Guys ... .. well, was getting pretty comfortable with my VMware installation of 10.1 on my AMD64 laptop (256m3g ram 60gb hd, 2.0gH), was booting into CLI, then startx (from root) into KDE, 1024x768, installed Firefox, all going well ... decided it was time to change the "3" to a "5" in the inittab file to boot up into KDE directly ... then all went down hill from there ...
... booted up fine, but from my user, not root, and booted into Konquerer where I had made no settings of any kind, no Firefox, Bookmarks, etc ... could not change the "5" back to a "3" or make any other changes in inittab, because no permission from user level, have to be in root ... could find no way to getback to KDE ... on each reboot try the system degraded, files no longer accessable, etc ...after many failed tries of getting back to root, I deleted the entire installation, delete/defragged/created a new VM platform, attempted to re-installed 10.1... .... 30 seconds into bootup I get "error trying to load second stage ram disk" ... last few install log items read: * trying to load /sysroot/tmp/image/stage2/mdkint_stage2.bz2 as ramdisk * mounting /dev/ram3 on /sysroot/tmp/stage2 as type ext2 * fopen(stage1.c:383) failed: I/O error * unsetting automatic ... have tried all the options I could think of, no luck ... looking at the install log, everything seems to be going fine until the failure ... ... should have asked you guys, you probably could have gotten me back to KDE just fine, I wouldn't be in this fix ... HK -----Original Message----- From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 2:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [newbie] How get from "dos" mode into KDE mode? h k ball wrote: > Kaj ... > > ... haven't given up on 6.0 yet, kind of a challenge ... have it working in > partiton in CLI (you taught me that terminology) on my desktop (Intel32, > 256mb ram, 700mH, 20 gb hd), now that I have 10.1 running in VMware on my > new (AMD64, 500mb ram, 2.0mH, 60gb hd) laptop, with KDE running and Foxfire > installed, my learning curve has accelaerated a bit, got more ideas for > things to try on 6.0 to get KDE going ... mainly grinding through the 1000 > different possible configuration combinations using that old Xconfigurator > ... > > ... 10.1 bombed out on my desktop in the first 30 seconds of the boot-up > install, didn't like my disk drive partitions (old machine, badly chopped > up with 6-7 partitons, been re-partitioned alot) .. > > ... my new laptop refuses to be partitioned by either my Partition Magic, > or by 10.1 when I tried to install it from bootup, that's why I had to go > the VMware route (very sluggish, but totally functional) .. > > ... so, think I can go back and squeeze in a small Fat32 partition on my > desktop, along the lines of your suggestion, but cannot for 10.1 on my > laptop .. > > .. one thought - I'm on the internet in Linux through my wireless local LAN > network just fine, could Windows send stuff to Linux over that LAN network > ? > > HK > I can understand the installer having a problem with this drive. You might be able to do something in the expert mode, but you might also delete some of your data... I would be tempted to back things up, wipe the drive, and start over. Create one partition for Windows, and leave the rest for the installer to play with. Another option would be to add a second drive for Linux. Let Windows keep the first drive, and have the installer install to the second hard drive. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! << File: message.txt >>
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