re-installing jam...
 

Hi,
I had some problems in my PC the last days.
I have a P333, 128 MB DIMM, HD 15GB, HD SCSI 10GB, CDROM, CDRW, parport SCANNER.

I have installed Win 98 and Mandrake 9.0 and i was quite OK, but i didn't succeed in using the scanner (HP Scanjet 3200C).

I decided to upgrade to Mandrake 9.1
The scanner was still off, plus i couldn't connect to Internet with Linux (in 9.0 i used KPPP, in 9.1 it disappeared...).
Apache 2 didn't inherit conf file from 1.3, so i'm blocked.

I tried to re-instal 9.1 and it failed.
I tried again: same thing.
I also tried to re-instal 9.0 but i failed again.

What can i do?
Should i format and lose data?
I tried to reboot from rescue disk, but i couldn't see root directory!

Can anyone help me?
Rw

In Mandrake you need to mount the your Linux partitions(s) when you use "rescue" mode. For example:
Your / is /dev/hda5. To mount it use
mkdir /mnt/disk5
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda5 /mnt/disk5
and it should be mounted. Of course, change the filesystem to the one you use.

Oh, and you can see your partitions when you use
fdisk /dev/hda
p
(then 'q' to quit).

How do your reinstalls fail? Any error message?

Thanx Mara for helping.

>How do your reinstalls fail? Any error message?
They stopped while
- searching for packages
- checking for updates over internet (the time i nearly reached the end of installation! :-( )
- before loading graphical installation mode

Another info: before problems, i launched an Icon editor and i couldn't kill it... it came back at every start...
My friends told me to use "kill", but when i opened a console and typed ps, i didn't find it...
I used CTRL-ALT-ESC, a skull appeared and i clicked upon the Icon Editor. Everything crashed, but at the next reboot the app was over...

Bye,
Rw

I know it looks strange what I'll write but it looks like a broken installation media. Are you sure the CDs are OK? Do you have an extra machine you can test them or a friend that can try to install from them?

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Another info: before problems, i launched an Icon editor and i couldn't kill it... it came back at every start... My friends told me to use "kill", but when i opened a console and typed ps, i didn't find it... I used CTRL-ALT-ESC, a skull appeared and i clicked upon the Icon Editor. Everything crashed, but at the next reboot the app was over...

Strange thing and it's hard to say why. The program should be mentioned by 'ps'. Which options of ps have you used?