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  2. Can Mandriva 2008 write to NTFS partitions?

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    Isn´t PClinuxOS a fork of mandriva?

    PCLinuxOS did start as a fork of Mandriva (well Mndrake 9.2 actually) but I think now it has very much gone its own way.

     

    1 - Wide variety of software in the repos,from cursor icons to kde themes,things to make it graphical more neat.

    You can get all that from www.kde-look.org! Why bother cluttering up a repository with thart sort of thing?

     

    2 - The ability to once installed in HD,make a livecd of it and it works all the time(can´t figure out why mandriva ships with mklivecd package if it doesn´t work out of the box),even when its updated(cant do that with mcn live).

     

    Mandriva installs from a Live CD. So you must have had a Live CD to be able to install it. Why do you need something that creates a live CD when you already HAVE a live CD? :huh:

  3. Thoughts on upgrade/partitions?

    in Installing Mandriva

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    80 gb - /,swap, /home,/var, a spare partition for tinkering with second distro

    40gb - one or two (ext3) partitions , swap (?)

    In the past I have just burned important stuff to CD as backup, but recently tried using MCC backup and it swelled /var quite a bit so need to put it someplace large and easily accessible.

    Why are you limiting yourself to an 80GB hard drive? I don't know where you are but in the UK you can get a 80GB Maxtor for about £26 and a 250GB for £35. I use a Maxtor 200GB as my main drive (XP & Linux) and a 320GB Hitachi as my second drive for data and backup. When I want to do a backup I simply copy over /home to a backup folder on my 2nd drive.

     

    You may think you only 'need' 80Gb but having all that extra space makes life a lot easier.

  4. ntfs write support only for root? [solved]

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by darkscot

    ntfs write and read is a beautiful thing. :-)

     

    I have just discovered that Mandriva offers an incredibly easy peasy graphical method of enabliing read/write on NTFS drives! :wall: Why does no one seem to know about this? :huh2:

     

    1. Install ntfs-3g AND ntfs-config

    2. As root run: ntfs-config-root

    3. Tick the box for external and/or internal in the popup window

    4. Close the window

    5. Start reading and writing to your NTFS drive, you don't even have to reboot!

     

    NOTE: The NTFS configuration tool appears as an item in your menu under System > System tools but when you click on it nothing happens. Presumably because you have to be root to run it? It would be nice to get little message though!

     

    I have just installed the latest update and NTFS-config now works from the main menu! You wouldn't get service like that from Microsoft! :thumbs:

  5. Can Mandriva 2008 write to NTFS partitions?

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    But personally, I prefer to know-what-i-am-doing-to-my-puter...

    I agree with you, but a lot people do not share that view. I am happy to spend a few hours setting up my PC as I want it and like to know what it is that I have been doing. However, for a Linux distro to be competitive it has to offer users an easy (though possibly more long winded) option. I think that is why PCLinuxOS (which I don't actually like) is so popular.

     

    About a year ago a British computer magazine (Computeractive) ran a series on Linux for beginners using Mandriva 2007 as an example. Based on the feedback in the forums a lot of people started with Mandriva but switched to PClinuxOS because certain tasks (e.g. installing to external HD, automounting HD) was easier. People brought up on Windows XP are generally put of by having to type something into a terminal.

     

    Having said all that I have just discovered that Mandriva ALSO has a graphical method of setting up read/write for NTFS drives! Just install 'ntfs-config'! Why is this not more widely know? :unsure:

  6. Reinstalling the boot loader [solved]

    in Installing Mandriva

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    I was just gonna do that when...

    I recommend you get a copy of Super Grub Disk anyway, it is a great tool to have around. There is a bug in Windows where 'fixmbr' doesn't work if Windows is pre-installed and you only have a recovery disk. You keep getting asked for the administrator password even when one hasn't been set. I know! I had that problem with my laptop, SGD fixed it.

  9. Speed Up Amarok With Large Music Collections

    in Software

    Posted · Edited by darkscot

    It uses SQLite by default...

    When you run amaroK for the first time it gives you the option of using SQLlite (with no setup) or 'standard' SQL which is faster but requires setting up. I think that is what the OP is talking about. I have always chosen the 'no setup' option as although it is slow at times it does work. I have read that using the alternative is a bit hit and miss, but I might give it a go. The 'official' instructions for how to do it can be found here:

     

    http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/MySQL_HowTo

  10. Speed Up Amarok With Large Music Collections

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    I'm running Amarok 1.4.7 (on Mandriva 2008.0) & it shows XINE as the only choice...

    Xine is the audio engine and nothing to do with the actual database side of things.

     

    P.S. No, 33GB isn't that big a collection. :P . You want to install PAN, subscribe to a few MP3 newsgroups and leave your system downloading for a few days. Ensuring of course you only download copyright free stuff! ;)

  14. Hard Drive Space [solved]

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by darkscot

    Whenever i try to download something (for example, a file 5 or 6 GB's large) it tells me i don't have enough space yet i know for sure i have at least 168.4 GB available.

    The most obvious likley cuase is that your file system is limiting the file size. The maximum file size for FAT32 is 4GB but I cannot imagine you are using FAT32 if you only have Mandriva installed? If you are using ext2 or ReiserFS then I believe the file limit is 2GB, the limit for ext3 is 16GB.

     

    Another possibility is that Mandriva made your partitions too small during the installation. This happened to me when I installed Mandriva 2008 recently. I chose automatic partitioning and the option to use the free space on Windows and it set up a root and home partition of only about 4.5 GB each, in spite of their being free space of over 100GB. Take a look at the actual partition sizes in the control centre, you may have to increase them. However, if you do it is very likely you will have to re-install Mandriva. I know I did.

  15. Improving K Menu + Log in

    in Software

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    Is there any way to improve the menu to resemble something more similar to that used by SuSE 10.2?

    Sabayon uses that style of menu by default and I have to say I don't like it. It seems to take lots of clicks to find anything. You can find your favourites faster but if that is all you want then you can add shortcuts to your taskbar or desktop. I actually think the new Gnome menu style, as used on Sabayon, is much better then anything KDE are doing.

  23. Kernel panic on first boot after 2008 install

    in Installing Mandriva

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    The fact that it works for you in Sabayon is surely not a valid criticism of Mandriva.

    Of course it is! It is complacent attitudes like that that has resulted in users switching to PCLinuxOS!

     

    And what do you mean by more conventional hardware ??.

    A PC where XP and Linux are installed on the same drive. (i.e. My laptop)

     

    Whenever you use any OS you really should first take the time to find out how it is setup to run before you rubbish it in comparison with another.

    Although by no means a Mandriva guru I have been using Mandriva off and on since Mandrake 8.2, so I probably 'know' it better than any other distro. I installed Mandriva on my laptop as soon as I got it 18 months ago, currently using 2007 Spring. I intend to install 2008 on that when I get the chance but in the meantime I decided to try it out on the 'family' desktop. One of the downsides of Sabayon is that when upgrading the download takes about four days and you have to do a complete reinstall. That doesn't bother me too much and is actually my idea of a good time. However, it has become increasingly annoying to other family members. Hence my reasons for switching to Mandriva 2008. Unfortunately the idea completely backfired as I have been hogging the PC for the last four nights trying to get it install. I would have been happy to carry on trying to find a solution but the patience of others had worn thin. So I reinstalled Sabayon and all is well.

  25. Cutting mpg videos

    in Software

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    I have collected some small (1-3 MB), funny mpg-videos from all over the web and want make one single mpg video out of them (so I can show my brother all the ouches and hahas with one click rather than with 50 single clicks). Now, the question is: which software that is included in Mdv 2008 might be the best one for such a task? Kino is, I guess, too much/complicated and not designed primarily for editing mp3 files. Is there any little, funny gnome tool that can do this easy task with a few clicks? I am rather a noob when it comes to video editing. :rolleyes:

    There are lots of packages for this in Windows but not much in Linux. What about this?

    http://varsha.sourceforge.net/

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