[Herefordshire] Re: Mandrake misbehaving

[Julian Robbins]

Hi noel

bit of advice i'll give anyone. Always create a separate Home partition.
You can keep this safe whilst reinstalling, so you at least keep your files. Rename as oldhome. Create a new Home partition so all config are fresh created for users. Then you can mount your old home and copy across to new home any files  or email you wish to keep.

Good luck. I,ve got mandriva 10.2 if you want it..

Julian

-----Original Message-----
From:  Noel McG.
Date:  4.6.05 8:51
To:  Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
Subj:  Re: [Herefordshire] Re: Mandrake misbehaving

Hello,

Thanks for your help everyone.

However I was starting to get freeze ups and then it would not boot up.I
have given it up as a bad job and started again from the beginning and
installed afresh.

I think we all wasted enough time on it.  Have a good weekend.

Noel.

--
'If all else fails - read the manual.'


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Broadbent" <markb at wetlettuce.com>
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] Re: Mandrake misbehaving


> Noel McG. wrote:
> >>Sounds like you X configuration or some of the filesystem got corrupted
> >>and it is stopping the X server from starting (given that it was working
> >>and now isn't).  Can you post the /etc/X11/XorgConfig
> >
> >
> > bash shows file does not exist.
> > /etc/X11   shows as directory only
> >
> > (or something named very similar) configuration file,
>
> The configuration file in the directory /etc/X11 - it is actually called
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> > /var/log/Xorg.0.log
> >
> > I am denied permission to this one.
> >
> > I seem to be unable to get in as su or admin root, at the moment I can
only
> > log in as localhost or loclahost root.
>
> In that case you'll need use the rescue disk to examine the disk as root
> and restore the root password.
>
> >
> > and the
> >
> >>output of lspci,
> >
> >
> > I do get an output for this.   However there is a difficulty here. I am
> > using a KVM switch Linux/Windows to do this.  I have only the "A"  drive
on
> > Linux to transfer anything through.   Am I able to copy to A from the
bash
> > output?
>
> Yes. Put a formatted disk in the drive and say:
>
> $ mount /mnt/floppy
>
> which should work but you may need to be root... if it does work then
> you simply do:
>
> $ lspci >/mnt/floppy/lspci.txt
>
> then finally:
>
> $ umount /mnt/floppy
>
>
> Thanks
> Mark
>
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