Re: [expert] Error installing 6.1
You're not alone Andy. I had the EXACT same problem when I attempted the upgrade. I finally ended up doing a clean install. At 12:37 AM 10/5/99 -0500, you wrote: I got a Linux-Mandrake 6.1 CD in the mail today, and I tried using it to upgrade from 6.0. No luck... and, for the record, I get EXACTLY the same problems when I use the 6.0 CD's upgrade option! I go through the usual installation procedure. - Boot from CD - Press ENTER - Select keyboard, language, ... - Say no to PCMCIA - Ask to upgrade - Say no to SCSI Then it claims to scan my disk. Then it asks about SCSI AGAIN! I tell it no again, and it tells me sixteen times that it can't mount since the disk is busy. Then it asks for my root partition. I say /dev/hda12 (which is correct). BUSY. I Alt+F2, unmount it (I find it mounted at /mnt/, according to /etc/mtab), and return. I say /dev/hda12, and it proceeds to scan my disk. It then comes up with an error message claiming it can't find an RPM database and as such cannot upgrade anything. Since the whole point of this CD is upgrading, I need to fix this! Now this is a guess, but hey, it may be the truth. Maybe it gives me this trouble since /var/ isn't part of the root partition but instead is its own partition. Hmm. That gives me an idea. I'll try again and manually mount /var/. But if this works, I've uncovered a Mandrake installer bug: If it can't find the RPM database on the root filesystem, it should ask for another partition to check. ALL help WILL be appreciated! I'm counting on you guys! ___ Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] zap.to/andygoth/ UIN: 35256413 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- :Charlie was a chemist / But Charlie is no more : : For what Charlie thought was H2O / Was H2SO4. : -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [expert] Upgrade failing on mounting hard drive
I had the exact same problem except i was using the CD to attempt the upgrade. Was forced to do a clean install. At 01:43 PM 9/27/99 +, you wrote: I'm trying to upgrade a friend's machine from 6 to 6.1 (over http), and after probing for SCSI adaptors and retrieving the hdlist, it fails on mount, saying the device or resource is busy. After looping through this a couple of times, it comes up with a signal seven error, and stops. -- *===* | Andrew Mitchell | | Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Home Page http://members.tripod.com/Ajmitchell/ | | ICQ 11392490 (ajmitch)| *===*
Re: [expert] Is there a linux offline news reader
Free Agent works pretty well under the latest Wine. At 01:16 PM 9/14/99 +0200, you wrote: Hi, well this a little bit off topic, but anyway: does an offline news reader for linux/unix exist ? (Something like Free Agent which unfortunately only exist for ms-windows) Thanks for your answers. Olivier.
Re: [expert] linuxconf says system not in sync
Make a tmp dir in your home dir to fix lynx. Dunno about the other but i have noticed same thing At 02:45 PM 8/16/99 -0500, you wrote: Hi all, Has anyone noticed any of the following after doing a fresh install of Mandrake 6.0? 1. When quitting linuxconf, it complains that the system is not in sync. It wants to change ownership of /var/spool/mqueue to root.mail, it wants to change /usr/sbin/pppd to mode 755, and it wants to restart gpm. I noticed duplicate entries in "Control" - "Control files and systems" - "Configure file permissions and ownership" for /var/spool/mqueue and for /usr/sbin/pppd, each with different settings. In /usr/lib/linuxconf/redhat/perm there are "extra" files, mail.mdkconf and ppp.mdkconf. Are these supposed to be there? Are they causing the duplicate entries? 2. I'm unable to run lynx, either as root or as an ordinary user. [root@localhost ~]# lynx produces the following: metamail: Can't open temporary file! Does anyone have any ideas about how to fix this? Thanks, Eric -- Eric Rahmig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
