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Thanks guys, install went beautifully easily once I worked out what I was doing.
Definitely a setup that I will be sure to use in the future.
Consider thread SOLVED!
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If you have the ISO, then yes you can mount it on loop and then set up the repo so no need to copy it to your disk extracted from the ISO.
Thanks Ian, I forgot to ask if I mount as above, is the iso mounted so that it can't be written to? I am unlikely to try to write to it, but who knows what other users may try :o
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If you've got an internet connection, set up easyurpmi sources :)
You can always copy the DVD manually and set it up to use that from the hard disk. I did this once.
I do setup the easyurpmi sources, but why download when I have the release version on dvd? Especially when a download limit isn't so large. :(
Can I simply put this in my fstab file?
mount -o loop /path_to_iso/mandy2010.iso /mnt/2010_isoGiven the directory /mnt/2010_iso exists?
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Ok, I got it to boot off the all.img file. Got to the ftp start, took a little while to figure out that I needed to specify /i586 as the mandriva directory. I'm going through the hoops with my partition layout. Nothing I can't sort out I hope. so far so good.
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Thanks guys.
I found the boot.iso on the dvd and used:
dd if=path_to/boot.iso of=/dev/sdh
Where sdh is my flash drive.
My acer wont boot off this, it goes straight back to the normal grub menu. In dolphin all the flash drive has is an isolinux folder and a version text file. Is this correct?
Edit: I used the all.img file and can now boot the acer. Just trying to connect it.
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I've just done my install using the I586 DVD, but don't recall having the option of copying the DVD to the hard disk. So as I set my system up I'm continually dropping the install DVD back in. Arrgh!
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Hi all. I've just got hold of a Mandriva 2010 DVD and installed to my desktop system, and all is good.
I have a Acer Aspire One, currently running the original XP install and UNR (Ubuntu Netbook Remix). I wish to install Mandy 2010 on it, but I do not have an external drive or a usb drive over 4gb for a usb modified DVD install.
Unfortunately the Aspire One cannot boot off SD card either (BIOS issue).
Can I get a boot image on a flash drive and then network to my desktop to do the install?
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Plenty of variety out there it seems...
That's linux, always variety! :)
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Ah, sounds like fun. I suspect the card you have there is a 'Fakeraid" card, where you provide a driver to the OS so the OS can see the raid array, and the system CPU is used to do the work.
I went through this type of issue with my raid array, which is set through the motherboard Intel Matrix ICH10R chip. I needed to use dmraid to run the ICH10R chip. Quickly googling your Silicon Image 0680 and dmraid it appears that dmraid is the 'driver' you can use. Luckily my install picked my array up and activated it automatically. Documentation is a little scarce on dmraid, but have a look around the net.
Perhaps some of the other regulars will be able to shine more light on the topic.
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Hi all, I currently do a considerable amount of my report writing on a usb drive, and when I'm finished I make a copy to my desktop box which has raid 1, and I do regular full backup and dvd burns.
The reason I work off a usb drive is that alot of the time I write on my laptop, but I also do work off my desktop box, so for me a usb drive is nice and flexible/convenient.
What program or process can be used to simply ensure that my desktop box and the usb drive are the same? I imagine I can continue to work off the usb drive as I currently do, moving it from desktop to laptop, but when I use my desktop it makes the copy on my desktop the same as that on the usb drive?
I see some suggest rsync or unison. Is anyone using these? Or are there other user friendly programs/processes?
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When I installed 2008.1 (IIRC) I had to chain load it, due to a glitch or improvement in grub. I can't remember exactly why or how I went about it.
Someone will pass through here knowing how it is done.
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Congratulations! I want to update to KDE4.3.2 as well. I have an important report that I am in the final stages of, and I can't afford to have my system down if I bork it. It shouldn't happen, but you never know :)
So an update will happen over the next few weeks I hope.
I have KDE4.3.1 currently, I used the mirror below, and never had any key signature issues:
(Note, this is only the i586 media source)
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/kde/stable/4.3.1/Mandriva/2009.0/i586/media/kde43
I will be impressed if the speed is improved again.
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Mandriva KDE 4.3.2 unofficial packages for 2009.0, 2009.1 and cooker by the looks are now available here:/kde/stable/4.3.2/Mandriva
Please follow instructions in the README:/kde/stable/4.3.2/Mandriva/README
Recommended as an update by the KDE team for all KDE4 users. Please note: These are UNOFFICIAL packages. Be aware.
I have been looking for this and it has only appeared today Australian time. Some mirrors will be updating for the time being.
[moved from Art and Design by spinynorman]
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Guys I believe the issue here was when I updated to KDE4.2.1 install, I didn't add the no-arch medium. Since upgrading to kde4.2.4 and now kde4.3.1. I have no no trouble at all.
How the hell my poor install worked with out all the packages I'll never know, but it's all fine now.
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I ended up getting the 120gb Windows version, I'm dual booting with the UNR distro, and is running quite nicely. Thanks all.
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I should have updated this some time ago. The edition I was trying to use (Mandrake 9.0) was found to only boot on version 1.0 of the xbox. Mine was not a version 1.0 so would never have worked.
I got my hands on 2005LE but never had any luck with that either. Searching forums shows that Mandriva may have had some configuration issues, some got it to work, but a lot didn't.
The APC (Australian Personal Computer) magazine had a copy of Gentoox 7.1 on the bonus disc. I had to install twice, but it loads up to a XFCE GUI.
Oh, how things have progressed....I've been getting sulky with my dual core pentium here..But after booting into my XBOX, I'll stick with what I got a little longer.
So, Gentoox is Gentoo modified to run on the xbox. So my problem is finally solved!
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Cheers for the reply. I did have to select between two packages IIRC, but can't remember being asked about overwriting fstab....I gotta learn to watch updates more carefully I guess.
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I had a similar problem when I installed 2008 I think it was. I use grub. In the end I used the boot loader installed with 2008, and modified that rather than modify the existing setup.
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Ok, its all sorted. I have a fresh install of UNR (Ubuntu Netbook Remix) on my Aspire. I decided upon:
Leaving the original xp recovery partition 5gb
Xp partition 40gb
swap partition 1gb
/ partition 20gb
/ home 30gb
Thanks all.
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Last night i had a few minor updates, accepted them like normal.
Today i could not boot to x windows. I got a message
Checking root filesystem fsck.ext2: is a directory while trying to open / The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else) then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8139 <device>
So I tried that, and running fsck....all before finding out this shouldn't be done on a mounted partition!
I luckily come across a suse forum thread where someones fstab file was corrupted, so I checked in mine:
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
That doesn't seem right, so I renamed that to fstab_orig and copied my fstab.old and named the new copy fstab and now my system will boot.
What has caused this?
ls -al fstab -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 601 2009-02-20 17:40 fstab
Isn't fstab owned and only changeable by root?
I am annoyed this occured, as I was getting close to a reinstall, and I can do with out a massive download in updates. I'm saving that for 2010.
Anyone have any thoughts why this occured?
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I disabled compiz, panel works flawlessly. Not my ideal result, but it's ok.
I miss the function of pointing my mouse in the top corner and all open windows showing :(
Edit: A lovely guy in the #kde forum just told me to try the pointer in the top left corner, and all my windows appear...No need for compiz it seems.
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To use the full screen for your windows in KDE 4.X you don't have to autohide the panel. You can alter its properties and set it fullsize or centered, and tick the option to be covered by windows (from the "advanced" menu). When you hover the mouse over the panel area, it will appear on top.
When I do this the windows cover the panel as suggested, but when I put the mouse at the bottom of the screen the panel still doesn't reappear. I either have to minimize the windows or "restore" them so they aren't full screen.
I'm guessing I have a plasma issue here. Oh well, Im not too worried.
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Ok, I finally got k3b to burn a copy of recover_img.tar.bz, which I used drackbackup to create....
The md5sum of the burnt and extracted file is the same as the img, but neither match
md5sum /dev/sda1
given I used dd, these md5sums should be all the same yes?
Edit: After chatting in the ##linux room on irc, I learned that by mounting /dev/sda1 and snooping around in the partition I had probably changed some data such as last accessed etc....
So I redid the whole dd copy process to my desktop. Ran md5sum on /dev/sda1 without mounting it and on the image, and the md5sum were identical! Beautiful a 100% identical copy.
I compressed, burnt to dvd, extracted and ran md5sum against it, result was the same as above. So my burnt copy is perfect as well!
Objective achieved! It was a big one though.
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I updated several days ago. Had a few issues, such as missing task bar. No real big problems though.
I have a buggy task bar though. I normally have it set to auto-hide, so I use my full screen. But on auto hide the task bar slides off the screen, when I put my mouse of the bottom of the screen I can see the blue haze where it tries to reappear, but it doesn't. I will eventually come up but may take over twenty tries! Oh, well, I have it set at show all times.
I'm loving the folder view, how it can browse into the contents of folders.
Kernel Update; Grub menu.lst updated incorrectly
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When I performed my original install I was provided the server kernel. I am running a raid array and 4gb ram so I guess the installer assumes it's a server. So, one of my first tasks was to install the desktop kernel.
I have hard drives sda and sdb as the raid array, and I boot from drive sdc.
I use grub as the bootloader, the mbr points to sdc11 to the grub installed there (thats my 2009 install, which I wanted to keep) and from there I added a section to boot to sdc6, where my 2010 install is. I installed the bootloader for 2010 to the same partition, So I go through two bootloaders to get to 2010.
Upon the kernel change to desktop, as well as the kernel update through urpmi the other day, it boots to the first bootloader, where I choose 2010 to go to the second bootloader, but it says partition doesn't exist etc.
Here is how part of the menu.lst should look:
But after updating the kernel this is what I have in menu.lst
I have no idea how to ensure that the next kernel update runs smoothly. I'm not sure if this is a configuration problem at my end, or a bug due to my unusual install.
If possible I would like the mbr to point straight to my 2010 install on sdc6 as I am happy enough to use it as my main system, and add a link to the 2009 bootloader.