Slack 10.2

[longgone]

.......... Wellll..... went to it made the increase .... now to test......tested good ... now for video ... but that is later ...Thank you ,, Bruno ,,, all pretty much seems good .... but then I am just starting too ..... Edited December 4, 2005 by longgone

[longgone]

New question,, same distro ..... Slackware tip #2 ... adding reboot/pwr off buttons ... followed the destructions .. except used "mcedit" instead of "vi" .... (vi wouldn't work for me when I tried it to get X working) ... made the entry just like the given example (substituted "dale" for "bruno") ... but it does not work ..(rebooted and checked the "sudo" file and the entry is still there so it is good .... ??? :"> ........ DISREGARD this post .. a case of foot in mouth .. prior to engaging brain here ......

Edited December 4, 2005 by longgone

[Bruno]

........ DISREGARD this post ..

LOL . . . no problem Dale ! Bruno

[longgone]

.......Here I am again .. sort of a revival here .. since I was not having great success with updates here I went ahead and did a fresh installation .... (sort of) ... all went well except for one glich... after the first installation was done ...... click on K (menu icon) >logout >shutoff computer (does its shut down procedure) and it would power off ... now after the reinstall .. it does not power off ... it stops ar thr "power off" indication and then I manually shut it down .... any ideas what changed .... also after the reinstall, some changes were noted .. I did not need to "uncomment" the "NIC ppp0" line, connects right up now, changed the version line in swaret to "current" and ended up with 125-175mb of updates to install and lastly ... the last install was showing me all the updates were for Slack 10.0 ... this time it was 10.1 ,, better by far ..... I would say that it is fairly up to date .....

[Bruno]

Hi DaleAbout the "power-off" . . . the solution is here: http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.ph...14&t=503&st=144Then the swaret and "current" . . . . you know, "current"is the development version and will also install "unstable" packages . . . you better change the /etc/swaret.conf to reflect the version you are running . . . read here: http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.ph...14&t=503&st=241 Bruno

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pwr off .. now powers off ..... changed the version from current to 10.2 (must now check swaret) another question ... during the installation .. it made mention of my XP partition .. I entered this as to the "path" ????? /ntfs/home/dale ... now how do I get to it if I want to ... ???

[Bruno]

I entered this as to the "path" ????? /ntfs/home/dale ...

Looks like that is not really the right path . . . . . . . can you please show:

# ls -al /

And

# cat /etc/fstab

Bruno

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Password:[root@localhost dale]# ls -al /total 60drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Dec 14 08:41 ./drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Dec 14 08:41 ../-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 14 08:41 .autofsckdrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 22 04:43 bin/drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Dec 14 08:42 boot/drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 39620 Dec 14 08:42 dev/drwxr-xr-x 82 root root 4096 Dec 14 10:01 etc/drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 24 2005 home/drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 24 2005 initrd/drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Aug 27 07:37 lib/drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Oct 13 14:12 mnt/drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 5 2004 opt/dr-xr-xr-x 123 root root 0 Dec 14 08:41 proc/drwx------ 16 root root 4096 Dec 14 10:11 root/drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 8 13:59 sbin/drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 0 Dec 14 08:41 sys/drwxrwxrwt 13 root root 4096 Dec 14 08:43 tmp/drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 May 24 2005 usr/drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 May 24 2005 var/[root@localhost dale]# cat /etc/fstab# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1/dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,ro,exec 0 0/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0/dev/hda3 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0none /proc proc defaults 0 0/dev/hda6 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0[root@localhost dale]#

[longgone]

..... Disregard post #68 .. it was from 2005LE .. ooppss......here is correct one ...

dale@local:~$ suPassword:root@local:/home/dale# ls -al /total 87drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 432 2005-12-14 03:42 .drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 432 2005-12-14 03:42 ..drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 2512 2005-12-14 03:33 bindrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 400 2005-12-13 11:10 bootdrwxr-xr-x 15 root root 62616 2005-12-14 18:20 devdrwxr-xr-x 44 root root 4752 2005-12-14 18:20 etcdrwxr-xr-x 4 root root 96 2005-12-13 12:03 homedrwxr-xr-x 5 root root 3952 2005-12-14 03:41 libdrwxr-xr-x 5 root root 120 2002-03-15 23:34 mntdrwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 2005-12-13 10:55 ntfsdrwxr-xr-x 4 root root 96 2005-10-17 13:29 optdr-xr-xr-x 75 root root 0 2005-12-14 10:19 procdrwx--x--- 10 root root 456 2005-12-13 12:45 rootdrwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 6728 2005-12-14 03:41 sbindrwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2004-05-11 21:03 sysdrwxrwxrwt 12 root root 424 2005-12-14 18:22 tmpdrwxr-xr-x 18 root root 544 2005-09-25 17:37 usrdrwxr-xr-x 17 root root 480 2005-09-25 17:35 varroot@local:/home/dale# cat /etc/fstab/dev/hda8 / reiserfs defaults 1 1/dev/hda3 /ntfs/home/dale ntfs ro 1 0/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0proc /proc proc defaults 0 0root@local:/home/dale#

[Bruno]

Hi DalePlease do as follow:

$ su# mkdir /mnt/windows

Then edit the /etc/fstab file to read like this:

/dev/hda8 / reiserfs defaults 1 1/dev/hda3 /mnt/windows ntfs ro 1 0/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

Next reboot . . . and after the reboot, just to be sure all is okay show:

# ls -al /ntfs

This command should come up empty . . . only if it is empty you can do:

# rm -rf /ntfs

Finally please do:

# mount /mnt/windows# ls -al /mnt/windows

Bruno

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Stopping here for the moment .... not sure if you meant the cmd .. ls -al should show empty or not but this is the result ...

Password:root@local:/home/dale# ls -al /ntfstotal 2drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 2005-12-13 10:55 .drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 432 2005-12-14 03:42 ..drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 2005-12-13 10:55 homeroot@local:/home/dale#

[Bruno]

Good thing you stopped there ( would not want you to wipe your Windows install ) . . let us investigate:

# ls -al /ntfs/home/dale# cat /etc/fstab

Bruno

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.........amazing.... isn't it ....

dale@local:~$ suPassword:root@local:/home/dale# ls -al /ntfs/home/daletotal 1drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 2005-12-13 10:55 .drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 2005-12-13 10:55 ..root@local:/home/dale# cat /etc/fstab/dev/hda8 / reiserfs defaults 1 1/dev/hda3 /mnt/windows ntfs ro 1 0/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0proc /proc proc defaults 0 0root@local:/home/dale#

[Bruno]

Looks good Dale:

# rm -rf /ntfs# mount /mnt/windows# ls -al /mnt/windows

Bruno

[longgone]

..... ???

root@local:/home/dale# rm -rf /ntfsroot@local:/home/dale# mount /mnt/windowsmount: /dev/hda3 already mounted or /mnt/windows busymount: according to mtab, /dev/hda3 is already mounted on /mnt/windows

[Bruno]

Already mounted ? Good ! . . Okay show us:

# ls -al /mnt/windows

Bruno

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.........

root@local:/home/dale# ls -al /mnt/windowstotal 1827372dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 2005-11-24 08:18 $VAULT$.AVGdr-x------ 1 root root 4096 2005-11-24 11:48 .drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 144 2005-12-15 06:11 ..-r-------- 1 root root 2447954 2004-12-28 14:01 AVG6DB_F.DAT-r-------- 1 root root 6332826 2005-07-26 08:20 AVG7DB_F.DATdr-x------ 1 root root 4096 2005-05-16 10:25 Config.Msidr-x------ 1 root root 4096 2004-06-10 10:48 Documents and Settings-r-------- 1 root root 47564 2004-10-05 19:14 NTDETECT.COMdr-x------ 1 root root 12288 2005-11-02 13:07 Program Filesdr-x------ 1 root root 0 2004-06-10 12:42 RECYCLER-r-------- 1 root root 700416 2005-10-31 07:56 StubInstaller.exedr-x------ 1 root root 4096 2004-10-05 20:02 System Volume Informationdr-x------ 1 root root 69632 2005-11-24 19:28 WINDOWSdr-x------ 1 root root 4096 2004-07-23 08:35 WUTemp-r-------- 1 root root 210 2004-10-05 19:22 boot.ini-r-------- 1 root root 250032 2004-10-05 19:14 ntldr-r-------- 1 root root 1610612736 2005-12-07 14:14 pagefile.sys-r-------- 1 root root 255852544 2005-09-20 13:31 xandros-302-oce-installation.ziproot@local:/home/dale#

[Bruno]

Congrats . . . there is Windows :D Bruno

[longgone]

..........Okay ..... I think ..... so now how do I access it ..... ?????

[Bruno]

Open /home in konqueror . . . and type in the addressbar: "/mnt/windows" Bruno

[longgone]

...Ohhhhh...... I see .... can't do it from fox 1.5 ..... that is interesting to know ... one last question for the moment (until I get a video disk) ... in the notes I got from you many months ago to install software pkgs ,, it says swaret --install (the pkg name) ... is this still viable in 10.2 .. in particular Bittorrent ????

[longgone]

I tried that .. in konqueror .. and it tells me I have no rights to access it ?????

[Bruno]

Well you could do "kdesu konqueror" . . . . . BUT that is very very unsafe !!! . . .Better is to use the commandline to access it:

# cd /mnt/windows/Documents\ and\ Settings# ls -al

See for more instructions here: Navigating windows partitions Bruno

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dale@local:~$ suPassword:root@local:/home/dale# cd /mnt/windows/Documents\ and\ Settingsroot@local:/mnt/windows/Documents and Settings# ls -altotal 12dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 2004-06-10 10:48 .dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 2005-11-24 11:48 ..dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 2005-01-20 06:30 All Usersdr-x------ 1 root root 4096 2005-11-02 19:38 Daledr-x------ 1 root root 49152 2004-06-27 10:25 Default Userdr-x------ 1 root root 4096 2005-11-02 19:38 LocalServicedr-x------ 1 root root 4096 2005-11-02 19:38 NetworkServiceroot@local:/mnt/windows/Documents and Settings#

do I have to be logged in as '' root '' to accomplish this adventure ?????

[Bruno]

Yep . . . but "su" is enough permissions to keep you safe Bruno

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Hmmmmmmmmm..... sure hope I don't ever get the urge to do this ...... think I'll go get a video and tackle that quest ................

[Bruno]

Com'on . . . . it's really simple . .

# la -al  /mnt/windows/Documents\ and\ Settings/Dale

will show you everything in your "My Documents" . . . Now imagine you have a file in there named "film.avi" . . here is how you copy it to /home in Linux:

# cp  /mnt/windows/Documents\ and\ Settings/Dale/film.avi  /home/dale

Bruno

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......... Ahhhh Haaaa................... The picture has become crystal clear now..... I was under the impression that I could just set this all up ... create an icon for it ,,, click on said icon and be in Windows (while still remaining in Linux) ,,, do what I wanted ,, close it out ,, and be back in Linux ,, now I see this is not the case at all ...

[longgone]

(duh) ......Now .. about getting the DVD Rom to play ... !!!!!! ... put the DVD disk in ... and the results are .. 0 0 0 .. absolutely nothing .. (in Slackware) .... tried gxine .. can't even get to the start button .... I am open to suggestions/assistance/help ..............

[Bruno]

Hi DaleCan you show us the /etc/fstab ? Bruno