Slackware :: K3bsetup Does Not See Dvd Drive?
Mar 8, 2010
FYI I'm running Slackware64 13.0 with kde upgraded to 4.3.1.When I run k3bsetup from a shell the gui pops up without the dvd listed in the device section. I know the dvd works since that's what I used to load Slackware with and I can mount cd's and dvd's and copy files from them.In the shell there is a message:QStringList Solid::Backends::Hal::HalManager::findDeviceByDeviceInterface(const Solid:eviceInterface::Type&) error: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected"
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Feb 14, 2010
It's not a Slackware-specific question, but I figured someone here might have some insight. Basically what I've got is a 120 GiB drive I was using to boot Slackware. I then mounted a third hard drive inside of my PC (500 GiB) that I wanted to clone the Slackware image onto. But I don't want this drive to be solely used for Slackware so I partitioned off about a 250 GiB chunk for it. Using gddrescue I cloned the image. It booted fine and everything looked good other than Slackware still only seems to think it's got 120 GiB to work with. My question is how can I make it recognize the full 250 GiB, or how can I go a different route to utilize the extra space? Is there some way I can just clone it directly and then go about resizing it afterwards? The first thing I tried was to clone it directly and then attempt to resize it afterwards.However, GParted wouldn't seem to let me resize it so I went this other route of setting up the partitions beforehand.
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May 15, 2011
i downloaded slackware iso (4.3 gigs, i thought it would be smaller) and then when i tried to burn to dvd it give me read sector error when i tried to verify. i tried this with 5 dvd and none worked so something is probably wrong with the iso itself. is there another way to get slackware to install with a usb flash drive or should i just redownload my iso (10 hour download =( ).
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Mar 29, 2011
I have a dual boot computer with slackware_64 13.1 and windows.
I have a 120G ide hard drive that I need to add to my computer.
Adding this hard drive changes the drive device id's and slackware won't boot.
as installed, my drives look like this:
When I add the extra hard drive, it looks like this:
I know there is a way to make an initrid and to use the uuid identifications for the drives, and even use labels instead of the long uuid's, but I'm unfamiliar with this process, so I was hoping somebody that's done this before might point me in the right direction.
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May 1, 2011
Just downloaded the Slackware 13.37 ISOs and proceded to begin the installation processHowever, once the setup program gets to the stage where it looks for the CD drive containing the slackware media, no CD drive is found.Looking in /dev doesn't seem to yield any results - no hdx, sdx, or srx devices, apart from my hard drives.When starting, the following kernel messages are printed a number of times:
Code:
ata5: link is slow to respond, please be patient (result=0)
ata5: SRST failed (errno=-16)
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Jun 4, 2011
I have installed Slackware 9.0 on VirtualBox and I've never used it (slackware) before. How do I access a CD/DVD inserted in my laptop through the KDE?
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Mar 9, 2011
Ive got an old hard drive with slack on it but I lost the root password. I booted up with the slack install disk but I dont remember how to mount the drive so I can see whats on it. Ive tried to mount it with things like mount /dev/hda and mount /dev/sda and others with no luck.
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Jul 4, 2011
I'd like to try the Chromium OS on a USB drive - is there a tutorial on how to do this using my Slackware 13.37 PC?
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Jul 31, 2011
Background: Before this I was using Ubuntu, but I decided to use slackware from now on. So I installed it using a DVD and using the setup program also formatted a USB drive since it asked if I wanted to. After this I could boot into slackware fine (including getting into KDE with startx) and I can shutdown using halt -r now. When I boot with the USB drive in it says "Welcome to the Slackware Linux custom USB boot stick!".
Problem: If I turn on the computer without the USB drive it goes into "grub recovery". I don't know what I should do if I want to boot the computer without the USB drive. I also don't know why GRUB is coming up because I thought it had installed LILO.
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Jun 24, 2010
I have two SATA hard drives in my slackware 13.1_64 Desktop.
On 1. Drive I have 3 partitions for Win 7:
/dev/sda1 - Some Win 7 boot partition
/dev/sda2 - Win7
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Jan 9, 2010
I put a larger drive in my netbook and stuck the old in an external USB enclosure so I could use it for backups. It had three partitions on it, ntfs and linux so I deleted all the partitions and created one big linux partition. Every time I write and exit fdisk the removable disk utility in KDE pops up and says ntfs drive. If I ignore it and try to formatit wants to use ntfs, if I fsck.ext3 it saysThe superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2filesystem. If the deviceis valid and it really contains an ext2filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblockis corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:e2fsck -b 8193 <device>2fsck -b 8193 doesn't work either.It seems like its caching something, I can print the partition table and see the one linux partition I created.
Code:
Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
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Jun 3, 2010
How exactly do i do it, I can't find any clear step's on it?I got no CD-R's left and can't get to the shops.
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Mar 23, 2010
I would like to upgrade from my slackware version 12.2.0 based system. I have 200GB IDE hard drive. Tried installing with kernel version 2.6.32.7. The installation would not boot. The kernel is looking for root on sda1 when it should be hda1. Is there a way other than reconfiguring, compiling and building the kernel?
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Jul 1, 2011
I have two computers both running slackware on the same network using ext3 filesystems.
What is the easiest and most secure way to mount one drive to the other computer?
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Oct 31, 2010
I can now read, write and format a floppy disk. Score! [It only takes three separate command line instruction to unmount the drive, format, remount specifying the filing system but what the heck I can do it Now I need USB flash drive to be accessible in Slackware. Otherwise I cant get apps and multi-media data across (without great grief anyway) to test the functionality of KDE.
Gads this is hard work! There is no difference in the operation of Linux than UNIX at university in 1989! Now I see why Im seeing all these adverts for work out east saying Experience in Linux installation essential. Linux requires a wad more work than Windows, MacOS, DOS or even CP/M! You really *can* make a living out of this!
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Feb 18, 2010
Well as you can see from my sig I am running Slack 13 and unfortunately did not discover the readme_crypt.txt on the installation cd until it was far too late. Not to worry, many hours burned and things learned.So I compiled and installed cryptsetup and for my test encryption I am using an external usb harddrive (sdb3).First off cryptsetup kept segfaulting with the luksFormat command and this seems to be a know bug. The workaround it to pass USE="dynamic" to config before you build the package. Then
Code:
# cryptsetup.dynamic -h sha512 --verify-passphrase luksFormat /dev/sdb3 test-crypt
# cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb3
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May 11, 2011
I installed AlienBob's KDE 4.6.2 a few days ago to give it a shot.
I'm really satisfied with it and wish to keep it, but there's one thing bugging me : I can't write to my NTFS USB drives.
To be precise, I can write as much as I want to existing files, but I can't add nor delete files nor directories.
Worse, root isn't allowed either, even in runlevel 1 when mounted by hand (mount -t ntfs /dev/sde1 /mnt/foo).
Did I miss something to configure among the dependencies of KDE 4.6 ?
Output of /var/log/messages
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May 11 08:37:52 rafale kernel: [46953.570204] usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
May 11 08:37:53 rafale kernel: [46954.274818] usb 1-6: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=0730
May 11 08:37:53 rafale kernel: [46954.274821] usb 1-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
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Feb 21, 2011
the software will go through the motions and say burn successful and all the disc itself will even have look like its been written (with the burn circle and all), but when its put into the drive afterwards its still empty. My fstab has
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/dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom0 auto users,rw 0 0
/dev/sr1 /mnt/cdrom1 auto users,rw 0 0
for my drives. Both of them do this, wondering if anyone has any idea why it might do this. I know the drives both work fine.
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Apr 4, 2010
I am hoping to find some-one to help me install Slackware on a USB hard-drive and get it to boot. I get it installed just fine, except, when I go to boot into it, I get a kernel-panic --error message. I am sure its the kernel and that I need to some-how set up a initrd, however, I am a little rusty these days and can not quite seem how to do it. I have a Western Digital Passport external (USB) hard-drive. I will joy-in all help, and, I'll keep looking.
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Jun 30, 2011
Can Slackware 13.37 boot from a USB 320gb hard drive?
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Jan 4, 2011
I installed in my Slackware 13.1 with generic kernel 2.6.33.4-smp VirtualBox packages taken from SlackBuilds.org (acpica, virtualbox-ose and virtualbox-kernel). Then for testing purposes I installed in VirtualBox Windows XP using CD-ROM drive connected to USB port. It's a lot of fun to see Windows as an application in Linux!
Now I'm trying to install in VirtualBox Linux Mint using either USB flash drive prepared with unetbootin or mere ISO image. Without success. It seems VirtualBox 3.2.10 OSE doesn't recognize either USB flash drives or ISO images though it recognizes CD-ROM drive connected to USB port. I found some advices searching Internet but all of them are useless.
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Feb 24, 2011
I was reading this tutorial & it shows swap at the beginning of drive. [URL]
Although I've already installed slackware & put the swap at the back of os, I would still like to know the benefits and purpose of putting at the beginning.
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Jun 18, 2011
I am taking a course to truly learn Linux and am attempting to install Slackware 13.X to a separate USB hard drive. The intent is to keep Windows while learning Linux, and all I have to do is insert the USB drive when needed. I am using cfdisk and have no difficulty getting to the point where it wants me to partition the hhd. However, whether I have the USB connected or not, it will always present the HDA for partitioning. How do I tell cfdisk to recognize and set partitions on the USB hard drive? (i.e.) What is the command?
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Jan 2, 2010
I've googled this many times but have not found a solution yet. Can you get external usb hard drives to automount at xfce startup? They automount if I plug them in once xfce is started. I have them connected at boot I get an icon for the drive which I can then mount. But I wonder if I can get them to automount at startup
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Oct 21, 2010
I recently had a laptop die on me. I, of course, then to recover the hard drive. I wanted to install slackware to a partition on my drive, so I can have a linux distro with me( also I have a FAT32 partition for shared space) I have a Slackware 13.1 disk one (which i need, since I don't need a graphical environment or anything), and proceedd to follow setup program. I have a 5GB '/' partition, a 10GB '/home' partition, and a 2GB swap partition. My ROOT partition is bootable. The setup program seemed to complete succesfully, but it won't boot. When I choose to boot from my hard drive (in the bios), it reverts to the slackware disk, if present, or the standard windows drive.
I installed LILO to the superblock of my external, because according to the setup the MBR option installs to "The MBR of your first hard drive", and I wasn't sure if that was right, since my first hard drive is my windows one. Since i'm not even seeing LILO, I think it has to do with installing to the superblock. I want to be able to boot a basic linux distro if needed from whatever computer I want. I'm not sure if slackware was the right choice, but it was one that I had worked with installing before, and knewthat you didn't necasarraly have to instal all the graphics stuff. I just want a shell. Sorry if my question sounds retarted, I'm new to the whole "Multiple drives, and operating systems" thing
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Dec 22, 2010
just got myself an external usb drive and I'm wondering if its more efficient to have a single partiton or multiple partition on it. Will only be storing music and backups here, also what filesystem would you recommend?
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Aug 22, 2010
kde 4.3.4 kernel 2.6.32.7-smp Have Seagate 500GB (fuseblk) external usb drive that gets listed in the "Devices recently plugged in, pop-up panel" but a Verbatim 1.5TB does not. I have to mount it manually as ntfs volume.
eg bash-3.1# mount /dev/sdd1 /verbatim
/dev/sdc1 fuseblk 4.0G 598M 3.5G 15% /media/Free-4GB
/dev/sdd1 ntfs 1.4T 401G 997G 29% /verbatim
/dev/sdc2 fuseblk 462G 409G 54G 89% /media/FreeAgentDrive
When I boot using the Mint distro on same PC both ext usb drives are automounted. Looking for pointers as to why the 1.5TB verbatim disk does not automount.
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Jun 12, 2010
I inserted a disc and tried to access it through Dolphin. It shows up in the directory explorer thing as a disc and with the disc name, but it has a little / thing in the bottom corner of the icon, and when I try to access it, it gives me this long error on the bottom of the file area (can't remember what all it said, something about 'harvey' and being unable to find the directory in /etc/fstab). The same thing happened with an external drive, which seemed to work fine before but now has the same problem.
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Apr 28, 2010
I am using Slackware 13.0 and i have managed to work with my USB pen-drive as root but i cannot do it as a normal user.
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Jan 14, 2010
I've looked all over the place for the utility that will create a bootable flash drive. Can anybody tell me what the name of it is?
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