i'm sorry you have to go. i had a similar problem, but my harddrive
wouldn't remount in read/write mode. so i basically had a harddirive that i
could only read off of. the only answer i could get where things like edit
the fstab file, etc. but i couldn't cause it was a read only hd. finally
after a week of spending a least 3 hours a day, i gave up and reinstalled.
unfortunatly, that was about a month ago, and this weekend was the first
chance i've had to play around and set up mandrake. if you decide that
mandrake is worth one more try, great. but if you decide not, we're sorry
to lose ya.
good luck
jd
>From: X Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [newbie] No more Mandrake.....
>Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 01:39:54 -0700
>
>I think I may finally be ready to throw in the towel on Linux. Everything
>is gone, and I wasn't even doing a damn thing other than browsing with
>Netscape. One 2nd everything was great, then for no apparent reason the
>browser went blank - nothing but a white screen - and it wouldn't close. So
>I went to use the Kill tool on it, but I couldn't because all the desktop
>icons had disappeared, leaving only black outlines of where they would
>normally be. I still wasn't overly concerned because this happens from time
>to time anyway. I tried to shutdown, but the shutdown message just came up
>and froze, along with everything else except the mouse. So I manually
>rebooted. The "not cleanly unmounted" errors came up, as they have been
>every time for the past couple months - it usually seems to just delay the
>boot process slightly. But then something different popped up:
>"/dev/hda5 contains a file system with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5:
>inode 43199 has illegal block(s)" and then:
>"/dev/hda5: Unexpected Inconsistency: run fsck manually (without -a or -p
>options)". Then in red, it says "[FAILED]", followed by: "An error occurred
>during the file system check dropping you to a shell. The system will
>reboot when you leave the shell. Give root password for maintenance or
>ctrl-D for normal startup". So I entered the root password, and it said,
>"BASH: ID: command not found". It repeated that bash message for about 5 or
>6 lines. I tried the fsck, and then it said: "Parallelizing fsck version
>1.14...".
>
>I manually rebooted again, got the same results. Another time I tried the
>ctrl-D but it just rebooted back into the same thing. When it rebooted I
>saw something about "..cannot unlink..." and "..var/unlock file.." but it
>scrolled too fast to make out the whole message.
>
>It took a lot of time and effort over several months to get things to
>finally work right, and I still had work left to do. I had previously
>experimented with Slackware, which took forever just to get the basics
>setup, but then a couple of unexpected severe crashes requiring
>reinstallation finally sent me back out in search of something better.
>Mandrake seemed to be it, but this latest disaster has me pretty bummed
>with the whole thing. It seems like, although Linux may not crash everytime
>you turn around, the way Windows does, eventually it is going to crash, and
>crash HARD, and not necessarily for any obvious good reason. It's after 1
>AM and I've been struggling with this for several hours, so maybe I'll feel
>different tomorrow and do another reinstall if I have to. But right now I'm
>thinking maybe I might just look for some other OS, maybe FreeBSD or
>something. Don't get me wrong - Mandrake has been great, and it's
>definitely the best distribution of the 3 I've tried, but it just seems
>like there's some inherent unstableness of a different kind lurking in
>Linux in general. Maybe I've just been having a string of bad luck. I may
>still be a 'newbie' but this one came completely out of left field. The
>worst part of it - I was just about ready to start spending most of my time
>in Linux. I had just downloaded (not installed) a program that could do
>what one of my primary windows programs does, and I had just downloaded
>VMware (also not installed yet). But now here I am back in Windows full
>time it looks like. I can almost hear Bill laughing :-(
>
>
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