Roodog

I have a CD-RW which is not seen. I had to disconnect it to allow me to install Mandrake 10.0 CE Now the Adaptec card shows on hardrake, but the CD drive is not detected. How do I add it to /dev? Dave

Thanks to everyone who responded, but I'm calling it quits and sticking to Mdk 9.1 I tried : changing drive settings to LBA in Bios, a HDD install from another drive, using alt1 at the F1 screen, and finally I stripped my machine down to bare essentials and almost succeeded. With my SCSI burner unplugged and the card removed, and my SCSI Zip drive unplugged, I was able to initiate an install - got as far as loading the system when the speed dropped to a crawl, then files were reported as having errors, so I pulled the plug. Now, how do I reclaim the 6 gigs I had allocated to 10, and use them for my 9.1 "/" partition?

Changing the drives to LBA in Bios didn't help - guess I'll copy the disks to one of the drives and try a hdd install.

Disks were purchased from a reputable on-line retailer. Re your 2nd point, I have been trying every hint/suggestion I can lay hands on, and this was one I came across in this forum, actually. I mentioned it to forestall ppl suggesting I try it.

I have Mdk 9.1 Bamboo installed and working on it's own drive, dual booting WinME on a 2nd drive, but now wish to try Mdk 10. My system is P111 500, 256kb ram, generic CDROM & SCSI CD-R/RW burner. I have the 4 disk set of Mdk 10 Official, but I am unable to boot from either CD1/CD2, and when I boot from floppy, I get as far as the "Loading Artep SCSI Drivers" line and there it hangs. I have tried using the "linux noapic nolapic" from the F1 screen, no joy. I tried using "expert" and choosing the cdrom.ko, but was stumped when it asked for parameters. All help gratefully received. Dave

Well, a little knowledge sure is a dangerous thing - I now have my Mdk system on hdc like I wanted, but lost my original setup on hda in the process. I am unable to recover my original root partition. I copied backups to my win98 partition before I started, but am unable to restore from these. I was able to unpack the /home backup and overwrite the files so that I have the original /home partition. I have partition images of both root and /home, but when I go into partimage all I see are fat 32 partitions. I'm totally lost now .... Dave

I already have a copy of my existing partitions using partimage - could I restore from these over the fresh install, even tho the partitions would be larger?

I cuurently dual boot Win98/Mdk 9.1 on a 15G HDD, but now have a brand new 20G drive as a 2nd drive. What is the best way to move Mdk from Drive A to Drive B? My current setup is /boot, / and /home - should I add /var and /usr to the new drive? Is Diskdrake the way to go, or should I do a fresh install on the new drive then add my current setup? I don't want to have to reinstall all updates. Thnx for any advice. Dave

Thnx - I have installed the devel lib, and managed to complete configure. Now I have come up with a bunch of errors while running make. Think I'll give juk a miss. Roodog

After untarring the files and running ./configure, the following msg appears: <snip> checking for id3/tag.h... no ************************************************** * * id3lib 3.8.0 or greater is required by JuK. * * id3lib is available at http://id3lib.sf.net/ * or as part of most Linux distributions. * ************************************************** I have installed id3lib 3.8.2 using urpmi, and updated the db. I see in ./configure --help that there is an otion "--libdir=DIR" and I have tried this with /usr/bin/id3tag as the DIR path, to no avail. I am using MDK9.1. TIA Roodog