jaraeez

maybe try fdisk -l & find out exactly what drives are where

sorry, when the cd boots I think you have a few seconds to hit a key or eslse it boots normally. In them few seconds at the bottom of the screen you have 3 options (trying to remember) & I think F2 was for language. Here I hit F2 then elected Eng then booted which seemed (for me) to do the trick.. HTH (although this may not be your problem)

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I downloaded and burned the dvd image and attempted the upgrade again, I have an x environment but the fonts don't load (all I see are unfilled sqares instead of letters in any gui)

 

I can see text if I open a shell and I still get the same error message for urpmi. This is so frustrating I think I may give up on Mandriva entirely which is a shame since I have used it for around 6 years now.

 

Leo

actually I have also encountered this while booting the live cd - to overcome this after various attempts of 'this n that' I opted for ENG (F2 I think) even though it was already in English I still went for F2 then elected ENG & for some reason the fonts where all visible again - HTH

If your using 2007, mozilla-firefox-2.0.0.1-4mdv2007.0 is in the repos.

is it? I'm using 2007.0, what repo is it in cos I just did a search & 1.5.0.10 is showing as the latest!

as time goes by ...

Screen 1 Screen 0

yep just download the Mandriva 2007.1 boot.iso - the rest will be plain sailing from there - One thing I did have a problem with was connecting to a mirror but then realised that as default the addressess of all the mirrors listed where 2006 but just changed the nearest mirror to me to 2007 & all was fine

I also find DeVeDe to be an excellent choice - gui 'n' all ;)

oh well it's in sid then :)

nope 2.16 here - not sure but I don't even think it's made sid yet?

oh well cheers anyway & good luck on your course..

nice :) as a matter of interest Ian are you taking your RHCE course in the UK or Poland? I ask as I am looking into doing another course & was thinking maybe RHCE but there are so many Companies offering it & not sure who to take up here in the UK.

TIA

ok maybe reburning the iso at a low speed after checking the MD5SUM matches. Then try again this time while it's loading press 'Esc' & you will be able to see what is going on behind the 'orange' facade - which in turn will help decide what the problem is..

HTH

I'm currently using Lenny at the minute. Or sid at least until Lenny is released in the future as stable.

Been using lenny (testing) for a week or so on one of my older PC's & must say it's quite nippy. I'm now setting the same up on a spare drive on my main PC. If all goes well I 'may' start to use this instead of Mandriva but that's a big may cos my Mandriva install is rock solid - I think aptitude will be the clincher though. :)

see if this helps https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtop...3&hl=LC_ALL

I had the same problem, but it went away last night after I applied some updates (didn't check what they were though!).

Just installed Debian (Lenny) on an old P3 I have - well I must say "i'm impressed" with Debian

I thought i'd give gnome a go (normally KDE on dual monitors) ...

quite 'tarty' if I may say so :)

I 2nd that ndiswrapper is included & all I needed to do while in live mode was mount my USB with the win drivers on it. Then in MCC direct it to the drivers on the USB & a couple of clicks later we have connectivity -

Hey,

1st if the driver has loaded in a terminal as root run

XFdrake

which will run through a set of questions - try that. If no go then can you post your xorg.conf (/etc/X11/xorg.conf). Also as root run the command

lspci

in a terminal & post the results along with

lsmod

results. What is it you want Xinerama, Twinview, or seperate desktops? You say the Nvidia logo shows but I take it from your comments that you didn't install Nvidia drivers - if so what version of Mandriva are you running & what WM ex: KDE, Gnome?

There ya go some questions ;)

192.168.1.1 for both the gateway and dns server

lol...

glad you got it working finally

ok it looks like the module is loaded (mii 5664 1 via_rhine) but ifconfig shows no card configured. Can I just confirm that your router is 192.168.1.1 & your DNS is 192.168.1.2. The reason I ask is looking at your setup i'm inclined to say that the DNS should also be 192.168.1.1. Anyway setup your ethernet connection again through mcc (in terminal as root type mcc) then Network & Internet > Set up a new network interface > Ethernet. This then should show you the rhine module (driver) with a checkbox, tick that then go through the procedure giving it a static IP for now & maybe using 192.168.1.1 for DNS & Gateway unless your sure that the DNS should be 192.168.1.2. Click apply after finishing. Close the Control Center down & at the terminal try to 1st ping your router, then a web address. Also have a look at ifconfig -a again & make sure it has eth0 listed

HTH

Hey, Welcome aboard :) Well this sounds like it should be straight forward. You say you've tried it in both DHCP & static & it still doesn't work? Well firstly as root

su

(then password for root) in the terminal run

ifconfig -a

copy & paste the contents. Also as root run

cat /etc/resolv.conf

& copy & paste the contents so we can have a look. Maybe you could also tell/show us the layout of your network (IP addressess, subnets, gateway etc..)

EDIT: pmpatrick: wins the quick-fire draw ;)

Did you run the command as root? When your at the command prompt login as the user you created then type su (this is the command to get to the root prompt) then type the password for root, then type XFdrake...

Looks green

Well put together the Karamba stuff so it melt better in the background.

lol - thank you... well green for spring hey!

Oh well roll on May -- :)