996rxa Posted March 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 The drivers are proprietary in that they are licensed. There is nothing "unsafe" about them. I do not recognize the command "sh ls" and do not know what it will do. I do know that if you type "ls" in a directory you will "list" the contents of that directory. You can change anything anytime without rebooting! Simply open a console and type "init 3" and shut down x. Make your edits and then type "startx" to go back into your window environment. (This is not ms windows!) I do not know why you want to reinstall linux, but you may reinstall it as often as you wish. Since the installation does not give you the correct configuration, You will still need to make the correct configuration each time in order for it to work; so I suggest just making the necessary edits and stop wasting time with reinstallation. I wich I could oepn a console. I wish I could type: "init 3". I wish I could go back to my window enviroment!!! I wish I could, I wish I could, I wish I could..... I actually lost my window enviroment after I made some updates, that was a week ago an I still cannot use Mandrake. To get here I either use another computer or log onto Windows XP. Lets got step by step. I will spare you details like pressing the power button etc. Okay? The computer starts and reches the window where I can choose between Linux and Windows. Linux starts up as it always did (pale blue screen with a pinguin etc). Black screen with white writting. loading shared librairies: libXmuu.go.1: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory. local host login: root password: ****** last loggin: Fri mar 10 19:34:19 on ttyl [root@localhost *]# After the # I type: "cd /mnt/cdrom" I didn' note down how the command line is spelled like but it ends by: cdrom. Then I type: "sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run" ENTER The cdrom doesn't start up or at least I don't hear any thing. No file or directory found (this is translated from French). What do I do now? TKS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
996rxa Posted March 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 From : [root@localhost *]# to acess the cdrom I need to type: cd /mnt/cdrom If I want to acess the disket A. What would I need to type. I as because when I type the command "ls" or "sh nvidia......etc" the cdrom doesn't light up. I have a DVDROM can this be an issue. It's my only IDE drive. I want to save a document on a disket and see if ls will give me the listing of file and documents stored. I wonder if my problem to access file is that the directory is wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 Your floppy disk is normally /mnt/floppy. You can save a 0 byte file just by doing this: touch /mnt/floppy/filename replacing "filename" with whatever you like to call the file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 23, 2006 Report Share Posted March 23, 2006 (edited) Your NVIDIA driver on cdrom probably has no exec flag, and of course you cannot change that on the CD-ROM read-only filesystem. So, copy it to HD first: mount /dev/dvd (or whatever your device node is- consult your /etc/fstab file) cp /mnt/cdrom/NVIDIA* /root Flag the HD file as executable: chmod ugo+rwx /root/NVIDIA* Run it (kernel headers should be previously installed, else the nvidia driver won't compile cleanly): sh /root/NVIDIA* Notice before anything that your terminal commands are case sensitive Edited March 23, 2006 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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