kilimanjaro Posted October 20, 2003 Report Share Posted October 20, 2003 Ok I'm gonna do it! I am going to do a fresh install. I'm not sure if I will do 9.1 or 9.2 I would appreciate any advice on that subject. The problem is that I need to back up a couple of gBs of data and I can't get my cd rw to work. I have Eroaster, gcombust, Gnome-Toaster, and x-cd-roast. I have only had any of them work once, I think it was Eroaster. I am going to do a search, but if anyone has any advice, lay it on me. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has helped me and put up with my whinning. kilimanjaro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted October 20, 2003 Report Share Posted October 20, 2003 THe simplist way o say that data is to create an extra partition on you hard drive large anough to hold it, remmber that if you Bzip2 it, it will REALY shrink in size, then reinstall without killing that partition. Also, if you can get it down to about 2 gig, I can mail you a small harddrive to store it on while you re-install. I'll want some money to cover the shipping, but other than that, consider it a karma boost, not that I believe in karma, I just like to behave as though I did. Let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted October 20, 2003 Report Share Posted October 20, 2003 correction, the biggest one I can part with is a 1.2 gig, but bzip2 it and you may be pleasantly surprized at how small it gets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted October 20, 2003 Report Share Posted October 20, 2003 If you are going to install from scrathc anyway you might as well go with 9.2 now. I have just got it installed and it seems to be running very nicely and little bit quicker than 9.1 did. Back-up wise you could always leave your home directory intact when you re-install. That would save all your user settings and if your /home is big enough your data as well. Either that or you could try to use your CD-RW from the command line, the Linux Documentation project has a howto on the subject. http://en.tldp.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilimanjaro Posted October 20, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2003 Thank you VeeDubb That is a very kind offer, but I have about 6-7 gigs over 3 is ogg or mp3, about1.5 is jpgs, about 1.5 is video and the rest is/are text files. And I would really love to be able to burn cds again, I haven't been able to since I installed mandrake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 My favorite is k3b. But you need to be running KDE and I know your running fluxbox. Some of those cd burning apps probably need gnome to run properly. What desktops do you have working ? Guess we should pick the best burner app possible with what you have running. Is a kde or gnome possible with your machine? This may make it easier to get you burning your data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilimanjaro Posted October 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 Hello scoopy I just got x-cd-roast to work. Boy, is it amazing how well things work if... YOU ACTUALLY READ THE DIRECTIONS!!!! Maybe I should do that more often. My next task is to either find some place with high speed internet to down load or order the cds. I haven't checked, does anybody know how much they are? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 GREAT ! Boy, is it amazing how well things work if... and listen to peeps, such as bvc. :wink: x cd roast is a good choice. Don't fiddle with any of those settings till you get things backed up. Keeps us posted. :mystismiles: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 I run K3B in IceWM. You don't have to have KDE to run it AFAIK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 You may be right Steve. I was assuming along the lines of kwrite, kcalc, kmix, kate, and k3b. You are saying you don't have kdebase installed and can run k3b? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 Oh, I guess you're right. I do have kdebase installed, but I use k3b in IceWM. [code}[root@omarserenity omar]# urpme kdebase-progsTo satisfy dependencies, the following packages will be removed (19 MB):k3b-0.9-10mdk.i586 (due to missing kdebase)kdeartwork-kde-classic-3.1.3-4mdk.i586 (due to unsatisfied kdebase >= 3.1)[/code] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilimanjaro Posted October 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 I burnt 10 cd earlier today, and now xcdroast freezes everytime I try to use it. It worked great before and now when ever I try to create a cd it just stops doing anything. I am prettty sure I am doing everyhting the same. Any Ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilimanjaro Posted October 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 Disregard my last post, it started working again. I started it and just let sit there and after about 5 minutes it started working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeeDubb Posted October 21, 2003 Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 My next task is to either find some place with high speed internet to down load or order the cds. I haven't checked, does anybody know how much they are? http://www.cheapbytes.com $6.99 +$5.00 shipping =$11.99 for mandrake 9.2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kilimanjaro Posted October 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2003 Are the cds that you order the same as what you can download? I seem to remember a post where some thought that they didn't get all of the dependencies with the powerpack edition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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