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dimke.fax at (no spam) uni.de...

Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:54 pm

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Hi there,

last night I installed 2009.1 on one of my boxes at home and now I try
to install it on a different machine, where Mandrake 10.2 / 2005 is
already running.

This PC is a Pentium 4 with DVD reader, but obviously it can only read
DVDs and cannot boot from there - I have no clue, why. So I can only
boot from CD when using this "DVD" drive.

An external USB DVD writer is attached, too, but it can only be used
to write disks. There's no way to boot from that drive.

Does anyone know a trick how to upgrade this box from Mandrake to
Mandriva?

Well, if all else fails, I could remove the HD and install the OS on
ay different machine, but I'd highly appreciate if there's a better
way.

Any idea?

Best regards,

Markus

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David W. Hodgins...

Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:19 am

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On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:54:28 -0400, dimke.fax at (no spam) uni.de <dimke.fax at (no spam) uni.de> wrote:

Quote:

Does anyone know a trick how to upgrade this box from Mandrake to
Mandriva?

The easiest/fastest way would be to install from a iso image on the
hard drive, if you have the space available.

Copy the dvd to a .iso file on the hard drive, into a partiton that
will not be formatted during the install.

Use the following script to extract the kernel and initrd image,
and then modify lilo to boot from the install kernel. The echo
commands at the end of the script show you what to add to lilo.conf.
Change /mnt/data to the mountpoint of the partition that will not
be formatted, and put the .iso file there.
Change the device from /dev/cdrom, if appropriate.

After modifying lilo.conf and running lilo, reboot and select
the install option from the boot menu.

$ cat bin/extractinstallkernel
#!/bin/bash

isofile=mandriva-linux-free-2009.1-i586.iso
isodir=/mnt/data

cd "$isodir"
rm -f vmlinuz.install
rm -f initrd.install

mount -t auto -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 "$isofile" /media/cdrom

cp /media/cdrom/i586/isolinux/alt0/vmlinuz "$isodir"/vmlinuz.install
cp /media/cdrom/i586/isolinux/alt0/all.rdz "$isodir"/initrd.install

umount /media/cdrom
ls -l *.install

echo image=$isodir/vmlinuz.install
echo label="install"
echo root=/dev/sda3
echo initrd=$isodir/initrd.install
echo append=" "

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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dimke.fax at (no spam) uni.de...

Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:22 am

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David W. Hodgins wrote:

Quote:

On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:54:28 -0400, dimke.fax at (no spam) uni.de <dimke.fax at (no spam) uni.de> wrote:

Does anyone know a trick how to upgrade this box from Mandrake to
Mandriva?

The easiest/fastest way would be to install from a iso image on the
hard drive, if you have the space available.

That's the next point: Is there a way to modify the size of an
existing partition? - I have only one big partition and a small swap
area.

In drakconf there seems to be no option for doing this.

Best regards,

Markus

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David W. Hodgins...

Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:38 am

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On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:22:52 -0400, dimke.fax at (no spam) uni.de <dimke.fax at (no spam) uni.de> wrote:

Quote:

That's the next point: Is there a way to modify the size of an
existing partition? - I have only one big partition and a small swap
area.

Depends on which filesystem the partition has been formatted with.

Quote:

In drakconf there seems to be no option for doing this.

In diskdrake, select expert mode, unmount the device. If the
filesystem type supports resizing, it should show a resize
icon, in the list of available actions.

As you can't resize a mounted partition, you may have to boot from
a live cd. gparted is another commonly used program that can
resize partitions. It'll warn you if the filesystem type doesn't
allow resizing, but still allow you to resize it (wiping out
the data), whereas diskdrake will require delete/create, or
format with a filesystem type that supports resizing, and then
resize.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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Olav Dahlum...

Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 2:33 pm

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dimke.fax at (no spam) uni.de wrote:

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Get all.img from one of the mirrors and make a USB installer.

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Markus R." Keßler...

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:11 am

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David W. Hodgins wrote:

Quote:

On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:22:52 -0400, dimke.fax at (no spam) uni.de <dimke.fax at (no spam) uni.de
wrote:

That's the next point: Is there a way to modify the size of an existing
partition? - I have only one big partition and a small swap area.

Depends on which filesystem the partition has been formatted with.

In drakconf there seems to be no option for doing this.

In diskdrake, select expert mode, unmount the device. If the filesystem
type supports resizing, it should show a resize icon, in the list of
available actions.

I overlooked that. Yes, _diskdrake_ can do that.
Great, many thanks!

Best regards,

Markus

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dimke.fax at (no spam) uni.de...

Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:01 pm

Guest

Dear all,

Quote:

last night I installed 2009.1 on one of my boxes at home and now I try
to install it on a different machine, where Mandrake 10.2 / 2005 is
already running.

This PC is a Pentium 4 with DVD reader, but obviously it can only read
DVDs and cannot boot from there - I have no clue, why. So I can only
boot from CD when using this "DVD" drive.

having to do the same task again on a machine with Mandrake installed,
I found one more possible solution. This is far more convenient and
faster, so, I'll explain this in breve:

Having a working Mandrake installation, I made a directory, /install,
and copied every rpm files into it, belonging to Mandriva 2009.1.

For getting a clean _new_ installation without upgrading the old stuff
which maybe conains misconfiguration errors, I booted from a 2009.1 CD
into rescue mode and mounted the existing /dev/sda*. So I could access
the existing files in R/W mode and deleted every directory except /
install, because the OS I used was in the ramdrive.

After that there was a pure ext3 partition left with only the
installation files in /install.

So I could boot from the installation CD, and - cave lector -
_uncheck_ the "format partition" option and do an update installation,
which, in reality was a clean new install, because there was nothing
left on the partition.

After installing the base OS I used urpmi.addmedia to tell urpmi to
use the local files and completed the installation.

That was all! Smile

...I'll keep this trick in mind for future
installations.

So, once again: Thanks for this wonderful discussion, and also many
thanks for all your ideas.

Best regards,

Markus

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S...

Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 3:05 am

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I have a different problem with Mandriva 2009.1. The KDE4 europe-
america and europe2 CD-ROM iso images seem to be wrong, I have
dowloaded them 4 times from 2 different download sites, and the md5
checksums are consistently different from the published values, and
the disks don't work either. The Mandriva customer support link gives
me a 404 error. Where can I report this problem and get it fixed? The
GNOME version is OK.

Bit Twister...

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 6:36 am

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On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:18:06 +1000, Peter D. wrote:

Quote:

on Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:05 pm
in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandrake
S wrote:

You seem to have cross posted, but I can only see your post in
a.o.l.mandrake, very odd.

I am responding to this post just to see if it will quit showing up
day after day.

Bit Twister...

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:38 am

Guest

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:12:59 +1000, Peter D. wrote:

Quote:

Bit Twister wrote:
I am responding to this post just to see if it will quit showing up
day after day.

Did it work?

Thought it was back. :(

Seems like it did. :-)

Quote:

What hiccuped?

No idea. Article count was 92 and every day I would see the same
article. Mark it read, do a catchup for the group no soap.

I even modified slrn's count to 93 in the hope it would disappear.
Kept coming back to 92. Slrn has only one file with article
counts and no other group I lurk in has the problem.

Peter D....

Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 2:12 am

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on Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:36 am
in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandrake
Bit Twister wrote:

Quote:

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:18:06 +1000, Peter D. wrote:
on Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:05 pm
in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandrake
S wrote:

You seem to have cross posted, but I can only see your post in
a.o.l.mandrake, very odd.

I am responding to this post just to see if it will quit showing up
day after day.

Did it work? What hiccuped?

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