Greetings all,
I appologize for the length....
Over the weekend I install what I think was 7.0-2 over my very nicely
working 6.1 and had several rather annoying problems that I hope someone
can answer.
System:
ADM K6-2 350
64M RAM
Diamond StealthIII video
Sound Blaster Live
yada, yada, yada
First off NICE job Mandrake on the GUI install, only complaint would be
that it was a little confusing which packages I was selecting for
install (might want to look at check boxes instead of the color change
thing).
Second, when setting up X and selecting video/monitor/resolution. It
would never sucesfully test out my Diamond StealthIII and 19" monitor
under ANY resolution (nor was there any clue how to get out of a hung
test - finally tried a Ctrl+Alt+Backspace and that worked), I had to
just guess at the proper settings and let her fly. This was true for
every attempted install.
OK, first attempt was an Expert / Developement / Medium Security install
where I installed EVERTHING. Didn't change any partition sizes or names
just had to verify filesystems and respecify /mnt points and all was
happy. With the exception of the afore mentioned X setup every thing
appeared to install without a problem untill... it did the required
reboot at which point it bombed when bringing up the filesystem with
"The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct
ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains
an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or usf or something else), then
the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with
an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 (device)"
CRAP, what is this???? ended up trying to reinstall again making
certain I specified a ext2 filesystem for the problem mount but NO GO.
I had to reinstall a 3rd time and re-format the offending partition (my
/home partition - can you guess I was NOT happy).
OK, didn't like it but what could I do, so, I then get my ISDN modem up
and talkin', Netscape's back up, on to the sound.. wrong. During the
reboot I noticed the sound module [failed] so it's off I go to creative
for the tarball and compile. All goes well but fails to modprobe
emu10k1, hmm me thinks it's unsure which kernel directory to compile /
install to ( /etc/module/2.214-1linus, /etc/module/2.2.14-15secure etc..
there's a whole slew of them) . Just for grins I tried Lothar (nice job
on that BTW) and it's telling me that sound has already been setup so
it's off to the mixer from KDE and it keeps coming back with permission
errors even when logged in as root, very strange.
Forth attempt is an Custom / Developement / Medium security install with
EVERYTHING except kernel and again same problems except now I don't have
the Superblock problems. Still no sound.
Fifth attempt is an Custom / Developement / Low security install with
EVERYTHING except kernel and again same problems except now I don't have
the Superblock problems. Still no sound.
Sixth and final install is a normal install and everthing loaded fine.
Hey guys, all I wanted to do was make certain I had all the librarys
installed because I've been burned before by not having them all (thus
the developement install's).
Not sure I have any specific questions but just wondering why some of
the things that happened did.
Regards,
--
Joseph S. Gardner
Senior Designer / Technical Support
Kirby Co., Cleveland, OH
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No windows, no gates.
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