-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 11 November 2003 7:20 am, Thinker wrote: > I tried to ftp install it but something has gone very wrong. > > Using the mirror > ftp://ftp.cs.ucr.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/i586/ > > I made the network.img floppy using rawwritewin.exe (on my Windows 2000 > box) from the dosutils directory. I booted to it, brought up the network > and directed it to the proper location on the server. > > Once everything loaded into memory, I only selected LSB, Workstation, > Configuration, for the installation options. Something like 700MB or so. It > took about 90 minutes and then the installation was complete. I rebooted > and once in, I brought up the MCC to update the installation. Once I > updated the install, everything seemed to be fine. Then I noticed the > 'writing' light was on on the front of my HP 9150 8x4x32 CD-R/RW Drive. Of > course I wasn't writing anything (There was no disc in the drive). The > eject button gave me no response so, in true newbie fashion I assume, I > rebooted. When the machine came back up and I logged in to KDE, half of the > information that had been in my menu was gone. I couldn't get to the MCC, > no terminals or anything. Only a few items, none of which can help me get > my system back to the state it was in before I rebooted. > > HELP! > > > -=Thinker
Would you please, in the name of all that you consider Holy _remove that fscking reply to_ from your mail client? I'm certain I've asked you this before and the reasons have been posted ad nauseum on this and other mailing lists. The archives hold your answer and the reason some of us get so cranky over reply to settings is just that; archives will prevent endless repetition of the same "fixes" if people would only use them. To your menu problem: Log out, or don't log-in as user from a fresh boot. From the log-in screen use Ctrl+Alt+F1 and log-in there as root. Then run the following commands: (Note: ALL commands are one liners. You can assume there are only single spaces between flags and options, mail client word wrap kills that though.) urpmi.addmedia ftp://ftp.cs.ucr.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz <Enter> Next prompt: urpmi --auto-select <Enter> After you install all the relevant updates, run the next compound command. rpm --rebuilddb && updatedb && update-menus -n -v && ldconfig <enter> Next prompt: Ctrl+D to exit, then Ctrl+Alt+F7 to return to the log-in screen. You should be OK. For the CD-RW problem; is that drive a re-badged LG by any chance? If so you likely killed it, which you would know if you had read any of the multitude of posts, or the warnings on the Mandrake site, in the past three weeks. HTH Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21mdk 09:47:27 up 21:52, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.10, 0.14 A lie in time saves nine. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/sResG11CaRuZZSIRAv/tAJ4uZaCvcn4Lxgq2WSJwqSvSFkrEUwCggYtU B7+PXEq5lNfEGAlsnxqXNtM= =O7kc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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