polemicz

synaptic is the gui package management program, apt is the cli.

Follow Arctic's advice. It works, I've done it.

My guess is that your problem is because you're trying to upgrade a Mandriva package with another one. You may do best if you completely uninstall the Mandriva package, including taglib, etc. The do your install with the source you want.

How are you trying to update?

As someone who has played with Ubuntu and Kubuntu I always end up staying with Mandriva. 2006 has been very solid for me and its configuration tools are superior to anything on Ubuntu/Kubuntu. If you do decide to put up Ubuntu/Kubuntu beware that the default uid for users differs from Mandriva's, so your /home will belong to someone other than the first user you set up in the new system.

For urpmi you ned to use cooker to update, otherwise download the isos and burn them. Then boot from the first and when it asks choose an upgrade. But remember that in order to update packages you will need to use the cooker packages. You can be sure that the beta will be buggy and you will have to keep it current.

When I put 2006 on my systems one of them had its graphics totally screwed up. There are problems with the version of xorg in 2006 for ati and nividia. If you have the nvidia drivers you could boot into failsafe and install the drivers and edit your xorg.conf (all you will need to do is change nv to nvidia in the device section. If it is an older card you will want to use one of the older drivers. In my case the 7676 driver would not work so I used the 7174 driver. There should be no differences between the xorg.conf file in 10 and 2006. Make sure you have the correct kernel source package installed. Since 2006 was released there has been an updated kernel.

I think I'll do the rest with a live cd, sounds like a good opportunity to try kanotix.

Thanks, pmpatrick. I had done the home switch (using cp -ax, the option -a is the same as -pdR by the way). I hadn't thought of a live cd, but will for /usr. My main question, which probably wasn't expressed too clearly, is about how the cp command can fill up my / partition. I assume there is an intermediate step from partition a to partition b that uses space in what was my / partition. I assumed it was /tmp, but I have no idea whether that is true. So my thought is cp a b involves a->intermediate->b, but I don't know what intermediate is. I do know that in my case it ate up all the available space in /.

Thanks. There are two reasons I chose to use cp: 1) I like to be sure everything is fine in the destination without losing the source so I want both, being conservative and maybe too much so, and most important 2) I'm setting up new /usr and /home partitions and while I'm logged in I need to work with the original ones. If I do it in failsafe I don't have to worry about /home and can edit /etc/fstab, but if /usr goes elsewhere what? I don't understand that one.

As some may have seen in another post in software I had a problem copying my home directory to another partition as part of a reorganizing my hd. Using cp -ax my system came to a halt as my / partition completely filled up. Specifically I cd'd to /home (Ihave four users there) and ran cp -ax * /newhome (newhome is the partition I am going to use for /home.

My question is how does cp work? I got out of my mess by using a blank section of my hd and booting in failsafe. There I used drakconf to set up partitions for /var and /tmp and drakconf blessedly moved everything from the /var and /tmp directories in my / partition. I have no idea how drakconf partitioning goes about moving things that is different than the cp command. I should add that after / filled up rebooting did not clear up any space.

As I still have a bit of moving around of files I'm worried that I will again have this problem. If /tmp is the problem my giving it its own partition may help.

Any help would be appreciated.

Luckily I had an extra unused area of my hd. I had to work from failsafe and used drakconf to set up new /var and /tmp partitions. So all is well now.

The problem remains as to what happens when copying large files, whether with cp or using Konq to drag and drop. Because I was able to copy the files to the new partitions in failsafe (actually drakconf moved them) I wonder if when working as a regular user in X creates potential problems.

I, like many folks I'm sure, have limited hd space and have run a tight / and /usr partition scheme. I wish I had a nice big hd, but my old bios only sees 33.8 GB per drive and I have two drives totalling 35GB. For space I had to remove my Debian setup which led to the moving things around. I still have moving to do so I'm concerned how the system actually does it.

At least I think it's a problem. I recently set up a new partition and was moving a lot of data to it and soon found my / partition full (using cp -ax command). Looking into it I found that /sys/devices/pci0000:00 was using over 209 MB of space. I have no idea how to clean this up. I did check another system of mine that also had a large amt of space (79MB) there. I'm simply out of space in / as a result of the copy and am stuck with no idea where it went, no obvious culprits. Just to get some breathing room I'm thinking of getting rid of logs. Any and all help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I don't recall which firefox came with 10.0, but all the firefox releases from 1.0.2 - 1.0.7 only contain security patches that are handled by the Mandriva updates. I would also recommend 1.5. It is not so hard to set up by merely following the firefox instructions.

Is THINKPAD the name of your Linux box?

One problem I once ran into was when I had a computer with the same name as a user: totally freaked out Windows.

Rather than worrying about too much, such as shares other than the printer, will Windows, as a member of myworkgroup see the printer when you try to add the printer? Printers are so much easier to set up than other shares.

My smb.conf file is pretty simple, similar to yours with a couple of exceptions. For server string I have my linux box name and for domain master I have auto. Unfortunatley I'm no Samba expert, but have had very few problems and never with sharing a Linux based printer (had with printers on a Windows system).

You amy also want to run the following command: smbclient -L <name of Win98 box> (brackets are mine), i.e for me smbclient -L laptop where laptop is the name of my Win2000 system. That will let you know if Linux is seeing Windows via Samba and will show what is being shared.

But please let us know what happens when you try to add the printer.

Hang in there.

What happens on the Win98 box when you try to add the printer you have set up on Linux? As I recall Win98 did not have much as far as networking and Win ME had the first MS networking tools, but it's been a long time since I used these. I do know that my one MS system, Windows 2000, easily finds my Linux printer.

So right now if I were you I would be looking at the Windows side of things. As that is your only printer I'd make sure the networked printer is the only one that exists in Win98. Jingling around in the back of my head is a memory of my ex-wife having trouble networking her Win98 system with a Win2000 system.

Regarding workgroups that you can set via MCC. Mandriva defaults that MDKGROUP thing.

Anyway, check back with the Win98 add printer routine. Good luck.

When you are on the Windows machine can you see the printer on Linux when you go to the add printer menu? I'm assuming each system is part of the same workgroup. Your scedule sounds pretty daunting! You also may want to go through the file and printer sharing routine in MCC --> Sharing, for what you want that may be the simplest "setting up samba" route. For just sharing a printer you don't have to worry about samba users, etc. Hope this helps and that you get some good rest. Good luck.

Seems pretty odd. I have 2006 and use Gimp to edit photos, including jpg's. How did you install 2006? Clean?Update from ?

Do a clean install of 2005 or 2006. There have been grumblings about 2006 stability, but I have found it to be very stable and much more responsive than previous versions.

You may have a bad burn, I assume you checked the md5sums. If you burn at too high a speed (over 4x) or use bad media you will run into such problems. But two hours! The other possibility is your cd drive.

You will need to install samba and set the printer to be shared, can be done via MCC in the sharing menu, set up printer and file sharing, etc. To share a printer you don't need much set up on the linuz side. On the Windows side you will need to add a new printer, the shared network printer of Linux. You will need to install the printers Windows drivers, but Windows will ask you for those.

The Samba set up from Swat, what I have used is pretty simple and you really only need the defaults in the global section, save setting the workgroup name. If you have your printer working properly in Linux and set to be shared (this can be done from MCC) Windows should find it. You do have to "add" the printer in Windows. You will need, if I recall correctly, to install the printer drivers in Windows, but when you add the printer Windows should prompt you for the driver. My only experience with this has been hooking up a Windows 2000 and XP box to my Linux box printer.

Questions: is the Linux printer working correctly on Linux? is the Linux printer set to be shared and is your workgroup on Linux the one Windows is on? when you went to add the Linux printer on Windows (Add Printer menu) what happened?

My 16 year old son has now completely switched to Linux, having completely wiped Windows off his system. What held him back was music, he used iTunes on his Windows machine, but after getting into Amarok he is happy. He raves about the stability, not worrying about all sorts of junk messing his sytem up and states that his 2006 runs faster than his old XP system ran (same hardware).

Linus has always disliked Gnome and let it be known that he thinks KDE is superior. The tone in his piece on the Gnome board is very petty and in poor taste. He could have said what he doesn't like about the print menu and left it at that, but he childishly had to put in that bit about just using KDE. Personally I have tried Gnome, but have never been able to like it, so I continue to use KDE and from time to time login to Gnome.

How about trying to uninstall OO and Kghostview? Then reinstall.