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How about you give Arch Linux a try?
I have been helping develop Archie, the Arch Linux Live CD, my role has been the kernels, and currently the GUI Hard disk installer for it.
I would be grateful if you, or anyone else were kind enough to test my hdinstall, I am confident it is safe and relatively bug free, but you can never be sure.
I hope to have a version ready by next monday, the queens birthday, or almost for sure the weekend after.
Thankyou in advance.
iphitus
ps: some screenshots of the hdinstall in development:
http://iphitus.loudas.com/archie/screenshots/archiehd1.png
http://iphitus.loudas.com/archie/screenshots/archiehd2.png
http://iphitus.loudas.com/archie/screenshots/archiehd3.png
http://iphitus.loudas.com/archie/screenshots/archiehd4.png
http://iphitus.loudas.com/archie/screenshots/archiehd5.png
http://iphitus.loudas.com/archie/screenshots/archiehd6.png
When the version is ready, PM me with a link to get it and I'd be happy to try it.
I don't know - is there an automatic way to get Sarge to install with the 2.6 version??? I didn't see it and was clearly disappointed with the 2.4
I'll wait a few weeks and try Breezy again - there are indeed some users of Breezy that had no probs but apparently an update of X went badly awry.
I'm tired of trying distros that are "not complete" like core 4 test 347
Mandriva comes up and sees my printera d can "support"
it as a 7004, and sees my CX 880x TV card and can run it perfectly with TVTime.. Heck, Xandros could do that months ago. - what's the mattere with the supposed top distros???
ARG!
Kristi
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I'm looking to streamline my little system - is there any way to convert bookmarks from ff to Opera or Konqueror?
tia!!
Kristi
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Just some thoughts/experiences.
Debian Sarge (3.10) came out It installed easily, but tended to lock on every other boot on my usb scanner. gnome. It comes with a 2.4.27 (or something like that) kern. It gave me 800x600 res on my monitor. It didn't recognize a printer on USB1, It didn't recognize my CX 880 TV card. I give it a low C.
Ubuntu just came out with "Breezy", but there were warnings all over the forums not to load it for a few weeks. So I d/l'ed Hoary on DVD and tried that - looked nice. gnome. hi res, but again wouldn't recognize my printer or TV, both things you need a 2.6.8++ or something for. I guess I'll give it a low B - It looked nice, but was useless for me.
I want to try core 4 when it goes final, but that is stretching into the distance.
That's what I did this past 3 or 4 days.
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thanks. I thought the word was "halt", but whatever, it wouldn't take anything, I don't think. I re-instaled up to cooker, but KDE is still noticeably fragile, and I couldn't get Klamav to use the Dazuko modules, so I backed off again and am now on 2005 out of the box. I'll put the updates bugfixes etc on this afternoon and try to get the first beta image when it's out in beta.
I also found out in my wandering that Debian r6 was out on the 2nd, so I want to see if I can get a DVD of that (it's about 7 CDs - current is about 14 cd's but I imagine that also has the sources. If I can get it, it might be a good chance to learn some more debian type stuff - my 2nd distro was Xandros which is deb so I'm a little partial, but just want to learn more.
Thanks for looking in - I'll try that if I wind up in a fix - (I'm used to ctrl-alt-del when I want to get out caust that pops it right to lev 6 and then shuts down.
Kristi
EDIT: woody r6 DVD is being d/l now, but I also heard Sarge (3.1) will be out in a few days. new toys!!! At least I know 2005 works.
I really need 2 separate computers -
2006 cooker but some sharpie down here will know the answer.
when I first installed it a day ago it sorked fine.
in user, no other sessions running, CTRL-ALT-F6.7.8.9 give me nothing except f7 which is the session I'm logging out of.
menu logout.
logs out and gives me that screen where it wants me to log in.
Oddly ctrl-alt-del does nothing. in fact all of those do nothing
inittab
# # inittab This file describes how the INIT process should set up # the system in a certain run-level. # # Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg, <miquels@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org> # Modified for RHS Linux by Marc Ewing and Donnie Barnes # # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by Mandrakelinux are: # 0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # 1 - Single user mode # 2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking) # 3 - Full multiuser mode # 4 - unused # 5 - X11 # 6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this) # id:5:initdefault: # System initialization. si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0 l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1 l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2 l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3 l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4 l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5 l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6 # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE # When our UPS tells us power has failed, assume we have a few minutes # of power left. Schedule a shutdown for 2 minutes from now. # This does, of course, assume you have powerd installed and your # UPS connected and working correctly. pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down" # If power was restored before the shutdown kicked in, cancel it. pr:12345:powerokwait:/sbin/shutdown -c "Power Restored; Shutdown Cancelled" # Run gettys in standard runlevels 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3 4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4 5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5 6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6 ~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin
I'm going out for errands (beautiful hot day here in Boston!!!) when I get back I'll look here for answers but I think kde has hosed itself and I think rpm is probably at fault (exceptions when running NCC software install)
This is not a biggie. Probably just time to reinstall and drink a cool one (pink lemonade!!!)
tia
Kristi
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How do I specify the size of the quick-start icons on the task bar, left side. I run the task bar at normal, but even if I make it higher, the quick-start icons just grow and I'd like them to stack 2 high, nicely, like the systemtask items nicely do.
tia
Kristi
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I am saying very clearly that if you subscribe to the cooker list, or "expert" list, anything that appears in that list will have the actual senders email addy in the header.
I noticed that when I didn't send anything to the lists, I didn't get any spam. I also noticed that ve4y shortly after sending something to the list, I would get some spam email to that smae emailaddy. Here's a few that I just pulled out of my trash - except for warley's. I shouldn't have ANY of these - about 1000 a week with some repeats.
warly@mandriva.com
joehill@sympatico.ca
rob@robandmegan.net
james@linuxrebel.us
pf@pfortin.com
bbaptist@iexposure.com
EDIT - as to the actual *archives" which go back to 2002
http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/newbie/ has some
http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/ is chock full of them
Look 'em uo yourself: http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/
And of course, bugzilla which is open to everyone, makes everyone's email addy available.
Stupid Stupid Stupid.
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There was a reply on the club forum asking me if that also meant the archives
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Kristi's on the warpath!
Having gotten some more spam, I have unsubbed from cooker and expert. When someone posts to these lists, the list shows the original email addy of the poster. I think that this is the only list I have seen do it.
STOP IT
STOP IT NOW
I have sent out 3 or 4 emails and I am quite sure none of them will have any effect unless someone BIG gets behind it.
Thank you.
Kristi
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I went ahead and installed the kern for 10, reran lilo, it politely booted (10) to a cli prompt, I re-installed nvidia 7147. I got 2 messages that I am wondering if I should do anything about
NVIDIA: left KBUILD. -> done. -> Kernel module compilation complete. -> Installing both new and classic TLS OpenGL libraries. -> Parsing log file: -> done. -> Validating previous installation: -> done. -> Uninstalling NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 (1.0-7174): WARNING: Unable to restore symbolic link /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1.2 (File exists). WARNING: Unable to restore symbolic link /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so -> libGL.so.1.2 (File exists). -> done. -> Uninstallation of existing driver: NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 (1.0-7174) is complete. -> Installing 'NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86' (1.0-7174): executing: './usr/src/nv/makedevices.sh'... executing: '/sbin/ldconfig'... executing: '/sbin/depmod -aq'... -> done. -> Driver file installation is complete. -> Running post-install sanity check: -> done. -> Post-install sanity check passed. -> Shared memory test passed. -> Running runtime sanity check: -> done. -> Runtime sanity check passed. -> Installation of the NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86 (version: 1.0-7174) is now complete. Please update your XF86Config or xorg.conf file as appropriate; see the file /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README for details.
this is the tail end of that log - the 2 warning messages are what I'm talking about. Do I need to do anything?
The driver is definitely installed and working as I can start NWN and I would not be able to if it were not installed.
tia!
Kristi
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all of the guarddog logs are in: /var/log/messages
I set guarddog to put them in error - that way the are pretty easy to find in .var/logs/kernel/errors using kwrite to view them - still not as easy as firestarter, but there are other things I don't like about firestarter.
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This is good timing - My 2005 started refusing to boot to a gui, I checked the obvious culprts and removed the nvidia driver but still no go - I know I could have spent a day or 2 communicating with MUB via XP to get 2005 going again, but the thickness of the dust on XP is a real deterrent :D , and I *kinda* wanted to see how cooker was going, notwithstanding that I had just gotten over 200 messages on cooker and expert lists (that don't really tell you anything any more because they aren't linked to a bugzilla number, and they seem to be being used by a lot of 10.1 and 2005 users - WRONG!
How are you making out with RPM 4.4, kristi? I'm getting the problems others have reported, every few operations rpm will just hang, you have to kill -9 it then rebuild the database...a bit worrying and inconvenient. Ah well, I guess pterjan will fix it soon.I had the usual error based on an evolution prereq which knocked out about 10 things I don't use plus xine (I've learned to not install xine until AFTER I finish the update.) - Oops just tested xine - flashes gui at me then disappears. try mplayer and it works perfectly, Uninstall all xine (and related) stuff. Reinstall xine and it calls for another requirement - yes - installs fine, albeit a few termination messages SIGG 11 or somesuch that I just ignore, installs fine, start mplayer, locks, eventually ends, start mplayer again - works perfectly, start xine, works perfiectly. This was tru since early stages of 2006 cooker and is not a biggie to me - I know it'll get straightened out by 1b, maybe even by beta image. Did just discover that It changed me to kern 10 source, still running 6 so I need to try to get the 10 modules. the Dazuko modules which aare 10 did not get included so klamav is up, just not dynamically checking. Last time I got this far, Nvidia would not install with 10, so
1. get 10 kern,
2, boot to 10 kern and try to link nvidia 7174 to it. (biggie)
3. see what I have to do to get Dazuko going (not a biggie)
All in all, it's in a lot of better shape that it was a week ago.
No probs with rpm.
One in the first 25 or so maybe number 5 has signature error. and I think 2 in the 380 or so had sig errors but I just reply yes to everything and it finished fine..
Now it is possible I might screw it up with 2 above, but at least then I can still multiboot to 6 to play NWN!!!
Thunderbird and Evolution both use the mbox format to store mail so they should actually be able to use each other's files directly. At least, theoretically. Of course, this is why I run my own IMAP server - can access that with any old email client, from anywhere. You really should try it. :)Okay - How do I set up and run a imap server?
Kristi
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Don't tell me there's something other than the US?????????
I did check his location as being Missippi or Misouri.
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You should try sylpheed (stable) or sylpheed-claws (devel...gtk) or sylpheed-claws2 (devel...gtk2)...it was my favorite client before tbird. It can handle the /var/spool/mail/<<username>> stuff, IIRC, but I think you need sylpheed-mailmbox-plugin.
Can it convert ftom tbird?
right now I've got 2 mail proggys - tbird which has everything pop3, and kmail which just has the local mail Kinda like to only have one mail proggy. but it's really not a biggy - this is little stuff. I'm just happy that cooker works
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are you running KDE?
gad another person up this late!
yes - KDE (which happens to be 3.4 according to the splash, the menu sidebar, and 3.4.1 on desktop configure.) still running old 2.6.11-6 and 7174 Nvidia. I also installed Evolution mail, but it doesn't offer me any way to get from tbird, so now I'm looking for a way to get tbird to input from /var/spool/mail/username (MCC Security alerts)(using kmail for that now). by the time the snapshot comes out 2006 cooker should be pretty good - it's good now (but don't go reading the cooker list!!!!!)
nite!
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EDIT 1
I did a fresh install of 2005, and update to cooker 2006:
Text printer prob is gone. Yay!
Had to reinstall klamav and anacron. big deal.
I am using MCC Security at HIGH and reading it with kmail.
klamav is working but Dazuko is not: the install put kern src -10 in usr/src, and the Dazuko modules are -10, but my kern is still 6 - I'm off to get kern mod 10
I filed bug 16267.I will edit this if I find problems. I will run this unless I find a critical prob.
Looking good!
Kristi
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Nice post! :D I appreciate posts on TV cards cause lots of folks have them and I know few are lucky enough, like me, to have their card supported easily in Linux (I have an Asus TV880 (cx0x880x chip), I just use TVTime, but these days I don't need a PVR). It's anoying and surprising to me that cards from big companies like Hauppauge aren't better supported.
Thanks! :D
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If it's just something like Wine you can easily add a user and login as that user. That user will have all the user config files for Wine, etc in his/her home directory. If you have a number of users who will share certain files you can put them all in a group whose members share those files. But just because you crash something doesn't mean you will hose your Linux system. If you are worried about installing something that may wreck your whole system then you should go to multi-boot, but just installing Wine and running Windows games should not do that. Maybe someone who is into WineX and games can give better advice. Check out the emulation forum or post there with a question.
Trying to follow this... Are you saying add another user(MCC, System, Users, ADD USER) , and install wine to that user, or, I guess wine would wind up being installed to the system, but only used by that new user(?) - yeah, be logged in to that second user any time you use wine. (?)
tia!
Kristi
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Got it! - see post at top!
Kristi
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Can you tell me where to find this info?
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Hi Rolf - check out my new enttry in Tips: https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=25673
:D
Kristi
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Thank you Adam and Kristi (congratulations by the way).
Thanks!
I did that and it works AOK.Good!
Since the Ksensors GUI has the option of selecting Autostart, it would seem that the maintainers of this piece of software have a fault to fix.Don't hold your breath...
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It is missing the code to put two links that are necessary for guarddog to be re-engaged on a subsequent boot.
See https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=24089
See https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=24979
I'll put a link to these in the orig post above
Thanks.
Kristi
EDIT - this has been fixed in the original post above
pre-install combine CDs to DVD? [solved]
in Installing Mandriva
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I am downloading the 6 CDs on the club 2005+KDE3.4 or something like that - I've seen suggestions posted that are for readhat, but does anyone have a procedure that will read the 6isos sitting on my HD and combine them to a DVD. Or am I in lala land?
tia
Kristi