K Bergen

Use Ubuntu 7 then... even if it doesn't exist (and it doesn't).

If you want help, then report with some degree of accuracy. Else, posts about having success with a non-existing Linux distro will not help anyone- including you, and the potential gurus here.

If you have nothing useful to contribute then please don't.

@anirudh As I said I'm really out of my depth here, we'll just have to wait for someone with more knowledge to respond.

Ken

Someone please reply for that

XFdrake

as root, then try startx again, I'm not to hopeful with the framebuffer error.

Another thing, you asked about md5sums and someone gave you a link.

Did you check the sum of the download and more important of the burnt CD?

A bad download or burn can cause all sorts of strange problems.

Ken

can u people tell me how to calculate md5 hash given a particular iso file

Ken

I didn't install mandriva till now.... this things are happening when I boot with mandriva disc

and root will also have no password.

And despite the warnings about running a GUI as root (well founded) there is no danger in doing so from a Live CD.

Ken

Is it different with One? I know I installed it a while ago, but can't remember whether I added a user during installation or not, or even set the root password. Maybe I'm going mad :)

It's been a few years for me too. The One installer just dumps the running system to the hard drive so you end up with a guest account with no password.

I can't remember if you have an opportunity to set the root password or add a user but the user guest will be there.

Ken

When you installed you will have set a username and password to use, as well as the password for root. So you can use your standard username that you set up, or if you really must, you can use the root one, but I wouldn't advise you do this, simply because it's bad practice and not good to run an environment as root. For testing and debugging, it would be OK for temporary usage.

The default user with a One install is guest with no password.

I'm not sure about root.

Ken

Unless it's imperative that the stick is auto mounted, comment out or remove the entry for it in /etc/fstab.

Then when you plug it in you should get a pop up allowing you to mount and open it in Dolphin with user read write privileges.

Ken

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=zuuV_W_5wbg

This is what happens when i boot using mandriva....

please watch the video and assessmy condition

Login there and use

startx

to try and start the desktop.

Report any errors you get if it doesn't start.

Ken

I still think urpmi should consider downgrades, but by design it will never, and that it does not makes upgrading, especially with 3rd party packages present tricky...

Simply put, it repackages and saves your old RPM before upgrading so that you can revert to it even if it no longer exists on the mirrors or other media that you have.

It's a great idea and probably what your looking for.

Ken

Edit: It does save your old RPMs when upgrading from the GUI, it's only the setup and recovery that is CLI only.

while i've got ur attention, any idea why kdiskfree looks like this? is it normal?

Ken

If it's not showing then your repositories are not setup correctly, try adding them again.

Ken

pasting the uuid from blkid into fstab worked. thanks for the help.

Ken

just do blkid without any parameters and it will list all drives

Ken

i was logged at root at konsole. if i wasn't wouldn't i get a command not found error? the command doesn't return anything. just drops to the prompt. no i don't share the swap partition. i just noticed that under kdiskfree, the partitions are listed as dev/sda* not sdc*. could this be the problem?

output from blkid

[root@localhost ~]# blkid /dev/sda5

/dev/sda5: TYPE="swap" UUID="163c7144-e2a4-4065-8ae4-ee60b6e15cc5"

It should be easy to edit fstab now.

It isn't mandatory to change the dev name in fstab only the UUID but wouldn't hurt.

Ken

blkid command doesn't return anything.

It's strange that diskdrake is not rewriting fstab when you delete and recreate the swap, possibly a bug.

There is probably a command to get the information you need out of /dev/disk/by-uuid but I don't know it.

As the only way to copy the UUID from diskdrake is pen and paper then manually enter it in fstab which would be pron to mistakes, you could try blkid again.

This time try

blkid /dev/sdc7

it should return something like this

/dev/sdc1: TYPE="swap" UUID="d0c1d6ae-d00f-4273-ad85-a2625d2a12f1"

Once you've found the swap it should be easy to change the UUID in fstab using copy and paste and an editor.

@ ffi, if he wasn't root he would have got "command not found" not nothing.

Ken

Does the out put of

blkid /dev/sdc5

match the entry in fstab?

Ken

It sound like the swap entry is not getting written to fstab.

Please post the contents of your /etc/fstab file.

Ken

# Entry for /dev/sdb1 :

UUID=63dda21d-eaff-45db-96fb-beab40b36404 /sdb1 ext3 defaults 1 2[/b]

Ken

The first one is easy, K3b can do it.

Just use the copy DVD tool, it will write an image to the hard drive then it will open the tray and ask you to insert a blank DVD.

The second one, I have no idea.

Ken

First welcome.

Second we need to know how you connect to the internet. Dialup modem, ADSL etc before we can help.

Ken

noauto, would be the culprit. :D

Ken

I don't use Windows so can't really tell you how to burn the downloaded image other that say it must be burnt as an image not a file.

But I can say (484,416KB) for the Mandriva ONE 2009 KDE4 int cdrom i586 iso wrong, it should be just over 702MB (736,574,392B).

Ken

Compulsory, yet free and no link to a download?

I'm guessing that a visit to the local KGB office will get me a copy on a floppy.

Ken

As I said install kernel-desktop-latest, as root

urpmi kernel-desktop-latest

That will fix things.

Ken

kernel-desktop586-2.6.27.4-2mnb-1-1mnb2

looks like a 2009.0 kernel, can you not boot that?

Also you installed from the live CD so you have the desktop586 kernel which only sees 880MBs of your RAM so you should install kernel-desktop-latest which will pull in the latest desktop kernel that will see all your Ram.

Ken