Well it's Monday, I have spent the last two days first crashing my PC totaly, then recovering what I could of an almost unreadable drive (ALL MY FAULT OF COURSE) I was in a hurry Sat and walked away during trying to shrink a partition, when I returned the comp was trying to reboot but could not read the drive. Anyway to make a long sad story short I ended up copying what I could off my 2nd HDD to CD, formating and loading 98 again. Using SLAX I was able to access the unreadable partition on my C drive and copy it over to D(6GB, I was wrong about the capacity so sadly some stuff was lost) probaly junk I needed to clean out anyway.
I did partition the 40 GB drive so I have a 35.5 GB primary and whatever is left with a logical partition. So now I am at the point where I can do almost anything, I might as well put LINUX on a drive so what version is "best" easiest, and will support my hardware? The SLAX Live CD ran with the exception of I had to start it in GUISAFE mode or my compaq presario 1510 monitor would go to standby. Sound card was working and mouse loaded fine as long as I pluged it into the ps2 port (win98 was giving me fits with the ps2 port only locating the mouse every 3rd or so boot so I run it from com1) I also discovered my bios lets me set boot order, flopy,CD,HDD0, HDD1,HDD2 etc. Not sure if a logical drive would be recognised but I could put Linux on the d drive 6gb. Suggestions please, I don't mind downloading another flavor but with a 56k connection I don't want to have to download several to find one that works. Perhaps when all this is over I can actualy try Flightgear ;) --- Jeremy Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 09 February 2005 02:46 pm, you wrote: > > > My board is a SOYO K7VEMPRO V1.0 with VIA > KLE133/686B > > chipset. Ac97 codec audio. With AMD athelon > xp2400+ > > cpu & 256 meg ram. I have a 40GB HDD with about 25 > > gigs of free space and a 20GB second drive with 10 > > gigs free. I don’t want to kill my system but > could > > either do a dual boot or boot from floppy or CD if > > that would work. I guess what I am asking is any > of my > > hardware Linux compatible? I also have a CH > > Flightstick PRO joystick. > > > > Just an addendum: > I took a look at your original message in this > thread. > You say your second harddrive is 20GB with about > 10GB free. I misunderstood when you said you had > archived this drive and had 6GB free. > > You probably don't want to delete that partition and > lose > your data. So you must shrink the partition. If SLAX > contains the gnuparted you can use that to shrink > the partition > otherwise you can use fips.exe > If you use fips.exe you must first defragment your > D: drive. > Then download fips.exe and restorrb.exe > Follow the instructions from > http://linux-sxs.org/administration/dboot.html > > I know fips works with 16bit DOS filesystems and > 32bit VFAT (Windows95/98/ME) > filesystems. Not sure about NTFS (WindowsXP). You > may have to do a google. > > Once you've shrunk your windows partition and > created a new partition out of > the remaining empty space, then you can use cfdisk > to delete this new empty > partition and follow my instructions as before. > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
