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[root@localhost david]# urpmi --auto --auto-select installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/qt3-common-3.2.3-19.1.100mdk.i586.rpm /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libqt3-devel-3.2.3-19.1.100mdk.i586.rpm Installation failed: libqt3 = 3.2.3-19.1.100mdk is needed by libqt3-devel-3.2.3-19.1.100mdk qt3-common = 3.2.3-17mdk is needed by (installed) libqt3-3.2.3-17mdk Installation failed, some files are missing: ftp://helios.dii.utk.edu/pub/linux/Mandrake/official/updates/10.0/RPMS/./libqt3-3.2.3-19.1.100mdk.i586.rpm You may want to update your urpmi database [root@localhost david]# not sure what is going on here but, i get this, i just did a urpmi.update -a and it did its thing, and i still get this error, so i changed mirrors, and i still get this, what is going on?

too bad this site only does plf, i wish it did everything else.... the plf list that i get from here is always the fastest....

[root@localhost david]# urpmi.addmedia main ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz added medium main examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.update_source.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.plf.cz] examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.updates.cz] computing md5sum of existing source hdlist (or synthesis) retrieving source hdlist (or synthesis) of "main"... ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist.cz found probed hdlist (or synthesis) as ../base/hdlist.cz ...retrieving done ok, the actual downloading does not take long at all, but the "retrieving done stage takes forever, there is no reason for this i have a 2.53GHz processor, and i have 1 GB of ram, and 1.2 GB of swap space, so i dont know what is going on.... using ksysguard, i can see that there is only minimal cpu usage, so....

ok i am using GRUB now, i just reinstalled.... so i have no files to post for you, sorry.

well if you are updating something, or adding something, and you have not set up your sorces with easy urpmi, then your only list of sources is the disks, so you will have to instert them to update something....

Thats a great website anon, thanks

seriously!!! anyway why cant mandrake use GRUB as default, Red Hat does......

ok, ill try to, i am almost positive i can get those files, but it will take me some time to copy all of it down b/c i cant do a copy and paste ill have to right it all down and then type it all in, (i have so many devices, that is why lilo.conf is so long; dont know if fstab is long though but ill try to get that posted soon, i am still doing a bunch of music importing and organizing in Winblows, but as soo as i am done with that, i will post that stuff...

my comp has 1 GB of ram and it still uses swap....

i guess my main question now is for bvc; with my hardware configuration i now have my: 1) 80GB IDE drive set up as the master (via the jumper settings on the drive) (This drive is my linux drive) (there is a 32GB FAT32 partition on this drive that i made in windows this is used to share files btw windows and linux) 2) 250 GB IDE storage drive set up as the slave on the same IDE cable as my linux drive (this is the storage drive therefore it is not bootable i.e. it has no operating system installed on it) 3) i have a built in IDE Promise raid device on my motherboard; i have a raid0 array setup between 2 80GB harddrives (this hardware array is my windows drive, it boots only to windows and has no other operating systems installed on it) 4) Given this information; one can conclude that the way that i switch between booting operating systems, i change the boot order in my BIOS settings !!!!) Now; when i reinstall Mandrake on my 80GB ide drive, i will install grub as the default boot loader for that drive (is this posible from setup?) ???) So my question is (finally) if i do change the boot order (to boot to windows) after install mandy 10 oe will this mess up the MBR and/or GRUB (via changing a system setting and not rebooting GRUB (as is the case with LILO, it does not like it apparently))?????

no i understand now, there are three main partitions on my drive when i do a linux auto format, the Swap space, the Root partition and the /home partition. i realize the problem that occured. when i first received this error, i issued the command ( after mounting the harddrive under the rescue menu) (then i did chroot /mnt) so i was working with my harddrive at a command prompt. then i issued the command lilo /dev/hda5 which i know know is my root partition. instead of saying lilo /dev/hda or even just lilo which would have addressed the drive as a whole, and not just an individual partition, that is why i think mandy did not find the root partition, because i erased a track line (on the harddrive) by installing lilo over it on that partition so it looks like i am going to have to reformat and reinstall mandrake.... im still a little noobie, but i am still reading the RED HAT LINUX 9 BIBLE by Chris Negus, and i just skiped to the section on boot loaders and partitons.... i wish there was a MANDY 10 Bible though.... :)

oh and, i dont know if bvc already answered this, but i guess that GRUB does not do stuff like this?

ok well you have at least cleared up some stuff for me... i have not erased anything yet, so maybe i will be able to do something, i dont know what that mandrake install thing was saying.... hopefully it was lying.... i am doing some music work with itunes in windows now, so for the next couple of days i am going to be pretty cautious with what i do to my computer, i dont want to erase the harddrive that i am saving all of this music on, that would be very bad... so ill try to see if i can do anything in the next couple of days...

i have two internet connections on my computer is it possible to use them both at the same time to speed the download times? (combine them and tie them to gether where they share the burden of incoming info, so it goes faster like a RAID 0 array for harddrives) or have two seperate internet connections as in i could download two things at a time without slowing down the other connection?

well i cant even get it back into mandrake, i cant even get it to load..... i dont understand, i did the restor the windows boot loader then i did reinstall LILO, and i still get that stupid error if i dont get back into mandrake soon i liable to break something!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is there any other way of doing this, i tried to do a Mandrake install, but i just did the update... but it said something about root partition not found, but i know that it is not wiped b/c i mounted it under the rescue and i was able to see everything sooo..... should i go into windows and format the medium sized partition? there is one really small one, the swap, then the medium sized one, the MBR and the large one, The root, right?

it is worse now.... after i did the restore and reinstall, it now doesn't recognize that drive as a bootable drive :( :( :(

yes, it does have a restore windows boot loader, what exactly does this do? i have read somewhere that you can reformat the mbr, then try to reinstall it....

ok, IX, when i got to the splash screen, hitting ESC did nothing... but there was an option that said press f1 for more options, so i did, typed rescue, and a list came up, the only option that i had though was to reinstall Lilo, i did not have an option to restore it, i am using Mandrake 10 OE, PLEASE HELP!!!!!!! :( i am getting withdrawal symptoms....

yep i bet it is the bios clock being set fast....

ok well now is the perfect time to try toi fix this, it has happened again, where is this LILO diagnostic disk? also how do i restor the MBR? di i need to go into windows and format that partition of the linux drive? then put in the mandrake disk and reinstall it? or what do i do? I hope there is an easier way than this, but i will do it if i have to. BTW this time i tried reseting the bios to default, and it didnot fix :( so any help/suggst... would be very good!!!!

all you have to do is replace the battery, just pop out the one that is on the board, it looks like a quarter sized flat shiny battery, and replace it, until then there is nothing you can do..... :-(

bump

yes that is what i have, read my sig...

get the same thing at boot, but i dont care about it because it works when x is up so....

i hate to say it, but what about uninstalling icewm and reinstalling it, or even download the rpms that it neads, and issue the rpm update command, maybe that will fix the problems.... :-s