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@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@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 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. > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Hobbit Name: Pimpernel Loamsdown Registered Linux User: 275424 This email's Fortune: I've given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss