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I finally got round to sorting this. I am posting the solution here, it may help someone else. Before I do that, a bit of background. The system configuration for this fix was: 1 Pata drive (master) connected to a raid card operating in ide mode. Dual booting Gnu/Linux and XP 1 Sata drive (slave) booting XP for playing games. 2 DVD drives chained together and connected to the single motherboard ide port. timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan gfxmenu (hd0,1)/usr/share/gfxboot/themes/pclinuxos/boot/message default 0 title linux (Pata Drive) kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=/dev/hdc2 acpi=on splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hdc2 acpi=on initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=/dev/hdc2 failsafe acpi=on initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img title windows (Pata Drive) root (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 title windows1 (Sata Drive) root (hd1,0) map (0x81) (0x80) map (0x80) (0x81) makeactive chainloader +1 Thanks again guys for your input.

Try running the install.sh from within the Cepstral_Allison_i386-linux_5.1.0 folder. In other words cd into the directory first then run install.sh as root.

KVocTrain for KDE3 or KWordQuiz for KDE4.

No, KoolDock will still work with the KDE panel displayed at the bottom of the screen.

Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.

Sorry adamw, could you clarify what you mean. Are you talking about a problem totally replacing 3.5 with 4.0 or with having the two running in tandem and then upgrading?

I don't know, perhaps adamw is in a better position to advise you there. I installed 2009 beta 2 from dvd on another machine and upgraded my kde4 from the repos on my main machine running 2008.1

The Norse Gods are surely smiling on you. Congrats :)

Despite all the warnings of KDE breakage and incompatibilities, I have successfully upgraded my 4.0 to 4.1 from the repos and so far it's working fine. :)

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There should be an uninstall script. You don't need to remove what you have done. Just go to Mandriva Control Center (Configure your computer)-- > Install & Remove Software make sure the 2 drop down boxes to the left both say All. In the Find field type the name of the package you need to install and mark it for installation. If any of them have a blue icon against them, that package is already installed. Once you have marked them all click apply, then re-run your vmware install.

You can do this via the CUPS admin page. http (or https)://<address here>:631 Click the printers tab, then click Set Printer Options.

I answered in #3

I do agree that compiz is 75% bling and 25% functionality. However that 25% functionality if configured correctly is very useful IMHO :) Oh, and that is that too :D

It ain't that bad. Once you get used to using it, going back to the normal desktop takes some getting use to again (at least for me it did). When you have several windows open with a quick flick to the top right corner of the screen they are all displayed making it simple to click on the one you want. Most apps if you left click on the icon in the top left of the window will reveal a menu, in there is the option to send that window to whichever desktop you wish. All novelties aside there are some practical uses if you are willing to take the time to configure it to behave the way you want it to.

Add Firefox to your browser identification list like so: KDE Control Centre (kcontrol)--> Internet & Network--> Web Browser--> Browser Identification. Click New, paste http://www.yalp.alice.it/tv/index.html?cha...p__tv_4_canale1 in the When browsing the following site box, select Firefox in the Use the following identification drop down list, click apply then see if it works. You can also get to the Browser Identification from within Konqueror by going to: Settings--> Configure Konqueror.

As requested the fdisk output of hdc (Pata Drive): fdisk -l /dev/hdc Disk /dev/hdc: 123.5 GB, 123522416640 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15017 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 1 11047 88734996 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hdc2 * 11048 14851 30555630 83 Linux /dev/hdc3 14852 15017 1333395 5 Extended /dev/hdc5 14852 15017 1333363+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris Extra info the fdisk of sde (Sata drive this drive changed from sda for some unknown reason): fdisk -l /dev/sde Disk /dev/sde: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sde1 * 1 30400 244187968+ 7 HPFS/NTFS Current menu.lst: cat /boot/grub/menu.lst timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan gfxmenu (hd0,1)/usr/share/gfxboot/themes/pclinuxos/boot/message default 1 title linux kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=/dev/hdc2 acpi=on splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img title Windows (Pata) root (hd0,1) makeactive chainloader +1 ## title Windows (Sata) Using this instead of the above boots the Sata drive but there's no entry in grub to boot Pata # map (hd0) (hd1) # map (hd1) (hd0) # rootnoverify (hd1,0) # chainloader +1

They have been assigned to the two dvd drives. To cut a long story short the system is setup as follows: 2 dvd drives connected to the ide on the motherboard 1 pata (primary drive) connected to a ide/raid card (hdc) 1 sata (secondary drive) connected to the motherboard (sda) Nope this is not my system, and please don't suggest I switch things around. :)

Partial success. The secondary (sata) drive does boot using Reiver Fluffi's listing but I am no longer able to boot the winblows installation on the primary drive. I know it there is something that needs amending in the menu.lst and I have tried a few combinations. I get error parsing number each time. I am posting the output of fdisk -l in the hope someone can post what I need to have in the menu.lst for this to work. fdisk -l Disk /dev/hdc: 123.5 GB, 123522416640 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15017 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 * 1 11047 88734996 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hdc2 11048 14851 30555630 83 Linux /dev/hdc3 14852 15017 1333395 5 Extended /dev/hdc5 14852 15017 1333363+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 30400 244187968+ 7 HPFS/NTFS Just to recap, I have PCLinuxOS & Winblows on the primary drive, with Winblows also installed on the Secondary sata drive.

Thanks for the suggestions. @ian1974 I will post the output of fdisk -l if none of the above works. Thanks again guys :)

I hope you guys will forgive my laziness, I've had a verrrrry long studio recording session and now I'm fit to drop. I've done a quick search to see what hits I get, but nothing showed up to give me the quick fix I require. Anyway can someone please take a look at this and tell me changes I need to make to get winblows (installed on a secondary sata hard drive) to boot via the grub menu. It just keeps going to the primary drive. timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan gfxmenu (hd0,1)/usr/share/gfxboot/themes/pclinuxos/boot/message default 1 title linux kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=/dev/hdc2 acpi=on splash=silent vga=788 initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img title windows root (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 title Games < This is the sata drive. root (hd1,0) makeactive chainloader +1 Thanks for any responses. I'm off to get my head down. ZZZZzzzzz

The death knoll is finally sounding for LinDire. Ha..Ha..Ha..

Well I finally had some time on my hands and tried this release. KDE4 is shaping up very nicely indeed. It's still a little slow (maybe that's because I running from cd) but a lot of the bugs have been ironed out. The whole environment now seems joined together and not like a patchwork piece. As for the 'Folder View' once the size has been adjusted and the widget locked into place, it's great. I'm really looking forward to the final release of 2009. Great going adamw and co. One question: Are you going to include an option to create encrypted drive(s) at the install stage like Fedora 9 does??

@kilimanjaro: Please check my post again, I have edited it to show the correct drive. If running e2fsck doesn't help you could try using a rescue cd to make repairs: http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=2&front_id=1