I have one original problem.

I have no internet, no matter what I do, in the installed version of Mepis 6.5
I have no internet when I start Mepis 6.5 as a Live CD.
And I also have no internet when I start the Knoppix Live CD.

Both the Live CDs worked yesterday. Go figure. ;-)

later edit: Now I am completely confused. I shut down, unplugged my network cable, plugged it back in, restarted, rechecked my BIOS, saved in case there were changes, started Mepis and I have network and internet... I'll probably won't have it tomorrow. ;-)

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I hate Firefox 2.0 .. That's the second time it closed on me without warning while typing in a forum. Next to be installed is Seamonkey.

But OK, I am running quite stable. Where I couldn't run Windows for more than 2 hours without hangs, so far I have no real problems. I am streaming Radio Caroline through KMPlayer, using Skype, running BOINC 5.10.8 (H2@H and Predictor Alpha only for now).

I just don't dare rebooting or booting into Windows in fear to lose my internet connection here again. ;-)

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I hate Firefox 2.0 .. That's the second time it closed on me without warning while typing in a forum. Next to be installed is Seamonkey.

I just don't dare rebooting or booting into Windows in fear to lose my internet connection here again. ;-)

OK, so then do not even think about Firefox nor Windows. "Think positive!" :-)

Peter

I thought I'd update this thread with my progress.

This weekend, I repartitioned my hard drive and reinstalled Ubuntu as well as installed Fedora Core 7 (with KDE).

It has been an adventure as I really had no clue as to what I was doing. I ended up installing Fedora twice because the first time I didn't add Ubuntu to GRUB. So I couldn't get at it at all.

As of right now, I can boot to Fedora (typing in Konqueror right now) and Vista. Ubuntu throws an error. But I think I've beaten GRUB into submission with Eric's help.

So now it's just a case of editing my grub.conf file to make those changes. That involves emacs. So I'll need to refresh my memory on how to make that work.

I'll update when (if?) I finally get it triple booting.

I just finished downloading Firefox, Pigdin and Emacs. So now to get those functional.

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Kathryn :o)

GRUB has been mastered.

For those who care...

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Modified by Kathryn Marks
# August 27, 2007
# To triple boot Vista, Ubuntu 7.04 and Fedora Core 7 (Quiet and Verbose)
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,5)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda6
# initrd /boot/initrd- version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=30
splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core 7 - QUIET
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
title Fedora Core 7 - VERBOSE
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz- 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7.img
title Ubuntu 7.04 - QUIET
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic ro root=/dev/sda5 quiet
initrd /boot/initrd.img- 2.6.20-15-generic
title Ubuntu 7.04 - VERBOSE
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-generic ro root=/dev/sda5
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20-15-generic
title Vista
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

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Kathryn :o)

Thanks to Eric, I think I've graduated from noob to whatever comes after that. I've changed over to Fedora 7, but I still have Ubuntu installed (updated a few weeks ago to 7.10). Current uptime: 14 days, 12:07. I haven't even bother to boot back to Vista to install the latest MS updates.

Any how, anyone have a clue on my current conundrum? I'm trying to build conky from source. I have gcc and g++. I installed the X11 developer libs plus their dependencies. I'm getting an error running the configure script. Everything looks fine* until the very end.

checking for XdbeQueryExtension in -lXext... no
configure: error: Could not find XdbeQueryExtension in -lXext

Google wasn't much help. Nothing appeared relevant. And even the stuff that didn't appear relevant that I read just confused me. I tried their forums, but no response. I'll try their mailing lists if no one here has any ideas. I just hate looking like an idiot in front of people who don't know me. You all know how much of an idiot I am (I've proved it over and over again on the forums) so no big loss posting here.



* Actually that's not totally true, there's a bunch of "checking for blahblahblah... NO" but it happily goes on to the next step until it hits the part I quoted above. Full log here.

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Kathryn :o)

I'm getting an error running the configure script. Everything looks fine* until the very end.

checking for XdbeQueryExtension in -lXext... no
configure: error: Could not find XdbeQueryExtension in -lXext

Ah yes, I remember when I did the Linux course last year. When we learned about compiling from source with ./configure, the teacher said it's sometimes quite tricky to what the hell you should install to make it work, just from the configure error message...

I just hate looking like an idiot in front of people who don't know me.

I'm sure you have read this already? If not, do it. Will save you trouble :)

* Actually that's not totally true, there's a bunch of "checking for blahblahblah... NO" but it happily goes on to the next step until it hits the part I quoted above. Full log here.

Sometimes it means "checking if your system libraries have a stupid bug that I need to workaround... no, good." or "checking if your system has the fortran compiler or whatever, even though this program you're compiling doesn't need it at all".

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Thanks to Eric, I think I've graduated from noob to whatever comes after that. I've changed over to Fedora 7, but I still have Ubuntu installed (updated a few weeks ago to 7.10). Current uptime: 14 days, 12:07. I haven't even bother to boot back to Vista to install the latest MS updates.

Any how, anyone have a clue on my current conundrum? I'm trying to build conky from source. I have gcc and g++. I installed the X11 developer libs plus their dependencies. I'm getting an error running the configure script. Everything looks fine* until the very end.

checking for XdbeQueryExtension in -lXext... no
configure: error: Could not find XdbeQueryExtension in -lXext

G'day Kathryn

Have you installed libXext/libXext-devel ?

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Thanks to Eric, I think I've graduated from noob to whatever comes after that. I've changed over to Fedora 7, but I still have Ubuntu installed (updated a few weeks ago to 7.10). Current uptime: 14 days, 12:07. I haven't even bother to boot back to Vista to install the latest MS updates.

Any how, anyone have a clue on my current conundrum? I'm trying to build conky from source. I have gcc and g++. I installed the X11 developer libs plus their dependencies. I'm getting an error running the configure script. Everything looks fine* until the very end.

checking for XdbeQueryExtension in -lXext... no
configure: error: Could not find XdbeQueryExtension in -lXext

G'day Kathryn

Have you installed libXext/libXext-devel ?

You're amazing. Now I see how to read the error messages too. Got past that point but I have another one. So I'm off to yum some more.

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Kathryn :o)

Thanks to Eric, I think I've graduated from noob to whatever comes after that. I've changed over to Fedora 7, but I still have Ubuntu installed (updated a few weeks ago to 7.10). Current uptime: 14 days, 12:07. I haven't even bother to boot back to Vista to install the latest MS updates.

Any how, anyone have a clue on my current conundrum? I'm trying to build conky from source. I have gcc and g++. I installed the X11 developer libs plus their dependencies. I'm getting an error running the configure script. Everything looks fine* until the very end.

checking for XdbeQueryExtension in -lXext... no
configure: error: Could not find XdbeQueryExtension in -lXext

G'day Kathryn

Have you installed libXext/libXext-devel ?

You're amazing. Now I see how to read the error messages too. Got past that point but I have another one. So I'm off to yum some more.

The BOINC geniuses to the rescue again!

It worked! It worked! There were about three other development libs that needed installed.


And it does help to do `make` in the correct shell... kinda hard to make something when you're not in the right directory.

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Kathryn :o)

You're amazing. Now I see how to read the error messages too. Got past that point but I have another one. So I'm off to yum some more.

You're welcome - glad it worked for you :)

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