It is indeed possible to access an ext3 partition from windows and write to it:

http://www.fs-driver.org

It works quite well here (triple boot system 2x linux and 1x windows xp) But since NTFS write is also working quite well from pardus (still using 2007, since 2007.1, was out the day I installed 2007).

Also something I didn't yet tell you, was that it is likely that ntfs write support is going to work again when you re-install since only 1 kernel will be installed. I think the problem with your current pardus installation is that the pardus kernel got updated when you upgraded to 2007.1 and that the fuse module package didn't get an update for the new kernel, usually that is cause of kernel modules that don't get loaded. So when you rebooted, you booted into the new kernel that didn't have the fuse module. Since only the old kernel had one.

But that's just my theory about your upgrade.

Regards,

Ben

Sorry for that,

Again I made a small mistake in the commands for you to type. It should be chroot /media/sda5 or some other point where pardus  is mounted.

So if you could try again if you like.

Regards,

Ben

Sorry for that, didn't expect that this would happen. Just read a thread about someone having the same kind of problems with removing a package and completely messing up his system, this probably something the developers should start working on very soon.

Having said that I'd first of all recommend creating a backup before you start a new install. Probably only some packages (and in the worst case your kernel) disappeared which caused the system not to boot. Most of the time the home folders are not being touched. So you are still able to create a backup using a livecd. (to backup make sure you have some kind of storage medium to which you can write the files, online or a partition).

Something else you could try (without re-installing) is using the livecd and then change the root to your partition. You can do this by becoming root on the livecd and then (in a terminal):



Now you are in the system and maybe (if your lucky and the re-installing didn't destroy to much) you could now use pisi to install the missing packages. For help on using pisi from the command line type:



I hope this still helps,

Regards and good luck,

Ben

I'm not very sure about this, but maybe google earth needs 3d acceleration which it got from the ati drivers. Since you are using a matrox card you could try installing the latest matrox linux drivers for your card:

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/corpo/support/drivers/driverInfo.php?id=143

If you need more help feel free to post at the forum,

Regards,

Ben

No, I don't think you are doing it wrong, but the fact that the module loader isn't able to find the module is also the reason why it can't mount the ntfs partitions. (Fuse is needed to mount those partitions, so if fuse is not 'there' the system won't be able to mount the partitions)

So what you could try is looking for fuse in the package manager and see if it is installed. If there is no package called fuse (not in the installed packages section, nor in the new packages section) it's a problem in the repositories. Since I'm not part of the dev team I won't be able help you any further. If, however, fuse can be found in one of the repositories you should install it (if it's not installed already) or you could try re-installing the package. The same goes for the ntfs_3g package, which brings ntfs support to fuse.

Regards,

Ben

Sorry,

Small mistake in the second command. It should be :



Regards,

Ben

Hey,

Maybe a problem with the group settings for your user account. Just open TASMA. Then go to the system section and click the 'add or remove users' icon.

There double click your username and make sure the box 'show all groups' is checked in the dialog that appears. Then check your group settings.

Regards,

Ben

Hey,

The reason why you do have read/write access to the sda1 partition is because it's a FAT32 partition. The other two are NTFS partitions. These can usually not be accessed directly from linux (at least not for writing). Pardus uses FUSE to access those partitions.

So probably the reason that you are having these problems is due to problems with the fuse module.

To check if this module is running open a terminal, become root (using the su command) and then type the following command:



If it returns no output your fuse module isn't being loaded. You can then load it using this command(make sure you are still root when executing this command):



The try to mount the partition again using the mount command (make sure it's unmounted before you use the mount command).

Regards,

Ben

Just had a look at the konqueror settings and it is possible. But only for webbehavior. So it probably won't work for file browsing, but of course you could try.

Just open konqueror. Then go to the settings menu and click the configure konqueror option. There go the web behavior settings part.

Then in the third block (browse with tabs). Click the first option (Open links in a new tab instead of a new window). When you click the advanced button you can tweak this behavior a bit more.

When finished click the apply button to apply your new settings,

Regards,

Ben

Hey,

It's quite easy to change your user image. Just do the following:

Just open Tasma (Pardus >> Tasma)

Then go to system and click the Login screen option

Then become administrator using the Administrator Mode button on the bottom of the screen.

After click the users tab

Then on the right side of the screen you see a part called User Pictures (or something similar, i'm using pardus in dutch)

There set the user to your own username and then click the picture.

Now choose the image you want.

When finished click the apply button to apply the settings.

Regards,

Ben

Hey willem,

It's probably a lot easier when you use ssh. Just setup an ssh daemon on the pc you want to transfer the files from. Then use Knetattach (Pardus >> Programs >> Internet >> Knetattach) to login from the machine you want to transfer the files to. Then just put in your login name and password (from the computer where the ssh daemon is running). As a servername use the IP of the ssh daemon computer. And as a folder you could use the path to the home dir of the account on that pc.

If you have more questions on this, or you want to know how to do this from commandline just ask.

Regards,

Ben

Hey,

M10 is the problem I think. I did some research on this card and it seems that this card is just an Ati Mobility Radeon 9500 (source: http://ati.amd.com/developer/vendorid.html)

so it shouldn't give any problems with the xorg radeon driver. You could try reading out the /var/log/Xorg.0.log. The only thing I don't really understand is when stalls. Is this after you installed the system to the harddisk and try to boot from the harddisk or is this when it tries to load the installer before you've installed the system. Or option 3 does the installer crash during installation ?

Regards,

Ben

The reason why this value is being restored after a reboot is probably because the default value in some config file is set to zero as a default value. The value you are changing is probably a value in a file system that is being setup every time you boot. So Here's what happens:

1. Default config is read from some config file
2. /sys file system is created
3. Default option is set to zero

If you want to change this, you will have to change the config file, where the default value is set. I don't really know where this value is set, so can't help you any further, but that's an explanation of what happens.

Regards,

Ben

Hey everyone,

My name is Ben and I'm from the Netherlands. A few weeks ago I read an article about Pardus in the dutch Linux Magazine. It looked quite interesting and since I was still looking for an extra distribution that could replace fedora I decided to install Pardus. It works quite well on my notebook (dell inspiron 6400 a.k.a. e1505). The only thing that needed some extra attention were the graphic drivers. But since those were in the repository it wasn't such a big issue to install those.

Currently I'm studying Advanced Technology at Twente University in Enschede. It's quite a broad bachelor study which is best described with the words innovation and entrepeneurship. I hope I can help some people on this forum since I'm using linux for almost 4 years now.

Regards,

Ben