[newbie] Unanswered Question
I asked a question last week about repartitioning a hard disk. No one answered me. Could at least someone write me and tell me if the problem is that (A) no one can answer my question or (B) my question was so stupid I never should haveasked it in thefirst place and I am a big Linux loser. Thank you, Hershel 'Loser' Robinson[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Hershel S Robinson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 7:40 PM Subject: Repartitioning Petition Hello Newbie Advisors. Here is my story: First I hadWindows NT on my C disk. Then I installedLinux onthatdisk, i.e. NT in the first partition, and then 3 for Linux. I now have gotten a D drive and have installedanother Linux installation on that drive. The D drive has 3 partitions, one for Linux / one for Linux /home and one for NT. I used the existing swap partition on my C drive for my D drive Linux installation. I read that it's best to have the swap on a separate drive if possible. (The exact partition order on C is: NT, swap, /, /home and D is /, NT, /home)What I want to do now is to repartition the / and /home partitions from my C drive (i.e. partitions 3 and 4) and make them into one partition and make them available to NT.When I initially installed Linux I just used the program that comes on the CD for partitioning (the one that runs from the command line--fdisk maybe?) and I re-partitioned the C drive without negatively affecting NT.I thought I could just go back and do that again and be able to repartition without affecting NT on C or Linux on D.1 Is this a reasonable plan?2 What do I need to do to let my Linux on D know that I removed partitions two from C (i.e. Linux on D currently mounts those partitions)3 Lilo currently is able to boot into NT and Linux on C and Linux on D. I assume that I can just edit lilo.conf to remove the Linux on C and then run lilo -v and lilo will be happy.Thank you for your help, Hershel Robinson[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Display problems and LILO question
Matt, Thank you for your help. I looked at the XF86Config file, but I'm not sure exactly how to fix it. It seems that my system is using the accelerated X server, because the regular one doesn't have such a high res. I remember checking off 3 choices when I installed, and 3 appear under the 'accel' section, but I'm not sure which one to change, or change all? (I'm guessing the system uses the first choice because it's Depth 8 and maybe that's causing problems with GIMP). I attached the config file. If you could look at it and let me know what you think, I would really appreciate it. (I'm sure you are also a very busy person, but I have not found anyone else who has really offered any help.) Also, do you know if Mandrake supports my graphics card and monitor? The Display Adapter Type window in my NT system says I have an ATI Techologies INC. 3D PRO TURBO (with 8 MB RAM). My monitor is a Dell 17" M770. Thank you very much, Hershel --- - [EMAIL PROTECTED] xconfig
[newbie] Display problems and LILO question
Hello. I am a real Linux newbie, and this appears to be the place I'm allowed to ask real newbie questions. I am running Mandrake 6.0 (with KDE) on a Dell Optiplex GX1 (with an ATITechnologies 3D PRO TURBO graphics card) with Windows NT 4.0. I have LILO installed on the 14gig C drive. I have Windows on the first partition, and Linux on the last 3. My questions are: 1 How do I change the screen resolution within Linux? It is too high and everything is hard to read. 2 When I run Gimp, my screen colors change--they become so dark I can not read the buttons on the title bar of Gimp itself. When I activate any other window, the colors return to normal again. What's the problem? 3 I tried to change the default system of LILO from somewhere inside the linuxconf, but when I activated the changes, it generated an error. I think I saw somewhere that LILO does not run so well with Windows NT. Is this true? Even if it is true, is there a way to change the default system? (I am expecting to get another hard drive in a few months, but in the meantime, I only have one) Thank you very much,Hershel Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
