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Instal fails
Ok here as strange one...
Putting box a together...want to format a drive that had Mandriva on it..
install goes fine...no errors..finish instal...reboot...Mandriva...still there no Minty goodness...
I am going to format the drive prior to install and try it again..
any ideas what would cause that....I did it three times...same result
install goes fine...but on reboot...back to an old Mandriva.
I checked it out with another live run distro...just to see if there was loader problems...no all Mandriva partition intact...
maybe the ghost of Gael .......
Putting box a together...want to format a drive that had Mandriva on it..
install goes fine...no errors..finish instal...reboot...Mandriva...still there no Minty goodness...
I am going to format the drive prior to install and try it again..
any ideas what would cause that....I did it three times...same result
install goes fine...but on reboot...back to an old Mandriva.
I checked it out with another live run distro...just to see if there was loader problems...no all Mandriva partition intact...
maybe the ghost of Gael .......
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Ok..so I used gparted live removed all partions
re installed...no problems...but again
on reboot back to Mandiva it wants to go...
So this is taking too much time...
So I put in another HDD as primary
move the problem drive to slave.
reinstalled again to problems...
go to reboot....back to Mandriva..
Ok yank the slave drive
reboot...first I get grub error 22
so put in the install cd
choose boot from hardrive...presto theres my minty goodness
take out install cd...reboot
disk boot faiure from Bios...
yep this machine just dont like me...
So I remember from what 98 the old /mbr trick....
so do i have to let M$ back in my other wise uncontaminated house
just to wipe a friggen master boot record..
re installed...no problems...but again
on reboot back to Mandiva it wants to go...
So this is taking too much time...
So I put in another HDD as primary
move the problem drive to slave.
reinstalled again to problems...
go to reboot....back to Mandriva..
Ok yank the slave drive
reboot...first I get grub error 22
so put in the install cd
choose boot from hardrive...presto theres my minty goodness
take out install cd...reboot
disk boot faiure from Bios...
yep this machine just dont like me...
So I remember from what 98 the old /mbr trick....
so do i have to let M$ back in my other wise uncontaminated house
just to wipe a friggen master boot record..
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I utilize the Ultimate Boot CD to clean up my hard drives and diagnose PC problems. The UBCD uses FreeDOS and Linux.so do i have to let M$ back in my other wise uncontaminated house
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well aint that the swiss knife of whatsits...
cleaned those drives right up..
gots me some some more minty goodness now...
and a Ultimate Boot cd...tah for the link...funny though
I was reading on the site...didnt put fdisk in just in case M$ thugerised him..
So I am thinking the drive that gave me so much trouble was recycled out of one of my servers and was probably running reiserfs..but you would think gparted could deal with that
anyhow damm near wasted a whole day...but one more minty fresh install done and now I know about the Ultimate boot cd to boot..cheers
cleaned those drives right up..
gots me some some more minty goodness now...
and a Ultimate Boot cd...tah for the link...funny though
I was reading on the site...didnt put fdisk in just in case M$ thugerised him..
So I am thinking the drive that gave me so much trouble was recycled out of one of my servers and was probably running reiserfs..but you would think gparted could deal with that
anyhow damm near wasted a whole day...but one more minty fresh install done and now I know about the Ultimate boot cd to boot..cheers
Q: What's even better than the Swiss Knife of Whatsits?well aint that the swiss knife of whatsits...
A: The Swiss Knife of Whatsits with a full-feature Linux (and X) which can be invoked as a UBCD menu item.
Here's how to make a bootable UBCD disc that includes the Puppy Linux live CD...
Download version 4.0.3 of the UBCD ISO file [here]. The zipped file is about 88 megabytes in size.
Download version 2.15CE of the Puppy Linux ISO file [here]. It's about 132 megabytes.
Within your Linux Mint home directory (cd ~), use your favorite (un)archive utility to extract the UBCD ISO file into a directory named ubcd, and extract the Puppy Linux ISO file into a directory named puppy. Make sure that these directories and their contents have normal user (non-root) permissions.
Your ~/puppy directory should have these files...
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boot.cat
boot.msg
initrd.gz
isolinux.bin
isolinux.cfg
pup_215.sfs
vmlinuz
zdrv_215.sfs
* copy ~/puppy/pup_215.sfs into ~/ubcd
* copy ~/puppy/zdrv_215.sfs into ~/ubcd
* copy ~/puppy/vmlinuz to ~/ubcd/custom/puppy
* copy ~/puppy/initrd.gz to ~/ubcd/custom/puppy.gz
Your ~/ubcd directory should now look like this...
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boot\
custom\
custom.cfg
puppy
puppy.gz
dosapps\
images\
isolinux\
menus\
syslinux\
tools\
website\
autorun.inf
pup_215.sfs
ubcd.ico
zdrv_215.sfs
Edit the ~/ubcd/custom/custom.cfg text file to look like this...
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MENU INCLUDE /menus/defaults.cfg
LABEL back
MENU LABEL ..
KERNEL menu.c32
APPEND /menus/main.cfg
LABEL puppy
MENU LABEL PuppyLinux v2.15CE
KERNEL /custom/puppy
APPEND root=/dev/ram0 initrd=/custom/puppy.gz loglevel=3 PMEDIA=idecd
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mkisofs -b "isolinux/isolinux.bin" -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -J -joliet-long -no-emul-boot -V "UBCD403" -o "ubcd403-pup215.iso" "ubcd"
You boot to UBCD as usual, but now the User-Defined Tools menu has PuppyLinux v2.15CE.
Puppy Linux is tiny yet packs quite a bit of software, plus codecs. Drives (un)mount using a GUI tool. There's a setup wizard for virtually everything. Mozilla browser with Flash. FTP. BitTorrent. CD/DVD burning/ripping. And the desktop windows manager isn't too fugly.
Now that's a knife!
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