Mike Branda wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 00:50 -0400, Pete Theisen wrote:
>
>> Bob File wrote:
>>
>>> Well I must admit that I am in whiner mode because of a bad cold,
>>> but man!, my suse 9.3 upgrade did not go well . . . Not really an
>>> upgrade (didn't even
>>
>> Hi Bob!
>>
>> I am doing better with gentoo, for heaven's sake, than I did with
>> SuSe. The latest MEPIS, however, is much improved and you should
>> give it a spin.
>>
>> SuSe *write*protected* my hard drive and I had to fdisk and start
>> over. I was not pleased. I have the gentoo install to the point of
>> a command prompt and it only took a month. In another month I will
>> have KDE working?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Pete
>
>
> Pete,
>
> I believe he was looking for constructive feedback on his
> installation woes and not a plug for gentoo or mepis. OS's don't
> just pop a magical black tab out of a hard drive an *write protect*
> them. SuSE didn't do anything to you. What most likely occurred is
> 1.) a bad or corrupted file caused the drive to mount read only (ro)
> as eben had said. A simple fsck (file system check/repair) would
> have probably fixed you right up. Or 2.)the fstab got hosed which is
> where the OS gets instructions on how to mount the drive or 3.) you
> managed to chmod (change file permissions) on something important by
> accident. When I get a kernel upgrade, somtimes it breaks my X/KDE
> but not because the OS and their foul updates did it...it's because I
> have a custom NVIDIA driver. IIRC most of your issues are with goofy
> hardware that obviously not all linux distro's support. Gentoo works
> for you and you don't hate Robin and mepis anymore. Great!! but
> what does that have to do with fixing Bob's cd burning issue?? I'm
> sure he's not going to ditch the whole distro over that. It can be
> fixed simple enough with somebody's proper reply.
>
>
>
> Mike Branda Jr.
>
Hi Mike!
You seem to be a techie, here are a couple of links to what my guru guys
and I were doing about my SuSe install:
<http://leafe.com/archives/showFullThd?cMsgNum=154757&cList=prolinux>
<http://leafe.com/archives/showFullThd?cMsgNum=154930&cList=prolinux>
Another guy, Vince Teachout, had the same problem I was having on the
second thread. I think he would have solved it, but I don't remember the
post where he did, think it was another thread. Of course, by now I have
fdisked it.
Try to think of my post to Bob as commiseration. I don't remember saying
I hated Robin or mepis. I think I said that it wasn't point and click,
that is not the same as saying "hate".
Regards,
Pete
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