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[root@localhost matthew]# uname -a

Linux localhost 2.6.27.10-server-1mnb #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 10:59:23 EST 2009 i686 Intel® Pentium® Dual CPU E2200 @ 2.20GHz GNU/Linux

That is the server kernel isn't it? My old installs used to have a desktop kernel...I just used all the defaults, not sure how that happened.

root@localhost matthew]# service cups restart

Stopping CUPS printing system: [ OK ]

Starting CUPS printing system: [ OK ]

Still no luck with printing though. I can bring up cups with http://localhost:631/ though now, before nothing happened. I cannot add the printer, or if i do find, it cannot find the printer.

Forgot to mention, it installed the server kernel, is this normal?

Im using 2009 free, with the KDE4, whats the best way to upgrade? Im getting constant crashes with mozilla, its driving me mental.

Ian,

[root@localhost matthew]# netstat -tunlp | grep 631
tcp		0	  0 0.0.0.0:631				 0.0.0.0:*				   LISTEN	  3496/cupsd
tcp		0	  0 :::631					  :::*						LISTEN	  3496/cupsd
udp		0	  0 0.0.0.0:631				 0.0.0.0:*							   3496/cupsd

Ian I was unable to install hplip. I cannot Http://localhost:631 either.

I used easy urmpi to do my updates, but I re-used it again just to make sure, but still no luck.

Perhaps I asked it in an awkward manner.

Can someone please guide me through installing a printer in Mandriva 2009 with KDE4?

Hi guys,

I've installed 2009 KDE4, and its working with all my hardware straight off the bat! Sound! Yes! Graphics, had to install nvidia driver, but had graphical log in! Network Card! Yes! Raid! Yes!

Its all perfect....except I went to print an assignment tonight, no printer.

This printer, HP 1315, has worked under 9.0, 2008 and 2008.1 with no dramas.

I seen a post sometime ago about printers being a bit of a hassle in 2009, not sure if it was because of KDE4 or not. Either way I need it to work.

I tried: Tools, system tools, configure your computer, hardware, printers etc..where its says your about to install blah blah, but it fails.

If I turn the printer off then on again, it tries to install again, but also fails.

I downloaded the latest Hplip, and that fails to install with a lot of dependencies not being able to be installed.

I updated media through easy urmpi. Still no luck.

I seen in another post this was asked for:

IMHO Im having dependency issues, but I dont know how to fix it. Please help. This printer has served me well for years....and I just refilled the inks ;)

Thanks guys. I thought this might be the case. I have to spend some time with kde 4 by the looks.

In the folder view hopefully I can rig up something with some links so I can create a 'Storage Media' file. IE an icon called windows raid array, which points to the array.

Thanks all,

Matt

Hi all, I just installed Mandy 2009 KDE, I went with KDE4 despite its bad reception, I figure it probably will be the way to go in the future so get accustomised to it now.

I use to use the Storage Media icon on the KDE3 destop all the time. Lots of my work is carried around on flash drives, and I also have several hard drives installed and several partitions. The storage media icon was great, just open it up and there was all my media.

Can this be done in KDE4? I really hope so.

Thank you.

Ian, I had a work collegue download 2009 Free DVD and I installed it, letting the installer using free space.

Well it detects the raid as /mnt/win_c2. Beautiful, at last.

I'm not sure what I was doing wrong, but it now works as intended.

There are many many thousands of websites that are compromised like this and most of the time the website owners aren't aware of it at all, while their website is merrily spreading malware to unsuspecting visitors.

You need to take this seriously from day 1 as it can have legal implications for you too (someone could sue you for infecting their PC via your website) and cause damage to your reputation (if you run a business website).

Great point, I hadn't thought of that!

Thanks guys, the Source Forge Perfect desktop suggests using

KompoZer

Quanta Plus

So it appears I have several, great it sounds, options.

I don't do programming or html coding, and I just installed Apache Web Server and then put joomla on it. Joomla is a content management system, meaning you don't have to do any website coding, you just add the content. It uses php, so all pages are in php. You have lots of features you can add, and it's very simple I find. Just when you install, add the demo content, so that you can see how it all works. Now, I normally do clean installs with no demo data, but the first time, I had the demo data, so I could just see how it all worked and how I could create it all.

Ian, nice clean, profession sites, just what I'm after

I would be careful with those ready-to-use content management systems, especially the ones based on php, as they are quite prone to bugs that get exploited all the time by hackers to spread malware.

If you use any of those you will have to always keep it patched to avoid any issues.

Hackers, a constant evil. Hopefully buy the time that the site will be worth hacking I should have someone employed or contracted to look after this. But it is a thought to keep in the back of my mind.

Thanks guys, got lots to go on.

Hi all,

I'm about to kick off my new business. I want to have a web site, nothing fancy at this stage ie. i dont need shopping carts and automatic online ordering.

I intend to have a home page, a contact page, a data/help page, products page. etc etc.

I've read a little on HTML from a dummies book.

What application would be good to use for me to start?? Are there any sites that can help me learn how to use such a program?

Thanks all

Ian if I rename the array is it likely to be detected as a new device? Or is there some way to force re detection?

Ian, I tried that, but still no luck.

I'm thinking of doing a re-install in a new partition and try to hook it up using the custom partitioning. I dont really want to loose my current 2008.1 install as its been updated, and down want to do another big download session.

Ian sorry to be so demanding!

I tried a different directory, but got the same result.

I wonder its from where it tries to be mounted in the fstab file. During boot the fault I get is

Mounting local filesystems: ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume 'uuid=14d0ca71doca589e': No such file or directory

 

Please type '/sbin/mount-ntfs-3g --help' for more information

could this be the problem?

My fstab file is:

# Entry for /dev/sdc6 :

UUID=8d98e80f-5ff9-4d31-8f99-22eacfead24e / ext3 relatime 1 1

/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto umask=0,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,exec,flush 0 0

# Entry for /dev/mapper/isw_bebgibagai_Cleggett08p1 :

UUID=14D0CA71D0CA589E /mnt/raidcleggett08 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

# Entry for /dev/sdc1 :

UUID=867893F17893DDED /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

# Entry for /dev/sdc5 :

UUID=aa3e9216-97b8-4828-a615-a6c962afe02b swap swap defaults 0 0

[root@localhost matthew]# df

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/sdc6 49G 3.0G 43G 7% /

/dev/sdc1 18G 14G 3.5G 81% /mnt/windows

[root@localhost matthew]#

Thanks Ian, so it looks as though /mnt/raidclegget08 is busy...How do I go about changing this?

[root@localhost matthew]# mount -t ntfs /dev/mapper/isw_bebgibagai_Cleggett08 /mnt/raidcleggett08
mount: /dev/mapper/isw_bebgibagai_Cleggett08 already mounted or /mnt/raidcleggett08 busy
[root@localhost matthew]#

How do I determine where it is mounted?

Ian I checked through the logs, nothing mentioned ntfs, only where it mounts the windows partition

Ian thats what I tried, and I got some NTFS fail reports at boot, how do I go about reading what they are?

Thanks

I thought about this last night and I think I know whats going on....I dont know how to fix it

When I installed the 2008.1, the installer program asks if it should use the two drives as a raid array. I answer yes to this. I of course chose custom partitioning, and never applied a mount point to the raid array.

So of course the OS can see the partition/array, I just have to mount it and it should work fine.

Im not sure how to do this correctly.

Ok Ive seen in a few forums that dmraid can run the earlier ichXr controllers.

So first I ran

[root@localhost matthew]# dmraid -ay

RAID set "isw_bebgibagai_Cleggett08" already active

Which shows I have the raid array active. Then i ran

[root@localhost matthew]# dmraid -s

*** Group superset isw_bebgibagai

--> Active Subset

name : isw_bebgibagai_Cleggett08

size : 1250259200

stride : 128

type : mirror

status : ok

subsets: 0

devs : 2

spares : 0

Looking good I thought, it shows two devices, in mirror

Then I tried again

[root@localhost matthew]# dmraid -ay

RAID set "isw_bebgibagai_Cleggett08" already active

RAID set "isw_bebgibagai_Cleggett081" already active

Why has it now picked up the second imaginary array????

I tried to mount isw_bebgibagai_Cleggett08, but was unable to. What is the correct line to do so? I tried to mount the partition in MCC as /mnt/raidcleggett08 (I've made that folder) but I get fail messages at boot.

I booted into both linux mint and pclinux, neither see the raid array, but both hard drives are identical, with only one partition on each. Not sure what mandriva is doing, given its seeing different things.

Ian, thank you for this help. Its most appreciated.

I've been back into windows, and it appears to be working fine.

I've been googling a bit and it appears the ich10r controller is faily new and not supported in a lot of distros. It appears to be very similar chipset to the ich9r, so I may have to see what others have been doing to use that.

I think I'll boot into a live distro, and see if I can see whats on those disks in the array, as like you say they should be identical!

I have checked the manufacturer, both board and intels, and neither have a linux driver for the ich10r. I am surprised its not working under linux as the installer asked if it should use the array, so its detected, but somewhere along the line it's not configured right.

Yes Ian you're correct. I have three actual physical drives:

1X500gb boot disk

2X640gb drives connected through the intel ich10r controller in raid 1 formation.

Im still confused. In windows I have the array as drive d. One identity for the array. Windows doesn't see two disks. (I can view the separate disks through the intel software)

Am I able to have one identity for the array, where if I save a file to the array, the ich10r controller takes care of the duplication across the two drives?