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hello, trying to install mandrake 10 on vmware workstation release 4 in XP. i created the virtual machine but when i go to start it, i pop the cdrom in the tray and after it scans for usb devices i get a memory error like this: i tried changing memory size allocation for the machine but had no luck. i realize im posting a windows question kinda but its linux related though. any help apprecciated. also, heres the last bits of the log: _____________________________________________________________________ Mar 18 08:42:44: vmx| -------- End of backtrace -------- Mar 18 08:42:44: vmx| Msg_Post: Error Mar 18 08:42:44: vmx| [msg.log.vmxpanic] VMware Workstation unrecoverable error: (vmx) Mar 18 08:42:44: vmx| AIO: Unrecoverable memory allocation failure at F(989):484 Mar 18 08:42:44: vmx| Please request support and include the contents of the log file: "D:\My Virtual Machines\Linux\vmware.log". We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement. Mar 18 08:42:44: vmx| ---------------------------------------- Mar 18 08:42:44: vmx| VMX IPC closed the connection with thread ide1:0 (003341C4) Mar 18 08:42:44: vmx| VMX IPC The "ide1:0" thread exited cleanly. Mar 18 08:42:44: vmx| F(764):2670 Thread ide1:0 not deallocated canDisp=00469520 Mar 18 08:42:44: mks| VTHREAD destroy thread 4 "kbh" Mar 18 08:42:49: vmx| VTHREAD thread 0 start exiting Mar 18 08:42:49: vmx| VTHREAD thread 0 exiting, 5 left Mar 18 08:42:49: kbh| VTHREAD thread 4 "kbh" host id 2188 started Mar 18 08:42:49: mks| VTHREAD create thread 4 "kbh" Mar 18 08:42:49: vcpu-0| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died Mar 18 08:42:49: vcpu-0| VTHREAD thread 4 start exiting Mar 18 08:42:49: vcpu-0| VTHREAD thread 4 exiting, 4 left Mar 18 08:42:50: mks| VTHREAD watched thread 0 "vmx" died Mar 18 08:42:50: mks| VTHREAD thread 1 start exiting Mar 18 08:42:50: mks| VTHREAD destroy thread 4 "kbh" Mar 18 08:42:50: mks| VTHREAD thread 1 exiting, 0 left ____________________________________________________________________

thanks for the tips. i see what you are talking about with the profiles and thats cool but at the moment i just want to get this working at home before i try making another profile. the main problem here is that i cant get an ip address. btw, i looked all over man iwconfig but couldnt find the proper syntax for WEP to add to my ifcfg-eth1.

its a 4 port linksys, the 11mb one. BEFW11S4. yeah im using WEP. at this point though what i want to do is use a script to bring eth1 onliune at work or at home. at home i use WEP on my linksys, but at work the WAP i connect to doesnt use it it so i dont think i can have that in my ifcfg-eth1 file, right? here's the script i used as i dont have eth1 start at boot, i just run it when i log in: #!/bin/bash /sbin/ifconfig eth1 down /sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid XXXXXX mode Managed key XXXXXXXXXX /sbin/ifconfig eth1 up /sbin/dhcpcd eth1 what happens is when i try this script at home(script is called "home") this is the output i get. root@localhost# ./home Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported. /etc/dhcp/dhcpcd.exe: line 27 .: filename argument required if i turn off the encryption on my router and i have no issues connectiing but of course i dont want that. any idea? i will try adding that extra info in my script.

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actually, i was able to connect w/out the encryption but not with it on. it just times out at boot. DEVICE=eth1 ONBOOT=yes HWADDR=XXXXXXXXXX MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes WIRELESS_MODE=Managed WIRELESS_ESSID=XXXXX WIRELESS_ENC_KEY="XXXXXXXXXXX" NEEDHOSTNAME=yes by the way, what are the actual commands in drake to bring eth0 or eth1 online and offline? id rather not do it at boot because i have encyprion set up at home, but they dont at my office on an access point which poses another question to you. will i still be able to connect to my access point at work with eth1 even though its set for my WEP key and what not? thanks

hey, ive done some searching around here but cant find the answer i need. on drake 10.0 on my laptop, my wireless card is detected fine(SMC2632W) and i can see the proper module gets loaded(orinco or similar). but i cant get an ip address from my linksys router. i thought it might have been something weird with my ESSID seetings and my encryption key so i decided to temporarily turn off WEP on my router and went back to MCC to properly remove and add the wireless connection which i did. as soon as it asks me to restart the network i say yes but it still doesnt get an address. im right next to the router anyway for testing. when the network tried to restart it just says: ______________________________________________________________________ bringing up interface eth1 (i have built in LAN @ eth0) error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : Set failed on device eth1 ; operation not supported Determining IP information for eth1.........failed _______________________________________________________________________ now when i had the encryption set up i had a very strong signal but now w/out the encryption and even closer i get a 0% strength signal!!! duh. to make matters worse drake tells me sometimes the card has been removed when it wasnt. i have my settings set to "any" instead of "managed" but that didnt do the trick either. any help appreciated.

nevermind. i hit F1(mandrake 10 cd 1) and used the restore bootloader option and it worked.

hey all, i have a ghost image (ghost 8) and have read it can handle restoring lilo w/out a problem. well i just restored the image (mandrake 10) to my machine and when i boots low and behold i get all 9's across the screen. does this mean the bootloader is corrupt? if so how can i restore it? i have a boot disk i created from a mandrake 9.1 instal(just an install disk though)l a while back but i also have the install cd's for drake 10. of course i dont want to have to go through another install, i just want to be able to restore lilo IF that is the problem...........any help is greatly appreciated. also, i dont know if its worth mentioning but i can browse the ghost image with ghost explorer if i need anything from the image. tia at the moment im downloading a knoppix cd to see about possibly restoring lilo.

hey all, seems like this sucker is the only application in mandrake 10 that doesnt want to save the borders "inside" knode. i dont mean the outer window itself, thats fine and starts maximized. i mean the borders in knode (I.E) my newsgroups on the left always end up being covered but the pane on the right and i have to always drag it back over to see what the hell im looking at. knode 0.7.6 f.y.i

works like a charm.

$ cat /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 # File generated by XFdrake. # ********************************************************************** # Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of # this file. # ********************************************************************** Section "Files" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath "unix/:-1" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" #DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work #DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching) EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" # 3D layer EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "Keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "en_US" Option "XkbOptions" "" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Sun" ModelName "Sun 17-inch 447Z" HorizSync 31.0-72.0 VertRefresh 50.0-120.0 # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync ModeLine "1024x480" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine "768x576" 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" VendorName "nVidia Corporation" BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 256 (generic)" Driver "nvidia" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Virtual 1152 864 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 15 Virtual 1152 864 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Virtual 1152 864 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Virtual 1152 864 EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" Screen "screen1" EndSection ____________________________________________________________________________ hmm, i wonder if i changed /dev/mouse to /dev/IMPS...........anyhow, that my file

if that dont work just delete your .xmms directory and rerun xmms. maybe some config file got screwed.

hey, in kde my mouse wheel works fine but not in fluxbox. i cant use the scroll feature. im starting fluxbox from run level 3 with my .xinitrc. i also have desktop wheeling disabled in the fluxbox menu. any ideas? drake 10

or if you want to do it the easy way, go into mandrake control center, install packages, type in X11 and install the X libraries from there. i think they are called X11R6 or libxfree86-devel.

if you want to connect to your linux box from any windows box use putty. it works great, uses SSH, you dont have to install it, its free............not a bad thing about it and its easy to use.

actually, mondorescue is kinda old no? when i tried booting from the mondo cd it bascailly tries to download 9.1 or 9.2 packages(im using drake 10) which wont work. maybe there is a version i could compile or something on their site. i never really liked partimage to be honest. hey phazeman, its mondorescue.ORG!!!!! edit: i actually just installed mondorescue from their site. i installed the one it says is for mandrake 9. i installed the needed packages via urpmi and even installed libslang-devel (drake package) and FC3's slang package and now i can run mondorestore from the command line. ill see how it goes. :)

i appreciate the input, but i just didnt want to have to su to root, then open a file manager like konqueror(not using nautilus). its just extra steps that become annoying you know what i mean?

yeah if you want to see whatever shares you create on your linux box through my network places on xp, that plugin is great. after that is setup you can just set up mapped drives from windows to linux. very handy indeed.

to be totally honest, use the ksamba plugin if you use kde. messing around with my smb.conf didnt get me the results i wanted and i had the same problems from my xp box that you did. heres a link to it: Ksamba Plugin this compiled w/out a hitch in drake 10 by the way.

no takers? man. :o thats ok. i have ghost 8 for windows and that worked just fine. i just like trying other options.

see heres where the problem lies still. im running this ftp server(proftpd+gproftpd) and i have a handful of users that basically share files with me from their remote windows boxes. while setting it up, gproftpd creates the users on my linux system itself with the permissions i choose. but heres the sticky part. i only give rights to upload into the "uploads" folder. now when one of the users logs in, creates a folder and uploads whatever files, its now in their name. so me, being the only user on this linux system, wants to browse with say konqueror and rename stuff and move stuff around to my liking but i cant of course because they own the files. any idea how to better this setup? i love proftpd if i can just get past this hump.

hey there, since ive only had success cloning my etx3 partition with ghost 8 over the network(windows version) i wanted to try the linux version. i set up my windows box ftp server but i have no clue as to what to set up as a user name to allow a connection in bulletproof ftp server. i tried to create "gfl" as a user since you log in with that on the linux machine when you boot up from the cd. on the windows end i see a connection made but it quickly kicks me out saying login failed. documentation is scarce for this app unless someone has a clue. thanks. [EDIT: Moved to software from networking by Qchem]

thanks, i had to do cat /etc/mandrake-release Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586 i though i had the community one, phhhhhhh, i was wrong. :)

silly question. is there a way to tell what version of drake 10 i have installed whether it be community or official? i dont want to add the wrong mirrors adding urpmi sources. thanks.

thanks alot edit: just wish they posted the md5sum for all 4 discs instead of just the first 3.