[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Infamous Friday Quickies (9)
> (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20010125124621)
>
> I hope you still remember the rules of my infamous Quickies:
>
> It's not Friday
> This is NOT television, so be active. It's Your turn to do the hard work. ;-
>
> Here are the questions:
>
>
>
> Q1:
> writes "John Webster wrote "I am running Mandrake 7.2.
> Only have one problem
> I have now eleven peiople looging on. So I have the graphical login panel come up.
>
> Only before that at the console screen. I get a error that USER= is not complete.
> in file etc/syslogin/autologin
> What do I put in after user=.
> When I place in a real user name it goes to the Window Manager for that user.
> Not what I want.
> When I put in nothing I get the error but it goes into the graphical login for all
>users. What I want but without the error message.
> Someone please look at their autologin file and tell me what I should have.
> ".
>
> Hint: He should not be running autologin.
>
I would just unistall autologin(or in my case not install it in the
first place)
rpm -e autologin
at a terminal should do it.
> Q3:
> fetter wrote "Hello!
> I have an asus a7v with ata100 controller. I want to install LM 7.2. I have boot the
>installation with I/O adress form the promise ata 100 controller:
> linux ide3=0x8800, 0x8402
> My IMB dtla-307045 hard disk was found at hdg.
> The installation fail with partition check.
> I have an other linux installation (SuSe) and Windows 98 on the same disk but i have
>free place.
>
> What can i do?? Please help me".
>
> Hint: Ah, this is tricky, so I'll try to give better hint. According to civileme,
>problem is in "autotuning". Let's see who knows how to turn it off ,-
>
I can't remember this one exacly, I just know that an option has to be
passed to the kernel before the main install happens.
Mark Hillary
Registered Linux User 200755
ICQ 105727330
