wilcal

Using

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

I've been successful in getting three Linux

OS's and a Linux Swap partition active on one

hard drive. I'm preferring GRUB Text and

GrubEd on Ubuntu as a boot editor.

http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=58261 ( in French )

http://michelro.free.fr/grub/GrubEd.zip

If you want to get really adventurous, and

confused, use

http://www.ranish.com/part/

Unfortunately it only really supports ext2 but you

can get upwards of 32 Operating systems on

the same hard drive. The Ranish Boot manager

is a bit cryptic but lets you pile'em in there.

Once I had nearly a dozen versions of Mandrake

or Mandriva on the same HD. :D

I successfully updated one 2007 platform and installed a second

updating

main

contrib

updates

free

non-free

from

urpmi.addmedia main ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Li...ia/main/release with media_info/hdlist.cz

urpmi.addmedia contrib ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Li...contrib/release with media_info/hdlist.cz

urpmi.addmedia --update updates ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Li...a/main/updates/ with media_info/synthesis.hdlist.cz

urpmi.addmedia plf-free ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux...se/binary/i586/ with hdlist.cz

urpmi.addmedia plf-nonfree ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux...se/binary/i586/ with hdlist.cz

note that in the updates directory synthesis.hdlist.cz works and at least as of this weekend hdlist.cz does not.

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Try synthesis.hdlist.cz on the update mirrors.

Thanks. I'll give that a go this weekend.

Some followup to my previous post:

The repositories for Mandriva 2007

main

contrib

updates

free

non-free

have been pretty unstable since the release.

I been successfull to get the main, contrib,

free and non-free repositories to work but

I have yet to find a working functional updates

repository. Even though you can go to the ftp update

site(s) and review the content they don't seem to work.

I've tried the locations suggested by the MCC, Easy-Urpmi,

Smart_Urpmi and SeaOfSouls and none of the updates mirrors

suggested repositories work.

Even though the Updates repository appears to load

correctly if you attempt to use it here is the

error message I get:

A fatal error occurred: It's impossible to retrieve the list

of new packages from the media 'updates". Ether this

update media is misconfigured, and in this case you

should use the Software Media Manager to remove it and

re-add it in order to reconfigure it, either it is currently

unreachable and you should retry later..

---- end error message ----

So I suspect all of these mirrors are being fed the

same incorrect data and structure. There are not too

many update rpms in the 2007 updates repository so it's

not a big issue right now. But, I would hope that this

rights itself in the next week(s). Here's some I've tried:

ftp://linux.ups-tlse.fr/Mandrakelinux/off...a/main/updates/

ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Li...a/main/updates/

ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrakelinux...a/main/updates/

all with media_info/hdlist.cz

all contain the same files and structure and error out the same way if you

attempt to run an update from the MCC on 2007.

For me my two 2006 boxes have been updating just fine since the first

week of Jan 2006.

IMO Skype has been pretty problemistic on Linux in general. I haven't tried it on 2007 Official yet as I don't need the stress. But, I'll give it a go in the next days.

I got it to work on 2006 but it was a bit of a challange.

The mirrors have been screwed for me too

I got errors too.

Patience is a virtue.

I spent some considerable time last night fiddling

with the new 2007 Official repositories. I see Easy-Urmpi

now has the 2007 Official listed for main, contrib and

updates. In addition to that I was successful in using:

urpmi.addmedia plf-free ftp://ftp.easynet.fr/plf/mandriva/free/2007.0/i586 with hdlist.cz

urpmi.addmedia plf-nonfree ftp://ftp.easynet.fr/plf/mandriva/non-free/2007.0/i586 with hdlist.cz

I'm sure in time all of the respositories will get

up to speed with 2007. I was having some problems with

the updates repositories but I'm sure that'll work

itself out.

FWIW, IMO the Multimedia functions in 2007 are OUTSTANDING!!!

libdvdcss2 and Totem does a wonderful decode and presentation.

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FWIW I have been successful to install both Flash

and Java on Mandriva Cooker 2007 ( sunna 32-bit )

and is operative in the Firefox Browser that is

installed from the Live-CD to a HD.

But, having said that I gave Seamonkey a brief

shot and that didn't recognize either Flash or

Java. So I have some work and understanding to

do there.

Over the weekend I put some considerable time

testing the multimedia Play function of sunna.

Here are the urpmi's I used:

Multimedia

----------

In MCC open Hardware and allow alsa and gstreamer to install

urpmi audacious

urpmi audacious-skins

urpmi avifile-win32

urpmi win32-codecs

urpmi xine-win32

urpmi xine-faad

urpmi xine-plugins

urpmi real-codecs

urpmi xanim

urpmi libdvdcss2

So far everything has Plugged and Played just fine. One of

the machines I am testing on features:

Intel High Def Audio, Azalia (C-Media 9880) (snd-hda-intel)

DVD Playback on this platform results in a 4-channel audio decode

as indicated in the Totem settings. And it sounded that way when

playing a DVD.

Hello :)

 

Have you updated your box already with easyurpmi ( http://www.mandrivausers.org/easyurpmi/index.php )? There was an update for Gaim or one of its libs, IIRC. My cooker runs Gaim without any problems. :)

I'm Gaim too.. :D

Prompted by all the noise swirling around

Gov. Schwarzenegger's computer(s) being hacked into

in your mind what does that mean and what is

your expectation of privacy on your computer(s)?

If your webpage is located at

/home/yourstuff/public_html/index.html

and goes on down through lets say

/home/yourstuff/public_html/index.html/morepages/somemore/more.html

and in the same tree there is say

/home/yourstuff/public_html/specialpages/hidden/index.html

and in the primary tree there are no links into or out of

the primary tree to the "hidden" directories if someone figures

out how to navigate through that is that hacking?

Even though your front door has a lock on it everyone

knows that two quick jiggles clockwise will open your

(locked?) door is that hacking?

Mandrake 9.2 when it was released Apache installed

with the proxy server defaulted open. I had no idea

it was that way until there was lots of traffic through

my server using it as a proxy. Just because it was

set up that way does it make it ok for someone to

casually get into it and use it or copy what's in there?

Try as I might I've not been able to get the

"boot" section of the Mandriva Control Center

to cooperate.........

Repllying to my own post:

http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=25464

How's the speed compared to other releases of Mandriva? Any significent improvement on that area?

I am closely tracking two Beta's.

Mandriva Cooker (now at Mona)

Ubuntu Edgy Eft (now at Knot-2)

I've even been able to dual boot them on the

same HD ( took awhile to work that out ).

I find that both distros are "faster" then

their previous releases and versions. IMO they

are working on "speed" on the Live-CD's such

that when you boot the Live-CD you get to a

working desktop as quick as possible. Once you

get either Distro installed on the HD they

both exhibit "faster" boots to a working desktop

then previous releases and versions.

But, having said that the install time to HD

can be significant. Especially on older computers.

Some really good news is that Mandriva has gone

to the single disk Live-CD as against back versions

that required the complete loading of most of 3 CD's

just to get you going.

As stand alone OS's, one OS, one HD, they boot

a Live-CD quickly to a working desktop then install

reasonably quickly providing you have a fairly

quick machine.

Note: I have ZERO experience using these OS's

where WinBlows presently resides on the HD.

This is more of an inquiry then a "bug" flag.

I've spent a few days toying with getting

Mandriva Cooker Mona RC1 and Ubuntu Edgy Eft Knot-2

to dual boot off the same HD with each other.

Try as I might I've not been able to get the

"boot" section of the Mandriva Control Center

to cooperate. Anytime I put the boot code ( Grub text )

into it the MCC crashes and fails to put the new

code into the Grub text fields. The MCC boot section

will do just fine for itself and create multiple

instances and boots for Mandriva and even older

versons of Ubuntu but refuses to deal with Ubuntu

Edgy Eft Knot-2 or any of the versions of Edgy.

I'm not sure if this is a reportable bug or something

that just has not been put into MCC Boot yet.

FWIW doing the reverse.

Create 4 HD partitions with

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

creating ext3 (sda1, sda2, sda3, linux-swap)

Install Mandriva Mona RC1 to sda1 let it intall

GRUB text. Then install Ubuntu Edgy Eft Knot-2

( latest release ) into sda2. Let Eft install its GRUB

text and it will recognize the existance of Mona on sda1

and make the necessary adjustments in the GRUB code.

You will now be able to dual boot from GRUB and select

either Mona or Eft and that works fine.

Another interesting tool is:

GrubEd

http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=58261

(in French)

which can be installed on Eft and makes it very easy

to edit and save GRUB anyway you wish. GrubEd works

wonderfully well on Eft allowing you to create GRUB

boot menus for dual booting between these two Beta

OS's. Do note that GrubEd does not work at all on

Mona.

Comments are appreciated.

wilcal

I had a few minutes last night to bring up

Tyr ( latest 2007 Cooker ). I tinkered a little

with the AIGLX and Xgl 3D thingy. I was wondering

if anyone else had the opportunity to play with it?

You can select in the setup to turn it off and

that's kinda where I ended up.

I'm just passing on the suggestion that

everyone backup your critical data and

configuration before applying the latest

xorg updates to your Mandriva 2006 system(s).

Earlier this week Ubuntu went through

cardiac arrest when their update put xorg

out of action. I've just updated my two

Mandriva 2006 systems and on one of them the

xorg, after the latest update, failed to open.

That leaves you with no GUI and at the command

line.

I do a mirror image copy

partition a -> partition b (backup)

and needed that when xorg didn't open.

All seems fine now. Just be cautious.

Maybe some folks here can post that that've

applied the xorg updates to their systems

without any problems.

Thanks

you can type something like:

 

linux vesa

 

or vga or something to limit the graphics capabilities.

It's running for me now

What worked was:

live vga=1024x768

I found another little wrinkle in there in that

when asked to set up the time there are two

tick boxes and if you don't tick either it crashes.

The Evolution 3D effects are great. I've already

found a couple more wrinkles and will be in

Bugzilla with those. I was able to successfully

install it to a HD and successfully used the

native partition mananger to set up Swap and

ext3 partitions. And that to a HD that was

completely Zero's.

More to come I'm sure.

One is soooooooooo much easier to deal with

then the old 3 disk stack.

From what I remember, if you press F1 at the main screen, you can type something like:

 

linux vesa

 

or vga or something to limit the graphics capabilities. You'd have to check the options available on the CD for sure, but they are there. Or at least on a 2006 install CD.

Kool....thanks bunches....I'll give that a try.

Or at least on a 2006 install CD.

If you remember the 2006 Cooker was a 3-disk set so lots of room for

stuff like video drivers. I'm sure as we get along here they'll build them

into "One" or build something in there to download specific drivers.

I am still sold on this single Live-CD as against the 3, 4 or even 5 disk

set. Same as Ubuntu is doing.

Following my post in

Cooker-snapshot of MDV 2007 available

It appears that the initial two releases of

2007 are still short on video drivers. Specifically

for ATI and Intel. Seems to me this was the case

in the first releases I saw in 2006 in July 05.

It took several releases to get all that in there.

So when I boot

mandriva-one-2007-thor-gnome.i586.iso

mandriva-one-2007-odin-gnome.i586.iso

It goes through the normal process and screens

till it gets to the Y/N GMT time then disconnects

from the terminal ( no video driver? ).

I've seen some posts in qa.mandriva.com that refer

to all of this. :-((

Unfortunately both of my test platforms use either

ATI or Intel embedded video boards. Is there any way in

the boot sequence for these early snapshots to tell

it to just use a generic 1024x960, 800x600 or something?

Or I'll just have to wait for the next release and see.

Both of my test platforms run 2006, 2005 LE and even

older versions of Mandriva/Mandrake just fine. I use

removable modular hard drives.

Thanks

are you asking a question or just making a comment? if you have a question i'd suggest starting another thread ;)

I think both at this time. This things only been in the street 24hrs so who knows what

works and what does not. If memory serves me right the Gnome version of 2006 when

it first came out was totally broken. I'm just asking if anyone else has experianced the same.

I'll give the KDE version ( usually a little further along ) a go in the next day or so.

FWIW I like the one CD version as against the 3-CD's as it's been in the past.

I tried the new snapshot:

mandriva-one-2007-thor-gnome.i586.iso

on these two machines and neither would come up.

Truman - Test System

--------------------

Intel, P4 530J 3.0 GHz, 800MHz FSB, 1MB L2, LGA 775

GigaByte GA-8I915G Pro" i915G

Marvel Yukon 88E8001 Gigabit LAN

Intel High Def Audio, Azalia (C-Media 9880)

Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900 (on Intel 915)

Kingston 1G(512MBx2) DDR400 PC-3200

Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6B080M0 80GB 200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA

KingWin SATA HD Rack/Tray subsystem

Sony CD/DVD-RW DW-D26A

P600 - Test System

------------------

Pentium III (Coppermine), 600Mhz, 256Kb Cache

440BX MoBo

DIMM1 128MB, DIMM2 128MB = 256MB

ATI Rage 128 GL AGP 1x/2x 32MB All-In-Wonder TV Tune/out

SoundBlaster Live (snd-emu10k1 driver)

USB Intel 82371AB PIIX4

D-Link DFE 530 TX+ Fast Ethernet

DVD-ROM (hda) Hitachi DVD-ROM GD-2500

CD-RW (hdb) Sony CRX140E

Floppy 1.44MB

KingWin HD Rack/Tray subsystem (Multiple HD's)

Boot Sequence - Floppy -> DVD-ROM -> HD

Seems to get through the initial sceens the last

being the Y/N GMT time then disconnects from the terminal.

Are the video (frame buffer) drivers not in this thing?

Is there away to dumb it down to a simple 1024x764 generic

driver? Maybe I should try the KDE version.

FWIW both of these machines run 2006.0, 2005 LE, 10.1, 9.2

and so on and so forth just fine. The ISO burn is verified

and just fine.

Thanks

Every day I run a rather elaborate calculation

of what has rolled through my server as legit

communication and check that with whatever

the log files report. I use

http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/

to keep track of the httpd traffic then take

all of the individual users traffic reported by

webalizer and compare that to the overall traffic

through all of the individual users. That should

balance but it never does. There's always some

undefinable traffic that usually measures in

the .05% range. If you look at all the logs in the

/var/log/

directories look for errors. I am especially

viligant about unsuccessful attempted log in's.

Sometimes they are automated sometimes not.

Sometimes I see lots of errors in there one

right after the other in only seconds period

of time.

When Mandrake 9.2 was released it defaulted

to an open proxy would eventually will be

found and your new Mandrake 9.2 server used

by everyone in the world. I saw my undefined

traffic at that time go from the under 0.05%

to over 20% in just a couple days before

I discovered the open proxy. Once I turned

it off undefined traffic went under 0.05% again.

If you are running a server lets say at:

http://65.234.834.75

that top level address is gonna get pinged

over and over especially by the Search engine

BOTS. That can be sensed as undefined traffic.

Mandriva 2006.0 is pretty clean. I've never

had someone crack into it and the undefined

traffic "noise" continues to remain under 0.05%.

On a typical month I can handle about 20GB of

traffic.

Could someone direct me to a location that lists

the meaning of the codes in the (Proftpd) ftp.log

file codes. As in the following:

66.181.4.186 UNKNOWN nobody [13/Jun/2006:09:07:27 -0700] "USER wilcal" 331 -

66.181.4.186 UNKNOWN wilcal [13/Jun/2006:09:07:28 -0700] "PASS (hidden)" 230 -

66.181.4.186 UNKNOWN wilcal [13/Jun/2006:16:07:28 +0000] "SYST" 215 -

66.181.4.186 UNKNOWN wilcal [13/Jun/2006:16:07:28 +0000] "TYPE I" 200 -

....

....

82.249.173.80 UNKNOWN nobody [15/Jun/2006:04:23:08 -0700] "USER anonymous" 331 -

82.249.173.80 UNKNOWN nobody [15/Jun/2006:04:23:09 -0700] "PASS (hidden)" 530 -

Codes: 331, 230, 215, 200, 530 ( I think means error )

Thanks

Does anyone know of a "Hot Key" to the Gnome

screensaver. That being able to do the Hot Key

instead of waiting till the preset time?

Thanks

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Is there anything as easy and functional as Mandriva's diskdrake?

http://www.killdisk.com

http://www.ranish.com/part/

Killdisk to wipe it completely to "0"s then

the Ranish Partition Manager to rough out the

MBR of the disk. So far Diskdrake has been totally

friendly with Ranish and I've been able to create,

just for fun, upwards of 30 seperate and discrete

unique partitions on a disk. You can then, using

first Ranish to designate one of those partitions

as "Bootable" then install Mandriva to it using

Diskdrake ( Use Existing Partition ).

One of the best parts of this process is to create

two absolutely identical partitions lets say two

60GB partitions on a 160GB drive that mirror one

to the other. I then once a week mirror copy the

working partition to the mirrored partition. Now

the mirror ( inactive ) has an exact working copy

of the working partition. If at any time I blow up

my Mandriva working partition, and I do do that

on occation, Ranish allows me to bit copy the

mirror back to the working and I'm up and running

again happy and free. This process has saved my

butt more then once.