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Well I got Ubuntu installed. I had to do a chkdsk /f and then reboot because the the small unallocated space between the c and d drives. Only thing that sucks is my keyboard doesn't fully work. The sound keys work, but the "internet" "email", "eject" keys don't work. :( Was pleasantly surprised that the keyboard and mouse worked at all though seeing as they are both wireless. One other thing too is if I do a "lspic" the wireless card shows up at Athero's, but the madwifi drivers aren't picking it up. I know that Ubuntu will install those on install because my old laptop had one also and I never had to hook up the cat5 cable to get internet. <shrug>

Thanks LZ. I was thinking of that but wasn't sure.

Well never really had this problem before, but here it goes. I just bought a new HP Media Center with a 300 gig drive. So far the partitions are as followed..... C: Free space 249 gigs. D: HP_Recovery which is a Fat32 and has 1.05 gigs free. Now when I run Partition Magic 8 it recommends that I partition after C, but that only gives me 7.8 megs of space, which is listed on PM as unallocated space. I get get to the C drive to take some from there but I have to do it so that the space is before the C drive and after the D. Here is what PM say when I want to create a new partition and where it suggest... Before D: HP_Recovery. After D: HP_Recover but before C: HP_Pavillion After C: HP_Pavillion. The last one is recommended but I'm only stuck with 7.8 megs for max. size, also the same for the first choice. If I use the second choice I get the benefit of using enough disk space, but before I continue I get a warning.... "If windows 95, 98(pre-SE) or NT 4.0 is installed on one of the clicked partitions being moved, please note that operating systems may not be bootable if they move beyond the boot code boundry for that O.S." I'd like to create about 40 gigs for linux if possible, but I'd hat to hose up the MS part of the the system.

Thanks. It is a learning curve though. Some of the things are so easy that it makes it hard, if that makes any sense. Still learning as I go though. Hopefully to do some vid editing with imovie with movies from the video camera. Only thing is, its a mini dvd cam and I'll have to hook up the firefire. Not sure if I should try and stick the mini dvd's into the cdrom on here. No tray, just pulls it in like a cd player in a car.

New toy. Still learning it yet. Thanks to those in #musb that help with some of it.

Well since I ran that automated script to install pretty much anything you would need I haven't had any problems. It does install Firefox 1.5, so its been pretty good since then. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=6...utomatic+script Only thing that bothered me was it didn't ask for root password.

For those with Ubuntu installed are you having problems with Firefox locking up? I had to use Opera in order to cruise the net.

well ran the gnome 2.12 install script and it failed. From what I gathered it failed because not all the packages updated with portupgrade. Here is a printout from the failure starting with the errors. [updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 203 packages found (-1 +0) (...) done] ---> Installing the new version via the port with make flags: BATCH=yes GNOME_UPGRADE_SH_VER=2.12-3 DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=1 ===> Installing for xterm-206_1 ===> xterm-206_1 conflicts with installed package(s): xorg-clients-6.8.2 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xterm. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/xterm. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade9032.3 make BATCH=yes GNOME_UPGRADE_SH_VER=2.12-3 DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=1 reinstall egrep: /var/db/pkg/xterm-203/+CONTENTS: No such file or directory ---> Restoring the old version ** Fix the installation problem and try again. [updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 204 packages found (-0 +1) . done] ---> Skipping 'x11/xorg-clients' (xorg-clients-6.8.2) because a requisite package 'xterm-203' (x11/xterm) failed (specify -k to force) ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) ! x11-toolkits/qt33 (qt-3.3.4) (unknown build error) ! x11/xterm (xterm-203) (install error) * x11/xorg-clients (xorg-clients-6.8.2) ---> Packages processed: 2 done, 0 ignored, 1 skipped and 2 failed INFO: GNOME upgrade FAILED at Tue Jan 10 06:39:00 CST 2006 gamer#

Well since I like self punishment I reinstalled again. So far I have done "portsnap fetch, extract" and thats it. Been kind of afraid to do the update thingy. I also removed the # in the /etc/portsnap.conf file. As of right now I get a error from the ports when trying to install either the nvidia driver or mplayer. gamer# pkg_add -r mplayer Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i...st/mplayer.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.0-release/Latest/mplayer.tbz' by URL gamer# pkg_add -r nvidia-driver Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i...dia-driver.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.0-release/Latest/nvidia-driver.tbz' by URL That is where I am at now.

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I kind of miss Slackware

I gave up and it is now replaced with Fedora Core 4. :D

Welp let see.... After doing the update firefox still will not start because it is missing some lib*. Not sure what one. (I thought BSD had NO dependency problems when installing a program?) Gnome fails during "make install clean" XChat is at like 1.8 something. (I thought that portmanager -u or even portsnap -arR upgrades your system? ) I am at a complete lost. Ix how are you doing with this??? lol

Ok, so not being the type of person who likes to give up I found this..... The ports collection (FreeBSD's package management system) is installed into /usr/ports by ServePath. The first thing to do is to make sure that the latest patch sets have been installed. # cd /usr/ports # cd sysutils/portmanager && make all install && cd /usr/ports # cd sysutils/portsnap && make all install && cd /usr/local/etc # mv portsnap.conf.sample portsnap.conf && cd /usr/local/sbin # ./portsnap fetch && ./portsnap extract The above commands will install two programs, portmanager, and portsnap. These programs update the installed applications and uninstalled sources, respectively. These two programs work together in keeping FreeBSD up to date. In order to apply the updated patch sets, execute the below: # /usr/local/sbin/portsnap fetch # /usr/local/sbin/portsnap update In order to upgrade the installed applications, execute: # /usr/local/sbin/portmanager -u It is updating now and I'll see what I have after its done. :D

Welp I throw in the towel. You can only re-install so many times and do a portupgrade so many times. Its probably mostly O.E. (operator error) but I've done everything suggested that I know of and things still will not work right. Kind of sick of having my gaming computer unavailable to me. :D On the last portupgrade firefox fails to start. XChat is at like 1.8 or something like that. Gnome is still 2.10. At the end of the portupgrade it like only upgraded 22 packages. Can't remember how many it didn't or ignored all together. Cybr I'd still like to thank you for the help and suggestions though.

hmmm.......... I'm dong a portupgrade -arR now because when I tried to do a make install clean in gnome2 I was getting errors and had to pkg_deinstall and then pkg_reinstall. Nice distro, just too bad there are too many O.E.'s on my part. :D

I am thinking that the # comment in front of that line was a big problem for Ix and I. Gonna try and pkg_add -r gnome2 now. I have kde installed. Thanks for the help cybr!!

Just to make sure..... If that is commented out uncomment it right??? Ok I looked in the gnome2 file in ports and I have 2.12. now tech. I should be able to do a "pkg_add -r gnome2" and get gnome 2.12 right?? Oh yea I didn't do the "portupgrade -arR" thing though.

Man I get nothing but errors when I try to pkg_add either gnome or kde. Getting kind of fustrating. Are we missing anything with the portsnap stuff? I mean I basically installed off the cd choosing "all"packages as I stated earlier, and then ran the "portsnap", "portupgrade" command right away and I still get a boat load of errors. Starting to get pretty darn fustrating. "Edit" I choose a ftp install rather than the cd's. Made it easier than chaning out the cd's all the time.

Well I have done an re-install and I did choose "All" packages this time. Maybe I shouldn't have, but I did anyways. Installation seems to be a breeze the second time around. Not very much to it at all. I did hack my xorg.conf and got that working. I did hack my rc.conf too and that was a real joy. lol. Seems as though I left out a " mark and it hung on boot. I was in #freebsd and they were trying to help me but nothing they suggested worked. They were on the right track but no go. So I did some googling and I found the answer. Just typed in "bad rc.conf in freebsd" and bingo there was the page I was looking for that delt exactly with that. Showed my the right "mount" commands and I was able to fix it. After the install I started to install gnome2 in hopes that it would be 2.12 but watchin the packages go by, I notice that it wouldn't be so I "ctl c" out of it. Then I did the portsnap stuff and portupgrade but this time only with the values of "-arRvPP" which I guess is just suppose to download packages instead of compiling everything. Well it didn't take long and at the end I noticed that nothing was really upgraded or installed, so I ended up using the -arR value and now it is compiling. Only thing is with having to answer questions and me being at work while it is waiting or an answer it is gonna take awhile. lol I'll try to do a "pkg_add -r gnome2" when it is done and see what comes up. Hopefully I'll get it right this time. I've been reading a little cybr and from I have been reading is that "portupgrade" will only update 3rd party packages and not the system or userland itself. In order to do that I/we have to do "cvsup". Is that so?

When you run the gnome script to upgrade it removes the old gnome and kde so at this point and time I don't have a desktop enviroment. Reinstalling either gnome2 or kde gives me a boat load of errors because of packages are not up to date. Right now I am in console and I ran portupgrade -arR again and it came back with "Packages processed: 3 done, 216 ignored, 2 skipped and 2 failed. Not sure what Iam doing wrong, but I guess I hosed something up. :(

I take that back, it errored out. Not really sure what do do now cause during the upgrade it like removed just about anything to do with X. Thinking I should just do a reinstall. Any suggestions cybr? :D

I'm doing that now. :D

Well got the system to boot to kdm now. Had the ttyvs edited wrong. lol I got my usb optical mouse working. I can boot into the other desktops but for some reason can't boot into gnome and gnome is only at 2.10 I thought it was 2.12. <shrug>

Well it finally ended. :D I was hoping that when you "pkg_add" that the new packages would show up in the menus but I take it you have to edit by hand to have them show up. I also thought that I had it setup to boot to kdm too, but I guess I did something wrong. I do know when I kill X it get what appears to be an error. "can't find kdeinit" <shrug> All new gonna have to learn as I go. lol