[newbie] scanner question
I know there has been posting about this some time ago, but my memory is finite... Is one of the two following scanners begin supported by Linux Mandrake 7.1: - HP ScanJet 3200 - CanoScan FB 330P Thanks! Wienand
[newbie] LILO Mandrake 7.1, resume
Thanks everyone for their info on lilo/grub. Could someone please confirm if the following conclusions are correct: First there is LILO that needs a /boot partition before cylinder 1024; Then there is Grub that doesn't have this limitation. But, if your hd is LBA, then there won't be a problem at all. How do I check if my hd is lba. In /etc/lilo.conf was a line "lba32". Should this do the trick? Thanks, and once again. Wienand
Re: [newbie] LILO Mandrake 7.1
Thanks. I already did something like that, see below, but was having some problems. I partitioned by hd as follows: 8 GB Fat32 15 MB /boot 12 GB / 9 GB Fat32 Hence, the 2nd Fat32 partition was my D: disk under windows and all worked well. Untill I boot Linux, do something in Linux and reboot in windows. Then the 2nd Fat32 partition isn't any more... How is this possible? Therefore I have planned to reorder my hd as follows: 15 GB Fat32 (possibly a C: and D: station) 15 GB Linux (/boot, / /.) This means Linux to start beyond the 1024 cylinder, and it would be nice if Mandrake 7.1 incorporated the new Lilo (21.4.4). Is there possibly another solution? Wienand Drenth Mark Weaver wrote: > I don't think so. As near as I can tell, and I'm running 7.1 it's the same > old LILO. Steady and true. The easiest thing to do to overcome this > obstacle is to make a partition "/boot" your first partition. Make it > about 10MB in size and you are then free to make the rest of the > partitions as large as you want. LILO will load fine and be happy. > > My partition(s) are laid out like this: > > /boot = 10MB > / = 4GB > > LILO is very happy this way on large drives. > > -- > Mark > > I love my Linux Box... > REASON # 2 ...X-windows is just a suedonym. > Registered Linux user # 182496 >
[newbie] how to mount IOMEGA zip after emulating scsi
Hi, I've got the following problem. SInce I've got a CD rewriter, in /etc/lilo.conf there has been added : append "hdd=ide-scsi" in order to emulate scsi. This all works great: I can burn and mount the cd-rw on /dev/scd0. No problem at all. However, this also makes my zip-drive to behave scsi (?). This means that the mount command I normally used doesn't work anymore. That command was "mount -t msdos /dev/hdb4 /mnt/iomega" When I try "mount -t msdos /dev/scd1 /mnt/iomega" it complains that "fs msdos" is not supported by kernel. Any bit of advice is welcome! Wienand Drenth
[newbie] problem installing Mandrake 7.1
I tried to install Mandrake 7.1, but encountered a problem. Everything went well untill the actual package installation. Error was something like: Fileheader missing This occurred after you had to specify what cd's you had. After this the installation couldn't be continued. Can anyone help? Wienand
[newbie] how to mount IOMEGA zip after emulating scsi
Hi, I've got the following problem. SInce I've got a CD rewriter, in /etc/lilo.conf there has been added : append "hdd=ide-scsi" in order to emulate scsi. This all works great: I can burn and mount the cd-rw on /dev/scd0. No problem at all. However, this also makes my zip-drive to behave scsi (?). This means that the mount command I normally used doesn't work anymore. That command was "mount -t msdos /dev/hdb4 /mnt/iomega" When I try "mount -t msdos /dev/scd1 /mnt/iomega" it complains that "fs msdos" is not supported by kernel. Any bit of advice is welcome! Wienand Drenth
