The Berr

This through Linux Spring and Firefox.

Greg many thanks for all your support, can you recommend any books that deal with Mandriva as the one in the store is French only. Maybe I should try to learn a little about what I am doing.

Best regards

Berr

Hi Gregg, I have downloaded and made the bootable CD and it appears to be working, bear with me as I attempt to reconfigure..back soon!

System comprises MSI K9A2 Platinum MoBo and AMD Phenom processor, 4gig Geill Ram, 2x Western Digital 400 gig HDs and xfx 9600 GTS with 512 meg graphics. DVD is Sony NEC Optiarc AD 7200 dual layer 20x SATA. I purchased Powerpack 2008 in February, but it would not recognise the Graphics card so could only get vga type graphics. Some time in June (not at home machine so cant check) I bought Spring edition which I downloaded as an iso (64 bit version). Copied this to DVD and installed it successfully first time. I cannot remember whether I did a clean install or not. Every couple of weeks or so I check for updates and select all to be downloaded - even though I have no idea what most are about. Last attempt to download gave an error message when trying to install the packages and that is where I remain for the moment.

Hey Viking. thanks for that, but I am trying to follow the thread that Greg is on so can we wait till he responds

That's probably what happened jkerr. I didn't think of that, thanks!

He may have unwittingly copied the contents to the hd during install but only if prompted. Walkman unplugged and tried again but hangs at same place. Copies of screen attached.

So how does on do fdisk using Linux or is there a more complicated way to clear partitions.

Screen shots

I don't believe they're that large, are they? :)

 

tyme beat me to it. :P

Greg tried to reinstal but got this screen

4 Gig

4gig

Do you have two HDD?

Yes sorry I do have two hard drives, one runs MS stuff and the other is reserved to teach me how to kick the habit

Hi liquidzoo, I originally had a paid for version of 2008 but it wouldnt recognise my graphics card so after much frustration I accepted the hype and bought the Spring update. I just let it load itself, so whatever partitions are there were created by Spring or the earlier 2008.

attached screen of your instruction set.

Hi Greg, ran df with attached result. Obviously need to repartition or something

Seems like my suggestion was maybe correct even though ignored. :D

 

Cheers. John.

G'day John, sorry I was not ignoring you but I am a Newbie and find one line instructions much easier to follow. Also had no idea what you were referring to. I am a PC man familiar with DOS but no experience of any programming whatsoever.

I find Linux very frustrating as I do not know how to format or fdisk a disk and would welcome your thoughts on a book which explains this in simple terms especially if it specifies Mandriva or Mandrake.

So I was not being a grumpy Jock though I can be especially when nothing works for me...

OK, it looks like the problem is /var, it's 4.4GB! It's probably log files caused by another problem somewhere.

So (as root) do

cd /var/log; rm messages syslog

then try to reboot with

shutdown -F -r now

and we'll go from there. Let us know what happens?

Tried what you said but still would not load so ran instruction and screen attached

Click on 'My Controls' (at the top of the forum) > 'Manage Your Attachments' > select and delete something. :)

Third time lucky. Hope this works, may have scrolled through one screen but this is final text

Click on 'My Controls' (at the top of the forum) > 'Manage Your Attachments' > select and delete something. :)

Thanks Greg, just beat you to it so here is screen though there may be at least one which has scrolled through.

Followed your instructions Greg. Machine went through a few steps and shutdown. Photo on reboot attached.

REalised that you meant use the instruction with the backticks but cant now post the screenshot as I have used up my allocated memory and dont know how to delete existing images. However the screen looked much simpler

Followed your instructions Greg. Machine went through a few steps and shutdown. Photo on reboot attached.

The `ls` are backticks not single quotes. It's on the tilde key in the US. :)

Sorry Greg, never even knew there was a tild key. I think I have identified it above the tab key but now my problem is I have lost the console.

Hi Viking, did as you instructed but now have a different problem, not worked out yet how to attach pics. Think the attachment was accepted so see what it says

If you could log in as root and post the output of

cd /; du -sh `ls`

for us to see, it would really help. You may have to take a pic of your screen with a camera or cellphone for us to see the output.

Hi Greg, I got the camera ready, logged in as root, but alas, after I typed in the instruction I got

du: cannot access'ls': No such file or directory

Hi medo

When I try what you suggest I get the message

Temp directory (/tmp) is out of disk space

KDE is unable to start

Then after I click OK a small panel says

could not start ksm server

Disk is 400GB dedicated to Mandriva Spring so not sure what the problem is

After several weeks away, I downloaded the latest updates but when they loaded, I gor an error message and now when I try to boot I can only get a console but no Desktop.

Error message reads

Error setting up inter-process communications for KDE.

The mmessage returned by the system was: Could not read network communication list.

/home/cooperman/.DCOPserver_localhost_0

please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!

So what does that mean, and how can I fix it being a numpty and a newbie

Thanks Nexus, that was a very useful link, I have a few things to try now. Much Obliged.

My computers will boot from a usb device, what I need to know is how do I put the Mandriva which is on a DVD on to the usb drive using linux because although it sees the drive I need, I cant follow the installation which is new to me.