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Hi John I'll try to help you in my pour english. In Grub the harddrives are numbered after the boot sequence, and if you under goes in to the BIOS, you should be able to see in which order, your drives are booted. If you know the names on your hardrives, you'll be able to figure out which harddrive is the one with Mandriva Spring, it should be the first to boot, and if your "new" harddrive with Mandriva is the last installed, it proberly are the last one to boot. And GRUB counts from zero, as you can see in your menu.lst, so my offer will be, that the harddrive with Win2000 should be named hd2 Try to write this in menu.lst. I really hope this make any sence to you, if you were from Denmark it would be easier for my to explain :D

Hi I've tried it myself, and it's very annoying :) But try to write urpmi drakconfig as root in konsole, I'm pretty sure that will help you.

After a lot of googling (didn't find something usefull) I did some thinking (hard work :lol:), and came to the conclusion that mayby it was better for me to set these 2 partitions up with access rights for groups and users, so now I have 2 new groups on my computer. :huh:

I can't see your point here, but mayby it's just me who are misunderstanding you :) After formatting the harddrive, it's owned by root, and group are set to root, and I belive thats the way it's supposed to be. But when these partitons are unmounted or mounted, I don't have write access to the partitions/directorys with my user account, if I understand you right, I have to own the partitions/directories, or I have to give worldwide read and write access to them, that will be easy to do, but I really thought that was possible to do with discdrake (MCC), or by editing /etc/fstab.

I'm not sure what you mean. As far as I know noone can write to an unmounted partition. But when I check with konqueror, it's set to 0755. Or els does the fstab look just the same.

Hi I have just bought a new harddrive, but after formatting I don't have any write access as user. How do I change that in fstab? or in MCC -> local discs -> Manage disc partitions My fstab look this way, the new harddrive has 2 partitions sdb1 and sdb5. /dev/hdd1 / ext3 relatime 1 1 /dev/hdd6 /home ext3 relatime 1 2 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto umask=0022,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/backup ext3 relatime 1 2 /dev/sdb5 /mnt/virtual ext3 relatime 1 2 /dev/sda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0022,nls=utf8,ro 0 0 /dev/sda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0022,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/sda6 /mnt/win_e ntfs umask=0022,nls=utf8,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd5 swap swap defaults 0 0 I have tried to set it like this: /dev/sdb1 /mnt/backup ext3 umask=0222,user,relatime 1 2 Still no luck Please don't look to much on /dev/sda1-6, that harddrive will be moved to another computer in the future

Ian has a point there. So I have tried to add some accounts on my own computer. What you have to do, to make it right (I hope) But this little guide depends on, that every user has his/her own Group 1. Fire up MCC 2. Find System -> Manage Users 3. Click on the Users tab 4. Mark your own user and click Edit 5. In the new window click on the Groups tab 6. Choose which Groups your own user, has to be a member of. Now your user are a member of the new group, but you still don't have any write access, to get this the fastest way, open konsole, and log in as root with the su command, and typr your root password when promted. Now write: chmod -R 0774 /home/NAME_ON_DIRECTORY Now every member of the group should have write access, and every one els can see whats in the the directory.

Hi Open konsole, and log as root with the su command. Change directory to home cd /home Now type chmod -R 0777 NAME_ON_THE_DIRECTORY And the name on the directory has to be written exactly as it is in the user account. Or you can do it as root in konqueror. 1. Press ALT+F2, write kdesu konqueror and your root password when promt. 2. Find the account directory, 3. Right click choose properties and find permissions Hpoe this helps you, if not just ask again.

Hi Try this: 1. Open konsole 2. type su and your admin/root passwotd when promt 3 type this urpmi gstreamer0.10-wavpack 4. when installed you proberly will have to logout, but after logging in again ot should work.

I think the easiest way for you is to restart your pc, and under grub choose the kernel that you have compiled. When in Mandriva you have to uninstall the new kernel. After that you open a konsol, (if not opened already) then write: su "kwrite /etc/urpmi/skip.list And ad kernel to the skip list, then it shouldn't be upgraded again. And yes, you should be able to uninstall wmware either by using RPMdrake, or with this urpme wmware

You're welcomme Always glad to help :D

I think that you are right about this, it's a long time ago that I have used Thunderbird. The only reason that I could come with this solution, is that I had it in my notes ;)

If you are using KDe as Desktop just do this. 1. Open konsole 2. Write cd .kde/autostart 3. Still in konsole, write ln -s /usr/bin/pidgin 4. Hit enter, and now next time you log to yuor Mandriva account Pidgin should start automatically

Hi, If I remember it right you can't import the mails through Thunderbirds import function, but you can copy them from Windows to Linux. You'll have to find these paths Windows: c:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\mll39647.default_this_will_ proberly_be different\Mail\Local Folders Linux /home/USERNAME/.thunderbird/66ea86m6.default_this_will_ proberly_be different/Mail/Local Folders-1 I can't remember if you have to set up a mailaccount on the Linux part before you can do this.

Hi No I don't think that it's strange, because KDE4 still are in BETA. And as you probaly know, you can't trust a BETA system to run smothly ;)

Thanks for all your help. Of some reason the .bashrc file, didn't excist in my home folder, so I installed Mandriva 2007.1 in Virtualbox, and copied the .bashrc from 2007.1 to Mandriva 2008, and now it works. :D

I have tried to compare /etc/bashrc and /etc/profile in Mandriva 2008.0 and Mandriva 2007.1. And they look exactly alike, I really cant find anything written in another way. Now I do belive the problem are somewhere els, any ideas?

Hi All How can I change the name in konsole from bash-3.2$ to [orts@localhost] $? like it was in the older versions of Mandriva. I find this pretty annoying, because when I change to another directory, I can't see that I really are in the wanted directory. If I'm logged in as admin in konsole I have the old "name" [root@localhost] # and can see which directory I'm working in at the time. like this [root@localhost orts] # I really hope that someone can help me, this is the only thing that I find is wrong with Mandriva 2008. [moved from Software by spinynorman]

Have you installed the right codecs? If you'll open the from konsole, then try /dev/hda.

You'll need to know where your cd-drive is mounted. On my pc it's on /dev/hda If your cd-drive is mounted in the path you just need to put your cd's in the drive, open konsole and write: md5sum /dev/hda/

I have only one thing to say about Mandriva 2008, and that's: Thumbs up. My first Linux distribution was Mandrake 10.0, that one and Mandrake 10.1 worked okay here, but after Mandriva 2005 LE and 2006, I was ready to switch for something els, and tried Ubuntu, OpenSuse (Suse), Fedora and Debian, but when 2007 came out, I just had to try Mandriva again and here I am, still on Mandriva satisfied as ever. And I can see in the danish communities that since 2008 came out, that there are more users on Mandriva again.

Hi You can find something about installing software on Mandriva here https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=10600 The driver for your graphiccard will you be able to install after that. Just hit ALT+F2 and type mcc and your admin password when promt. Then you choose the option "Manage software", and then search for nVidia.

Thanks, just what I needed. :D

Hi All Can anyone tell me how give OpenOffice permissions to go on the internet? I have to install a dictionary for the Danish language. ( I don't master that either :P ), but evry time I try it tells me, that it appers I don't have an internet connections or that I shall give OpenOffice permissions to access the internet. Thanks in advance Regards

Haven't they made a 64-bit recently? You have 3 torrent clients in your repos, ktorrent, Bit-Torrent and Azereus.