Saddletramp

i had ubuntu dapper drake on all 5 of my systems up until a couple weeks ago when i came across mandriva one. have that on all 5 now.

think i'm going back to dapper though. this mandriva just seems to be to far behind the times now that i've used it.

duh!!

still learning the commands, for sure!

thanks

i guess this is pretty general chit chat/everything linux type stuff, so i'm posting here.

Device Boot 		Start		 End	  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *		   1		 764	 6136798+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2			 765		2434	13414275	5  Extended
/dev/hda5			 765		 904	 1124518+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6			 905		2434	12289693+  83  Linux

i'm looking for an explanation, in simple english terms, as to why mandriva installs like this when it's the only os installed and how do i interpret this? how much free space do i actually have?

thank you

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been searching an answer to this for a couple days now as i have 1 machine that gets this also. never had an issue in windows. i know for a fact, this is not any type of something physically heating up inside the box issue.

searching for info on this same subject. on my wife's dell dimension 2300, when shutting down the system, there is a brief message next to portmon (i think) saying the temperature threshold was exceeeded.

never have had any issues with this computer before, whether running windows xp or ubuntu breezy/dapper. i have no need to monitor it, just would like to know if that's somewhat common on some systems or what to do about that message?

thank you

problem solved!! :)

In the bios setup hit ALT+F then ALT+B redetects the hard drive

thought about that hidden dell utility. have that on another system that tried to mess with my dual boot setup.

thanks

shouldn't have anything to do with the hdd, as i'm here now and like i said, it boots just fine if i press the F1 key. just takes a couple minutes (it seems) to get past the failed detection process. fdisk -l does see everything right where it should be.

the actual wording on the error is:

primary hard disk drive 1 not found.

i just installed mandriva one on an older dell optiplex gx300. when the system boots, it hangs right at the end of the graphical bar (obviously where it's trying to detect disks) and i get the message that it was unable to detect a primary hard disk (or something like that). gives me the option of F1 to continue or F2 to run setup. F1 works fine and i can boot normally. i've played in F2 and switched things around a couple times. get same hang time and can't find disk message everytime.

searches have just about all gotten no results so far.

thanks

Usernames and passwords are the same if you login in console or in a GUI.

that's the problem. i never even get to a login point other than trying to login immediately after where it says it finds the mvs# or some number of the disk install.

i'm going to consider this thread closed as i can't get past that point no matter what. my cd-rom just will not read that disk correctly. reads windows and ubuntu's just fine, so i know it's not my drive.

that particular computer is relegated to spend the rest of it's life as a winblows system. need one with windows on it anyway for my visioneer scanner. (stupid visioneer anyway. don't do drivers for linux!!)

thanks for the help though folks!!

that answers another question i was wondering about then. didn't think it was really necessary. must be why i disabled it, even though i don't really remember doing that.

thanks

how do i re-enable the rpmdrake notification tool? don't know how it got disabled to begin with.

thanks

hadn't tried guests. tried root sveral times. hopefully you were understanding that this is a prompt i'm getting just trying to get to live cd desktop?

not progressing worth a darn!

installation froze solid at mounting /

installing XP Pro back on that machine! (stupid visioneer scanners don't work under linux. i have 2 of them. need a winblows system anyway. old kodak digital camera doesn't work in linux either.)

but if you or anybody have any other ideas, especially on what to use to login to mandriva live disk. i have subscribed to this topic.

of course i was thinking the same thing (old nvidia tnt2 card and a KDS visual sensation 17" monitor), but because it started to install the first time, i blew it off. i've already seen that thread you link to. didn't work.

from reading a half million other threads, i wound up hitting f1 before it got that far, and poof, there just went the login sound!! i'm about to start installing it!!!

thanks for the welcome!!

i'm trying to install mandriva for the third time off the same cd on third different machine. it get's to the point where it looks like it's going to the desktop, then switches to a login window that says:

(none) login: there's a blinking "_"

what is the default login for logging in to that? i've tried everything under the sun, including localhost (in several different formats), my name from other machines, name at the mandriva update site, EVERYTHING!!

what caused the dilemma is when i tried installing mandriva on this machine the first time, i was going to resize partition and dual boot with ubuntu. after screwing that up, i got that issue. i reinstalled ubuntu already just fine (formatted entire disk) and am now back to trying to install mandriva, but it won't get past the window mentioned above.

HELP!!

Thank you