New to MEPIS
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I am new to MEPIS Dapper and have a couple of questions.
First, installing GRUB to get splashy for MEPIS on IDE or Windows on SATA drive is automatic. I have Ubuntu on a second IDE drive. How do I install GRUB on the Ubuntu drive?
Second, I have a Creative Live Webcam, how do I get the drivers to run it on MEPIS?
And last, how do I set up Lightscribe to run on MEPIS?
Your second question
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...might be answered through the Wiki entry and links:
lightscribe ought to be
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lightscribe ought to be possible, but you may need to experiment a bit. You can download the software from here: http://www.lacie.com/support/drivers/driver.htm?id=10094
Convert the rpm's with alien on the command line and install. If you're lucky, it will work out.....
Newbie or not Newbie, there's always a question
RE: Creative Live Webcam
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Charles,
I recently purchased a "Creative Webcame Instant".
I had already installed spca5xx, and several other webcam drivers trying to get a Logtech Webcam working.
I plugged it in and turned on my laptop.
When the desktop appeared I ran "camstream" and the image from my webcam appeared!
When I ran "lsmod" I noticed that hal had used spca5xx for the driver.
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GreyGeek
Welcome to Mepis. Answer to your first question.
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You'll need to mount the 2nd drive with ubuntu on it, open your home folder, then click on the star icon half down the left column and the drive will show under storage media. You can click the drives icon once to mount it, or right click a mounted drive and choose unmount to do the opposite. Mounted drives will be displayed with a tiny arrow pointing at approximately the 1100hours angle.
Navigate to /boot/grub/menu.list on the mounted drive and copy the entire section related to booting ubuntu. It will look something like the following, but I have only tried to make it look more like the ubuntu menu.list by editing a mepis line, rather than providing an actual example
title Ubuntu Dapper
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-generic root=/dev/sda1 nomce quiet vga=791
boot
As root, find the same location on your mepis drive and make space for it where you want it to appear in the list of bootable options, then paste it in. You'll need to change the 2nd line so the first 0 becomes a 1, as in the following example then save the file and reboot.
Original
root (hd0,0)
Edited
root (hd1,0)
Original
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-generic root=/dev/sda1 nomce
Edited
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-27-generic root=/dev/sdb1 nomce
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