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I would suggest that you repartition your HDD like this: You have 20Gb of space for your Linux now, so / - 19Gb (it will contain /home, where you should copy your files from your windoze partition, /usr and all the other partitions that are needed) /swap - 1Gb That's the easiest way to do it. As I look at your df output now, the "/" partition is just way too small. Another way to do it: /boot - 800mb (default) /swap - 1Gb (should be enough, but in most cases, you won't need even 200mb swap) / - 2Gb /home - 12Gb (for all your documents, tarballs and other personal files) /usr - 4Gb (this is where all packages/software get installed) Good luck. EDIT: tyme already answered your question while I was writing this :P

It's getting some attention at Slashdot.org too. :P http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/05/08/0444206.shtml

I've always used the Esslingen, Germany mirror. I know there are a couple of mirrors here in Finland, but I've never had problems with Esslingen. Try that one. Of course it depends on your connection speed and the quality of the network over there.

Hi. I have the update.cron in the same place as yours, and it works just fine. I have set it to -rwxr-xr-x like yours. I noticed that when I made another scheduled script that didn't have .cron, it didn't work. I know there are other scripts like "logrotate" and "rpm" without .cron and they work just fine (at least I think so). But my update script looks like this: #! /bin/bash urpmi.update -a urpmi --auto --auto-select I don't know if "--auto" and "--auto-select" need to be in that order, but I think it's worth trying. What does your log say about it?

I've always used urpmi --auto-select --no-install When I know that I don't have enough time to install or download all the packages. I have broadband connection, so it's not the problem, just running out of time sometimes. :P Same command resumes the download. After all files have been downloaded, use urpmi --auto-select to install. Or maybe I just have to learn to use the parameters that arctic showed us. :P EDIT: I wouldn't stop a running urpmi session with CTRL+Z or CTRL+C, because there's a possibility that urpmi doesn't remove the lock, like this one here Mandrivausers.org - urpmi database locked. It's easy to remove the lock (reboot or remove the locking file), but it needs more work and some servers just can't be rebooted just for urpmi.

I've never had to do that. IIRC urpmi will ask you what to do (install or not to install) if there's a signature/checksum problem.

Wow, never seen a problem that "urpmi.update -a" wouldn't solve but now I've seen one. Although, there certainly are some problems. I deleted the repo, re-added it and started downloading. Urpmi said that the hdlist was 3.2mb. I thought I saw it was almost 15mb when I looked it in my web browser a minute ago. It ended up in an error saying that hdlist couldn't be downloaded. I decided to give it another try. This time urpmi said that the hdlist was 13.4mb. Still not correct. I downloaded it to 100% and when urpmi started reading it, the process ended up in an error saying that the hdlist couldn't be translated. Yet another try. This time urpmi said the hdlist was 14.5mb. I downloaded it and all went fine. Then I just updated my packages (approx. 320mb). After this I felt a bit curious and tried "urpmi.update mde.rpms" again, but it ended up in that translation error again. What's wrong out there?

Have you uploaded all the packages already? As far as I can see, there's at least arts and some other packages missing. I've never had problems with mde.rpms but there are still some packages missing from my box, they are listed in hdlist.cz, but the files are not yet uploaded to the server. I've been waiting them for a month now (yes, I understand, you are not making money for this, so I just have to be patient). I'll be back and post the packages that can't be downloaded (leads to an error when urpmi tries to download them) when I get back home. I installed mde multimedia kernel and it's just fantastic. It even shows the signal strength of my wlan, that mandriva's shipped kernel didn't. Keep up the good work. EDIT: Some mispellings

Hi. I'm just wondering if someone has had similar problems. Ok, here's the situation: I already have shorewall up and running and I'm gonna install mandi and mandi-ifw now. The main thing why I'm asking this is that I want to have an Interactive Firewall (mandi-ifw). So: This part goes like it should, but problems start from here: Whitelist? Where should it be? I created a file called "whitelist" to /etc/shorewall but it didn't make things any better. I'm using ra0 to connect to the internet, but capability for eth0 usage would be great too, as I use it sometimes.

Hi snOOze00. We don't understand what you are trying to do, but maybe this list will help: Mandrivausers - List of Translators Send a PM to someone who has been volunteered to translate your language. And now to the point, if you really have RAID1, you should only see one HDD with 36,7gb in the installation process. If you see 2x36,7gb there, you don't have any raid. If you are sure that you used to have raid (maybe in windoze), it must have been a software raid. I'd say that you should buy a hardware RAID Controller, not Semi-Software Raid controllers. That's better because when your system crashes (yes, it happens to Linux too), you might lose some data and the software might do something that you don't want it to do because the system has malfunctioned. In that case, a hardware raid controller keeps on rolling independently from the OS. It won't lose the data. Hardware raid controllers aren't so expensive these days, I'd say that if you have 100€, you'll get a good one for personal use. Just make sure that you don't need to install any software (unless it's some monitoring utility). Just ask again if you need any help.

Null-modem cable doesn't need anything else than the cable and two computers. I tried it when we played games with a friend (both had win98). Just configure a null-modem line in windoze and you're ready to go. Just keep the installation media at hand, you might need it. Modern Linuxes can do this pretty easily, I think. Takes about 10min to get it up and working, and the cable costs around 5-15€ these days. EDIT: But yes, it surely is the easiest way to remove the HDD from the old computer and install to another one, where you want to copy your files.

Ok, maybe I'll give it a try when I have time. :)

But I don't like to compile from source because then urpmi doesn't know about that application and if I want to delete it for some reason, urpme doesn't work for it. I'm just too lazy to start using some odd uninstall scripts. :P I'd have to build my own .rpm for that, but I don't have the knowledge to do that.

Yea, that's true. Once I thought that I should make a test with my computer to use 2 different networks on one machine (neighbours were buying a WLAN access point, and my own wired network) to get double bandwidth but then a friend that is a network administrator in a big enterprise network told me that it's just impossible. I also googled it around and also found out that it's impossible. So you have to stick in one of those networks at a time.

Hi. I were thinking that I'd like to update some apps (like irssi) on my computer, but found out that Mandriva's newest package is outdated (irssi v.0.8.9) and the irssi download section says that 0.8.10a is the newest. There are RedHat/Fedora packages and SuSE packages, but not Mandriva. Are they completely safe or not? Of course a mdk package is safe on a Mandriva system, but as SuSE and Mandriva are based on RedHat, I thought that they might work as well. This isn't the only app that I want to update, but they do have the same options. So, which one should I choose: 1. RedHat/Fedora. 2. SuSE. 3. Wait for Mandriva to update. And yes, I have read the changelog, so I don't need anyone to say that "there's nothing big that urgently needs updating". :P EDIT: [sOLVED]

Just wanted to say that networking with Windows98 is fully related to the position of the moon, nasdaq index and spirits. Even with win98 <--> win98/2k/XP. I don't mean that Linux is the only choice, as I'm writing this one on my XP desktop. If you just had any chance to change that 98 to 2k or XP, it would be a lot easier. If you're using KDE, you can configure it in your KDE Control Center. It's easy to configure Samba shares that way. It should be under Networking --> Browse Local Network (translations from finnish, so they might not be the same in your system). I think that you have to install some package before you can do that (I were thinking that it could be ksambaplugin, but didn't find it from urpmi). Someone else could help you with that. In Gnome: # urpmi gnosamba Never tried this one, but you could install drakwizard and then configure Samba from MCC. # urpmi drakwizard Many ways to do this (including the CLI, but IMHO it's easier to do with a GUI). :) Good luck though.

Hi. I installed 3.5.2 an hour ago and found out a couple of bugs (maybe you already know about them or not). When I try to log in via KDM and give a wrong password, it doesn't say anything. Only a blank box appears under those input fields. I haven't got time to install any new KDM themes, so i'm using MDE theme right now, could it be related to that? The same problem was in 3.5.1.MDE. Noatun still crashes aRts, and XMMS just freezes. I tried XMMS before crashing aRts with noatun. But KDE is cool on my desktop (just moved from GNOME to KDE 3.5.1 and then 3.5.2). Good work people.

I can help in Finnish-English-Finnish translations. Although many finns can speak english fluently. ;)

Just wanted to mention that Mandriva has this nice GUI for an Interactive Firewall, where you can manage your blacklist and whitelist. It also tells you when a host is being put into Blacklist (because of portscanning for example). It's a nice tool to work with. It also sits in your taskbar within the eth0 icon. Oh, almost forgot to mention, the installation: # urpmi mandi-ifw

I ran into problems configuring my hardware firewall, so I can't forward ports to my server anymore. I think that my firewall "forgot" it's admin password (maybe due to overheating) and I can't log in to it's web console. :P I'll reset it to factory defaults when I have time. So I can't use double SSH ports now. That's why I needed a SSH client which works on apache. But maybe it's impossible then.

You're damn right about that. I've been using Mandriva, SuSE and Fedora Core. Fedora Core is a cool OS, but I'm very disappointed about yum, the package manager of Fedora Core. yum is so damn slow. If I want to do a single query from the database to find an application that I need, I call yum from the console (or command line, whatever you want to call it) with the package name. Let's say that I mistyped the name of the application, it takes like 15-30 second from yum to say that no packages found, when urpmi gives me the same answer in about 2-10 seconds with the same hardware. I don't know how urpmi does this (does it load itself to memory?), but it's pretty fast. Same thing when I want to install some package. Mandriva's hardware detection is almost as good as M$ windoze's, as far as I have seen. I've never had problems when installing Mandriva to my computers (and some friends computers too). Of course it has problems sometimes, but compared to xp, it's nothing to worry about. Only thing that I've been wondering about are those Linux comparisons in some magazines. They rate Mandriva as the last one because it's "unstable", it's package manager is worse than what SuSE, Ubuntu and some others have and it's slow. And of course they say that hardware support is only mediocre. I don't mean that others are worse than Mandriva, but in my opinion, it's the best one that I have used so far.

ok I found out that there might be Linux support for Audigy 4, according to these links: This says that latest ALSA supports it: Soundblaster Audigy I'm not really sure about what this guy is saying but i think he means it will work: Sound Blaster Live 24bit 7.1 Posted them so other Audigy users don't have to search for them. I'm still not convinced about it... Found these on the forum, might be helpful (when I started this thread, the search engine on mandrivausers.org didn't find anything related to Audigy). Both explain how to get Audigy cards to work. Mandrivausers.org - New sound card [solved] Mandrivausers.org - Audigy 2: only 4.1 sound not 6.1 I'll give it a try this weekend. Let's hope it works. EDIT: Added 2 links

Ok, you got the point, but there aren't that much websites that support only IE. I haven't seen one in 2 years now (I've been using Firefox for that time). And I've seen many websites that claim "This website is designed and made to work only on IE, you can download the newest version here." So this IE "requirement" is only a joke nowadays. :D

Hi. I just found out that World of Warcaft works under Linux with wine and cedega, so I'm getting closer to switch all my computers to Linux. And the reason why I'm asking these things here is that I've decided to make the switch to Mandriva 2006, if it is possible. I've been using Linux for a couple of years now, but only the server side, this thread is all about desktops/gaming computers. I was searching for an answer for this one and found another thread (Mandrivausers.org - Hardware/Audigy 4) but it wasn't the thing that I was looking for. Does Sound Blaster Audigy 4 really work under Linux? I had problems with Hercules Digifire 7.1 card and everyone just kept telling me (on other bulletin boards and forums) that Linux doesn't have any 7.1 support and no-one's developing it. Is it true? I don't need to have any 7.1 effects like in games where someone walks behind me, I hear the voice from the two rear speakers, just want that the music that I play comes out from all speakers at the same time and not only from the front speakers. I've found out that my ATI/Connect 3D Radeon 9600 Pro works under Linux with previous Mandrake/Mandriva installs, but I wasn't able to get 3D acceleration to work properly, does it work in Mandriva 2006? My friend had the same problem in SuSE, so it might be a common Linux problem, not only Mandriva. ATI has these drivers for Linux, any experience with them? ATI Customer Care - Radeon Linux What about converting my NTFS partitions to ext3? Is there a tool to do that or do i have to copy my files to another partition, format, copy them back and do the same to my 3 other HDDs? And how should I mount them to have them easily accessible? I have 3x 200gb HDD and 1x 40gb, so that 40gb will be the one where I install the OS, and the others are the ones where I store all my files. Two of those 200gb HDDs are SATA, but Mandrake/Mandriva 10.1 and 10.2 had no problems with supporting them. I would appreciate if someone told me about these things. If you have some of these hardware, please post your experiences under Linux.

IIRC, windoze shares need 2 different ports to use shares. One to query for shares, and one to transfer files. I might be all wrong, but I just have this feeling right now. :P EDIT: Some mistypes...