danleff

The ability to mount ntfs volumes depends on the distro that you are running. If you plan to write to the usb stick, and it is formatted ntfs already, I would not do it. Of course, if your distro supports mountng read-only ntfs (or the kernel has support for this), than it should work. If you are already mounting the stick on vfat, then you know that the usb-storage module is being loaded and the stick can be mounted. If you plan on just using the stick for read-only, or copying files from the stick to your linux system, and the dsitro supports reading ntfs volumes, then you would just need to alter fstab to tell it that the usb stick is ntfs and not vfat. What dsitro is this that you are using?

How mission critical is the win install on this system? If you don't have a win 2000 or win xp install cd in order to get into the recovery console to do fixmbr and fixboot, you may be able to use a win 95 or win 98 boot disk to fix the mbr. The problem is that some have reported that this does not work on some systems. So, if all else fails, try going to bootdisk.com and grab a win 95 boot disk. Once booted to the command line, type in fdisk /mbr Again, this is chancy, but works most of the time. What concerns me, is that this is an HP system. If it has a hidden recovery partition, hopefully this will not touch that.

Again, I was interested to see if sata was enabled, don't get too hung up on this at first. In the bios, however, under the advanced window, there are multiple screens. See the bottom of the screen to see how to toggle from one screen to another. One screen option is "Onboard Devices Configuration." It is there that you will see "onboard stata BootRom" and "Promise raid." See if one or both are enabled by default and let us know. It looks like the board and Fedora are seeing the sata drive as hde, rather than in ide logical order, such as hda, hdb.... I ran into this on a raid board when I used the raid ide connector for a hard drive. Linux id'ed the drive hde, but also as the first hard drive in the system. In other words, the hde drive was the boot drive, accordng to Linux. I had to reverse the drive configurations in Lilo (which I was using at the time), by using the option "ide=reverse". Don't know about this in Grub, though. Let's try this. I assume that you told Fedora to use Grub to boot via the MBR? If so, go into the bios and see if changing the first boot device to "scsi" causes the system to recognize Grub properly. Remember, I don't have sata, so if others have a more logical approach, let us know.

Actually, my realtek 8139 nic cards (I have three of them) work well in Mandrake. The issue is the Realtek Gigabyte onboard. Once you get the nic up and going, then we can work on the Realtek gigabyte issue. Remember, stay away from the pci slot right next to the agp card. Sometimes they share resources and there can be a resource conflict. Use pci slot 2, 3 or 4.

I remember this from an old Suse install on a laptop I did several years ago. There was an option in xfconfig, as you set up the screen options to "stretch" the screen to fit. This fixed the problem for me. However, I don't know if it still is an option in the much newer version. If he/she is lucky enough to have the Win 2000 install cd, I have done this; Boot Win2K using the recovery cd, go into Recover, then select Command mode. When prompted, log on as Administrator. Execute the fixboot and fixmbr commands. You should now boot Win2K again as usual. If he/she only has the HP recovery cd's, I'm not quite sure how to do this.

I have this old CTX notebook with 64 nb ram and a 200 mx processor. Libranet and Vector Linux have brought it back to life. Currently I am running IceWM as the desktop. Being a Puppy Linux follower, Barry (the mantainer) has used Skipstone and more recently, Firefox as the browser. They run very well in general on my systems, but Puppy does not like my NeoNMagic video card in this system. So, who can guide me in the requirements and installation for either browser? It looks like Mozilla, at least the Mozilla header files, are required for Skipstone. Given my limited resouces on this system and the inability to find any real good information on this, has anybody used either browser with IceWM? And, does anybody have any good resources that you can point me to to get either to work on my system?

This is a hard disk id problem, which is why you are getting the message. What motherboard is this? I assume that you are not using raid, which was set up in windows? Please also check if sata is enabled in the bios. This is virgin territory for me, but I think we can come up with a solution. Was the sata drive recognized by Windows before installing Fedora?

Looks like the pre-compiled deb package was compiled with other than the version which is on woody standard. Remember, the support for GeForce 4 MX440 is there, just not the advanced features and 3D that you get with the NVIDIA package. What happens when you try to install the source NVIDIA package? Do you have the kernel-headers or kernel-source package installed? I could not get the site to come up for me where you got the packages. Are you using apt-get or synaptic?

Interesting! The Mandrake site does not list the board or nic card as supported. I would pop in the Linksys card and see what happens. I would also pop it into a slot which is not next to the agp video card slot. The issue may also be the bForce chipset on the board. See if it gets picked up, then you can troubleshoot the onboard later on. You may need to disable the onboard support for the nic card in the bio, as well.

Also, does the bios recognize the second hard drive correctly? Is it set up as primary slave or otherwise? I assume that this is an ide drive? Concentrating on the method that you used to partition the hard drive, did you use PartitionMagic (as Dapper Dan suggested), the Fedora utility, or the manufacturer´s utility, such as Maxblast 3?

If you are configuring from source, then the steps are often; ./configure make then you need to go to root user by typing in su. then entering your password. At that point, you can do; make install However, it would help if you tell us what package that you are attempting to install, as directions do vary.

Looks like the RTL8169 is the correct driver for the Gigabyte lan. Did you set it up to use dhcp during the install? I'm assuming this is cable? Does the connection work with any other os and onboard lan is set active (enabled) in the bios? No other nic card on the system? BTW, nice motherboard! Looks like some have had success.here.

Dan, I agree with you. After being inthe mental health business for some 20+ years, different methods work with different personality styles. "Tough Love" or confronting one with their actions is one method (some of us used in this case), which somethingotherthenwindows obviously rebelled against, but he may eventually "get it." Alcoholism is a disease, as it alters the way the body responds to the drug, it is an addiction. However, a person needs to decide how he/she will cope with the disease. Blame others or take charge of bad things that happen in one's life. Another example. I've treated many Diabetics who insist on keeping bad eating habits, despite their disease. This is their choice, but they are still responsible for their actions, the final outcome. If they choose to deal with their disease, that where the progress begins. I now work as a health administrator with teens in the criminal justice system. I've seen boot camp (tough love at the extreme) work, as well as simply giving the person the mentor or role model that they never had. The course of one's life is what they choose, rather than the role that they play or choose. These forums are about getting help and giving back to the community of Linux users. I hope this was the message that I put forth to somethingotherthenwindows.

I generally don't respond to these discussions, but here we go. somethingotherthenwindows has a decision to make. It's obvious that we will not validate what he did. However, the idea of these forums is to share problems andsolutions. Linux is not free, we share our ideas and experiences. Hopefully we contribute to the Linux society. Most of us realize that, as Spock said; Quote: Sometimes the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few If somethingotherthenwindows decides to post back and take Dapper Dan's solution, or a reasonable course of action, this would go far in re-establishing his credability. I hope he does, even if he does not share it with us. If he chooses to continue to "steal" by using another nickname to get answers on these forums, that is his choice also. However, if he chooses the former, he should be welcome back. then he may find that; Quote: Sometimes the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many I hope that he does the right thing.

Give us a little more inforation. How is your system set up? With a router? Motherboard make/model. Onboard or pci NIC card? Are you also using Mandrake 10, as well?

Very difficult request. Your main issue is the hard drive. Also, if this is a laptop, the issue gets more difficult. What type processor is this? Pentium, AMD K6.... Regarding x-windows, I assume you mean a desktop environment, or just as a server environment? I suggest you consider getting a larger hard drive. No way around this easily with a hard drive install. But, if you want to run off of a cd, the prospects are better. Puppy Linux is my personal choice. But, again, you need to have a little more hard disk space to run it off the hard drive. It uses xvesa (a lite x-windows system) and has a lot of useful apps. DSL and Feather are other choices. Libranet will run on 64 mb ram with IceWM, but the hard drive space requirements are much more than you have. Let's see what others come up with.

A couple of comments on SB sound cards. There are many varients of this card, many are legacy cards, such as those used by Gateway, are made to run in Windows on a Gateway system. Pay close attention to the model number. If you bought a cheap SB online, chances are it is one of these cards. All kinds of issues. Model SB0100 rings a bell...I'll look it up later. Also, when using a pci addon sound card, make sure that you disable onboard sound in the bios.

Now that you mention it, yes, I had the same thing happen posting on this forum. It would be interesting to know what the problem is. I'll have to find out which distro it was and try it again.

Ravi, can you post what model number that you have? Yes, it apparently does make a difference. There have been a few posts about the Vaio and I can't remember what the issue is on some of them, but, I remember that some distros have specific settings that have to be enabled during the install to make it work. I would guess that RedHat 7 will not work well on the newer Vaio systems.

Ahh...just what I wa looking for on yea ol' laptop! Does not work on kernel 2.4 series! I'll have to try this out. If it works, I owe FredL2 one!

1. This is normal. Mandrake sees the usb stick as a hard drive, just as windows sees it as a hard drive/partition. 2. Mandrake is funky about this, at least mandrake 10 is. it likes to use kudzo and supermount to do it's work. Therefore, everything is done as root user. I found that it mounts the stick, but will only copy files if you drag and drop files from the file manager. I'll look at my old box (Mandrake 9.2) and see what it does.

That goes to show you, the newest is not always the best! Good going!

Try making a sysmlink in a root console. Type in; ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.la /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.la Make sure there is a space between; ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.la and /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.la Then try to compile it again.

From the instructions on the website; Linux - Open a shell and cd (change directory) to the directory where you downloaded the installer. At the prompt type: sh ./LimeWireLinux.bin Installing Limewire

I noticed a couple of things. I see that you are using K3b Version:0.11.17. Did you compile this from source, or install an rpm package. If so, which package did you install and from where? Interesting, cdrecord shows; Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to <warly@mandrakesoft.com>. And this is Fedora. Are you using the default kernel, or did you upgrade to another kernel? Hmm...the message; Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second Do you have the file manager open by chance trying to view the cdrw drive while burning? Otherwise, I wonder about the kernel version. It seems that the cdrw is busy or not being found for some reason. Do you have another cdrom, cdrw or dvd drive in the system?