2010.1 Preview - Solved

[dangbert]

My partition table had gotten messed up and once that was straightened out, everything worked like a charm.

Deb

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This posted here because I did not know where else to post it.



A couple of problems with 2010.1 preview:

When formatting the partition for installation the formatter locked up when trying to format for ext4.  When I tried again it would only format for ext2.  I deleted the partition and created a new one.  It would still only format for ext2

Firefox will not play Youtube videos.  Opera plays them just fine.

Also, how do you change the wallpaper?

Other than that, it looks very good and loads rather quickly.

Deb

[Old-Polack]

This posted here because I did not know where else to post it.



A couple of problems with 2010.1 preview:

When formatting the partition for installation the formatter locked up when trying to format for ext4.  When I tried again it would only format for ext2.  I deleted the partition and created a new one.  It would still only format for ext2

Firefox will not play Youtube videos.  Opera plays them just fine.

Also, how do you change the wallpaper?

Other than that, it looks very good and loads rather quickly.

Deb

What did you actually install? There is no 2010.1 amongst the new releases, only 2010, and we need to know which desktop.

[dangbert]

The desktop is KDE4 and it was downloaded from here:

http://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/live-cd/english/preview/

Deb

[Old-Polack]

The desktop is KDE4 and it was downloaded from here:

http://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/live-cd/english/preview/

Deb

Is it the full KDE version, or the lighter MiniMe version?

[dangbert]

Full KDE version

Deb

[Old-Polack]

Full KDE version

Deb

Still, a few more questions. Did you do the md5sum check on the d/l image? Did you burn the disk at the lowest possible speed? Did you do an md5sum check of the burned disk? Did you run the on disk media check before installing?

[dangbert]

No to all the above.  I usually let K3B run the md5sum check and if it does not error out, I assume it is good.  As for the rest.  Everything seemed to work, except the two items I mentioned above.  I can run the media check and will check the md5sum on both the down load and the CD.  Be back in a few.

Deb

[Old-Polack]

No to all the above.  I usually let K3B run the md5sum check and if it does not error out, I assume it is good.  As for the rest.  Everything seemed to work, except the two items I mentioned above.  I can run the media check and will check the md5sum on both the down load and the CD.  Be back in a few.

Deb

K3b will give an md5sum of the d/l image, but it does not check it against what the md5sum should be. It may or may not be correct.

[dangbert]

I did a verification of the checksum and it was correct.  I did a media check and it passed.  Burned another CD just to verifiy and both passed the media check.  I have not done a check sum on the CD because, frankly, I do not know how.  But I can live with the formatting being ext2.  But I would like to be able to watch flash videos in Firefox.  As I said, Opera works fine.  So it is something in Firefox.  I did a reinstall of it and still the same problem.

I did not try to install the CD burned at 16x, mainly because the last two times I have installed a copy of PCLinuxOS  I have had the existing installations refuse to boot.  I have a 2009.2, fully updated version and an older KDE4 installation and both have checksum errors when they try to install.  They worked fine before I installed the version under discussion.  The good news is, I can still access them from the current installation.  I just cannot boot to them.  I have not tried to fsck them, yet.  That might cure the problem.  But as long as I can access the data, booting to them is really not a matter of great importance.

Deb

[Old-Polack]

dangbert:

At the moment I'm in my old OS running KDE3.5, waiting for a couple of downloads to finish. I have installed MiniMe to an ext4 partition, on a USB external drive, but because of this computer having no USB booting capacity, had to make some modifications to the boot process from this installation. I will be trying to boot to the MiniMe installation once the downloads are complete.

I had no errors shown with the ext4 formatting, or the rest of the installation process, so don't think there will be any real booting problems. I had to do pretty much the same with both beta installations, the only difference being I formatted with ext3 for those installations. I'll get back to this thread once I'm booted to the MiniMe installation, so I can better compare what I'm experiencing with what you are reporting.

[dangbert]

Thanks. 

In the meantime, I am going to try another download and install into another partition.

Deb

[dangbert]

I downloaded the MiniMe version and tried the install (having checked the check sums this time :-)  )  and it only wanted to format for ext2 and locked up when I tried the format.  I tried to reinstall the full KDE version and it would accept ext3 but then also would not format.  What happens is the frame comes up saying it is formatting and then just sits there.

One other thing.  This version is working fine, with the exception of Firefox being able to handle flash videos.  That can be worked around as Flock and Opera work just fine.  However, when the system loads the fifth icon, the big "K", does not display.  Is that anything you should know?

Thanks again

Deb

[menotu]

I downloaded the MiniMe version and tried the install (having checked the check sums this time :-)  )  and it only wanted to format for ext2 and locked up when I tried the format.  I tried to reinstall the full KDE version and it would accept ext3 but then also would not format.  What happens is the frame comes up saying it is formatting and then just sits there.

One other thing.  This version is working fine, with the exception of Firefox being able to handle flash videos.  That can be worked around as Flock and Opera work just fine.  However, when the system loads the fifth icon, the big "K", does not display.  Is that anything you should know?

Thanks again

Deb

Hi dangbert

To jump in whilst you are waiting for the main-man (O-P) to return, have you considered trying to boot up with a GParted LiveCD (or Parted Magic etc) and formatting your partitions prior to trying the PCLOS install.

Now you can await the master 

[Texstar]

I downloaded the MiniMe version and tried the install (having checked the check sums this time :-)  )  and it only wanted to format for ext2 and locked up when I tried the format.  I tried to reinstall the full KDE version and it would accept ext3 but then also would not format.  What happens is the frame comes up saying it is formatting and then just sits there.

One other thing.  This version is working fine, with the exception of Firefox being able to handle flash videos.  That can be worked around as Flock and Opera work just fine.  However, when the system loads the fifth icon, the big "K", does not display.  Is that anything you should know?

Thanks again

Deb

Hi dangbert

To jump in whilst you are waiting for the main-man (O-P) to return, have you considered trying to boot up with a GParted LiveCD (or Parted Magic etc) and formatting your partitions prior to trying the PCLOS install.

Now you can await the master 

Sounds to me like the partition table is screwed up with possible overlapping partitions. Who knows. I didn't have a bit of a problem but I used a clean hard drive without a bunch of old partitions from other installs.

[dangbert]

You know, you are probably right and I had thought of that.  Its just that when you have data on one partition it is so easy to copy it to another.   The good news is I have it all backed up, so when I log on again it will be with a reformatted HD and fresh partitions.

Thanks, Texstar, for everything you do. 

And you to Old-Polack

Deb