Mageia

[viking60]

Even if I truly am afraid of our Sound-Berserk I totally agree with Jkerr on this one. (dedanna will probably torture me with Sarah Brightman until I cave in )

The family is about origin. Others will read this thread and totally get it. But it is no big deal

I just thought that "family" had this warm and cuddly feel to it... that reflects the sentiment of the different Mandriva fork communities

[viking60]

I just installed a LAMP server on Mageia (again) and I cannot rember having done it any faster on any distro

1 Install task-lamp-php
2 Go to the Control Center ->system and start the httpd service and the mysqld service
3 Run mysql_secure_installation in a terminal

Hit enter first
Then enter your "root" mysql password twice - remember that is not the Linux root!
"Yes" your way through the rest of the questions.

And yes! This works even if it actually is the MariaDB we are configuring...

Go to a browser and write http://localhost/phpmyadmin

and enter root as user and the password you provided above.
That is it! It takes only about 5 min and works out ot the box.
....
What is even more impressive is that installing Drupal from the repos actually does work. I picked drupal and drupal-mysql and that was it.
The I entered

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http://localhost/drupal

in my browser and I could set up drupal there.

At this point you have to enter a database - and drupal is not going to install it for you so before you continue go to

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http://localhost/phpmyadmin

and create a new database called drupal (or whatever you like).
Then you can continue with the setup. It works!

It never did work as it should in Mandriva because of the file structure and different server setups.
And I will still maintain that installing drupal from the repo (or any other php program for the server) is asking for trouble later on.
Updates are a problem etc.
So it is best to download the source from the site and update directly from within Drupal. But if you are new at this then this really is a good way to start.

Remember: this works with task-lamp-php I have not tried it with any of the other server tasks.

[dedanna1029]

Afraid of your sound-berzerk, eh? hhmmm.
I have no clue why. Sound-berzerks are not anything special or anything else.

However, our audio/video section is about to take a hit, at least from this sound-berzerk.

[viking60]

Edit: Yeah well I guess it is a matter of taste and hardly sound related In matters of sound we naturally must accept the final word of the sound-berserks

[dedanna1029]

Looks like I have something to work out on this fresh install of Mageia:

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[dedanna@dedanna ~]$ df
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs           39G   11G   28G  27% /
devtmpfs        497M     0  497M   0% /dev
tmpfs           500M  1.6M  498M   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs           500M  916K  499M   1% /run
/dev/sda1        39G   11G   28G  27% /
tmpfs           500M     0  500M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
none            500M   16K  500M   1% /tmp

If you'll notice, there's something missing, /dev/sda6 for /home.

Yet I'm in my /home, and I know it's there.

Edit: Mystery solved. I'd forgotten to mount /home and /swap during the installation, and it auto-installed everything to / lol.

Glad I get to do this again with 3.

[dedanna1029]

I just had to go back over this post you made, viking, because it had been so long I couldn't remember if there had to be quotes around the source and target or not.

The easiest way is to navigate to the directory where Mageia.iso is.

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cd /home/dedanna/Apfelstrudel/

And do a

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dd if=Mageia.iso of=/dev/sdc

If /dev/sdc is your USB pin!

It dawned on me...

/home/dedanna/Apfelstrudel/

I love the stuff. Absolutely love it. Should make some, really...

I think I shall make that exact folder, and plant my good ol' recipe for it in there.

[dedanna1029]

Today was an extremely eventful day, to say the least, with the netbook on 64-bit. There were acpi and acpid errors upon attempting to login to KDE, v4l errors, among other things, not to mention that even XFCE was borked to an extent (well, more than just an extent, really).

So, back to 32-bit I go, or am attempting to. I'm even getting things happen on installation of it, like a cold hard freeze just a minute and a half away from being done installing packages. I'm on attempt #2 of 32-bit installation, we'll see how it goes. I'm hoping for no ramifications from "downgrading" back to 32-bit. I'm also thinking there could be a hardware issue, although according to Memtest86, the memory is fine. Doesn't mean something else is fine - may not be.

I don't know what else to do, other than hope I can get this going so I can try to figure a way to back up 134GBs of data. Anyone know of any free online solutions that are honestly free? lol.

[dedanna1029]

Now, we've hard frozen right after the installation of packages began.

Yup, something's way wrong. I've verified the md5sum of this disk a couple of ways. All I can think is hardware.

[viking60]

Looks like it.
Strange though since you have had Mageia working on it before.

[dedanna1029]

Ah, but a bit of this was already happening before I went 64-bit, like kopete not starting - an update must've caused it?
Check it out this time with MGA3:
It took five - count 'em - FIVE attempted iinstalls, to include retrying with 64-bit, and they were all epic fails, a good deal of those erroring out as far in as the initial startup page (seriously pissed me off).
I pop in my MGA2 disk, and it installs flawlessly.
I think I'm going to preserve the MGA2 disk in glass or in mummy bandaging to protect it, because I'm going to wait for MGA4 to try again. Screw this. I can wait for whatever it is that MGA3 is supposed to "improve" until then, I think. It seems buggy as hell.
It's been an extremely long night.

[dedanna1029]

Oh, I do have one issue with MGA2. How do I get XFCE to show up in the session list on the login screen, other than going SLiM?

[viking60]

gdm or lxdm should show it - I am not sure about kdm but it does show in the Mandriva/Mondrake version I have here.
I do not know if that has been especially added - but I think Per Øyvind mentioned something about that...