Hi. I see two problems in your setup, but I have no idea of whether
they relate to your problem:
1) Kernel 2.4
Kernel 2.6 is much better at devices, like usb external disks. The
team kernel2.6/hal/gnome-volume-manager is working very well
together, they recognize and mount almost everything you plug in the
usb ports. You don't need either scsi emulation, nor for the cd-
recorder.
2) VERY big swap partition.
With 256 Mb of RAM, taking a 22 Gb partition to use as virtual ram is
largely exceeding addressing capabilities of your computer. I think
you were using hda2 to store user files, that is a good idea, so you
don't need knoppix when your system hangs, you just reinstall on old
root partition, and you have all your data safe in another place.
3) Where do the logical partition are allocated? It seems that the
extended partition contains only hda5, not the rest of free space.
This is a problem, you cannot allocate hda6 anywhere.
well... fourth problem:
Windows!!! (it means, strange partition allocation, big and risky
disk usage, viruses, no separated swap memory...)
Solution:
Install sarge stable directly:
When asked to partition, choose "manual".
Wipe hda4, and allocate all the free space to an extended partition.
Allocate no more than 1 G to swap (normally it is considered safe
just "double of your memory" but it depends on your needs), then the
rest to the new root partition (hda6). select your old hda3 and mount
it under /home, without formatting.
Install clean, everything you need, gnome is very stable now, kde too
but a bit too complicated in terms of usability...
Then copy back to /home/you everything you need that is in /home/home/
you, same for /home/etc to /etc (this is because you mounted old root
into home.
Last: ALWAYS have a separate /home, possibly with a backup of /etc.
El 20/06/2005, a las 23:34, Morten Gulbrandsen escribió:
Hello,
I have decided to return back to debian sarge,
I reported this :
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/04/msg00127.html
After that I rember I ran some Tex and latex applications,
I did use aptitude, dselect and taskselect,
everything from the ftp server sunsite informatik
Finally the mouse froze. I can't move it.
Both a frozen mouse and no access to my USB or ZIP drive must
be a user error.
I never had USB or SCSI support, but the first installation had
no problems with
moving the mouse.
I have seen that sarge now is stable,
I can try to use knoppix in order to back up some of the important
files,
then wipe it off and go for another install with the latest
stable release.
Since my problem is not reported to be a problem I believe it must
be a user error.
Any comments would be appreciated,
My mouse is a ps2,
Best regards
Morten Gulbrandsen
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