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Here's my current 2007 install saga...

 

Install from powerpack DVD fails UNLESS I disconnect my ide drive. I have two sata's (not raid) and one ide hd and one ide dvdrw. The install fails immediately after the partition format (whether or not I actually choose to format the partition). The error message looks like;

 

An error occurred

INTENAL ERROR: no kernel available...

...then a list of about twenty file or package names.

 

I was able to get it to install if I disconnected (pulled the cable) from my ide drive. I tried various states of access for the drive none of which seemed to matter - unformatted and formatted in various fashions.

 

So after going though all that I later decided I wanted to reorg my partitons and in doing so I removed the boot sector for the 2007 install. FYI: I usually install a new boot sector for the latest install on a different drive from my currect stable OS so that if/when I switch over to the new install I need only point the bios default to that boot drive. During the testing and setup phase for the new OS I boot to the stable OS and point lilo to the new install and the new install lilo has a pointer to the stable install. This also provides a sort of backup boot if ever needed.

 

So I wanted to clean install 2007 to one of my sata drives - but as I noted above I have to pull the ide drive to make it work. Not wanting to disassmble my computer again, I tried every boot option I could find to make the install work - as you might guess - nada. Maybe my powerpack dvd isn't any good, so I burned a 2007 One disk and tried that. It worked! I figured I could just urpim.addmedia to the powerpack packages and update and install as required, no big deal.

 

Well, that works EXCEPT the new install won't connect to the internet. The previous 2007 install did and 2006 does no problem. So far I've only edited the ifcg-eth0 script to look like the previous install and like the 2006 install but still no internet. BTW I am able to access my home network no problem. I will post a new thread in the correct place for the network issue, but I wondered if anyone had solved the sata issues. I've seen lots of posts of problems with sata users.

I'm dual booting with 2007 and winXP. The installation went smooth and fast. My PC:

sda: SATAII 200GB WinXP

sdb: SATAII 250GB only Data

hdd: IDE 40GB Mandriva 2007

Still testing and configuring it though.

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once. (I changed mine to 100, works great.)

It's useless to set it 50,10, or 1000, the maximum limit value is 8.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.ph...5967ebc3826c63f

new xorg-6.9 added with the greek kb patch

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just updated to xorg 6.9-1 cvs 20051025, greek kb works fine, thanks!!

Nice to hear that. Actually I would really ilke to try your "unofficial" xorg 6.9.X beta, as the Greek keyboard layout is horribly broken in both the official Mandriva 2006.0 release, and PCLinuxOS as well (keyboard layout switches seemingly OK, but only english chars can be typed!). Of course the problem is the xorg source, in both cases, and not a packager error...

I'm pretty sure it isn't a hardware issue, as on the SAME hardware Arch Linux and the latest Kanotix RC (both on xorg 6.8.2) work flawlessly.

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My greek keyboard is still broken as well. I thought it was only me... Have u tried out thac's xorg?

Somewhere in KDE control centre there is "keyboard layout".

 

Might that be what you are looking for?

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That"s the fisrt thing i'd tried, i enabled keyboard layouts, add greece(gr) in the active layouts field and i when i click the US flag to switch to Greek i get an error (err).

locale -a output:

C
CP1251
el
el_GR
el_GR.ISO-8859-7
el_GR.UTF-8
en
en_AU
en_AU.ISO-8859-1
en_AU.UTF-8
en_BE
en_BE.ISO-8859-1
en_BE.ISO-8859-15
en_BE.UTF-8
en_BW
en_BW.ISO-8859-1
en_BW.UTF-8
en_CA
en_CA.ISO-8859-1
en_CA.UTF-8
en_DK
en_DK.ISO-8859-1
en_DK.UTF-8
en_GB
en_GB.ISO-8859-1
en_GB.UTF-8
en_HK
en_HK.ISO-8859-1
en_HK.UTF-8
en_IE
en_IE.ISO-8859-1
en_IE.ISO-8859-15
en_IE.UTF-8
en_IN
en_IN.UTF-8
en_NZ
en_NZ.ISO-8859-1
en_NZ.UTF-8
en_PH
en_PH.ISO-8859-1
en_PH.UTF-8
en_SG
en_SG.ISO-8859-1
en_SG.UTF-8
en_US
en_US.ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8
en_ZA
en_ZA.ISO-8859-1
en_ZA.UTF-8
en_ZW
en_ZW.ISO-8859-1
en_ZW.UTF-8
greek
ISO-8859-1
ISO-8859-10
ISO-8859-13
ISO-8859-14
ISO-8859-15
ISO-8859-2
ISO-8859-3
ISO-8859-4
ISO-8859-5
ISO-8859-7
ISO-8859-9
KOI8-R
KOI8-U
POSIX
UTF-8

How to rebuild locale?

think it's freezed, no updates since 10/01/20005.

ftp://ftp.physics.auth.gr/pub/mirrors/Man...i586/media/main

ftp://ftp.physics.auth.gr/pub/mirrors/Man...6/media/contrib

I did all the changes as u suggested, still no joy. There is no "use unicode by default" option in MCC. In KDE CC-->Country-Region & Country i got only an option to add US English and British English. :o

Here's the output of locale:

LANG=en_US

LC_CTYPE=en_US

LC_NUMERIC=el_GR

LC_TIME=en_US

LC_COLLATE=en_US

LC_MONETARY=el_GR

LC_MESSAGES=en_US

LC_PAPER=el_GR

LC_NAME=el_GR

LC_ADDRESS=el_GR

LC_TELEPHONE=el_GR

LC_MEASUREMENT=el_GR

LC_IDENTIFICATION=el_GR

LC_ALL=

I tried to configure it only in MCC. What i have to add in xorg.conf or i18n?

Just installed Mandrva 2006 RC2 plus all the updates from Cooker. The only issue i have so far is the Greek language installation. I configure my keyboard to use US English and Greek but i cannot switch to Greek, any ideas pls?

I got the same issue on LE2005 (clean install), any ideas to resolved it? scoopy?

My Sony-Ericcson was a breeze to connect to Linux - using Bluetooth. But you are right, in general phones are a bit iffy.

 

This is because Sony-Ericcson has an established common firmware that is common with all sony-ericcson, nokia, and other mobile phones. Because of a common platform that is used among loads of phones, there is a wide community that has this platform, so development is very likely.

 

Anyone with ITRON OS? :D :P

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Lots of info for SE P series ie P800, P900, P910 and Linux here:

http://www.alfonsomartone.itb.it/pdzrho.html

:)

How can i run konqueror file manager in super user mode in MD 10 OE? I think in MD 9.2 was something like "kde su konqueror" but it"s not working in MD 10 .

I'm not a programmer, but check out the referenced file at line 63, and see if there is more info! Open it in an editor.

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Here"s line 63:

grep { m!^/! } @dir and die "Directory path to parse should be relative";

Im not a programmer too, so further help needed... :)

Got a problem...

My downloaded rpms are in a folder "updates_030904". I try to build the hdlist.cz file with:

[root@smoothwall /]# genhdlist /home/patsio/updates_030904/ ...and i got the following error:

"Directory path to parse should be relative at /usr/bin/genhdlist line 63"

What"s that? Any help pls?

:(

Yes. Navigate to an "updates" folder for version 10 on one of the ftp trees. Download and burn everything in the folder to a cd. Then add that cd to your sources and Mandrake update will use it to automatically find what you have installed and update it.

I use this one

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I"m going to do that cause i also have a slow 56k dial-up at home. So far at work, i"ve downloaded all the rpms from:

http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/mandrake/offi...ates/10.0/RPMS/

Do the list files hdlist.cz and synthesis.hdlist.cz also needed from :

http://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/mandrake/offi...ates/10.0/base/ ?

Think it"s better to burn them (1.1Gb) on a DVR-RW and update it monthly.

I think you need "isolinux", i haven"t tried it out though.

http://syslinux.zytor.com/iso.php

I was wondering if anyone knew of any software that would allow when I start my pc to either select to boot into Linux , Windows ME , Or XP , since they have there own seperate partition. Any software that is free would be a big help

 

thanks again

 

 

:D

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Yeah, it is called GAG, freeware and i use it on my PC at work.

http://gag.sourceforge.net/

:D

3. In fact, there are no plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.6/plugins.

Java (1.4.2_04) and flash plugin are preinstalled. Java is here: /usr/lib/jre-1.4.2_04/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32

To use it with Firefox just make a symlink to your firefox/plugins directory.

And for flash copy ‎/usr/lib/netscape/plugins/flashplayer.xpt

‎/usr/lib/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so files to firefox/plugins :D

I have the 3 iso files of MD 10CE on my harddisk. Is it possible to compile a DVD with these 3 iso"s and use it to install Mandrake on my PC?

rm -f ~/.phoenix

or the phoenix inside ~/.mozilla

oh, of course bkup the bkmrks :unsure:

If you use the latest nightlies, the default settings folder renamed to ./firefox instead of ./phoenix.

Have a look at this one:

http://ebcd.pcministry.com/

You can run Norton Unerase utility from DOS.

3.) Tvcard setup on MDK contrl center problem: clicking on Tvcard setup causes xawtv to be installed. Then, a dialog box "scanning tv channels" pops up, and just hangs there -> Tvcard control center then claims that xawtv isn't installed. After a reboot, I lose all sound. "can't find /dev/mixer" or something to that effect. No eth0 too.

I have exactly the same issue and i haven"t found a solution yet. I posted the problem to the Hardware thread. If you got anything about it ,pls let me know.

Thanks!

No cure with the symlinks u suggested. Things are getting worse, today i rebooted my PC and i lost my network configuration plus the sound, the error msg i got for sound is:

ound server informational message:

Error while initializing the sound driver:

device /dev/dsp can't be opened (Device or resource busy)

The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

I"m getting crazy with this crap called MD 10CE, or it"s a pre-alpha version? :(

i attach also my /etc/modules.conf :

probeall scsi_hostadapter imm ppa

probeall usb-interface usb-uhci

options bttv radio=1 gbuffers=4

alias eth0 3c59x

alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio

Any help is highly appreciated....

Thanks.

@aRTee ??

Now, i have sound in media palyers and no sound in KDE, eg no sound for system notifications... :(