Hi.
I'm new to this message list and relatively new to mandrake, but I've worked
with unix in the past. I am probably not as great at programming or sysadmin
as the others here, but I'll learn. I'll try not to ask too many ID10T error
questions.
I have been using MD 7.0 & 7.1 with great joy. I went out and got the latest
pre-release of 7.2 and I installed it with NO issues. All hardware was
recognized and installed. great job, guys.
In order to further the revolution and expand my own knowledge of how to
resolve situations with the OS, I've found everyone I know that runs
Winblows and gotten them to utter the phrase that started me on this journey
-"Linux? Yeah I've been thinking of trying it..." *cackle*
I then show up at their house with my 7.2 beta cds (and 7.1 in case I can't
resolve something ;) I then proceed to gleefully install it on their
machines. VIVA LA REVOLUTION!!! (yes my spanish sucks.) I've done about 15
of them so far. Hehehehehe.
Anyway, I have had a problem with cd-rom and floppy drives after creating
them with the kde2.0 create new devices menu. I put in a data cd and I can
access the drive with the icon. I put in a music cd, it says "you do not
have the right to access this drive." Of course, I checked permissions. I
tried it logged on as root. no go. I gave my user and group all
permmissions. No difference. HOWEVER, XMMS can play my music cd. So can cd
player and anything else that plays music. What's up? I should be able to
view the tracks on the cd through Konquerer. Heck, I tried 'cd /mnt/cdrom'
from terminal and it gave an i/o error. I tried adding user to the fstab and
mtab for the cdrom and tried *naively* /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom in that line.
(found out why that doesn't work ;) Anyway, it's an irritation mainly. The
floppy though acts goofy about different disks - some it will read some it
will say I have no right to read ;) Any ideas what's up? In Konquerer, I
noticed the icons show a lock on them in /mnt. Can I unlock them somehow
without screwing something up? Let me know.
The Mitsumi cd humor is something that happened trying to install the beta
7.2 on a friend's computer. We couldn't boot my cds, which have booted fine
on many other machines. I went into winblows, autoran the cd, and made a
floppy cdrom.img. The install cranked up, and couldn't initialize the cdrom,
give me a cute menu. I tried every dang cdrom listed under other cdrom and
even SCSI, eventho it's IDE. Nothing worked. Went into bios, changed to plug
and play OS: No, rebooted, it recognized and started to install. used disk
drake, everything going smooth. get to package selection, it says error: no
hdlists. hit ok and it goes back to disk drake. messing with it, I figure it
cannot find any packages, cause that's ACTUALLY the step that is failing.
try rebooting, now it won't initialize cdrom again. reboot, check in bios,
and it eerily still says plug and play OS: NO. yikes. reboot into winblows,
eject, reinsert cd, and nothing happens. use my computer to view cdrom and
it show 1 FILE!!! and it says track01.cda ???!!!?!?!?!?
Feeling like I'm in the twilight zone, I check it in dos. SAME THING. So, I
open up the cd player and have it start playing the cd. Since we're on
cable, it connects to Cd artist database (CDDB or whatever) and it announces
gleefully that it is an unnamed track by Sting. STING???!?!?!?!?!?!? WHAT
THA *&@#? It's a 73 minute long BLANK track.
I put 7.1 on his machine that night. I took the disks home, put em in, it's
fine. normal contents. put 'em in my wife's winblows machine, disk's fine.
Who knows about that one???? I'm still laughing on that one.
Laters,
Ravenhall
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