So I installed 9.10 on a new system last week without much difficulty from a live CD, but there are a few nagging issues that I cannot seem to solve on my own.
The hard drive is a WD 160gb SATA that I was previously using with Hardy. Dropped it into a new box with this partition scheme already written to it:
/dev/sda1 ~ 10gb ( / & boot)
/dev/sda2 ~ 4gb swap
/dev/sda3 ~ 135gb (/home)
During the install, sda1 was reformatted to ext3, swap was designated, and the home partition was NOT formatted as it was already ext3 with important data on it. The only issue I had at first was that the manual partition editor in the gui installer could not see my partitions on the SATA drive. After some searching, I discovered a work-around by removing the "dmraid" package during the live CD session. After that, the install went ahead smoothly and the system came right up without a hitch. (Incidentally, dmraid was restored during the install, whatever that has to do with anything)
Naturally, the first thing I did was to check my data. At which point I had a minor panic attack when I realized that my files were nowhere to be found in the /home/user directory - it was completely empty !?!?
I soon discovered that the files had actually been located in the /home directory which contained Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos, etc folders with all of my files apparently intact. Whew!
Oddly, the folders (with the data in them) which are located in the /home directory cannot be altered, moved or deleted - not even with the command line! I was able to copy all the files & folders in /home to the /home/user directory, but I still don't understand what caused this to happen in the first place. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that configuration files leftover from the previously Hardy installation on the same disk were still located on my /home partition at the time of this install.
Be that as it may, the important thing is that the data does appear to be intact and accessible on the system. But that's not the only strange issue I have found.
After searching through several topics on this board and others, I fail to discover why I cannot see my hard drive, partitions, or mounted filesystems anywhere in dolphin or konquerer. There is a /media directory in the root folder, but it only shows a folder for my optical drive. I have looked in every directory in the root folder, and the hard drive (as well as my card reader, for that matter) are nowhere to be found. I can see the partitions in terminal with blkid, but there is not gui icon for them anywhere in the file managers. The card reader works if media is plugged into it, but that's the only time there is any evidence of it's presence on the system.
There appears to be no way to display what I am looking for in the "places" panel or with the Quick View widget, nor can I locate the system:/media/ directory which contained the storage devices in the system menu with Hardy. What is the equivalent directory in Karmic? Where should I look?
As annoying as that is, after much tinkering, I also cannot get Karmic to cooperate with a USB printer which is networked through another box which is still running Hardy. I can easily add the printer via ipp & samba, and it shows as connected and available in the "printer configuration" dialog window, but it won't actually print. The printer cue shows a job sent both on the Karmic box and on the Hardy box that the printer is connected to, but it just gets stuck processing and won't execute.
I dunno what to do. Karmic & kde4.3 create a beautiful looking & responsive desktop, and it's not as touchy as Hardy was on my machines, but I think that I might go back to Hardy for the time being unless I can find some workarounds for these issues. Although I am still a neophyte regarding much of this, I've been indoctrinating myself to Linux for the last year, and this is the first time that I have reached an impasse. Any insight or advice would be much appreciated.
The hard drive is a WD 160gb SATA that I was previously using with Hardy. Dropped it into a new box with this partition scheme already written to it:
/dev/sda1 ~ 10gb ( / & boot)
/dev/sda2 ~ 4gb swap
/dev/sda3 ~ 135gb (/home)
During the install, sda1 was reformatted to ext3, swap was designated, and the home partition was NOT formatted as it was already ext3 with important data on it. The only issue I had at first was that the manual partition editor in the gui installer could not see my partitions on the SATA drive. After some searching, I discovered a work-around by removing the "dmraid" package during the live CD session. After that, the install went ahead smoothly and the system came right up without a hitch. (Incidentally, dmraid was restored during the install, whatever that has to do with anything)
Naturally, the first thing I did was to check my data. At which point I had a minor panic attack when I realized that my files were nowhere to be found in the /home/user directory - it was completely empty !?!?
I soon discovered that the files had actually been located in the /home directory which contained Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos, etc folders with all of my files apparently intact. Whew!
Oddly, the folders (with the data in them) which are located in the /home directory cannot be altered, moved or deleted - not even with the command line! I was able to copy all the files & folders in /home to the /home/user directory, but I still don't understand what caused this to happen in the first place. I suspect it has something to do with the fact that configuration files leftover from the previously Hardy installation on the same disk were still located on my /home partition at the time of this install.
Be that as it may, the important thing is that the data does appear to be intact and accessible on the system. But that's not the only strange issue I have found.
After searching through several topics on this board and others, I fail to discover why I cannot see my hard drive, partitions, or mounted filesystems anywhere in dolphin or konquerer. There is a /media directory in the root folder, but it only shows a folder for my optical drive. I have looked in every directory in the root folder, and the hard drive (as well as my card reader, for that matter) are nowhere to be found. I can see the partitions in terminal with blkid, but there is not gui icon for them anywhere in the file managers. The card reader works if media is plugged into it, but that's the only time there is any evidence of it's presence on the system.
There appears to be no way to display what I am looking for in the "places" panel or with the Quick View widget, nor can I locate the system:/media/ directory which contained the storage devices in the system menu with Hardy. What is the equivalent directory in Karmic? Where should I look?
As annoying as that is, after much tinkering, I also cannot get Karmic to cooperate with a USB printer which is networked through another box which is still running Hardy. I can easily add the printer via ipp & samba, and it shows as connected and available in the "printer configuration" dialog window, but it won't actually print. The printer cue shows a job sent both on the Karmic box and on the Hardy box that the printer is connected to, but it just gets stuck processing and won't execute.
I dunno what to do. Karmic & kde4.3 create a beautiful looking & responsive desktop, and it's not as touchy as Hardy was on my machines, but I think that I might go back to Hardy for the time being unless I can find some workarounds for these issues. Although I am still a neophyte regarding much of this, I've been indoctrinating myself to Linux for the last year, and this is the first time that I have reached an impasse. Any insight or advice would be much appreciated.
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