K Bergen
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Having a bootable Gparted Disk is always nice but what I was saying was to install itHi, Ken.
I have followed your advice and downloaded Gparted and burnt it to Disk. So now I have got it should I need it again in the near future.
Cheers. John.
urpmi gparted
then it is right there when you need to work on a removable or unmountable drive or partition without the need to reboot.
Ken
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John,This is one application that together with Filelight and OpenShot Video, Will be regularly installed on all my OSs in future.
Cheers. John.
You might want to add gparted to that list as you only need the bootable CD if you need to work on system partitions. Anything you can unmount gparted can handle from within a running system.
Ken
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That sounds about right as 2GB at the brochure is in the real world 2,000,000,000 bytes which translates to 1.862645GB.What I found as a result of this recovery was that the total was 1.9Gb and the card is rated as 2.0Gb but is detected by the system as Approx.1.9Gb so I am wondering if that has caused a jamup of some kind. I also found that 26 files (about 308Mb) from a shoot back in Sept2008 were still on the card even though I am pretty sure I had deleted them. I have used the card numerous times since 2008 and would have normally picked that up because I download the folder rather than the individual pics. Very strange indeed.
Yes TestDisk/Photorec is an amazing tool, it doesn't look at the partition table which in your case was corrupt but goes straight to the partition and finds the files and it is not surprising that it found deleted files as when you delete a file you just remove its location from the partition table.
As far as resurrecting the card goes if the camera can't do it you could try gparted as the Mandriva tool "diskdrake" doesn't seem to see any cards inserted in the reader. I've never tried that but its worth a try.
Ken
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Welcome to the forum goregrinder.
You shouldn't have to do anything as battery charging is usually handled by the hardware.
You don't even have to turn the Netbook on, just plug in the power cord and the battery will charge.
Ken
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@SilverSurfer60 In my ten years of using Mandrake/Mandriva I have never seen an option in grub to boot single user mode.
@Trio3b Just remember that if the BIOS is password protected no one came boot the machine without that password short of opening the case and removing the backup battery to clear the BIOS.
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The best protection would be to encrypt the file systems and use a BIOS password but in a business environment that would require someone with the passwords to be on site at all times just in case.
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Unless things have changed if you boot single you are root without giving a password.If I remember correctly, if you boot single user mode, it will ask you for the maintenance (root) password, or CTRL-D to reboot the system. At least, this is what I think, I've not done it for a while to be 100% sure of it.
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Without spam we'd have to eat real ham.And Windows-only, you nincompoop.
Ken
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That's what I thought but I wasn't sure. :huh:Certainly /root has a finite size as set up originally but /user in root can increase to what it needs within the total /root partition and is limited only to the available space in /root. Hence no wasted space in /usr. :-)
One thing I would suggest is to not refer to / as /root, /root is the system administrator's home directory and your nomenclature could confuse new users and create problems for them.
Ken
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I'm not sure what you mean by that. :unsure: If you don't create a separate /usr it is contained within / and / has a finite size.A /usr is automatically created and increases in size as it needs to.One thing I will do when/if I reinstall is to make a small 2GB? partition for /opt so that I can install third party applications there and not lose them when I re-install.
Ken
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After running XFdrake tryIs it that I need to hit something after adjusting XFdrake to make the settings active? (After adjusting XFdrake and quitting I simply hit Cntrl-Alt-F7.)Thanks!
service dm restart
as root to reset the display manager to the new configuration.
Ken
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Yes a weak power supply can cause mayhem.
I had two hard drives that I thought were gone, one would just hammer the drive head the other would work for a day or so then totally disappear from the system.
A new power supply fixed both of them.
Ken
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I did that awhile ago and the system found the new card on the next boot and setup the drivers for it then booted into X11.
I have since reinstalled the Nvidia card as the ATI/Radeon drivers for older AGP cards are even worse than those for Nvidia cards.
Ken
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More important for the initial installation is the non-free repository which is included on the PWP DVD but not on the Free DVD.
That's where the installer finds the non Open Source drivers for some hardware.
If you install from the Free DVD you can specify the non-free ftp repository as an additional source making the install go as easily as a PWP install.
That said buying the PWP to support Mandriva is not a bad thing. :)
Ken
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I'm not sure how ramdisk_size= counts, bits ,bytes ,kilobits etc but an entry of ramdisk_size=700000 works on my laptop with only 512MB of ram.
As I said I've not used PXE but as no one else has come up with an answer for you I added my 2 cents worth.
Ken
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I've never done a PXE install but I've done many network installs using a grub entry.
You could try renaming the .rdz file to something like 2010-0.rdz and make the appropriate changes to your menu.
Also after the root=/dev/ram0 add ramdisk_size=700000 and put the initrd entry on a separate line.
Just some thoughts.
Ken
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If you add
{ post-clean: 0 }to the top of your /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg file the downloads will be saved in /var/cache/urpmi/rpms .
Ken
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Try a small computer repair shop, most of them have used parts for sale cheap.I can't find anyplace around here to buy a cheap NIC off the shelf.
Ken
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Or you can use dd to write the boot.iso to a small USB stick.
Ken
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I'm not sure what you were expecting.
I checked the PCLinuxOS web site and all I found was seven live CDs varying only in the desktop environment and as far as I could see all 32bit.
Mandriva offers two Free DVDs one 32bit and one 64bit and as you found the Dual Architecture CD.
For live CDs Mandriva offers 3 Gnome and 4 KDE CDs in order to cover as many languages as possible and still include as many programs as possible.
For Live CDs in different Desktops and architectures check
I see
One 64 Community 2010 0 KDE 4
One 64 Community 2010 0 GNOME
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mandriva linux 2010 0 mud lxde edition V2
These are built by the community to add to what Mandriva has nether the time or money for.
Ken
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It sounds like a DNS issue.
The default with Mandriva is to use the gateway as the Domain Name Server.
The last version of Mandriva that it worked for me was 2008.1, in newer versions I've had to manually set a DNS address.
I found three DNS addresses for Spain
195.53.125.141
195.53.204.139
217.15.32.2
Ken
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Correct but if you have a 64 bit processor you can over ride the default and install a 32 bit system.I can only think that the dual arch release means it has the 32 bit and 64 bit version on the same disk that detects which one to install. But I could be wrong.
It's also light weight, no KDE or Gnome desktop just LXDE and doesn't dump all kinds of garbage to your hard drive like the One CD does.
It's great for older/slow systems and those that only have a CD drive not DVD and can't boot from USB.
Ken
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GnuCash might not be on the DVD but it is in the online repositories.Hi,
I have been using kubuntu for over a year. Release 9.04 had too many problems for me. So, I've switched to Mandriva Power Pack 2010. I did a completely new install of Mandriva onto my Sony Vaio laptop. I also have a Windows partition. I've had no problems with the installation.
Over the past year, while using kubuntu, I tried kmymoney. I could not get it to reconcile my accounts properly. I loaded GnuCash from the kubuntu repositories and it worked great for me.
I've tried finding GnuCash using the "Install & Remove Software" routine. I've searched for GnuCash. I get "No results" in the results window.
I believe this is different from the earlier post in that I am not updating a previous edition of Mandriva, rather this is a brand new installation.
I like the KDE environment and I know that GnuCash is gnome program. GnuCash has worked for me and I've got my accounts saved currently on a flash drive. I'd like to get back to using it. Any help would be appreciated.
I'm still a newbie when it comes to using commands. If you wish me to run commands, please help me by being specific. Assume I know nothing.
Thanks for the help and feedback!
Alan
If you haven't set them up go to http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and follow the prompts to set them up.
You'll need at least
Main
Main Updates
Contrib
Contrib Updates
Non-Free
Non-Free Updates
Backports, Testing and PLF are optional.
Ken
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Your not making any sense Fred.Could well be -- have indeed twice used DVD+R and both times also performed the MD5sum check Ken mentioned earlier --with as outcome
that ISO couldn't be read// seems thus indeed a difference between using -R versus +R.
At this point the md5sum check is about the ISO file you downloaded not the DVD you burnt.
Once you verify that the ISO is correct or not we'll look at the DVD but one step at a time.
Ken
usb stick on two linux machines [solved]
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You didn't say what file system the stick is formated as.
If it's vfat then whoever mounts it had full rwx permissions to all files as Windows file systems don't use or understand Unix permissions.
If it's a Linux file system you could change the group for all the files you wish to share to something like "usbsticks" with rw- permissions then create that group on both computers and add that group to the all users you want to have access to the stick.