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Thanks Cannonfodder for the excellent reference on hex values for partition types. For future reference on the reiserfs issue, you may want to look at this site: http://www.gnu.parted.org where you will see that parted is now available in .img form with the addition of tool files for ext3 and reisers, IIRC. You make two disks, one a boot, the other with the guts of parted, allowing the manipulation of unmounted partitions greatly simplifying things when you need to reach for parted. Counterspy

You said you could not install awesfx. Why? If you need it in rpm form go here: http://speakeasy.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2htm....&system=&arch= and download the rpm underneath the cooker rpm's: awesfx-0.4.4-4mdk.i586.rpm . If that does not solve the problem then we need more information. Counterspy

Printer (HP 2110 All-in-one) doesn't work at all. Says it has run out of USB ports. ASDL is somehow misconfigured. Counterspy

Actually, just type tkpppoe from console root and it will bring up rp-pppoe. I still haven't figured out how to get it to see the connection, even though it is fully configured. I have been dumped into DHCP by Internet Connection Sharing and now I can't get rid of it, but I can connect to the net. Counterspy

gkrellm is there on the CD's but I can'tremeber which one. I am using it now. IIRC, if you install gkrellm-devel, it says it must install gkrellm. Counterspy

You may have to search using the info from my post in Installing Mandrake but you want to get sndconfig and isapnptools, probably on CD3 and use it to configure your card. Counterspy

It was announced some time ago, but it would have helped if it had been done recently. I have been using the back door since Saturday. Perhaps on the same line as the April Fool joke instead of that would have clued the regulars in sooner. Also the redirect could have been disabled during the upgrade. At least your post clears the issue up. Counterspy

You may be be surprised to know, and then maybe not, that Mandrakesoft's inspired list of programs to install leaves out a virtual gold mine of software that made it in to the distro. There are docs like Rute, utilities like parted and gpart and other goodies just wating for you. And now they make it easy. From Software Management in the Mandrake Control Center you have a new method for installing software. Choose Rpmdrake for installing software. Don't use Mandrake's list, but choose the straight alphabetical or grouped listing to see everything on the CD's. You will be handsomely rewarded. N.B. Do not install any kernels with this method!!! Counterspy

Why? I signed the petition but it is really pointless. SCO will lose this lawsuit and share the fate of other dot coms whose programmers are living in trailers down by the river. Counterspy

I have never seen anyone with experience recommend anything but a complete install. When someone expresses an opinion that something does not work as advertised it belongs in the topic that deals with that subject. Ideally, perhaps it should have been in the Installation topic but instead it is here. Much of the legitimate criticism of specific Mandrakesoft issues are blunted by those with an irrational religiosity for anything Mandrake. If I want that, I can join the Mandrake Club. Nowhere is there a statement that areas other than offtopic are off-limits to anything but questions. It seems that this is an arbitrary opinion made by one person with major influence over this board. Without the vigour created by debate of such issues where they most apply, this becomes entirely too sanitized a place. It should not be moved. It should be left exactly where it was posted. And next time, we will have all learned from this experience without further discussion. Counterspy

When Mandrakesoft demonstrates the ability to properly operate an online store, I wouldn't consider ordering anything. It is generally considered questionable business practice to take your money from your credit card account until the merchandise is shipped. This is the case with Amazon.com as one example. You also get an immediate email confirmation of your order from them and Cheapbytes and another when the merchandise is shipped. If others have examples of different ways of managing online purchases, I would be happy to hear them. Counterspy

Or here: http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio....MS/%5Bpage=5%5D Counterspy

AFAIK, this is still in the research stages. To find out more I suggest you use Google Advanced search. Counterspy

You need both Lan and ASDL checked. After that you should get a warning about a firewall needing adjustment (Shorewall). Mandrakesoft has not yet mastered the link with pppoe, IMHO, but that needs to match the settings in Connection Sharing. Roaring Penguin had a utility called tkpppoe to give you a graphic control to turn the connection off and on. If you want to try it, use http://www.rpmfind.net . It may not work with the new glibc in 9.1, but you could compile it from source from here: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/ . If your are using DCHP for a static connection, Connection Sharing should set it up automatically. Counterspy

Manly, you may have caused a problem by using to different journalling systems on adjacent partitions. This is the only thing that stands out in your description of what happened and may be a false trail. Counterspy

If he was using a boot mamager such as Boot Magic, System Commander or any of the others (of which there are too many), Cannonfodder's remarks above become particularly true. Regardless of the version of Windows being used, the boot managers supplied with Linux (Lilo or Grub) are more than adequate for a dual or even multi-boot install. The problem with 3rd party boot loaders is that they are sometimes hard to remove. If there is a large drive involved, there may have been instructions during its install setup to put a utility such as EZ Drive on the disk. These are designed to fool the bios into thinking this is a larger disk than Windows thinks it is. Short of wiping the drive as Cannonfodder suggests, there is nothing other than a sector editor to remove them. Read the Large Disk How-To in the Dcoumentation section of your main menu and the Partitioning mini-How-To in the Mandrake Doc How To section from the Downloads at the top of the page. Counterspy

See the post from D. Olson in the Hardware topic where he has a link to his tutorial on his site and the instructions from Nvidia (in the tutorial). Counterspy

Thank you very much for sharing your efforts with us. Considering sending a private message to Anon to see if he would like it uploaded to our ftp area. Counterspy

Post this question in the newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandrake unless you get an answer shortly. I am aware that Highpoint controllers have had their problems but I was under the impression that these had been for the mpst part solved. Mention has been made here about Promise cards. Try searching the posts from the box above. Counterspy

The title says it all. Counterspy

I think we are faced with a lot of compiling with this change. It's called the price of progress. Counterspy

Why not try right here from our download site? It's at the top of the page. Counterspy

Now isn't that just typical. Counterspy

I don't understand why you want root as a primary partition. You do need one to have extended partitions. If you are using parted, linux fdisk, cfdsisk, or sfdisk (see man pages) , you will be working with cylinder or sector numbers. You can change partition types with parted but I am not sure what kind of mess that might create. Doing it with diskdrake is not a good idea since it is not a fully-developed mover/manager and only does limited resizing. See the parted docs here: ftp://ftp.mandrakeusers.com/pub/Mandrake....s/Software-Docs. You cannot work on partitions with Linux running and you must do it using floppy disks. You can get the parted .img files for making the floppies here: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ along with instructions on how to make floppies out of them. You should also be aware that you risk losing the contents of your drive unless you back it up. In most cases changing partition types also requires reformatting. If you still have Windows, you could use a rescue set from Partition Magic 8 if you have ext3 partitions, but all the same problems would be created with it. If you have not yet installed 9.1, I would repartition the disk after backing up /home. You would then have a clean disk to work with and reformatting would not be as much of a problem. You still need to use a floppy but you now can use a Windows disk with W$ fdisk to repartition if you want to avoid the cylinder or sector numbers. Read the large disk how-to in the Documentation Section of your main menu, and the partitioning mini-how-to in our section http://www.mandrakeusers.org/downloads.php to before you do anything so you can see the reasoning behind what I am saying. Counterspy

You can use parted which is the most comprehensive of the Linux partition managers. Read the docs here: ftp://ftp.mandrakeusers.com/pub/Mandrake....s/Software-Docs . You may need to get parted from http://www.rpmfind.net if you can't locate it on your distribution disks. Check sofware manager with the list all files option from MCC. There is also a libparted which is listed in the Mandrake listing while parted is not. It is a command line program which requires care in its use. Post back here if you have any questions about it. Counterspy