Re: [newbie]
Hi Marianne, On deleting the partitions of linux with the help of partition magic, 1. you should be in windows, or using the partition magic floppy boot disk to get to partition magic. Just highlight the linux ext2 partitions, and delete them. there are these big Icons on the bottom of the screen to start that process, or you can right click on them and an option box will open up asking what you want to do with the partitions in question. after you have deleted the linux partitions, including the "swap" partition. be sure and click that little green icon in the lower right hand corner that says "apply changes". the computer will grind away for another 15 minutes or so, depending on the speed of your processor, and tada! no more linux partitions! they should reallocate to a gray color, being unallocated space. you can then resize your windows partition to take up the space, or reinstall another something in the space. if the LILO/Grub boot pops up on the screen, and you can't get to windowsturn the computer off. start your computer with the windows emergency boot disk, have it start without cdrom support (on a command line). make sure you are at a c:\ prompt not c:\windows how do you do that? if the command line says c:\windows...type right after c:\windows cd c:\ and then hit return. the complete line you type before return should look like c:\windows cd c:\ when you hit enter you should get a c:\ prompt. then type fdisk /mbr the line should look like c:\fdisk /mbr what this does is ...it sets your computer back to the factory setting of the master boot record, and wipes out the LILO/Grub mbr boot put there by linux. Your computer will start every time with windows from there on in. the link for my posting is in the archives of the newbie section of linux-mandrake (where you signed up for the service) I assumed because you signed up for the service, you knew how to get there. It has all of the archives of the most recent email conversations. I really don't know why they are not doing this in a regular newsgroup situation. it is really a pain getting all of these emails for every posting. Seeya, Ricky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick, You forgot to include the link! chek out my listing on this newbie page on getting rid of extra boots listed! cheers! marianne
Re: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this is crazy.....!!!!
Question: Why is this forum not on a regular newsgroup. After being on this email forum for 12 hours, I understand where Anthony is coming from... bottom line: Lets get this thing on a "newsgroup" promote the new newsgroup address and save the hassle. Mark Weaver wrote: prolly wasn't aware of the sheer volume of messages on a daiy basis. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Anthony Daniell wrote: Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 08:45:48 +1000 From: Anthony Daniell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this is crazy. why join a list if you can not handle the email Anthony Daniell - Original Message - From: "philomena" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 5:45 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] dear god!!! please take me off this is crazy. this has got to be a joke, right ? just inciting the continuation of these responses ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please take me off this newbie list can't stand all this mail
Re: [newbie] Can't load file with zoneinfos (install fails on 7.2)
did you make your disks from the iso images? If so, than I would suggest your cds may be at fault for sure. iso image is te best deal! You could buy the storebought copy with manuals for less than 30 bucks. Peter Schram wrote: Hi, I have downloaded Mandrake 7.2 (2 CD's). Install goes great untill the installing timezone part. It states it can't find the file with the zoneinfos. When the install is aborted, I can read on the console: can't cd to /usr/share/zoneinfo. This dir isn't on my disk anywhere. I checked the downloadsite, there shouldn't be one either. At least I don't think so. This problem has occured on two totally different machines, so I think it has to be the cd's. As a result I don't have a working Linux install. Does anyone have a suggestion? Best regards, Peter Schram
Re: [newbie] Linux partitioning
the swap file should never be more than 128meg in size...actually smaller if you have more than 128 mb of ram! you can do a complete install with as little as one / partition and one swap file! on my current setup I have / ,/home, and swap as my partitions mandrake does the rest Gregg Black wrote: I'm reading up on setting up linux, and it states that many will setup separate partitions for /usr and /home besides ones swap space. I would like to ask you how you usually setup your partitioning. I was a little bit confused on it, for you at least need a mounting point of root. This is how I did it, but I'm not sure if it's how it should be done. I set one partition for about 3/4 of the drive as '/'. I thought that would cover my separate partition for /usr as well as the mount point. My second partition and about 1/4 of the drive (not all, as the last is for swap) I set as mount point /home. Then of course the remaining 256 megs I set for swap. At first I was going to create a 7 meg partition just for mounting root, then the larger 3/4 approx for /usr, and then the last primary for /home but I thought it just made more sense to make just a / and /home partition. Maybe I'm just not thinking about this correctly. Any suggestions would be appreciated! I'm using mandrake 7.2 -Gregg
