WilliamS

Tried Ixthusdan's solution, must have screwed up something, as it doesn't work for me. k3b still shows burn and read from same device.

There must be a way of overwriting that link at /dev/cdroms/cdrom0...

Hi Chris;

I've been trying to follow static's way of making k3b copy disks, but don't know how to overwrite /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, which is the ide (reader).

Hello Ixthusdan;

Your 1) is somwhat cryptic, in that I'm not sure what emulate means - is it this?

append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet"

Your 2) and 3) is new to me, will have to try it and see.

Thanks

(where is that head-scratching smily?)

... see - /dev/cdrom is just a link (pointing to) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd, so you need to remove that old link and make a new one pointing to /dev/scsi..yaddayadda

I've been exploring this for two days, and haven't found a way to remove and install a new link. I don't understand kate, and ln won't cooperate.

Hope this doesn't turn out to be too obvious, but could someone tell me how to do this in /dev/cdroms/cdrom0.

What's there now is:

cd '/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0'

[william@localhost william]$ cd '/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0'

[william@localhost lun0]$

A long way to go on the learning curve... :(

I installed the three-disk version of mdk 9.1 today (I've been using the two-disk "standard version) and what a difference!

No connect icon!

Could connect through mcc, but browser couldn't find anything, acted like there was no connection.

Suspect this is a permissions problem, but got fed up with fixing things, and reverted to the standard edition.

It works.

Good thing about the three-disk version is, no fooling around with nvidia 4496 drivers. install was trouble-free.

Already filled in the append line, everything works now.

I'm guessing that vga=788 would give the blue boot screen, instead of the black one.

Haven't used grub since Lycoris, as several times it stopped loading, and the rescue disk was too mysterious for me. Still don't know what "kermel panic" means.

This maybe not grub, but haven't had a problem with lilo. Yet.

Thanks to all, every post good for learning.

It worked! :D

It booted with a black screen (runlevel 3?) and many inscrutable lines, then made some sleazy offers which I declined (wanna config?)

CDrom 2 not longer will read, but that no problem for the moment.

Is there a doc or readme that tells the meaning of what I copied into lilo.config? Couldn't find it in google.

Thanks much - will be easier to play now. :D

Lilo -v didn't object this time. I copied Steve's suggestion (without the parenthetical stuff). Now for the great leap into the unknown. :wink:

Stay tuned.

I admit it - I don't know enough.

Trying to point LILO to boot my test mdk on hdb4, haven't found the right lines to put in /etc/lilo.conf.

The test mandrake - named ml2 - is at hdb4, I use hda. Windose is on hdb1. Everything on hdb1 boots from lilo (mdk is default) when I unplug hda.

Here's my /fstab

/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1

none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0

/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

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

/dev/hdb4 /mnt/ml2 ext3 defaults 1 2

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

/dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0

And here is lilo.conf

boot=/dev/hda

map=/boot/map

default="linux"

keytable=/boot/us.klt

prompt

nowarn

timeout=100

message=/boot/message

menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw

image=/boot/vmlinuz

label="linux"

root=/dev/hda1

initrd=/boot/initrd.img

append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet"

vga=788

read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz

label="linux-nonfb"

root=/dev/hda1

initrd=/boot/initrd.img

append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off"

read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz

label="failsafe"

root=/dev/hda1

initrd=/boot/initrd.img

append="devfs=nomount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off failsafe"

read-only

other=/dev/hdb1

label="dos"

table=/dev/hdb

map-drive=0x80

to=0x81

map-drive=0x81

to=0x80

#other=/dev/hdb4

# label=ml2

# table=/dev/hdb

# loader=?

other=/dev/fd0

label="floppy"

unsafe

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.25mdk

label=2421-25

root=/dev/hda1

read-only

optional

vga=788

append=" devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet"

initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.25mdk.img

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk

label=2421-13

root=/dev/hda1

read-only

optional

vga=788

append=" devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet"

initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img

I had the first three lines only for hdb4 when I ran lilo -v, and got this:

"Fatal: First section of /dev/hdb4 doesn't have a valid boot signature."

Can someone tell me what else I need do? :?:

Thanks, banjo.

I spent a long time llooking for it & gave up. Much better now :D

AthlonXP 1800

40 gb drive

30 gb drive

512 mb ram

GEforce2 MX400

AOpen soft modem

URS5610b hard modem

SB Live 5.1

CDROM

CDRW

VE150 LCD Monitor

optical mouse

generic floppy

Lexmark Z35 printer

2 Decent speakers (Optimus)

Mdk 9.1 on hda

Mdk 9.1 (for testing tinkering trashing trials) and win98se on hdb

nvidia 4496 (Finally!) thanks to James and aRTee :D

Corsair Microsomething Hydrocool watercooling

and a Compaq Deskpro 1.2 gb 32 mb ram that I used to use when all else failed

Hi NSL1212;

Yes, I have the latest f-prot.

But I can't use developement in software manager, as I have the standard edition of Mdk9.1.

Think maybe just better to try another anti-virus prog. :(

If you like puzzles, try to find this ê on the canadian multilingual keyboard layout. :roll:

Kicker>Administer your sytem>configure KDE>accessibility>keyboard layout

You can select many languages

Easy way to install opera:

1- Use home icon on taskbar to go to the directory where it was downloaded

2- Right-click that file

3- click Software installer

I made an icon on the desktop, so that with one click it will both connect (I have dial-up) and start Opera.

I am using Opera 7.20 B1

Its nice if you like the M2 mail. :wink:

To update f-prot virus definitions:

 

open a terminal,

type "cd /usr/local/f-prot/" (without the quote) (f-prot default directory)

SU to root and enter your password,

type "./check-updates.sh" (without the quote)

 

The "check-updates.sh" script will connect to the f-prot server and download the definitions - watch the output at the terminal.

 

Hope this helps.

I did the above, and got: [root@localhost f-prot]# ./check-updates.sh

The check-updates.sh script has been replaced by a perl script:

check-updates.pl.

The check-updates.sh script has been deprecated

Please make appropriate changes to your crontab entries.

Error: Unable to include perl module: 'HTTP::Request'.

Please install this module and try re-running this script.

(Hint: man CPAN)

Fatal error. Exiting...

[root@localhost f-prot]# exit

Maybe I should not have installed CPAN? Tech support at f-prot thought it necessary, but always showed errors. Would un-install it if I knew how.

I installed f-prot and even figured out how to use it.  Don't laugh.  These things don't come with instructions!  Anyway, I was able to update my virus definitions and do a full system scan and came out clean.

I've installed f-prot, and can use it, but never been able to update virus definitions.

Would appreciate a howto, if you remember.

It works!

:D

Thanks

OK I've installed drakwizard and could now set time of my server.

Another step on the learning curve. :?:

I'm betting the server in question is not my ISP.

We need an icon for scratching the head :wink:

And the file file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/TimePrecision/ntp.html

does not exist on my machine.

I've found interesting prog.s, like gettimeofday.2.bz2 and settimeofday.2.bz2

but am reluctant to try them, already broke too many things trying to use rdate.

In documentation there is a picture of "server configuration" on the list in mcc just below "software".

There is no such thing on my mcc, so no time wizard accessable.

Maybe because I have the standard (two disk) edition of 9.1?

Or because I've never configured a server and don't know what its all about.

Is there an easy way to synce the clock to a timeserver/atomic clock?

Yes! :D

The pesky thing is gone.

Thanks

Ack! Just reread the first post and realised I'm a victim of brainfog. :roll:

Ignore my first post, please

But I would still like to be rid of that unneeded icon.

...now if someone could tell me how to be rid of the extra icon on my desktop -the one that's labelled "hard disc (cd) (not mounted) ...

See http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...1&highlight=k3b

anna foundthe answer.

Basically, in k3b setup, turn off DAO.