    /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
    none /proc proc defaults 0 0
    /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
    none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/sda1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,kudzu,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0
    none /mnt/zip2 supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0

    zip1 despite of being mounted has no file on it while 2 is also mounted and full of files.

    hotplug is stopped, harddrake is not. I've already seen an issue like this here.

  7. I got it working after playing around (un) plugging my external HD and zip drive, my gentoo ISO file was finally duly burnt. I figured out that the USB zip drive was fighting with the LG CDRW/DVDRW for a SCSI positioon, tried gcombust (device not recognised) even with the zip drive unplugged, upgraded from -9mdk to 2.6.3-14mdk, reinstalled k3b and at this moment these are the system's output:

    [william@poseidon william]$ cdrecord -scanbus
    Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a28-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
    Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
    Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
    Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to <warly@mandrakesoft.com>.
    Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
    scsidev: 'ATA'
    devname: 'ATA'
    scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
    [color=yellow] Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface. (WHAT IS IT?) [/color]
    Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
    Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
    cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (warly-Mandrakelinux-scsi-linux-sg '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c1.81 04/04/18 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
    scsibus1:
           1,0,0   100) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVDRAM GSA-4081B' 'A100' Removable CD-ROM
           1,1,0   101) *
           1,2,0   102) *
           1,3,0   103) *
           1,4,0   104) *
           1,5,0   105) *
           1,6,0   106) *
           1,7,0   107) *

    My current fstab. I reformatted the 2nd HD and it's just waiting for gentoo (if I succeed in got it installed here) :P

    [william@poseidon william]$ cat /etc/fstab
    /dev/hda5 / ext3 noatime 1 1
    none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
    /dev/hda7 /home ext3 noatime 1 2
    none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
    none /mnt/hdc supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,--,umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
    /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
    none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part4,fs=vfat,exec,--,umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,dev,codepage=850,suid,kudzu 0 0
    none /proc proc defaults 0 0
    /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0

    The zip drive is there in fstab, but before booting the system I unplugged it.

    DragonMage, after the kernel update I went to MCC in the boot loader section and let the system choose for the default mode in the append part of lilo setup.

    That is it...I'll keep playing around with these devices here in order to get both working together. In case of any query I'll don't hesitate to let you know.

     

    Thanks!

  8. I'm sorry DragonMage, but I'm completely ignorant regarding these issues: SCSI and ATA/IDE. I have a USB Maxto HD as cdrecord-scanbus properly detected, but that partition sda5 in lilo conf. is related to a swap partition I've created on this HD, so that I could be able to try other linux flavors. Why the hell it's there in lilo.conf?

    "Do you enable devfs so that /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd goes into the right places?" How to check it?

    Thanks all .

  9. 2 months ago (before updating the system) my LG cd writer was working properly, I've been trying to burn an ISO image file (with k3b), recently and fineshed with a cdrecord error 254. It burns till a certain point and gives this error output.

    I've done a google search on this errror but was not able to find any final solution to my problem, so I read

    this tutorial and figured out that my lilo.conf file doesn't mentioned any "hdc=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi" line.

    1)lilo.conf:

    boot=/dev/hda
    map=/boot/map
    default="Linux-2.6.3-9"
    keytable=/boot/us.klt
    prompt
    nowarn
    timeout=200
    message=/boot/message
    menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
    image=/boot/vmlinuz
    label="failsafe"
    root=/dev/hda5
    initrd=/boot/initrd.img
    append="failsafe acpi=ht resume=/dev/sda5 devfs=nomount"
    read-only
    other=/dev/hda1
    label="windows"
    table=/dev/hda
    other=/dev/fd0
    label="floppy"
    unsafe
    image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-9mdk
    label="Linux-2.6.3-9"
    root=/dev/hda5
    initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.3-9mdk.img
    append="devfs=mount acpi=ht resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent"
    vga=794
    read-only

     

    2) k3b stuff:

    [root@poseidon william]# rpm -qa | grep k3b
    k3b-dvd-0.11.1-15mdk
    libk3b1-0.11.1-15mdk
    k3b-0.11.1-15mdk
    libk3b1-devel-0.11.1-15mdk

    3) cdrecord output

    [root@poseidon william]# cdrecord -scanbus
    Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a28-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
    Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
    Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
    Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to <warly@mandrakesoft.com>.
    Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
    Linux sg driver version: 3.5.30
    Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
    cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (warly-Mandrakelinux-scsi-linux-sg '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c       1.81 04/04/18 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
    scsibus0:
           0,0,0     0) 'Maxtor 2' 'F040J0          ' '' Disk
           0,1,0     1) *
           0,2,0     2) *
           0,3,0     3) *
           0,4,0     4) *
           0,5,0     5) *
           0,6,0     6) *
           0,7,0     7) *
    scsibus1:
           1,0,0   100) 'IOMEGA  ' 'ZIP 750         ' '72.u' Removable Disk
           1,1,0   101) *
           1,2,0   102) *
           1,3,0   103) *
           1,4,0   104) *
           1,5,0   105) *
           1,6,0   106) *
           1,7,0   107) *

    4) fstab

    /dev/hda5 / ext3 noatime 1 1
    none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
    /dev/hda7 /home ext3 noatime 1 2
    /dev/sda1 /mnt/altroot ext3 user,defaults 1 2
    none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,exec,--,umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
    none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
    /dev/sda6 /mnt/storage ext3 user,exec,defaults 1 2
    /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
    none /mnt/zip supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part4,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0
    none /proc proc defaults 0 0
    /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
    /dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

    It reads cds and dvds quite well. The only issue is related to its writing capability. Any prompt reply would be very much appreciated.

    Thanks.

  10. My problem was easier than yours, cause the modem is attached to my ethernet card instead a usb interface. If the OS recognizes the ethernet card, the modem is not a issue.

    After a google seach I found these places that maybe can be a starting point to solve your problem.

    1

    2

    good luck.

  11. not sure on how to make the program run with normal user, but if it's complaining about disk space under root profile, problably your / partition (mp3 dir) is not big enough to store wav and mp3 files.

  12. share with us the problems you are experiencing in setting up an email profile...

    PS: I use mozilla firefox and there is an extension that lets you open an email client when clicking on an email address link.

  13. After more than 8 months clean, presently I'm logged on windows under my new ADSL internet connection, that unfortunately I haven' t succeeded in making it work under linux, yet.

    I installed the rp-pppoe package and its gui version, but have set up the adsl connection via terminal, typing as root: " adsl-setup", " adsl-status" and "adsl-start". Everything seems to be working properly, but when I open the browser and try to load any url it fails to get connected. (indeed, I open the browser through terminal as root, to check if it was the issue).

    In the internet section of MCC, I started playing around with manage, remove and add connection options and have noticed that my old internet set-up (ip, dns and gateway) insists to be loading even having deleted it via GUI way.

    The modem (speedstream 5200) is attached to my network card (properly recognized by linux) using pppoe protocol.

     

    Any help will be very much appreciated.

     

    PS: btw, if adsl-start command is only recognized when logged as root, how can a simple user load the ADSL connection?

  14. I just was playing around and downloaded firefox. WOW. What a great browser!!

    here there are some tricks to customize firefox, maybe you can find something useful and do not forget to install some cool extensions:

    texturizer

  15. there's one called babytrans, I personally don't like it, it quite far from babylon in the sense of inteface and resources. I've never seen a good translator for linux like babylon, being frank: babylon is the only program i really miss from my windows time.

  16. I remember that when facing the same situation as described by aze I inserted nvidia in /etc/modprobe.preload and the problem was solved:

    [william@poseidon william]$ cat /etc/modprobe.preload 
    # /etc/modprobe.preload: kernel modules to load at boot time.
    #
    # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
    # to be loaded at boot time, one per line.  Comments begin with
    # a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored.
    # this file is for module-init-tools (kernel 2.5 and above) ONLY
    # for old kernel use /etc/modules
    nvidia
    mousedev
    scsi_hostadapter
    intel-agp

    I couldn't see any alias /dev/nvidia* nvidia in my /etc/modprobe.conf.

    but the driver seems to be working properly:

    [william@poseidon william]$ cat /etc/modprobe.conf
    alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
    alias eth0 eepro100
    alias sound-slot-0 snd-usb-audio
    options snd-intel8x0 enable=1
    options NVdriver NVreg_EnableAGPSBA=0 NVreg_EnableAGPFW=1
    install scsi_hostadapter /sbin/modprobe usb-storage; /sbin/modprobe imm; /sbin/modprobe ppa; /bin/true
    install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && { /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; }
    install snd-usb-audio /sbin/modprobe --first-time --ignore-install snd-usb-audio && { /sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss; /bin/true; }
    install usb-interface /sbin/modprobe usb-uhci; /sbin/modprobe ehci-hcd; /bin/true
    remove snd-intel8x0 { /sbin/modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
    remove snd-usb-audio { /sbin/modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove snd-usb-audio

    Legal esse avatar, aze!!

  17. It happens with me also. Whenever I try to change screen resolution via GUI way (MCC) I have the same problem. Doesn't matter how many times you go there and change the resolution, it's stuck at 1280x980.

    But going through my XF86Config-4 I could see:

    Section "Screen" 
       Identifier "screen1" 
       Device "device1" 
       Monitor "monitor1" 
       DefaultColorDepth 24 
        
       Subsection "Display" 
           Depth 8 
           Virtual 1280 1024 
       EndSubsection 
        
       Subsection "Display" 
           Depth 15 
           Virtual 1280 1024 
       EndSubsection 
        
       Subsection "Display" 
           Depth 16 
           Virtual 1280 1024 
       EndSubsection 
        
       Subsection "Display" 
           Depth 24 
           Virtual 1280 1024 
       EndSubsection 
    EndSection

    For me, it' s quite difficult to recognize the screen resolution better than 1024x768, but whenever I open my wallpapers with gimp and go to resize it, the default size that appears there is 1280x1024, so I believe that what I have in XF86Config is correct.

     

    Another very strange issue is that whenever I log on windoze I have to "adjust" the screen size using the automatic adjustment button of my display, otherwise wallpapers, icons... don't fit well in the screen. The same also have to be done during linux booting process.

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