patience (and slow writing) is a virtue
I start a few lines above the error I received. While I was copying it by hand the thing finally gave up and continued loading Knoopix. So I now have a functioning (somewhat) hd install.
Not sure what DMA is, nor why it mounts my hd as read only. But, so what I have a Linux PC! The rest we'll figure out as I go along.
Thanks for your help.
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 96M
agpgart: Detected Via MVP3 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
blk: queue c032bfc4, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hda: timeout waiting for DMA
hda: ide_dma_timeout: Lets do it again!stat = 0x58, dma_stat = 0x20
hda: DMA disabled
hda: ide_set_handler: handler not null; old=c019b860, new=c01a0cdc
bug: kernel timer added twice at c019b6c1.
hda: dma_intr: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
hda: dma_intr: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hda: dma_intr: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hda: dma_intr: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hda: dma_intr: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hda: dma_intr: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hda: dma_intr: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hda: DMA disabled
ide0: reset: success
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
Re: that's the URL I used
Quote:
Originally Posted by mantorpcity
. E.g. file system, heck if I know which one I want.
I would recommend ext3. Remember Microsoft scan-disk. You needed it because your filesystems eventually got defragmented. With ext3 that is a thing of the past.
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Another example the cfdisk thing, took me at least 6 different tries before I had two partitions it liked.
cfdisk is a VERY powerful program. Just remember that you need a bootable partition and a primary partition of at least 2500MB (I would definitley make it bigger though.) Post some system details for assistance on partitioning your hard drive.
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Now my root account seems to do what I need, but the user account gets loaded with no hd mounted.
You can mount hard drives like this:
su
<password>
mount -t auto /dev/hdx? /mnt/? (replace hdx? w/ your hard drive and partition.) Example: /dev/hda2
Here's how you find your mount points:
cd /mnt
ls
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And I've read somewhere not to run it as root so we'll see.
That is because as 'root' you have ultimate authority. As root you can completely destroy your system but you cannot do many things unless you are root. It is a VERY BAD idea to surf the web as root. Thus the command 'sudo' You will have to add yourself to the 'sudoers' group.
su
<password>
mcedit /etc/sudoers
Once in there add a line like this:
username ALL=(ALL) ALL
That should give you 'sudo' privaledges (sp?). You can now execute commands as root without becoming root. Example:
sudo mcedit /etc/fstab
OR
sudo cfdisk /dev/hda
kernel timer addedd twice
Hi Rickenbacherus
". I have just looked at a very nice "Knoppix install how-to" posted by chad"
When I read this I went to the site, thinking that it was new and that I could learn more(my level of ignorance is unbelievable)
There was no date on the page and ,AFAICT, it is not too new.
One of the peculiarities of the Linux world is that linuxites seem to hate to put dates on their web pages etc.
Given that the rate of change in the GNU/Linux world is fantastic all information rapidly ages.
There is SO MUCH information that time spent looking at , for example, a HOWTO from last year is often a waste of time:there is SO MUCH to learn.
This is perhaps even more pertinent to this web site as Knoppix releases so often that the release number IS the date!!!
This site is also the most friendly to newbies that I have experienced
Many thanks
