Issues with Mepis 6.0. Help!
I downloaded Mepis 6.0 on Friday after hearing that is the most user friendly Desktop OS(some say a close call betn. PCLOS).
Pre-Install Woes:
I burned in a CD and on trying to boot in my Dell D610 and it gave some Hardware errors. It has WinXP Professional in its SATA HDD.
Now this laptop boots w/o issues Live CDs, Ubuntu Dapper, Kububtu Dapper, Knoppix 5.01, Knoppix 4.01, Dream Linux(sans networking or access to the Windows HDD).
New Downloaded ISO:
So I threw the burnt CD to the trash can, re-downloaded the Mepis ISO from one of the mirrors burnt a new CD and now used my HP Pavilion A430N desktop. After checking that the Live CD was working(I was not able to mount my HDA1 and HDA2 which I can when I use Knoppix) I thought that I would install it on HDB.
I had a secondary Maxtor PATA(7200 RPM) for my Linux experimentation. I loaded Suse Linux 10.1 in the Maxtor, and after some initial issues with the Updater and I was able to install SMART and download some upgrades. I wanted to add Mepis 6.0 to my Linux arsenal.
Install to HDB:
Used QTParted to create a /root 20 GB partition a 1GB swap partition and assumed the remaining 130+GB is the existing Linux Suse. After the s/w partitioned, it asked me if i need to replace GRUB on the MBR(which was the Suse GRUB 1.5). I said yes.
Post-Install Woes
After I rebooted it now takes nearly 20s to load GRUB after the POST process. With SuSe the GRUB gets loaded 5-7s. Then the show-stopper is the following about the following error when I enter the user ID and password(both root and non root)
Error setting up inter-process communication for KDE. Message returned was
Could not read network Connection List
.root/.DCOPserver_Mepis Computer_0
Please check if "dcopserver" program is running.
I am not able to go further. I am not able to access my SuSE partition nor I am able to enter Mepis. Thank God that I am able to boot Windows.
Can anybody help.
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SimplyMepis, simple answer to woes ?
Normally, we do not answer to special configurations on hdd and have woes of installation nightmares. The reason is that each distro has a targeted market share. And they design their distro to a certified computer. We need to conform to their certified computers with the peripherals they support.
It is easier to change hardware to suit software than to fix software to suit hardware. This is going to be obvious when you notice the lack of specific drivers in Linux kernels. Linux kernels are generic, whereas, distros are specific in platform, memory usage, hardware compatibility, version dependencies, etc.
The installation script can be changed to fit your hdd partitions. But it is easier if your partitions fit the installation script. You should get on Mepis website and ask Warren how to install Mepis, if you have so many partitions or drives.
We welcome your posting your woes. And we are taking the easy way out by not answering your specific needs. Well, Tuxmachnes.org had used 20 partitions to review all the distros at one time. Now, there is one new machine to test all distros by themselves. I don't think we keep anything on that machine except the cd(s) burned. Every day, there are more distros releasing wonderful Linux versions, many got obsoleted very soon. So, use livecd for testing and you find out quickly, if you even like that distro.
We love Warren Woodford here, because he is enterprising and created a distro always on the go. Great for newbies too. Hope you like Mepis when you do a fresh install on a clean machine.
answered on mepislovers
If I'm nt mistaken you also posted this on mepislovers.com. I answered some things there, check it out.
Thanks Carlops
For carlops
I saw this and looked at your reply in Mepislovers. Will try the solution over the weekend. Will this solve the DCOP server issue?
BTW just a note.
I did read the risks of putting the GRUB in the MBR. My intent was to try Mepis in my computer as Mepis was Desktop oriented OS I would use Mepis instead of SUSE as the Linux distro of choice and add SuSE to the GRUB menu.lst then.
Do the linux loaders that come with other Linuxes behave the same way? Not recognize the existing Linuxes but recognize Windows?
For atang1
I would too like to thank all the help that Warren and countless Linux developers and other OSS and sometimes CSFS(Closed Sourced Free Software) guys have done burning their midnight oil and doing out of either philosophy, philanthropy and other causes/reasons.
I did first test the Live CD and only then did I try install to my HDD.
Further I read Steven Vaughn Nichols review in desktoplinux.com on Mepis 6.0RC3. His experimental system reflected my system except for the CPU. His was a HP P4 Pavilion, mine was a HP AXP Pavilion.
A desktop distro is supposed to be pretty good at detecting hardware. Suse 10.1 is a desktop distro and so is Mepis6.0. So even as I understand the 2nd paragraph of yours I will say that it is not applicable in my situation.