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This sounds like a case of "Uh-Oh" to me. How many partitions do you have now? As root, a simple fdisk -l /dev/devicename with devicename the name your disk (usually hda) should give you the answer.

No, the Bitkeeper to CVS gateway was hacked, see http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/06/058249 .

Quote: i know i set X to start when i was installing, and the startx command didn't work. and i've read where changing the "runlevel" will fix it, but how does one go about doing that? As long as startx doesn't work, don't bother changing the runlevel. What happens if you startx? Do you get any error messages, and if so, what are they?

I'm on mdk 9.0, but my guess is that thing will be the same in 9.1. So: launch Mandrake Control Center -> Network & Internet -> Connection. There you can launch a wizard to specify your internet connection.

>... and I just know 3 commands in the text mode: ls, man and help. Well, if you know man, what else do you need ;-) But seriously, what is it that doesn't work? Did you get to specify your video card during the installation procedure? Try the startx command. If that does the trick, then your only problem is probably that you have to change the default runlevel in the file /etc/inittab. If not, then see if you get any error messages, and post them here. Support for this chipset should be in recent versions of X, so I suspect that would not be the problem. undefined

Deehh....you DID read my reply to your original post, did you?

It means that the file /usr/x11r6/lib/libgl.so.1.2 is already present in the XFree86-libs package, and that the ATI drivers will overwrite it. Since this is probably what you want, back up the original file, and use the --force flag to the rpm command to install the ati rpm. >p.s. how do i install amsn if its .tar ? Wild guess: tar xvf xxx.tar; ./configure; make; make install

Very strange. You could try to redirect the output of ls to a file, and compare the outputs with diff. Maybe you'll see where the difference lies...

Hmmm...lemme see: Slackware 3.something, slackware 3.something++, slackware 4. I still cannot believe how easy it was to administer those systems, seems like all these years of development have only made using Linux harder :-) Then redhat 6.1, 6.2. Pretty decent distributions at the time, but really outdated by now. Mandrake 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0 (currently on my desktop), and now 9.1 on my laptop. In my experience mdk has the easiest install procedure of all distros. Then again, also mandrake has it's quirks, I've had trouble several times setting up my home network. LFS. Pretty cool project. If you ever want to learn linux, you have to try it yourself at least once. No fancy portage tool, just downloading a source package and start compiling. Slackware 9.0. Continues the slackware tradition of a trustworthy, no-nonsense distribution that just works. Installed it on my 486 with 512MB hard disk, which is pretty impressive for such a modern distro. Havent tried to run kde 3 on it though ;-) Gentoo 1.4rc4 (? dunno about the version number) Pretty nice, works ok, but installing a packages takes a hell of a lot of time (as you can imagine). A bit overhyped, I think, the speed gained by optimization for your particular platform is not that big. Is that all? <me starts thinking> No! Small Linux. Nice little distro, that fits on a couple of floppies. Ok, that's really all I've tried so far.

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Stupid question, maybe, but is something writing to that directory?

You have to be more exact, or else we won't have a f**ing clue what is happening on your system. Okay, small steps now: > but i was trying to set my audio card How? Tell us exactly what you did. > which is an onboard via 8223 (AC'97) Ought to work, I think. > and it says who says? > that My sound wont work and i should run artswapper or sumthing Post the exact error message. > also how do i view whats in my cdrom drives? I would appreciate all the help... thx ls -alFh /mnt/cdrom/

Do you have the ssh deamon running? Check (as root) service sshd status If not, you can start it manually with service sshd start Or you can use the service editor in the Mandrake Control Center.

>Please enter the directory (iso or image file) containing >the Mandrake Linux Distribution. Huh? When do you get this question? Anyway, try /mnt/cdrom . No guarantees that this will work, though.

You want to get the Linux IA32 drivers. IA32 stands for 32-bite Intel Architecture, i.e. what is commonly referred to as a PC. AMD64 is the new 64-bit architecture by AMD, IA64 is the 64bit Itanium architecture by Intel, FreeBSD is a different operating system altogether.

You what?!?? Well, to each his own. Check out http://klogoturtle.sourceforge.net/ .

Duh. Missed that. Buffy283, learn to use the TAB key. It'll save you a lot of this sort of trouble. --- G

>How can I tell mandrake to keep using the old one after installation has been completed??? Dunno. But since you've already installed a system, let's try to fix it. First you want to boot your system with another kernel. Use the CD with the alt1 kernel to boot your computer. My guess (it's been long time since I last installed mdk) is that somehow you will be presented with an option to pick a kernel and add options to it. If not, try pressing Escape or something. Load the kernel from the CD, but use the linux partition on tour hard disk for the root file system in stead of the RAM image on the CD: alt1 root=/dev/hda1 (replace /dev/hda1 with the partition on which you installed linux) If all goes well, you will have a working OS now. Then you can install any kernel you wish, using the normal package management tools (I prefer to use rpm on the command line, but use whatever suits you.) From here you can do several things: install another kernel RPM from your CD's (I'd start with the Linus kernel, given that the current Mandrake kernel doesn't work for you). Or you install the kernel source, and make your own kernel. Start by making a small kernel, containing only what you really need. Good luck. Let us know if there are more problems. --- G

>Ok, i have one more question. One thing i'm not clear on concerning kernel configuration is when to make something into a module and when to compile it directly into >the kernel. If I understand correctly, it's a trade off between the amount of disk space that the kernel uses versus how fast it is. In other words, if I make a crapload of >modules the kernel will take up less disk space, but will be much slower because of the runtime overhead that modules create through dynamic linking. Am I right or is >this a bunch of crap? Every module you install will also take up disk space, so that will not be the issue :-) If you use modules, you can include them in your running kernel when you need them, thus saving some memory by unloading modules you don't need. This will cause some overhead when you load; not sure if it's slower once they're loaded. Plus, if you've compiled every module that came with your kernel, you won't have to recompile your kernel if it doesn't include what you need: you can just load the corresponding module. If I were you, I'd compile everything you know you need into the kernel, and the rest as modules. That way, you might gain a bit of speed at startup (because you need to load less modules), and you have maximum flexibility. Unless you're really short on RAM or disk spave, of course. --- G

> no final newline fstab So add a newline after your entry in the fstab > mount pt not found. create a directory /home on your second machine --- G

> "/etc/X11/XF86config-4" [NEW FILE] 0,0-1 all ^^^^^^^^^ I think this sums up your problem pretty well. There is no file /etc/X11/XF86config-4. Check which file is your XFree configuration file, probably something like etc/X11/XF86config, then. If you're unable to find it, start X, and check your X log file (probably /var/log/XFree86.0.log or similar). That will print a line (==) Using config file: "/path/to/config" Once you have found the correct file, you can edit it with whatever editor you like. And yes, you have to be root to do that... > this file is without permission what so ever. That's because that file doesn't exist. Find the correct file and check the permission with ls -l. --- G

>Last night my system worked correctly. >But today Xwindow can't start. I start the computer and all services responce OK but the >login screen not appears and the monitor don't show anything and goes to standby mode >frequently. Well, apparently you changed *something*. What did you do? Can you change to another virtual (text) console, using Ctrl-Alt-F1? >How can I start the system in text mode? You will have to provide some more information, i.e. what distribution are you using, which bootloader? Having said that, "linux single" will boot up your computer in single user mode, without X, and no networking (unless you configured your system in a very weird way). Once you succeed in getting to a text console, check your logs, especially the XFree log file (probably in /var/log/). cheers -- G

Bahamut, The gcc compiler names it's output file by default a.out . To run it, you can just type ./a.out To force gcc to give the output file another name, you can use the -o flag as nebulus suggested. And yes, you will find that for many programs on your Linux system there are man pages. Although they are not always easy to read, they contain a wealth of information. G

Hi, Forgive me for replying in English, but my Fench is not very good (virtually non-existant would be a better description). Fortran 90 support is indeed a bit awkward on linux. I don't think there will be any mandrake RPMs around for this. There are some f90 compilers available though. I know of one open source project, at g95.sourceforge.net, and a fork of this same project at gcc-g95.sourceforge.net. However, both are still in their infancy. There is the F compiler, obtainable from ftp.swcp.com/pub/walt/F . I have not tried it yet, but it looks promising. Intel has a Fortran-95 compiler, www.intel.com/software/products/compilers/flin/ . You can also download a free evaluation version there, I think. And if you have enough money to spare, the Portland Group (www.pgroup.com) makes a commercial compiler. Hope this helps, G