MBR -- Getting tiresome. I really am sorry! (was Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR)
The
dd if=/boot/boot.0301 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1
went through, ("1+0 in, 1+0 out" etc) but made no difference to booting --
still "Lil-" and system hangs.
also tried `lilo -U /dev/hda1' which seemed to work okay but didn't make any
difference to bootup either.
I also tried (treading dangerous ground now!) making every partition
unbootable apart from the NT partition, but that didn't work either, so I
restored it. Currently the ones active are:
/dev/hda6 -- that's my linux partition
/dev/hda2 -- that's a 4mb partition with boot.ini, io.sys and others, for
the NT boot loader
/dev/hda5 -- that's the NTFS partition containing NT
My system _did_ work before -- honest!!
Thank you all for still taking a notice of me (this is the 4th letter
concerning the MBR!)
Tristan
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Sorry, but I STILL can't sort out my MBR
Thanks to all for all the help and ideas, but it still won't work: here's what has gone wrong: The DOS 'fdisk /MBR' ran with no errors, but made no difference to bootup. 'lilo -u /dev/hda' says "boot sector of /dev/hda does not have a lilo signature" 'lilo -u' runs fine and says that it has restored the original MBR, but now on bootup, "Lil-" comes up on the screen and the system hangs (Just glad I have a recent kernel boot disk =) ) /boot/boot.hda doesn't exist. I have no WinNT installation disks, but I remember trying this once to restore the system and it asked for my Emergency Recovery Disk, which apparently didn't have enough info on to restore anything. The only other option was to reinstall WinNT, which is what I did at the time. So I'm stuck. Here's a list of the files in /boot/ any_d.b mbr.b vmlinuz-2.0.29 vmlinuz-2.0.30 os2_d.b map boot.b psdatabase psdatabase-2.0.29 "" -2.0.30 chain.b boot.0301 System.map-2.0.29 " " -2.0.30 any_b.b Sorry for hastling everyone for the 3rd time! Tristan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Still can't sort out MBR -- Linux and NT
When I load from a boot disk (created by "format /s" at dos prompt in Win95), fdisk doesn't work because it doesn't exist, thus fdisk /MBR doesn't work. If I try this in linux, it says MBR not found =( Tristan -- one unhappy WinNT4 and Debian dual-booter. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can I get a Hamm CD??
Everybody's talking about hamm and I'm feeling left out =( Phone lines are expensive over here in England and if you've read my recent questions on zipping, you'll know I don't even have a modem connected to my own computer yet, let alone a network or ISDN connection. So... Is there anywhere I can get a hamm CD from?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=( NTFS woes
Thanks for the shell info, I must have a messed up howto. Unfortuantely things didn't run sweetly: -After trying it, I found that it isn't a shell script -It's in .gz format, _not_ .tar.gz, changing it just confuses tar and gzip, and tar tells me that it doesn't think it's an archive. - That's all there is to the package, when unzipped all that results is ntfs-971218. I try to run it but it doesn't like it, I try to make it an executable shell script, and that doesn't work either - The site I downloaded it from had a link to a readme, but I'm told by IE4 that I can't connect to the server which it is on. =( Does anyone know how to install this driver? TIA, Tristan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DOS emulator doesn't like pkzip
Here's my situation: I have a Win95 machine connected to the internet at home My own machine has Debian and NT, but NT is completely down at the moment. I downloaded Netscape Communicator, a whopping 11MB, and had to span. So I used my faithful PKZIP, a wonderful .zip compression utility, to span over 8 floppies. What I normally do then is to run pkunzip on NT, and copy the resulting file onto my fat partition to let linux get to it. Unfortunately NT is down, so I can't do this. I tried to run pkzip on the Linux Dos Emulator, but it gave me nasty errors suggesting that there is something wrong with my zip file, but there isn't. What do I do? I've tried creating a dos boot disk from the Win95 machine and using that to get dos, but it couldn't read any of my hard partitions. I've heard that there's a .zip utility for linux, where can I get it and will it work with disk spanning? Thanks, Tristan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
how to make shell scripts executable -- and NTFS driver
Okay, I've just downloaded the NTFS driver for linux. It was in .gz format so I unzipped it, and got the same file minus the .gz bit. I expected to find lots of other files, but didn't, which wasn't a problem because I looked in the resulting file and found what seems like a shell script. Now I haven't a clue about shell scripts, as I'm used to dos batch files, so I looked into the dos to linux howto, which told me that all I needed to make the shell script executable was to type the following command: chgmod +x so I typed in chgmod +x ntfs-long-version-number and it told me that chgmod didn't exist. I tried man chgmod and sure enough, there's no entry. What is the command if this isn't it? Is this the right thing to do to get the NTFS driver up and running? Tristan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lilo woes
Thanks to everyone who gave opinions and advice on the HTML editor. I can't stand 'vi' (the DOS to Linux HOWTO is right when it says that DOS users probably won't like vi! Is there a good tutorial? the man page assumes you know it well), so when I get everything working again (see below) I think I will have a look at Netscape Composer. =) Just reinstalled Debian, and everything worked fine until I configured lilo, which decided that it didn't like the idea of not installing an MBR, so it went ahead and did it anyway. I *used to* dual boot WinNT and Debian 1.3.1 (not R6), and if there's any possibility of restoring the Master Boot Record then I would like to persue it. Partitioning is as follows Hda1 = extended partition, can't get to it Hda2 = 4MB partition with the NT bootloader and all it needs to boot up Linux and NT Hda3 = 100MB Linux Swap Hda4 = about 300Mb (very happy I have this one!) All my important documents, etc. FAT format Hda5 = about 1.5gig: NT (NTFS format -- is the alpha driver usable/reliable yet? Last time I heard it actually ignores Security information!! MS reckons NTFS is impregnable!) This is where all the NT resides Hda6 = Linux root The only problem is that Linux is in the MBR, so it _seems_ unnecessary to reinstall NT just for this. Is there a way of getting to the MBR? Is it easy to change? So my questions are as follows: 1. Where can I find a good tutorial for vi? 2. Can anyone suggest how I could restore NT as the default boot? 3. Failing 2, is there a way of booting NT from lilo or loadlin, or something along these lines? 4. a)Can I get to the MBR, and how? b) If so, is it easy to edit? Thanks for help on any of these issues, Tristan | | | "You're Not Our Brightest Year" - Mr Boon, | | Headteacher of my school: | | -St Bede's, Cambridge| | | | "Tristan you're so annoying!! | | I'm sorry, you're not really, you're very sweet" | | -Mrs Myers, Maths Teacher| | | * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: Http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/greensideburns (completely useless and miserably neglected during preparation for GCSE exams) In the summer I'll have a _real_ project to get on with: www.greensideburns.co.uk !!! Anyone know where I can get this dom name cheaper than $70? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alternative to MS Frontpage web design?
I'm not pleased. Not at all. I've used MS Frontpage 97 on WindowsNT for quite a while for my web site, and for compatibility and to save confusion, I typed all filenames and target frames in capital letters (eg a href="BLAH.HTM" target=MAIN). However MS doesn't like all capitals, and changes it on its own accord. What this boils down to is that I've spent about 3 hours going through my web site correcting every filename, so that it works in linux. Another thing I am not happy about is that my marquees created with frontpage 97 only work with MS IE (3 or 4), not with netscape! I made sure that I included no ActiveX or Microsoft Plugins so that it would work on any browser (apart from DHTML, but I'm going to change this when I get the time), but FrontPage still decided that my pages mustn't look good on any browser other than a MS one. I really don't have the time or the patience to write all the HTML codes, so I would like a decent web designing package that I can use in linux. Please could I have some recommendations/suggestions of such a package, commercial or not... Thanks, Tristan - | | | "You're Not Our Brightest Year" - Mr Boon, | | Headteacher of my school: | | -St Bede's, Cambridge| | | | "Tristan you're so annoying!! | | I'm sorry, you're not really, you're very sweet" | | -Mrs Myers, Maths Teacher| | | * *Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Home page: *Http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/greensideburns *(completely useless and miserably neglected during preparation *for GCSE exams) In the summer I'll do it properly, and regularly update again: * www.greensideburns.co.uk !!! Anyone know where I can get this dom name *cheaper than $70? I think I'm going to use NetMegs for the Virtual Server. *Is there a British one out there for as cheap as $6 a month? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux + Win95 + Win NT on one HD
About 3 weeks ago I managed to get dual booting WinNT4 and Debian 1.3.1 (I doubt it's R6) but faced the following problems, so I think they may be of use to you seeing as I used the same mini-HOWTO. I don't think that the HOWTO made clear that you have to run lilo (by simply typing in 'lilo') before you peel the bootsector to point the NT loader to. That was the simple problem that stopped it working for me. Don't forget that if you change any set up details or modify lilo at all, you have to type lilo again and peel the bootsector off again: It's perfectly simple but it means that you must always keep the boot disk =) You do have NT version 4 don't you? If you have NT 3.? then there's a separate HOWTO for this. Regarding the partitioning program, I really don't recommend using one program for all partitioning. If you want to create a partition for NT, use the NT partitioning program. If you want to create a partition for Linux, use the Linux one. HOWEVER, I don't recommend using 95 or dos for partitioning, --apart from what you did in dos to get started-- as long as you have NT4. This is because dos and 95 (especially 95) were essentially designed to run as the only OS on your system, because 95 is considered an 'end user' platform, not for power users and developers, etc. NT4 is much nicer, in the way that it was designed to coexist with 95 and other OSs because it is aimed at the power user/developer -- hence the rather nice bootloader. This means that _IMHO_ Use NT4 for disk partitioning for NT and 95 partitions, and use the linux one for linux partitions. NT4 seems to accept that you do have partitions that are alien to it, and that you might want to keep them =) It doesn't recognise the linux partitions as linux ones, but it does recognise that there is a partition there that it knows it doesn't understand and assumes that it's important. I like the NT disk administrator for managing 95/dos/NT partitions (it's in the 'administrative tools' section and is always installed with NT4), but would never use anything but linux to manage linux partitions Good luck, Tristan | | | "You're Not Our Brightest Year" - Mr Boon, | | Headteacher of my school: | | -St Bede's, Cambridge| | | | "Tristan you're so annoying!! | | I'm sorry, you're not really, you're very sweet" | | -Mrs Myers, Maths Teacher| | | * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: Http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/greensideburns (completely useless and miserably neglected during preparation for GCSE exams) In the summer I'll to have a _real_ project to get on with: www.greensideburns.co.uk !!! Anyone know where I can get this dom name cheaper than $70 ? How about a British one? I think I'm going to use Netmegs ( www.netmegs.com ) for a virtual server -- $10 a month for 5 megs + own domain name as above, as long as I pay $70 to another outfit. Any ideas on this? Helpful hints? Email me - please! BEGIN:VCARD N:Day;Tristan;John FN:Tristan John Day TEL;HOME;VOICE:(01223) 860592 TEL;HOME;FAX:(01223) 861676 ADR;HOME:;;90 Cambridge Rd;Waterbeach;Cambs;CB5 9NJ;ENGLAND LABEL;HOME;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:90 Cambridge Rd=0D=0AWaterbeach, Cambs CB5 9NJ=0D=0AENGLAND URL:http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/greensideburns EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] END:VCARD
Oh dear. Fatal mistakes...
Fatal mistake no1: Searched for Debian Port of Quake2 Fatal mistake no2: FOUND Debian Port of Quake2 Fatal mistake no3: Got libc6 and xlib6 as needed Fatal mistake no4: Tried to install using dpkg, which told me it conflicted Fatal mistake no5: Used dselect Then the conflict screen came up, and I played about with it a bit, and then decided to abort and uninstall libc6 and xlib6. So I *'ed all the ones it told me to purge on the conflict screen, and put a nice little minus sign next to libc6, xlib6 and quake2. Fatal mistake no6: selected 'remove' in dselect and lo and behold, dselect removed most of my packages, and x went black. On a reboot, the screen flickered and turned on and off repeatedly until I press ctrl+alt+del. I can't even log on before this happens. So, this is my first time screwing up Debian 1.3.1. This is a habit of mine I acquired while running WinNT4. How do I get libc6 and libc5 to like each other next time? (+ xlib6g and xlib6) How do I reset dselect so that I don't have to put a '*' on every package I already have so I don't do this again?? Tristan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TO ALL NEWBIES!!
I'll probably get lots of flames from this, but anyway, I'm a newbie who got X up and running a couple of weeks ago and am gradually getting everything to work, (eg laser printer, sound card, etc) and I really think that this piece of information is quite useful: I see (and have written) a great deal of newbie questions about lots of quite simple things like 'how do I format a floppy?' and 'How do I set up my bus mouse?' and 'my CD drive doesn't work,' etc. Some are embarrassed about writing such questions, but everyone replies to them politely and are happy to help. HOWEVER, Most of these questions are very common, so they are an unnecessary burden on the network, etc. Also, the answers given are good but you often want more detail, so... The HOWTOs and MINI-howtos are here to help. I've been looking through the /usr/doc/howto on my Debian 1.3.1 machine, and most of the questions I first asked on this list were answered in great detail, not only were the questions I had already asked been answered, but the answers were explained in detail too, which I feel is very important for a new user (because it has been important and beneficial to me). A brilliant one was the DOS-to-linux HOWTO, which described the linux alternatives to DOS commands such as how to format a floppy. You can find them on a debian ftp site, or on a distribution CD if you have one. just go into dselect and choose to install 'doc-debian' and 'doc-linux'. You may already have them installed on your system: you should find them at /usr/doc/HOWTO There's a HOWTO (or mini-HOWTO, I can't remember) that has a list and short explanation of all the current HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs available. It's either in '/usr/doc/HOWTO', or /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini There's also some mini-HOWTOs which describe processes like setting up a bus-mouse or sound card. They are in '/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini' I just thought that this was worth mentioning, Tristan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can emacs and xemacs coexist?
I've got xemacs installed on my stable Debian 1.3.1, and it works just fine, but I want to use emacs for file viewing and manipulation in a normal console because I don't like vi. I tried to install emacs in dselect but it tells me I have to take components of xemacs out, because they conflict. Is this a small conflict that would be OK to force using dpkg, or do I have to choose between them? Thanks, Tristan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Strange umount permission denied
I keep getting an error message telling me that I can't unmount my CD drive. I mount it with mount /dev/hdc /cdrom and normally I am able to unmount it with umount /dev/hdc /cdrom but whatever I do: umount /dev/hdc or umount /cdrom or the first command, it tells me that the CDROM is in use, and says 'permission denied' even when I'm root. I look in X and close all applications, then look at the other consoles and logout of them, but the same still happens. Then I restarted X with /etc/init.d/xdm stop /etc/init.d/xdm start but it makes no difference. It only happens sometimes, but when it does happen I can see no solution other than to reboot. I tried the -force argument with umount but it told me that this is not yet supported. If I press the eject button on my CD drive, that doesn't work either and the CD doesn't come out. Help! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sound problems
I can play CDs through my headphone jack on the drive, but Debian doesn't like my sound card. Tkdesk always looks for one at /dev/audio and tells me that it doesn't exist. I know that /dev/audio doesn't exist but how do I get it there? I looked for a sound card driver package, and only found AWE ones and nas. nas tells me it can't connect to the audio server or something like that. I tried man nas which told me that nas is for playing sound over a network, so is this really what I want? All I want to do is: 1) Play CDs thru sound card 2) Listen to/Record .wav files 3) Listen to MIDI files Is there a package that I've missed that'll support my soundblaster 16 compatible card? Thanks, Tristan | | | This message was sent using | | Micro$oft Express. - Don't blame me, mother | | insists. | | | | "You're Not Our Brightest Year" - Mr Boon, | | Headteacher of St Bede's, Cambridge | | | | "Tristan you're so annoying!! | | I'm sorry, you're not really, you're very sweet" | | -Mrs Myers, Maths Teacher| * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Deity and staroffice in Debian 2??
About a month ago there were many people raving about deity, the replacement to dselect. Will it be in the Debian 2 release? Also what about StarOffice being in the next release? I saw a .deb installer for it in 'unstable'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Really have to use .deb to install anything?
Do you really have to use a .deb installer file for every program you want to install? Thing is that I accidently downloaded the wrong netscape (v4.2 or something similar) and it was 8 megs long so it took 2 hours on my humble 14.4 Anyway, it wouldn't work because the .deb installer is for 3.01 so I got that version (only 2 megs) and it worked. I'm sure that if I had a .deb installer for v4.2 (or whichever it is) then it would work in Debian, but we have to wait for a .deb file don't we?? So is there a way of installing a program in a tar.gz file without a .deb file? All gunzip gives me is the filename of the zip file minus the .gz bit. In DOS there's quite a nice zip utility called pkware which unzips a package of files which includes an executable installer. Surely that's a much better way of doing things? Also, this may detract some people from debian linux or indeed any of the linux distributions in favour of Win95 + NT + DOS, because you can't get the latest version of anything, and many Win95 + NT + DOS people are very much concerned with getting the very latest version of a program such as netscape, but with linux they'll have to install an older version of everything unless it's supported as a patch or comes with a .deb file. Does the new replacement for dselect do this?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hi
I have a genuine Intel P200 MMX, with 32mb RAM It runs v. well in Linux but in Windows it's disappointing unless you have a really nice graphics card (like at least 8 meg) but anyway, memory and hard drive speed is what slows down my computer, so I'd recommend 64meg and an ultra-fast-wide-scsi hard drive as swap memory is always needed. Those two things in my opinion are essential if you want to exploit the potential of the cpu because I don't think my machine would run any faster even with a PII because swap space on hard drive is used as memory and slows the whole thing down, so even a P200 isn't working to 100% usage most of the time. Anyway, try your best to get a PII because you won't be able to upgrade much at all, and socket 7 motherboards will become obsolete. This is my problem. The MMX instruction set is what speeds up an MMX CPU, and Linux doesn't use this, because MMX is really aimed at Win95 people for games and graphics (Corel 8 is MMX enhanced) anyway, MMX claims to be 20% faster for any _non_ MMX application anyway (ie a P166 MMX is 20% faster than a normal P166 in linux or unix or anything.) The AMD K6 is quite good and I think it's much cheaper but its performance varies. With some benchmarks and applications it runs faster than intel but others it doesn't. I wouldn't but a K6 purely because of higher performance because I'm not convinced. >>In other words, the difference between a P200 and a P200MMX is nada.<< no no no! It's 20% faster! Good luck, try to find a cheap P2 so you'll be able to upgrade, Tristan | | | This message was sent using | | Micro$oft Express. - Don't blame me, mother | | insists. | | | | "You're Not Our Brightest Year" - Mr Boon, | | Headteacher of St Bede's, Cambridge | | | | "Tristan you're soo annoying!!| | I'm sorry, you're not really, you're very sweet" | | -Mrs Myers, Maths Teacher| * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking.
I think what they mean by *true* multitasking is: 1. Win95 is designed to make the program that you have 'active' (the top program you are using at the time) work fastest and gives it max power while the background tasks (the ones you've got open but aren't using at the moment) have a very small amount of CPU usage and are minimised in memory. This can be a complete pain if you're using lots of programs on a server or many important, power-demanding programs at once, and is really crummy for CAD/CAM and other such programs. 2. Linux seems to think it's running on several terminals, because you can run lots of different consoles at the same time, as if you were only using one (eg when you press Control-Alt-F2, F3, etc). Win95 doesn't do this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Desktop: colours and fvwm
fvwm95 won't work. It says it's installed but nothing happens and ovwm comes up instead. If I uninstalled ovwm would fvwm95 take its place? I've installed fvwm95, fvwm-common and fvwm2. Also, how do you change the colours for the desktop and for the windows (eg title bar) ? My colours are distinctly distasteful, but can't seem to change them. xcolors doesn't do anything. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Staroffice: Nice links but no banana
Thanks for the links guys, but unfortunately they quickly brought me to a very large download. Here in England there's no free local calls, and I'm paying for my own, so when I see a 40 meg dnld, I quickly get the hell out of there. That's annoying, because you can't get it on CD can you? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where/how can I get Staroffice?
I hear everyone saying how good staroffice is but don't know where I can get it. Also netscape won't install because it says it needs a .tar.gz file not a deb file with netscape in. What do I do? Cheers, Tristan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LibICE and general X install
When trying to install lib6 and many x-related packages to get x running, I keep being unable to install them, as dpkg tells me that I haven't got libICE something-or-other. I looked thru www.debian.org/packages and can't find it. Also one of the packages says it needs ccp whatever that is. Also, when I'm trying to install xserver (the S3 version) I'm told it can't find a mouse at /dev/mouse because it doesn't exist. I know it doesn't but don't know how to get it... Plus, whenever trying to run xdm the screen completely packs in and I have to reboot. I'm told I should run XF86Setup but it says it's not there despite instructions in x's doc files. Basically x won't install at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: x is dead - non-free
After loads of problems with LSL ( after 2 weeks they wrote back to me saying my credit card was out of date because 1/10/98 in England means 1st October and over in America it's 10th Jan, and I wrote back correcting them but they said that I have to use another card) I am facing a real dilemma with Distribution disks. If X becomes non-free, there will be no point buying a Debian distribution CD if I am correct I mean, if X isn't on there, I'll have to dnld everything anyway, or buy Red Hat What a pain. X is a large part of Debian, it's stupid to make it non-free... | | | This message was sent using | | Micro$oft Express. - Don't blame me, mother | | insists. | | | | "You're Not Our Brightest Year" - Mr Boon, | | Headteacher of St Bede's, Cambridge | | | | "Tristan you're soo annoying!!| | I'm sorry, you're not really, you're very sweet" | | -Mrs Myers, Maths Teacher| * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux Systems Labs - Orders and Ignorance
I'm from Britain, and ordered a distribution CD thru LSL < www.lsl.com > 10 days ago On the confirmation screen I was told I would recieve a reciept and that "all orders will be posted within 24hrs" Anyway, concerned about whether or not my order was sent, I wrote 5 days ago to their reception < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > expressing my concern and asking for confirmation 2 days later I sent another copy of the first message I sent, and still have had no reply, no bounces and no CD. I'm not amazingly surprised the CD hasn't come yet, but what I am worried about is the fact that I have had NO correspondance from them at all. In a few days I'm going to send a £4 cheque to someone in Britain instead if I get no reply, but I've given LSL my credit card details, etc etc etc. Tristan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unmount: COMMAND NOT FOUND!!!
When I ask Debian 1.3.1 to unmount my 3.5" to take it out of the drive, I get 'Command Not Fount' or something along these lines: it seems "unmount" doesn't exist! How do I get round this so I don't have to reboot every time I change disks? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dual Booting Win NT and Debian
After going through the 'NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO,' I managed to dual boot Linux and NT, but only using a boot floppy for Linux. Although I am pleased that this time I installed Debian it didn't lock me out of NT, I still want to dual-boot from my hard drive as promised by the HOWTO. I have copied the bootsector using dd if-/dev/hda6 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1 and put it onto my c: drive, and put the line C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="Linux" into the end of my Boot.ini file, but on booting and selecting Linux from the NT Dual Boot screen, I get "NTDETECT 4.00 ERROR: NT CANNOT FIND THE FILE /WINNT/SYSTEM32/NTOSKRNL.EXE PLEASE INSTALL THIS FILE AND TRY AGAIN" and I have to reboot. I tried copying the bootsector of my boot floppy, but the same happened again. NT is looking for another installation of NT, when it should just load Linux. Help!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's all so confusing, so should I get a CD Distribution?
OK, I'm finding all this Linux thing really difficult because I'm using it on my home computer and have to go to my mother's college to download things, and I'm a total newbie so I don't have a clue when it comes to recompiling the Kernel to put NTFS compatibility on, and installing X Window etc. Therefore, I am considering buying a distribution. 1) Would you recommend a distribution disk for a newbie? 2) Are there different ones to get? 3) I know this is a Debian list, but do you recommend Debian for user-friendliness? What are its advantages/disadv. ? I read an article about Red Hat being good, but it's expensive (£50 = $85) 4) Can I dual-boot Windows NT and Debian? Thanks. -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X Window - help!!!
Being *completely* new to Linux, I thought the Windows-like environment would be part of the Debian Installation. I guess what I was after was Xwindow/Xfree or something. I looked all over the site and searched for both, but can only find reference and packages that run ON it rather than xwindow itself... How do I get it?? Thanks -- E-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST. Trouble? E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
