[newbie] mdk 6.0 boot disc question
I neglected to take out my boot disc when I was making a floppy, and overwrote it. I am dual booting, and use a boot disc to get to linux. I need to make a new bootdisc and am unsure how to. Here's what I tried: I loaded tomsrtbt into my box, and mounted my linux partition, and gave the command "mkbootdisc", which I thought was all I had to do. This didn't work. I then tried looking around for my boot image to copy, but I'm not sure where it is, or if that's all I would need. In /boot there are two vmlinuz images, but i'm not sure how to copy them and if they are what I need. I tried to, just to experiment but it didn't work. Heres what I did: dd if=vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0. I know this is real newbie stuff, but any help will be much appreciated. tia russell
[newbie] max linux mag mdk7.0
I saw that the new magazine, Maximum Linux, includes a copy of mdk 7.0, as well as a copy of Storm Linux. Does anyone know if this is version 7.0-2, or 7.0? tia russell
Re: [newbie] Boot Partition too big...
disk druid never worked for me...try linux fdiskit's the best way to carve your hd Dave wrote: Heya guys, (before I start, I did check the archives and I did see a couple messages about this , but they all related to FAT32 systems...) I just installed Win2k on a new 13 gig HD which I fdisk'ed into a 11 gig and a 2 gig partition. I want to try Mandrake out, but whenever I try to install Mandrake, I get an error during disk druid which reads "Boot Partition too big." This occurs even when I make a 1 meg linux partition and mount it at /. Any ideas? Do I *really* have to format, switch to LBA, and reinstall?! thanks Dave
Re: [newbie] newbie books
Running Linux by Matt Welsh/et al from O'Reilly. If you did a poll I believe that this book would be the most recommended. It's available at most book stores, such as Barnes Noble, and of course from on line purveyors like amazon. Russell Philomena wrote: Hi all, Can anyone recommend a few good startup Linux books ? There are too many out there now to start sampling. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, philomena
Re: [newbie] Mouse Question - MS Intellimouse Explorer (USB)
I have the same mouse, and have had difficulty getting the scrolling feature to work. I chose generic mouse drivers during the install, and my mouse works fine except for scrolling. If you really need scrolling support, check this out... http://www.linux.ie/beginners-linux-guide/intellimouse.html hope this helps... Russell (another newbie) "Peter H. Hackett" wrote: Folks, Before I download and install this puppy, I'm looking for information on if the MS Intellimouse Explorer (USB) mouse is supported in any way. I know that the site says 'all mice', but I wan't to be sure that this particular mouse will have at lease some functionallity. Thanks. _ Grasshopper _
[newbie] 6.0 bug fixes
I am running mandrake 6.0. So far I haven't run into any problems, but if anyone knows of known problems/bug fixes for this release, I would be most grateful for a pointer to any relevant url's. tia russell
[newbie] mount/make/windoz-files?
Can someone tell me how to mount my windoz partition, and make a directory there to use for linux? I would like to direct error messages, and log files to windoz from linux. I know this is a really newbie ?. hda1windoz 98 fat 32 hda 2 linux native hda3linux swap mandrake 6.0 200mmx wd 5.1g hd tia russell
[newbie] Pine
I'm not so crazy about n.s.'s mail, and i would like to try Pine to send and retrieve mail on my Linux partition. I am using MD 6.0. Is there an rpm for pine on the distro? If not, could someone tell me the steps I would need to take to get and use Pine? Any info would be much appreciated. tia russell
[newbie] kppp/problem
i'm running mandrake 6.0 on a 200mmx with 96 megs of ram after configuring kppp in kde, i querry the modem and it is ok when i dial my isp my connection drops and i get this error: the pppd dameon died unexpectedly this is the log Feb 23 17:32:09 localhost pppd (2215) : pppd 2.3.7 started by bulwinkl, uid 501 Feb 23 17:32:09 localhost pppd (2215) : Using interface ppp0 Feb 23 17:32:09 localhost pppd (2215) : Connect : ppp0 -- /dev/cua1 Feb 23 17:32:09 localhost pppd (2215) : LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Feb 23 17:32:09 localhost pppd (2215) : Connection terminated. Feb 23 17:32:09 localhost pppd (2215) : Connect time 0.5 minutes. Feb 23 17:32:09 localhost pppd (2215) : Exit. any help would by most appreciated russell
Re: [[newbie] Mandrake 70-2 install]
i had the same problem...try checking _no_ at this prompt...when i did, the rest of the install worked... Jaguar wrote: At one point I found a HOWTO on Toshiba laptops...maybe do a search of ""toshiba laptops" and "linux"". HTH Jaguar David Michael Felice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install Mandrake 7 on a Toshiba laptop. It is loading the begining of the install process, but I can only get as far as "searching for pcmcia..blahblahblah"...it then gives me an error of "can't open /proc/bus/pci/devices" This is far as I can get. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what I am missing (something in a wrong directory on the files I downloaded???) Thanx Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
