[KLUG Members] Mandrake upgrade Etc

[Eric Beversluis]

Work-around Success. I had an "extra" partition on the Sony HDD so I
installed a basic version of Mandrake there, mounted the partition that had
the old Mandrake to '/home/old,' mounted the Maxtor external HDD and copied
the old files to the external HDD (after a bit of confusion because of all
the similarly name folders and files....)




> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:members-bounces at kalamazoolinux.org] On Behalf Of Eric 
> Beversluis
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 4:28 PM
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> Subject: [KLUG Members] Mandrake upgrade Etc
> 
> 
> I'm trying to upgrade the Mandrake install on my Sony VAIO 
> PCG-SRX77. Right now I cannot access the old install because 
> the reinstall of XP messed up GRUB. So I'm trying to figure 
> out how to save the Home documents. I tried using KNOPPIX but 
> it wouldn't work. My CD-ROM drive works off a PCMCIA card. I 
> get this screen (after the computer has obviously accessed 
> the CD to some
> extent):
> 
>      Welcome to KNOPPIX live Linux-on-CD!
> 
>      Scanning for USB/Firewire devices . . . Done
>      Enabling DMA acceleration for: hda [HITACHI_DK23CA-20]
>      Can't fine KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry
>      Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.
>      Press reset button to quit
> 
>      Additional buildin commands available:
>          cat        mount       umount
>          insmod     rmmod       lsmod
> 
>      KNOPPIX#_
> 
> I already tried an upgrade with the new Mandrake 10.1 disks 
> but the process hungup when I inserted the second install 
> disk. I was hoping maybe that wouldn't happen with a clean install.
> 
> Eric Beversluis
> 
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