Ouch, even drakconf isn't available on the 700MB ISO... And easyurpmi isn't Mageia-enabled :(
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:33:05 +0100 Antoine Pitrou <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok, I re-installed from scratch and selected vesa (and disabled > composite) in the installer itself, which at least makes the DM screen > work properly. Then, though, the "GNOME/openbox" session doesn't work, > probably because GNOME isn't really available in the 700MB ISO (there > is no "task-gnome" in the available packages). > > So I start LXDE instead, try to start the package manager (hoping to > add online mirrors for extra packages) and find that it isn't installed. > I then try to install rpmdrake using urpmi and it fails because of > lib64webgtk1.0 ("due to unsatisfied webkit 1.0"). > > So, it seems the 700MB ISO isn't really usable except if you want to > restrict yourself to testing LXDE and Firefox (or are willing to > configure extra sources by hand on the command-line). > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > > On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:12:18 +0200 > Ahmad Samir <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Two different issues... > > - the drak3d issue, make sure you select a DE from the session list in > > the display manager used (assuming you installed a DE, KDE4, GNOME, > > LXDE) while installing Mageia > > > > - Alpha 2 comes with vbox-4.0.4 guest-additions, this mightn't work > > with a 3.x vbox host, but first of all, there're no pre-compiled > > kernel modules in Mageia yet, so make sure the -devel package for the > > running kernel is installed then reboot so that dkms tries to build > > the vbox additions kernel modules, (you can check the status with > > 'dkms status' as root). > > > > > > - If the modules are built and it still doesn't work, then the easy > > workaround is to uninstall all the vbox package from the guest: > > dkms-vboxadditions > > x11-driver-input-vboxmouse > > x11-driver-video-vboxvideo > > virtualbox-guest-additions > > > > then while the guest vm is running: > > - select Device> "Install guest additions" > > - download the iso, mount it in the vm > > - switch to tty1 in the vm (by pressing the Host key + F1) > > - mount the iso: > > # mount -t iso9660 -o loop /media/cdrom > > - Install the additions: > > # cd /media/cdrom > > # ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run > > if you're installed the i586 edition of Mageia > > > > OR > > ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-amd64.run > > if you're installed the x86_64 edition of Mageia. > > > > Hope this works... > > > > -- > > Ahmad Samir > > > > >
