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ioudas

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Registered: 2007-10-03

Posts: 3

Installation Problems: KDE, Dual Booting, NTFS reading.

Hey all, Its been a while since I've played with Arch so I decided to give it a try again

I managed to get most stuff working, some stuff is going to make me pull my hair out

I resized this partition with gparted, still booted before install...

Problem 1)

I installed grub and im not entirely sure how to dual boot im use to LILO

http://pastebin.archlinux.org/15437is my menu.lst

/dev/sda1 is my xp partition

How do i dual boot? I tried booting it and it just loads a standard grub command line

Problem 2)

I installed ntfs-3g and i tried reading the ntfs parition on /dev/sda1 i get an error saying this is not a ntfs parition. I followed the wiki and added the stuff to /etc/fstab
but no luck.  What am i doing wrong?

Problem 3) I loaded up pacman and installed kde and followed the wiki instructions on it. I started hal and fam and the kdemanager but it fails to start.

xsetroot:  unable to open display ''
/opt/kde/bin/startkde: line 72: /opt/kde/bin/kstartupconfig: No such file or directory
Error: Can't open display:
/opt/kde/bin/startkde: line 76: /root/.kde/share/config/startupconfig: No such file or directory

Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks everyone.

Last edited by ioudas (2007-10-03 04:22:28)

ioudas

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Registered: 2007-10-03

Posts: 3

Re: Installation Problems: KDE, Dual Booting, NTFS reading.

Never mind guys im going back to windows.

Radek

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From: Warsaw in Poland

Registered: 2006-08-20

Posts: 23

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Re: Installation Problems: KDE, Dual Booting, NTFS reading.

I have the same problem (can't start /opt/kde/bin/kstartupconfig) and I'm not going back to Win

edit1: problem disseaperd when I installed kde instead of kdemod.
edit2: now I have KDEmod and everything works great! I think it was X server problem, and etc/X11/xorg.conf. I have asus m2a-vm hdmi with integrated graphics card. In xorg.conf card driver should be set to vesa. Another important thing is that you can't use vesa framebuffer (vga=0 in /boot/grub/menu.lst, kernel line).

Last edited by Radek (2007-10-12 14:44:44)

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