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[jerry davis]

On Friday 06 January 2006 08:31 am, Josef Lowder wrote:
> I'm glad to hear that everything works for you guys.
> I am having a horrendous time trying to get everything
> to work on my new Mandriva 2006 install.  I do believe
> that it has the potential to be excellent, but there are many
> really annoying issues.
>
> #1 - it is painfully slow on my dialup internet connections,
> 	as much as three to four times slower than the way
> 	my old Mandrake 8.1 system works and a Knoppix
> 	liveCD works 2 to 3 times faster than my old 8.1 box.
> 	So, I know that I should be having improved speed,
> 	not this horrendously slow speed.
>
> #2 - The Kwallet thing is driving me nuts and I can't find
> 	any way to edit or modify it (or kill it).
>
> #3. I can't access my other partitions from the Mandriva
> 	boot.  I also have Mepis and Xandros installed and
> 	with either of them or with the Knoppix LiveCD, I can
> 	access all the other partitions on my system, but
> 	with this new Mandriva 2006 installation, none of the
> 	other partitions show up in /mnt and I can't find any
> 	way to mount them.

1. as root, do a fdisk -l /dev/hda. you should then get all the partitions on 
that disk.
2. the do a cat /etc/fstab, to see what is defined there.
3. edit it to add the others in.
4. do a mount of each one.

The only partition you should NOT see, is the Extended one, which contains 
hda6,7,8, and 9

For example, here are my results:

root at frodo RPMS]$ fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1           2       16033+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2               3        9729    78132127+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5               3         256     2040223+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6             257        1020     6136798+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7            1021        2294    10233373+  83  Linux
/dev/hda8            2295        2931     5116671   83  Linux
/dev/hda9            2932        9729    54604903+  83  Linux

root at frodo RPMS]$ cat /etc/fstab
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/hda6 / ext3 noatime 1 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 noatime 1 2
/dev/hda9 /home ext3 noatime 1 2
/dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 /usr ext3 noatime 1 2
/dev/hda8 /var ext3 noatime 1 2
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

Jerry

>
> Lots of other annoying problems, i.e. with the new Kmail,
> and various other things. Nuisance icons in Kmail and other
> apps that I can't get rid of.
>
> ----------------------------------
>
> On Friday 06 January 2006 08:08 am, Donn wrote:
> > I agree with you. I am really happy with mandrake^H^H^Hiva 2006. Very
> > solid and everything just works.
> >
> > On 1/5/06, jerry davis <jdawgaz at cox.net> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 05 January 2006 01:41 pm, Matt Alexander wrote:
> > >
> > > well, I've been mandrake^H^H^Hiva for years.
> > > it is actually a nice distro.
>
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