Re: 2 Problems Yet to Be Resolved
On 29 Aug 04, at 17:21, Kent West wrote:
> gsutton9503@wavecable.com wrote:
>
> If Mepis doesn't give you a system that just works the way you want it
> to, I'm at a loss to understand why you didn't just just the new Sarge
> installer. But not being familiar with Mepis I can only assume there
> is some good reason.
I have the older Woody CDs, and late last year when I was finally starting to migrate from 98SE to Linux, I couldn't get the nForce and GeForce drivers to install at all. Plus, the Woody installer was proving to be a big headache for me. Someone on this list directed me back then to Knoppix and showed me how to to a hard drive install. Knoppix didn't have the nVidia drivers either, but I was able to eventually get them working.
After my system got killed by Linspire a couple months back, I decided to do a Mepis install instead of Knoppix, because Mepis already has nVidia drivers, and installation only takes 20 minutes tops.
I'm pretty much hooked on the Knoppix derivitives due to the great hardware detection capabilities. In fact, once the laptop to IDE adapter I ordered arrives, I'll be putting the hard drive from my old 486-75 laptop into one of my geek stations and finally install Damn Small Linux, so I can be penguin-enabled when I am out on a deployment. I just hope 12MB RAM will be enough for a DSL system running Fluxbox, TED (for my various writing projects), Firefox, Sylpheed, Pan, and various low-end games. Otherwise, I will need to try and find a pair of 16MB 72 Pin laptop DIMMs to get her maxed out at 32MB.
But anyway, back from that little tangent... The other reason I am not yet trying out Sarge is because I am currently unable to write any CDs. The System I am trying to restore is the one with the CD burner.
> > After that, I renamed the old locations to /tmpold /rootold /usrold
> > /usrold/local /varold /optold and /homeold and renamed the new
> > locations to what the old ones originally were.
>
> Unless these were already on their own partitions (which they
> weren't), or unless you excluded some subdirectories (like /usr/local)
> from the copy, you may have "duplicates". Also, if you didn't use the
> -p or -a switch to cp, your permissions are probably messed up.
I just tried it again. But this time, I did the copying immediately after the Mepis installer was finished and before rebooting. No subdirectories or files were skipped, so I am pretty sure it is a permissions problem, as i am still having the same troubles. When I copied the directories to their respective partitions, I just did drag and drop from within Konqueror, so there was apparently no way to use the -p or -a switch to retain the permissions. I suppose I should try again and this time do the copying from a command prompt (after brushing up on how to do mass copies like that with cp.)
> By "/root", I assume you mean "/root" and not "/"?
Correct, I gave root his own dedicated partition.
On the bright side, at least this little "crises" got me out of being dragged out to a church potluck that I didn't really want to go to today. Plus, once this is over and done with, I should have a more finely-tuned system than I had before.
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