from Mepis 2003 to 6.0 to 3.4.3
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I recently put Mepis 6.0 on my box. None of my USB devices worked with that (especially the PDA) so I tried 3.4.3 While kinfo center does not see any of the USB device plugged into the hub under the USB Devices button it does see them listed under the Partitions button and it also sees them listed under the Storage Devices button. I know that USB is working because I can sync a USB PDA with 3.4.3 (not 6.0) and the USB devices button sees the hub. The USB drives are listed as /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1 below the partitions and storage buttons. Unfortunately, when i attempt to mount them it claims the device does not exist. One of my questions is why does it not see these device on the hub yet at the same time it does? Another question I have is why am I able to view these same USB drives from the live CD. A third question (and the point of my posting here) is how do I make it able to transfer data from the drives to the computer?
problem
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The problem with what you suggest is that the drive directories are already in /mnt and they are already in fstab (only under 'dynamics). I'll go look at the live versions fstab and get back to ya.....
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See what happens if you put
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See what happens if you put them above dynamics.
anticapitalista
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NO REINSTALL IS NECESSARY
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reinstalled xconfig and grub after loading the live disk
then I rebooted and I'm good to go!
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gnucash
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I would like gnucash. I can't apt-get it so how should I use the extra CDs that come with 3.4-3?
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gnucash
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Not a hundred percent sure but i think they are cached in .deb files if so just copy & paste the needed files & click to install with kpackage.
jim
if I find out the version
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if I find out the version could I seemlessly install it from the apt pool?
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if I find out the version
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I take it you couldn't find it on extra cds. The repos you should be using are sarge now i think, i just changed one to sarge when i was playing with it a while back. Why not just go to debian site & search for a .deb file you can check dependencies while there. 3.4.3 still uses debian repos so a later one should work but who knows till you try.
jim
Thanks JIm.
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I appreciate all of your help. You are correct in thinking that I couldn't find the package. There is a file on here that is a checkbook tracker. i'll use that. I don't want to mess around with it
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you could try
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Not sure, but you could try saving your /etc/fstab from the live cd to a floppy or somewhere and then copy/paste it to your hard drive install etc/fstab (Make a copy of the original). You will then need to restart X by Ctrl Alt Backspace.
The other way (the way I have with usb) is to add sdb1 and sdb3 to fstab ABOVE the dynamic section. eg
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 auto noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/sdb3 /mnt/sdb3 auto noauto,users,exec 0 0
You will also need to create the mount points for sdb1 and sdb3 into /mnt.
As root in a terminal
mkdir /mnt/sdb1
mkdir /mnt/sdb3
anticapitalista
Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.