Re: [newbie] install win after install linux?
I have never done this, but I would think you could fairly easily. I would remove the primary disk to install winders. Then, I would install Winders completely as if it was its own machine. Then, I would plug my mandrake drive back into it as the master and the winders as teh slave and then boot mandrake and then go into the boot configuration to boot the winders disk. It might work. - Original Message - From: Fadel Cazor Casis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 12:45 PM Subject: [newbie] install win after install linux? Hi, i have LM8.1 in a filled primary disk, is possible install now windows in a new secondary disk by switching primary disk to secondary an sencondary disk to primary? and not lost mi linux? how to accomplish this? Thanks on advance Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] install win after install linux?
I really don't think you'd have to. That's why you make the linux disk the master. It will boot from hda, it will be hda. Then, it will see teh winders as hdb probably as a new device. It might prompt kudzu. You can easily then go change things using linuxconf. I really don't think an extra drive should mess with anything and cause a kernel panic. If it do, take out the winders disk. - Original Message - From: Fadel Cazor Casis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 1:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] install win after install linux? but, is possible boot in prompt mode (or like this) and mount manually /etc and modify fstab (change hda for hdc) and lilo conf for boot linux in hdc win in hda? Miark wrote: I could be mistaken, but I think swapping HDs will screw things up for at least Linux. It'll be looking to boot from hda, but will find Winsux and cause a kernel panic or something like that. There's probably a way around it, but I couldn't tell you what at the moment. fstab would have to be changed, lilo would too. It would definitely be a rescue operation. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] install win after install linux?
Oh yeah. You're right. I just had a brain freeze. - Original Message - From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 2:27 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] install win after install linux? As far as I know, Windows has to be the first primary partition of the first harddrive. He'd have to switch them. Miark - Original Message - From: James Bear [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] install win after install linux? I really don't think you'd have to. That's why you make the linux disk the master. It will boot from hda, it will be hda. Then, it will see teh winders as hdb probably as a new device. It might prompt kudzu. You can easily then go change things using linuxconf. I really don't think an extra drive should mess with anything and cause a kernel panic. If it do, take out the winders disk. - Original Message - From: Fadel Cazor Casis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 1:33 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] install win after install linux? but, is possible boot in prompt mode (or like this) and mount manually /etc and modify fstab (change hda for hdc) and lilo conf for boot linux in hdc win in hda? Miark wrote: I could be mistaken, but I think swapping HDs will screw things up for at least Linux. It'll be looking to boot from hda, but will find Winsux and cause a kernel panic or something like that. There's probably a way around it, but I couldn't tell you what at the moment. fstab would have to be changed, lilo would too. It would definitely be a rescue operation. Miark -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Downloading proper Nvidia driver file
Fromt that terminal window, just type kudzu. It should just tell you it will configure your new card. It should give you a generic driver. - Original Message - From: Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 2:58 PM Subject: [newbie] Downloading proper Nvidia driver file Hello: Recently my video card died, and I replaced it with a 32Mb DDR Nvidia Ge Force 2GTS. My hard drive is partitioned, so installing the proper drivers for my windows portion was uneventful. Unfortunately, I can't say the same about my linux partition. When I boot up in linux, I can only get the console (terminal) mode, in runlevel 3. So I need to install the drivers in linux as well. I visited the nvidia site and according to their instructions I need to download two files. One is the glx file and the other is an .rpm kernel file which corresponds to my system. Question is, it is not clear to me, which is the correct file. I have installed Mandrake 8.0 with kernel 2.4.3 (i.e. the standard installation of mandrake power pack edition). The options in the nvidia site are: the UP kernel, the enterprise kernel, or the smp kernel. Any ideas which is the file I should d/l, or at least how to find out? Also, I don't play video games in my system, is there by any chance some kind of generic driver I can install, which was included with the original powerpak package? Thanks in advance. Regards, Dexter Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
