wilcal

Clean install of Mandriva LE 2005. Apache2 & Webmin work local but not from the LAN. Mandriva LE 2005 is at IP 192.168.0.4 Apache2 local http://localhost/ (works) http://localhost/~mysite/ (works) https://127.0.0.1/~mysite/ (works) http://192.168.0.4/~mysite/ (works) from any another computer on the LAN http://192.168.0.4/~mysite/ (no connect) Webmin https://localhost:10000/ (works) https://127.0.0.1:10000/ (works) https://192.168.0.4:10000/ (works) from any another computer on the LAN https://192.168.0.4:10000/ (no connect) There are two other computers on the LAN at 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.3 192.168.0.3 is a Mandrake 9.2 Apachie server that works fine. Webmin works fine on it too. Thanks for any hints [moved from Software by spinynorman]

I have a successful load of Mandriva LE 2005 using three disks. But, after Gnome comes up it no longer sees the CD/DVD drive. The Mandrake Control Center sees no CD/DVD Burner. There is no CD-ROM icon on the desktop. Loading of any kind of disk results in nothing. Running SU in Terminal: cdrecord -scanbus results in: scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'SONY ' 'DVD RW DW-D26A ' 'JYS1' Removable CD-ROM cdrecord seems to be fine and running in su mode floppy works fine and I can see, and copy files off and on a floppy in the Gnome environment. fstab looks like this: # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/sda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0022,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 I do not see a /dev/cdroms directory there is a mnt/cdrom directory, nothing in it Did I miss something in the config set up? Thanks for any hints

Success. I burned CD1 at 4x instead of 8x and I've been able to load Madriva LE 2005 successfully, twice. Thanks :D

My new system contains a removable Hard disk tray. I can A <=> B <=> C hard drives to my hearts content. The boot sequence is: Floppy -> DVD/CD -> HD I built a bootable Win98 (actually a nice floppy based OS) with fdisk and killdisk http://www.killdisk.com/ on it. With fdisk and killdisk I can literally take the mounted HD to nothing but "0"s end to end. Including tk0,sec0,,hd0 and that includes the MBR sector. You only have to run killdisk for a second or so to clear out the MBR. When I am experimenting with a new OS, like Mandriva LE 2005, I wipe the disk entirely clean before installing the first CD/DVD installation disk. wilcal

Another question in this thread. Do you find that CD-R vs CD-RW or visa versa burn more successfully with the Linux Distros?. Thanks all

Thanks I'll give that one a try. (2x vs 4x)

That would be easy except I have tried two different CD drives, 2 CD-RW and 2 CD-R all with the same result. As mentioned in other parts of this thread this is a common Install BUG with Mandriva LE 2005 realeased last month. Interestingly enough Mandriva MOVE runs just fine using the same platform, CD drives and multiple CD-RW and CD-R media. It's not the drives or the media. I suspect the newness of this platform's SATA system is not dialed into this Mandriva Release. MoBo ---- GiGabyte - GA-8I915G PRO Intel 915G Express chipset, supports Hyper-Threading Onboard Video - Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900, PCI-Express x 16 Onboard Audio - C-Media 9880 codec (Azalia) Intel High Definition Audio support Onboard LAN - Marvell Yukon M8001 Gigabit Wilcal International

I have used two differnet CD drives, CD-RW and CD-R. Also the same drives and combinations have been used with Windows XP, Knoppix, Ubuntu, Ultimate CD, Puppy Linux and several others. All successfully. From the many threads concerning the same issue it appears that there is an install BUG in Mandriva LE 2005 with many platforms. I am well down the path with Ubuntu 5.04. That Linux Distro installs cleanly and on the first try using exactly the same hardware and platform. Wilcal International

A furhter note ISO burner system A further note. I am using a completely seperate and running Mandrake 9.2 with Sony CD-RW system with cdrecord in command line mode to burn the install discs from the ISO image. Wilcal International wilcal@dslextreme.com

I too have the same problem with Mandriva LE 2005 Installation gets to partitioning then: An error has occured fatal: nohdlist nor synthesis to read for installation CD2 (cdrom2) and stops. I have tried all kinds of solutions but cannot go beyond the error. I have created a DOS MBR that I allow to be over written, completly erase all data on disk (diskkill to all "0"s) and tried all the options. Let it use the entire completely empty drive. Nothing seems to work. Feel free to make suggestions. I use removable hard drives so nothing is at risk. OS's that install or run on the below same system under the same circumstances are: Windows XP Home SP2 Full install to HD Knoppix 3.8.1 (Live CD) Ubuntu 5.04 Full install to HD Mandriva Move 2.0 (Live CD) My computer archtecture is as follows: Processor --------- Intel - LGA 775 P4 Prescott 3.0GHz, 530J MoBo ---- GiGabyte - GA-8I915G PRO Intel 915G Express chipset, supports Hyper-Threading Onboard Video - Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900, PCI-Express x 16 Onboard Audio - C-Media 9880 codec (Azalia) Intel High Definition Audio support Onboard LAN - Marvell Yukon M8001 Gigabit DRAM ---- Kingston - KVR400X64C3AK2/512, 1GB, ValueRAM, DDR400 PC-3200 SATA ---- Maxtor - 6B160M0 SATA 160GB (Windows XP SP2 Home installed) or Maxtor - 6Y080M0 SATA 80GB or whatever SATA suits me today KingWin - KF-91-BK, Mobile Rack KingWin - KF-91-T-BK, Mobile Trays DVD-RW ------ Sony - DW-D26A Floppy ------ Sony - MPF920 Feel free to contact me any time. I am willing to retry any iso install anytime and offer feedback information. Wilcal International wilcal@dslextreme.com