I have a completely new desktop and I have installed Ubuntu on it. That happened yesterday, today morning there is no internet connection on my desktop. I don't know what happened.
Anyway after all I have decided to put Mandriva over Ubuntu - that was the original plan - but now I am facing problems with installing Mandriva.
1st. The oriiginal cd drive is not recognised by Ubuntu Therefore I am using an old drive which at least is working.
2nd I cannot run Mandriva dvd.
My questions:
How can I delete Ubuntu and replace it with Mandriva? If this is too difficult, I would switch back to Windows 7. At least in Windows I have a bit of experience. The windows 7 dvd it cannot be run also.
I wanted to installed Skype on Mandriva 2009 x64, but qt4 was a pre requisite so I installed it first (from the control panel). I still got an error when trying to install Skype (downloaded rpm), so I tried to reboot. However, now I just get a black screen instead of a login prompt. I have had a lot of issues with X11, but I usually get at least a prompt, I don't even get that now. Just a black screen... If I hit ctrl+alt+F2 I can log in as root, and I tried to start x, but I get a message saying there is a problem with D-sub.
I have a 250 gig usb hard drive, my bios allows me to boot from it. What I would like to do is install the above 2 o/s so I can dual boot from either one.
I have a ciber and my server has Mandriva Linux I have machines with windows xp, 7 and Ubuntu, I haven't been able to add the already shared printer in Ubuntu... the machines with wins haven't given problems in adding the printer. When I try to add it, it can't find it in the network all machines are configured in the same workgroup.
I dual boot XP and Linux. Right now i've been running Mandriva but haven't been that satisfied with it as of late and am thinking of switching to the new Ubuntu. My question is, what would be the best way to go about this.. would i want to switch back to the windows bootloader, remove the linux partitions and then remake these partitions from free space during the Ubuntu install?
My main concern is wether it is necessary to switch back to the windows bootloader before proceeding (LILO currently) as i have no problem removing the old Mandriva partitions... I thought I'd reply to this thread rather than start a new one:
Doing almost the same thing with Mandriva, Vista & Grub going to Suse.
Am I to assume that I shouldn't have issues and that the Suse bootloader will overwrite Mandrivas? It is written in the MBR.
Now that I saw the poll of top distros for new users, I'm considering Ubuntu & Mint as well.
Will any distro's bootloader overwrite a prior version?
I am planning to buy ASUS Eee PC 1000HE Netbook in near future and want newest Mandriva on it with KDE 3.5. Just wondering how Mandriva performs on this netbook? Do all the features work or is there any tweaking I have to do to get the best results? Anyone using Mandriva on ASUS Eee PC 1000HE? Is so, then what's your experience so far?
i'm using mandriva spring powerpack on a samsung n210. after the installation the screen went fuzzy. i logged on as root, and did XFdrake selected xorg vesa and nv but i still get the same issue. the screen res is at 1024x600. can anyone recommend an alternative xserver. the free version worked fine, i just don't know what it uses
I am running Mandriva x64 and the nepoumuk file indexing was causing system hangups (in addition to not returning any results) so i disabled it. However kfind is not returning any results either - i feel a bit stupid and I'm sure there's a simple answer to this but How do i locate files under Mandriva linux? Is there a simple KDE application for that or do i need to look at kfind settings? Does file search only work with indexed database?
I installed mandriva 2010 power pack. But the sound is not working ! the sound card is detected and when i play a song the player shows that it is playing it but no sound is there!! no channel is muted!
Code: My lsmod: Module Size Used by ipt_IFWLOG 2374 2 ipt_psd 47523 1
I got 'Mandriva 2010.2 One KDE Europe - Americas' live image with a tech magazine as an .iso. The live usb image created with Unetbootin on my Mint 10 of the iso won't boot. All I get a warning no operating system or something. I tried the Mandriva-seed script but it gives an error
Also tried the isotostick script too but it too won't work. Here is the error message
Quote:
Not verifying image...(no checkisomd5 in Ubuntu so skipping)! ./isotostick.sh: line 103: /lib/udev/vol_id: No such file or directory USB filesystem must be vfat or ext[23] Cleaning up to exit...
note that the file system of the usb drive is FAT32 and the md5sum of the iso is the same as that specified in the website !!
Having trouble mounting cd dvd under mandriva 2010.tried bash with su command and then# mount media/cdrom.but got this reply "mount:wromg fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,missing code page or helper program, or other error. In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so"
I used Ubuntu as my os for about 6 month.In that i could install gloobus coverflow,gloobus previve and gloobus flow. Few days back i install Mandriva 2010 in to my laptop.I try to find out how to install gloobu in Mandriva.But i couldn't.It's not available in Rpmdrake. I am a newbie and don't now how to do it.If some one now how to do it..
I used ubuntu and recently I install mandriva in to my laptop. I am using a headphone and when I listening to music I reduce speaker sounds and increase headphone and master sounds using "alsamiser -c 0" command in terminal.But at the end of each song, speaker sounds automatically increased.so I have to increase the headphone and master sound and reduce speaker sounds at beginning of every song.
When I restart the machine master,speaker and headphone sounds usualy become silence. Is there any why to save the alsamixer settings or any other way to correct this error.
I have a tar.gz file that I am trying to install - In trying to convert it to a rpm file I extracted it to its own directory and ended up with a heap of .svg files - how do I install from here?
how do i install mandriva 2010 with the help of pen/flash drive? i hav the ISO image but my DVD drive is not working so burning it to a disk is not a sol for me i m using win 7 so the other method shown is not working
I need to install Chinese Language on my computer use for ERP Oracle System.ERP Oracle System is running using Browser Software and Java Applications.My problem is my computer is reading Chinese Language in Office Files, Browser Software (Chinese Website), but when im using my computer on ERP System only box appeared. Do any one knows how to solve it.
I have mandriva 2008 installed on my system. From past 2 years it was working fine. But now suddenly i weird problem has started. Whenever i boot the mandriva 2008 OS, it boots up with no problem and comes to login screen, it takes the username and password but it restarts the X-server again. But if i give wrong username or password, it shows login failed.
I am a user of version 2006 of Mandriva server and now I am upgrading to MES5. According to support, netatalk is no longer support by this version (at least in Brasil), and I still have some old Macs running System 9.2 and it is very important to have netatalk running at server. I download netatalk and followed the intructions showed at:[URl]...
I was able to follow the instruciont until step 5, executing ./bootstrap. Next, I should execute the next command: ./configure, but I got the message No such file or directory. There is no REAME file at the directory and the only configure file it has is configure.in, a 40kb file, plain text document, its first line says dnl configure.in for netatalk.
I am trying to learn more about linux. I have Mandriva 2010 and I got it to connect to my netgear router but I am unable to get it to connect through the router to connect to the Internet, I have read lots about it and tryed lots of different things Mandriva See's bouth my wlan and lan and it is installed on a packared bell ML61 laptop.
I have installed mandriva 2008 spring edition. In my home i am using bsnl broadband connection. But i cannot install drivers in mandriva linux. In ethernet properties it is showing me that unknown device.
How do you send files, save or other wise write to CD using Mandriva Linux? On windows you get a helper menu. Linux does not offer this option in it's helper file and you can't click and drag a file in the CD folder. The dialog box reads "you do not have permission to write to this folder" when I try to drag it in and I can't change the permission signed in as Root.I don't have a clue. I wish Linux Questions would add a emotioncon that has the expression " what the hell buddy? are you on ten hits of acid?
