KDE and pen problems

[JeanHoho]

Hi hi,

i had my old linux pc Pentium 133 resting at a corner for 2 years.
Decided to use it again, except my brother stole mouse and keyboard.
I had a Pentium 3 near and a mouse and keyboard. Since i didn't have an adapter to connect the mouse and the keyboard to my old pc, i opened the pentium 3, e transferred the 3 tiny hard disks from the old to the "new" one.

So, now i have a pentium 3 with my old 3 hard disks and my old pc screen.
I have slackware, installed before the transferring of hard disks.

KDE doesn't open, it says no screens found. I'm using the same old pc screen but obviously a different graphic card.

Can't mount a pen. Tried

mount /dev/sda /mnt/pen

and other several sd*.

Tried fdisk /dev/sda:

Unable to open /dev/sda

plus sdb-sdh.


Thank you for the help

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

You are not specifying partition number.
It should be

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/pen

Post exact error message here, if any. Post the output of fdisk -l command too.

KDE doesn't open, it says no screens found. I'm using the same old pc screen but obviously a different graphic card.

You can edit xorg.conf file using LiveCD or in Rescue mode.

[JeanHoho]

Hello

I tried with the partition also:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/pen

always gives me the same message:

/dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

And fdisk -l gives me the list with the 3 hard disks, hda, hdb and hdc. Doesn't any other device.


When i tried to open kde:

Fatal server error:
no screens found

I dont know where that file is, i'm not very experienced in linux.


While i was waiting for an answer, i thought about reinstalling linux, cause i was thinking that putting a hard disk with an os already installed, in a pc with diferent configurations could cause some problems.
Now the problem is these tiny hard disks. I have a disk with 1600 MB and another with 1700 MB, and a smaller one just for data. Currently the slackware 9.1.0 is in the 1700 MB one. I have the slackware 10.2 disks but the full installation is more than 3 GB.

Its possible to put some packages in a disk and others in the other?

How much space do i need for swap, at the moment i have only 200 MB for the swap partition.

What packages should i select so it can fit in the disks?
I need the programming stuff mostly. And i'm gonna try to learn more about administrating linux, so i need some utilities.
I deffinitly don't need sound stuff and maybe i can turn down kde also.


Thanks

[whych]

Try using 'fdisk -l' (lower case L) instead. (perhaps in a root terminal)
This should list all your dives.

[dickson]

Try to use
''fdisk -l'' and make sure that you are in root terminal