danleff

Let me just clarify, the is a Knoppix hard drive install? Seems that I remember this also. Where are the 2 files (cdrecord and cdrdao) located, either in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin? Most likely you need to run K3b as root. Try this also. Become root in a console and type cdrecord --scanbus and see if you get any output. make sure that you leave a space between cdrecord and --scanbus. If you do, and the CDRW is identified as 0,0,0 or something like that, try typing in k3b as root and see if you get the same error messages. Finally, what version of K3b and KDE is on the system? If need be, you can get a newer version of cdrecord and tools by adding a backport source to the sources.list file, assuming that you did not try to upgrade to sarge or sid with synaptic. If it runs as root user, or you get a display error, you can make an icon to run K3b as root. I can walk you through this, if this is the problem. But, I need to know what version of KDE that you are running.

Depends on what hardware that you have and what you want to do that is "interesting." How bout posting the hardware that you are having issues with and your basic system components. You might want to try a CD based distro, like Knoppix or Mepis and see how they react to your hardware. Both can be installed, if you choose, to the hard drive. If you have a newer system with a reasonable amount of ram, like at least 128 mb, then try RedHat 9 or Fedora. Forget RedHat 7.3, unless you have an older system, it is too old and the newer versions are much more hardware friendly. If you want to compile apps. from source, and this is the issue, then make sure that you choose to install the development tools during the distro install. Of course, then there is SUSE, which has Yast and has an easy apps. installation process.

This will work for the printer and hopefully allow the scanner to work as well? Interesting...let us know how it works. I would imagine that you still need sane/xsane as a frontend to use the scanner. Or, in KDE, it would be great if Kooka works with the drivers.

If you want to keep/re-establish the windows bootloader, then fdisk /mbr will do this. If you want to immediately install another distro, then make sure that during the installation, you either choose to make a boot disk, or allow lilo or grub to be your bootloader on the mbr. Making a boot floppy only will preserve the windows bootloader, but allow boot of the distro from the floppy.. Allowing grub or lilo to takeover the mbr will give you the linux bootloader and should add windows as a menu choice. If it does not for some reason, you can add windows to the linux bootloader menu.

There is no distro preferred by everyone...but there are a lot of choices, depending on your needs. Look at distrowatch.com and look at their list of most visited distro pages. Follow the links and look at some of the top picks and see what may look like it fits your desires and needs. PartitionMagic is the most secure and reliable. If you are not willing to pay for it (you have to have a serial number code to activate it), then you can use cfdisk, or the Mandrake partition utility. Just be aware, that I found that the mandrake utility and the format it makes may be finicky with other distros. Pop in the CD, boot up and follow the install to the partitioning section. Pick custom partitioning (assuming that you know where your Mandrake partition currently is), pick your partition that you want to reformat, choose the filesystem type (ie: ext2, ext3...) allow the format to occur and back out of the install. You then have the partition re-formatted for the next distro. Of course, make sure the distro that you use can use the partition type that you choose, ext3 is generally compatible with all the major distros. And of course...make sure you have backed up your important data, in case something does go wrong, as outstream noted.

I HAD four on the same drive, does this count? I blew the others and started from scratch. What I found is that it depends on the distro. For example, which one is installed last. Also, it depends on how the base distro recognizes the other distros and what the bootloader is, lilo or grub. With Mandrake installed last, it auto config'ed fstab to recognize the other distro's root partition. I just added the proper locations for vmlinuz and initrd in lilo, as well as the correct partition for root for the first installed distro and it worked. The exception was Lindows and it's lilo, that apparently made me reference the other distro's partition through Lindows and where it mounted Mandrake. This was due to a Lindows file hardrive.inf not being installed last and being unable to see the other distro's partition, as a consequence. So, I see where you are going. Let me look at my setup, one is with grub, and look at it. So you have two choices. Allow Gentoo (the last installed distro) to use it's bootloader and see what it picks up and go from there. Or, choose to make a boot disk and not allow gentoo to install the bootloader on MBR and configure RedHat's grub or lilo to add gentoo. Then add enrties to fstab to each to auto mount each other, if redhat and/or gentoo doesn't do this for you. Of course, the disclaimer about backing up you data applies!

Are you running any other operating system now that the NIC card is working with, such as Win XP? Take a look at the following thread link for a possible solution; http://www.linuxcompatible.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1111

Well 2 choices, as I see it. The mothebroard should be OK. You can buy a video card and disable the onboard video in the bios, or perhaps try the solution that I found at the following link; http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/18/2003/09/2/82615 I assume that you get a console screen and no GUI?

Would this happen to be model 1320X? Are you using the onboard modem (the telephone jack built in to the system) or an external PCMCIA modem? If this is an external modem (plugged into the PCMCIA slot) and do you have the model name and number? The problem here is if the modem is a "soft-modem" which generally only work in windows. Some of the soft-modems did have drivers for linux, but without knowing what one that it is, it's hard to tell. The internel modem may also be a soft-modem or AMR modem, which probably will not work at all. Let us know what you have, if you can tell. There is very little on the Acer site about this, but I did find one user that mentions a Conexant soft-modem.

Maillion is correct, eth0 is the nic (network) card. I connect to Roadrunner without any special software, even though they do not support Linux. The issue is how you have the nic card connected. Generally usb does not work. So, you need to connect the nic to a router and the router to the modem. No usb. If your ISP connects via a dynamic IP address, you should be OK. If the nic card is not recognized, the easiest thing to do is buy an inexpensive NIC pci card at a computer store. Look for a realtek chipset. The cost is about $10.00, so it's worth preventing the hassle. How is the system connected currently, through usb, or not?

In Star Office there is a start-up script that brings you to a menu window that gives the option to uninstall. I think that Open Office has the same feature. If I get time later, I will boot into Mandrake and try to find it for you. P.S. OK since you installed from source, it may be different for your system. But look in the source directory of Open Office, where you unpacked the app with the file manager. Look for an icon called setup. Double click on this and it should bring up a menu that allows you to uninstall Open Office. It could be under /usr/lib/openoffice/ as well, or in your home directory. If you can´t find it, in a console, type openoffice. Look for the path to the library or main program, then look for the setup icon.

This is why I like these forums! Having multiple users look for solutions is excellent. I forgot about IceWM as an alternative. Maxwell Rain, I will keep an eye out for a good deal for you. I may even have an old 2.5" hard drive lying around that I would be willing to get to you cheap. If you are willing to do some legwork on your system and feel that you could install a larger drive , we can see if a larger hard drive will work in your system. As I suspected, the power of your system is limited, but enough to find a solution. By all means, try IceWM. Between Dapper Dan and myself, let's see what we come up with.

I looked on the Mandrake site and it looks like it is not supported out of the box. However, if you feel comfortable with compiling a driver, look at the following; http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/1000/linux/e1000.htm

Yea, these multi-function printers.scanners are a problem. Remember, they are designed to run in a Windows environment, that is why HP drivers are available for Windows only. Did you ask HP about Linux drivers? They should be aware that they have customers using Linux that want to use their product. P.S. You might be interested in the following; http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php?product=396

I gotta tell you, looking at your system specs. you have the absolute minimum to run Mandrake, in my opinion. There are options out there for you, it depends on what you are able to do. Did I get this correct? A 2 Gig hard drive? That coupled with 64 mb of ram, I'm not surprised that you are having problems. If you had more hard drive space, then Mandrake would run more comfortably for you. Can you upgrade the hard drive to a larger one by any chance? If not, there are other desktops/GUI's that will work, as you mentioned. I like XFCE, which is not memory intensive and works with many KDE programs. There are other, less memory intensive word processing apps. out there. Open Office takes a lot of ram to run properly. Some users like Blackbox a lot, but it depends on what you think will work for you. By the way, what speed is your processor rated for? Either way, you do have options, but it depends on what apps. you would like to run and what your desktop needs are. There also is an article about your system and Linux, if your interested, I will look it up, if you would like. P.S. here is one; http://www.antlinux.com/Toshiba490XCDT/

It depends on how much you will be using this space for downloads and such. But, if you have 5 gigs to play with and you are just going to try out the distro, less than 20% of ther total space should be adequate. I found the following article. I know, it refers to a 200 gig drive but the concepts are there; http://www.shortfamilyonline.com/tech/unix/moving-to-linux-partitioning.php

We can try. What does not work, the download or the installation? Can you give more specifics? It's been a while since I used SuSe, but I seem to remember that the drivers are available through Yast update. They were offered through the update rather than installed directly with SuSe, apparently due to licensing issues. Have you tried this? Take a look at the instructions at the following link; ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/XFree86/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html

What filesystem did you create for the Linux partition, Fat32 or NTFS? ...and what tool(s) did you use to create the partition?

I ahve seen this happen before. If the chechsum is bad and you are sure that you followed the directions; Quote: Please enter the number that checksum generated in the field below to verify that your download was succesful. Be careful to enter the numbers and letters exactly as they appear on the screen, any slight deviation from what is on the screen will result in an incorrect check. Make sure that you input the correct mdsum for the correct version that you have. Than indeed the download may be bad. Try downloading the iso image again and burning. Do you have broadband? Once the checksum is OK, burn the CD, but make sure that you use one of the the slower speeds that I mentioned above. Believe me, this will reduce the possibility of a bad burn. Then check the burned iso by clicking on the file ¨double click to verify media¨ that I mentoned above. The alternative is to buy a premade Lindows disk. I believe that they will send you one for about $7.50.

Look in the bios as well and see what the options are. Jump drives may need to be booted as either usb-zip or usb-hdd in the bios. This varies from board to board.

Take Dapper Dan´s advice. If the fans don´t seem to be the problem and you can isolate the hard drive as making the noises, back up your important data immediately and consider a new hard drive. If it seems like the fan, try to clean it, or blow it out. If it is the fan, do not let the system run for any amount of time. Fix it or replace it immediately. How old is the hard drive in the system and what make is it? If you got reboots with no noise, then you might consider a bad memory chip as the problem, if the problem occured in any OS that you were running. But in your case, either the fan, hard drive or also look at the power supply, but don´t touch it while it is running. Whatever you isolate as the source, consider replacement of that component.

See if this helps at all; http://help.lindows.com/cgi-bin/lindows....ated=1024338565 Some points to consider. Make sure you decide ahead of time, what type of install to do, a takeover install or takeover partition. You will need to have a vfat or linux partition on your system to do a partition takeover install. Also, make sure that you choose in Roxio to ¨record cd from cd image¨ when you burn the iso image. As I mentioned above, use the utility on the burned cd to make sure the burn is OK.

OK, did you burn the image at 4X or 8X? Use a CD-R, if you already did not. Make sure that it is a quality CD-R. If so, and it still doesn´t work, check the downloaded image. The Lindows disk should have a file on it that states somethng like ¨double click here to verify disk.¨ Try this. This will tell you if the download was bad, or if the image is bad. If it comes back bad, try downloading the iso file again and repeat the process.

This looks like a lot of work to get the system going. Looks like you need to recompile the kernel, add the NVIDIA drivers and make some changes to grub. By the way, you lost me...what is RedHat 9B? Reference; http://www.andreasgrau.de/index.php?lang:english;loc ;(10;subloc:null There is a note on the NVIDIA website about the graphics problem; http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-5336.html Note the release highlights; Quote: Fixed a problem that prevented X from running on Samsung X10 laptops.

Sounds like you have a bad burn, or download. Did you download the iso from the Lindows site? Just to make sure, you did burn the iso image, not the iso file itself to the CD? You need to burn the image at 4X or 8X on reliable media. Burning at too fast a burn speed often results in a bad burn. A remote possibility is some incompatible hardware, but I have the same video card, which is not a problem for me. Perhaps you could give us some information about your system, as Lindows has minimal install requirements, such as 128 mb ram.