Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues
In a message dated 4/24/00 11:58:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First problem: LILO. Right now, I have to disable the primary hard drive in BIOS to boot my Linux drive. When I boot the Linux drive, LILO asks me if I want to boot to Linux or my floppy drive. I'd love to be able to make a choice between Windows and Linux as everything boots up. I attempted to reconfigure LILO, at the command prompt, but obviously I am not getting something. I have the feeling that I need to somehow configure LILO on my Windows hard drive, since that is my primary master and what boots first. Any ideas/suggestions? What I did was went and instead of having to configure LILO and mess with wether linuxconf would work, bought System Commander which when installed on the "primary/master" drive, works like a champ.
Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues
KathleenI'm suspicious of something here. If your primary drive needs to be disabled to allow Linux to boot then I suspect that you probably installed Linux with the primary drive disabled as well, right? If that's so, then it'll probably be easier to reinstall Linux under normal conditions than to try and fix it to boot under normal conditions as it exists now. Alan The Russells wrote: First, a little background. I am a native Mac user (what is a BIOS anyway?! command prompt?!) who intended to install LinuxPPC about this time last year. I never got around to it. About three weeks ago I bought a PC and decided to make some use of it by getting a second hard drive and installing Mandrake on it. Call me crazy, but the idea of partitioning something I use every day scares me. I have heard too many stories about partitons breaking down, I suppose. After much gnashing of teeth and general hassle, I got the thing mounted (damn these cheap micro ATX cases!) and just finally got Mandrake installed, after trying four times. It is a 10GB Western Digital, if that matters. My Windows 98 hard drive is primary master. My Mandrake hard drive is primary slave. I have nothing for a secondary master. My CD-ROM is the secondary slave. First problem: LILO. Right now, I have to disable the primary hard drive in BIOS to boot my Linux drive. When I boot the Linux drive, LILO asks me if I want to boot to Linux or my floppy drive. I'd love to be able to make a choice between Windows and Linux as everything boots up. I attempted to reconfigure LILO, at the command prompt, but obviously I am not getting something. I have the feeling that I need to somehow configure LILO on my Windows hard drive, since that is my primary master and what boots first. Any ideas/suggestions? Second, I thought my modem was configured properly during the Mandrake install. Whenever I try to use it in Linux, it says the modem is busy. It's definitely not. I bought the confounded modem expressly because I was under the impression that it was supported by Linux. It is a Rockwell ACF II 56k data fax modem, on COM port 2 (in windows language). Today I read something somewhere that suggested Rockwells aren't usually supported by Linux. Was I misled? Can anyone point me in the direction of a Linux-modem webpage? Sheesh. I realize I sound like a babe in the woods here. Bear with me. Thank goodness this list is labeled "newbie"! Thanks, Kathleen
Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues
Alan, Doh! You are right! I did install Mandrake when there were no other drives even hooked up--I was having a lot of trouble, and was beginning ot think it was my ribbon cable, so I unhooked my Windows hard drive and attached that connection to the Linux hard drive. Anyhoo, I will reinstall Linux. There are some things missing from the recommended install that I want anyway. Thanks, Kathleen
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Actually, if you were to run to separate drives, and the first drive had no dos partitions on it, Windows wouldn't even recognize it. It would still call the second drive 'C' (because non-dos partitions don't get a drive letter). At least that makes sense in my head, well that's another story. I've played with different configurations and it's hard to remember sometimes what works and what doesn't. Lilo has given me the warning in the past that the /boot partition has to be before the 1024th cylinder, but I say 'ok' and it works anyway. Right now I'm using the BeOS boot manager (uninstalled the OS because at that time it didn't support my vid card, but left the boot manager cause it works good) and it doesn't care where your OS is installed. At one time, I had 4 different OS's booting off of my primary drive; 1. WinNT 4, 2. Win98, 3. Mandrake, 4. BeOS 4.5. This worked just fine with the BeOS boot manager booting all of them. Jaguar wrote: Not true...the installed to Drive of ALL the software is set to C Drive, ie: path to files installed C:\office\word\blabla.exe That is much more time consuming to change all the installed DIR's locations in Windows than setting up the LILO boot. HTH Jaguar Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about switching your drives? If you make Linux /dev/hda and Windows /dev/hdb (make Linux your primary master and put windows on your primary slave). You shouldn't have to change too much, just the jumpers on your Windows drive. I would like to say that I have two drives. On the first (20GB) I've got WinNT, Win98 and finally, Mandrake Linux. On the second (13GB), I have extra storage space for FAT32 and Linux. This works great for me, I've never lost any data. Mike The Russells wrote: Yup, I tried it. I ran "lilo" at the command prompt after I saved it and it told me /dev/hdb is not a regular file. Maybe this is a good excuse to get a whole new and different box?! Any excuse, any at all... An iMac, eh? Cool. Mine is grape and is quite neglected since this Linux thing came around. Thanks, Kathleen -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues
If kathleen has Partition Magic and Boot Magic, she can simply run the set up for Boot Magic and be able to run both OS. She needs a multiboot loader on her primary hard disk that can launch her systems. She may also be able to re-install LILO to the MBR without clobbering her install. One of the great things about GNU/Linux, once you begin to understand the ins and outs is that reinstalls are generally unecessary. JWD On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 23:20:41 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues KathleenI'm suspicious of something here. If your primary drive needs to be disabled to allow Linux to boot then I suspect that you probably installed Linux with the primary drive disabled as well, right? If that's so, then it'll probably be easier to reinstall Linux under normal conditions than to try and fix it to boot under normal conditions as it exists now. Alan The Russells wrote: First, a little background. I am a native Mac user (what is a BIOS anyway?! command prompt?!) who intended to install LinuxPPC about this time last year. I never got around to it. About three weeks ago I bought a PC and decided to make some use of it by getting a second hard drive and installing Mandrake on it. Call me crazy, but the idea of partitioning something I use every day scares me. I have heard too many stories about partitons breaking down, I suppose. After much gnashing of teeth and general hassle, I got the thing mounted (damn these cheap micro ATX cases!) and just finally got Mandrake installed, after trying four times. It is a 10GB Western Digital, if that matters. My Windows 98 hard drive is primary master. My Mandrake hard drive is primary slave. I have nothing for a secondary master. My CD-ROM is the secondary slave. First problem: LILO. Right now, I have to disable the primary hard drive in BIOS to boot my Linux drive. When I boot the Linux drive, LILO asks me if I want to boot to Linux or my floppy drive. I'd love to be able to make a choice between Windows and Linux as everything boots up. I attempted to reconfigure LILO, at the command prompt, but obviously I am not getting something. I have the feeling that I need to somehow configure LILO on my Windows hard drive, since that is my primary master and what boots first. Any ideas/suggestions? Second, I thought my modem was configured properly during the Mandrake install. Whenever I try to use it in Linux, it says the modem is busy. It's definitely not. I bought the confounded modem expressly because I was under the impression that it was supported by Linux. It is a Rockwell ACF II 56k data fax modem, on COM port 2 (in windows language). Today I read something somewhere that suggested Rockwells aren't usually supported by Linux. Was I misled? Can anyone point me in the direction of a Linux-modem webpage? Sheesh. I realize I sound like a babe in the woods here. Bear with me. Thank goodness this list is labeled "newbie"! Thanks, Kathleen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] You honor, Vacerra, the ancients alone and never praise poets, unless dead and gone your pardon I beg, if ungracious I seem but 'tis not worth dying to gain your esteem --- Martial
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Well in my way of thinking...the BIOS assigns Drive letters weather there is a filesystem on it or not...changing the Windows C: installed drive to somewhere else in the chain, will still produce the file not found errors because the drive is now assigned Drive D or more, and the installed drive was previously C:, depending on the chain PM IDE=C --- of course drive letters will change with mulitple. PS IDE=D partitions per drive SM IDE=E SS IDE=F Now with modern BIOS's you can set to boot from A or C or D or CD-ROM or SCSI, etc...using that may help the process... But once Windows is installed to a drive...the Regisrty uses that as the path to where the files are located. HTH Jaguar Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, if you were to run to separate drives, and the first drive had no dos partitions on it, Windows wouldn't even recognize it. It would still call the second drive 'C' (because non-dos partitions don't get a drive letter). At least that makes sense in my head, well that's another story. I've played with different configurations and it's hard to remember sometimes what works and what doesn't. Lilo has given me the warning in the past that the /boot partition has to be before the 1024th cylinder, but I say 'ok' and it works anyway. Right now I'm using the BeOS boot manager (uninstalled the OS because at that time it didn't support my vid card, but left the boot manager cause it works good) and it doesn't care where your OS is installed. At one time, I had 4 different OS's booting off of my primary drive; 1. WinNT 4, 2. Win98, 3. Mandrake, 4. BeOS 4.5. This worked just fine with the BeOS boot manager booting all of them. Jaguar wrote: Not true...the installed to Drive of ALL the software is set to C Drive, ie: path to files installed C:\office\word\blabla.exe That is much more time consuming to change all the installed DIR's locations in Windows than setting up the LILO boot. HTH Jaguar Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about switching your drives? If you make Linux /dev/hda and Windows /dev/hdb (make Linux your primary master and put windows on your primary slave). You shouldn't have to change too much, just the jumpers on your Windows drive. I would like to say that I have two drives. On the first (20GB) I've got WinNT, Win98 and finally, Mandrake Linux. On the second (13GB), I have extra storage space for FAT32 and Linux. This works great for me, I've never lost any data. Mike The Russells wrote: Yup, I tried it. I ran "lilo" at the command prompt after I saved it and it told me /dev/hdb is not a regular file. Maybe this is a good excuse to get a whole new and different box?! Any excuse, any at all... An iMac, eh? Cool. Mine is grape and is quite neglected since this Linux thing came around. Thanks, Kathleen -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com. -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, "The Russells" wrote: . . You don't have a bios on Apple computers? (No, seriously, you don't?) Nope. I suppose the most similar thing to BIOS in a Mac would be the extension manager, but it's certainly not the same thing. In a way a person has less control while using a Mac. But a perosn can allocate programs more or less memory, which is cool. And resetting the PRAM--now that's fun! The BIOS is on the mother board itself and is coded on to the BIOS chip. Without it Intel systems don't run since it loads the initial boot up program from the MBR. Win/DOS also has a software "BIOS" as well, one of a pair of hidden system files that DOS (and OS/2, Win9* and NT 3*) requires. The NT versions used to be the MS OS/2 versions. I don't know whether that has changed or not. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] You honor, Vacerra, the ancients alone and never praise poets, unless dead and gone your pardon I beg, if ungracious I seem but 'tis not worth dying to gain your esteem --- Martial
Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues
Kathleen, If your Rockwell is a "Winmodem" it isn't supported by Linux. Basically, any free standing modem is more likely to be safe than an internal modem. If the modem was really inexpensive (e.g. $20-$30) it is probably a WinModem and expects to use Win services to fill in for its own inadequacies. The card is mostly an interface and the "modem" is implemented in software on WinModems. My own is a 3COM USR Voice Fax Modem, but its an exspenvie one. The other possibility is that your software is looking in the wrong place. When you first run your dial-up setup - I use KPPP - you need to tell the system that the modem is on /dev/ttyS1 (if indeed it is on com2). If your setup points to /dev/modem, then run ls -al /dev/modem to find what it is linked to. /dev/modem is symbolic link and needs to point to the correct device. .. Second, I thought my modem was configured properly during the Mandrake install. Whenever I try to use it in Linux, it says the modem is busy. It's definitely not. I bought the confounded modem expressly because I was under the impression that it was supported by Linux. It is a Rockwell ACF II 56k data fax modem, on COM port 2 (in windows language). Today I read something somewhere that suggested Rockwells aren't usually supported by Linux. Was I misled? Can anyone point me in the direction of a Linux-modem webpage? Sheesh. I realize I sound like a babe in the woods here. Bear with me. Thank goodness this list is labeled "newbie"! Thanks, Kathleen John Dougherty -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] You honor, Vacerra, the ancients alone and never praise poets, unless dead and gone your pardon I beg, if ungracious I seem but 'tis not worth dying to gain your esteem --- Martial
Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues
I do have the Boot Magic provided on disk 3 of Mandrake 7. Maybe I will try that first, and then just do an upgrade rather than a full install. Really, what else is it for but to tinker around with. It's not like I have much Stuff Of Importance on either hard drive yet, since the PC is a grand total of about 3 weeks old. Thanks to you all! What a terrific group of folks to have available! Kathleen
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I could be wrong, but I don't believe your bios cares what letter is on any given drive. You do however, need to tell it where your MBR resides. That's why you can boot from a floppy disk or a zip drive. It doesn't need to know which comes first (c,d,e,f,etc), it just needs the path from itself to the ide channel (master or slave) to the place where the boot files live. Is that making any sense? To the best of my knowledge, c,d,e,f etc. is just Bill's creation. Since most people use windows, the bios just uses the language more people are familiar with when it asks you what drive letter you want to boot from. Once Windows gets booted, if it doesn't see any M$ compatible partitions behind it, it will see it self as "c" drive. You can try this experiment (if you have the software laying around). Load partition magic and resize your Windows partition to leave about 50megs empty at the FRONT of your drive. Install a copy of Dos 6 and Windows 3 or equivalent and use lilo to boot everything. You should have something like this: /dev/hda1 = dos /dev/hda2 = windows /dev/hda3 = linux If you don't have lilo installed on that computer, you can use your windows rescue disk and fdisk to set the active partition. Now if you boot into Win3, you shouldn't see the Win98 partition because win3 uses FAT16 and therefore wouldn't understand the file table. If you boot Win98, Win3 will just look like a simple dos partition and therefore be given the drive letter 'd' and your root partition or 'c' will be the Win98 system. Neither one will see Linux, but Linux will know right where each of them are (/dev/hda1, etc.) I guess all that was just to say that drive letters are not set in stone on your hard ware. Windows will always see itself as the main OS and therefore no matter where you put it, it will always see itself as 'c'. Tell me if that makes sense, eh? I'm starting to get cross-eyed! Mike Jaguar wrote: Well in my way of thinking...the BIOS assigns Drive letters weather there is a filesystem on it or not...changing the Windows C: installed drive to somewhere else in the chain, will still produce the file not found errors because the drive is now assigned Drive D or more, and the installed drive was previously C:, depending on the chain PM IDE=C --- of course drive letters will change with mulitple. PS IDE=D partitions per drive SM IDE=E SS IDE=F Now with modern BIOS's you can set to boot from A or C or D or CD-ROM or SCSI, etc...using that may help the process... But once Windows is installed to a drive...the Regisrty uses that as the path to where the files are located. HTH Jaguar -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Does this mean that I could then just delete a partition with linux on it and not have any problems in windows even if that was the default boot drive? (i.e. Windows on C drive, Linux on D drive (automatically boots into Linux), can I just delete D if I wanted to go back to windows and try a new distribution of linux later? Or do I have to edit the BIOS? -Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Holt Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 4:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues]] I could be wrong, but I don't believe your bios cares what letter is on any given drive. You do however, need to tell it where your MBR resides. That's why you can boot from a floppy disk or a zip drive. It doesn't need to know which comes first (c,d,e,f,etc), it just needs the path from itself to the ide channel (master or slave) to the place where the boot files live. Is that making any sense? To the best of my knowledge, c,d,e,f etc. is just Bill's creation. Since most people use windows, the bios just uses the language more people are familiar with when it asks you what drive letter you want to boot from. Once Windows gets booted, if it doesn't see any M$ compatible partitions behind it, it will see it self as "c" drive. You can try this experiment (if you have the software laying around). Load partition magic and resize your Windows partition to leave about 50megs empty at the FRONT of your drive. Install a copy of Dos 6 and Windows 3 or equivalent and use lilo to boot everything. You should have something like this: /dev/hda1 = dos /dev/hda2 = windows /dev/hda3 = linux If you don't have lilo installed on that computer, you can use your windows rescue disk and fdisk to set the active partition. Now if you boot into Win3, you shouldn't see the Win98 partition because win3 uses FAT16 and therefore wouldn't understand the file table. If you boot Win98, Win3 will just look like a simple dos partition and therefore be given the drive letter 'd' and your root partition or 'c' will be the Win98 system. Neither one will see Linux, but Linux will know right where each of them are (/dev/hda1, etc.) I guess all that was just to say that drive letters are not set in stone on your hard ware. Windows will always see itself as the main OS and therefore no matter where you put it, it will always see itself as 'c'. Tell me if that makes sense, eh? I'm starting to get cross-eyed! Mike Jaguar wrote: Well in my way of thinking...the BIOS assigns Drive letters weather there is a filesystem on it or not...changing the Windows C: installed drive to somewhere else in the chain, will still produce the file not found errors because the drive is now assigned Drive D or more, and the installed drive was previously C:, depending on the chain PM IDE=C --- of course drive letters will change with mulitple. PS IDE=D partitions per drive SM IDE=E SS IDE=F Now with modern BIOS's you can set to boot from A or C or D or CD-ROM or SCSI, etc...using that may help the process... But once Windows is installed to a drive...the Regisrty uses that as the path to where the files are located. HTH Jaguar -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues
The Russells wrote: First, a little background. I am a native Mac user (what is a BIOS anyway?! command prompt?!) You don't have a bios on Apple computers? (No, seriously, you don't?) First problem: LILO. Right now, I have to disable the primary hard drive in BIOS to boot my Linux drive. When I boot the Linux drive, LILO asks me if I want to boot to Linux or my floppy drive. I'd love to be able to make a choice between Windows and Linux as everything boots up. I attempted to reconfigure LILO, at the command prompt, but obviously I am not getting something. I have the feeling that I need to somehow configure LILO on my Windows hard drive, since that is my primary master and what boots first. Any ideas/suggestions? Wow! That would be a pain in the butt! I'm not sure if lilo can boot from the second hard disk, it may need to be on the primary. You could try the following configuration to see if it works. Edit your /etc/lilo.conf file (as root) to look like this: boot=/dev/hdb map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 vga=normal default=linux (or windows, whichever one you want to boot automatically) keytable=/boot/us.klt message=/boot/message image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdb3 append="" read-only other=/dev/hda label=windows table=/dev/hda When you are done, save and exit then run the command 'lilo' without the quotes from the command line (open a terminal window or leave your GUI). Reboot and see what happens. Second, I thought my modem was configured properly during the Mandrake install. Whenever I try to use it in Linux, it says the modem is busy. It's definitely not. I bought the confounded modem expressly because I was under the impression that it was supported by Linux. It is a Rockwell ACF II 56k data fax modem, on COM port 2 (in windows language). Today I read something somewhere that suggested Rockwells aren't usually supported by Linux. Was I misled? Can anyone point me in the direction of a Linux-modem webpage? I used to have a modem-for-linux web page written down somewhere, I'll see if I can find it. Sheesh. I realize I sound like a babe in the woods here. Bear with me. Thank goodness this list is labeled "newbie"! Thanks, Kathleen Have fun! Mike -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues
First problem: LILO. Right now, I have to disable the primary hard drive in BIOS to boot my Linux drive. When I boot the Linux drive, LILO asks me if I want to boot to Linux or my floppy drive. I'd love to be able to make a choice between Windows and Linux as everything boots up. I attempted to reconfigure LILO, at the command prompt, but obviously I am not getting something. I have the feeling that I need to somehow configure LILO on my Windows hard drive, since that is my primary master and what boots first. Any ideas/suggestions? Where did you install LILO? I have my system set up the same way (Windows on the primary, Linux on the slave) and I have no problems dual booting. LILO should be installed on the primary drive, in the Master Boot Record. If that's the problem, you can change with linuxconf. Type "linuxconf" as root, and then go to "Boot Mode". Set the LILO location to /dev/hda and that should fix it. Second, I thought my modem was configured properly during the Mandrake install. Whenever I try to use it in Linux, it says the modem is busy. It's definitely not. I bought the confounded modem expressly because I was under the impression that it was supported by Linux. It is a Rockwell ACF II 56k data fax modem, on COM port 2 (in windows language). Today I read something somewhere that suggested Rockwells aren't usually supported by Linux. Was I misled? Can anyone point me in the direction of a Linux-modem webpage? I'm not sure what's wrong with your modem, but the web page you want is http://linmodems.org/ Sheesh. I realize I sound like a babe in the woods here. Bear with me. Thank goodness this list is labeled "newbie"! Don't worry about it. We were all newbies at one time. : ) Thanks, Kathleen -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues
The Russells wrote: First, a little background. I am a native Mac user (what is a BIOS anyway?! command prompt?!) and Michael responded: You don't have a bios on Apple computers? (No, seriously, you don't?) Nope. I suppose the most similar thing to BIOS in a Mac would be the extension manager, but it's certainly not the same thing. In a way a person has less control while using a Mac. But a perosn can allocate programs more or less memory, which is cool. And resetting the PRAM--now that's fun! Once a Mac geek, always a Mac geek, Kathleen
Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues
I'll have to keep you in mind; I'm planning to buy an iMac this summer and I don't have a clue how to run one! Have you tried the lilo fix yet? I'm curious to see if it works! Mike The Russells wrote: The Russells wrote: First, a little background. I am a native Mac user (what is a BIOS anyway?! command prompt?!) and Michael responded: You don't have a bios on Apple computers? (No, seriously, you don't?) Nope. I suppose the most similar thing to BIOS in a Mac would be the extension manager, but it's certainly not the same thing. In a way a person has less control while using a Mac. But a perosn can allocate programs more or less memory, which is cool. And resetting the PRAM--now that's fun! Once a Mac geek, always a Mac geek, Kathleen -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues
Michael Holt wrote: I'll have to keep you in mind; I'm planning to buy an iMac this summer and I don't have a clue how to run one! Have you tried the lilo fix yet? I'm curious to see if it works! Mike The Russells wrote: The Russells wrote: First, a little background. I am a native Mac user (what is a BIOS anyway?! command prompt?!) and Michael responded: You don't have a bios on Apple computers? (No, seriously, you don't?) Nope. I suppose the most similar thing to BIOS in a Mac would be the extension manager, but it's certainly not the same thing. In a way a person has less control while using a Mac. But a perosn can allocate programs more or less memory, which is cool. And resetting the PRAM--now that's fun! Once a Mac geek, always a Mac geek, Kathleen -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues
Yup, I tried it. I ran "lilo" at the command prompt after I saved it and it told me /dev/hdb is not a regular file. Maybe this is a good excuse to get a whole new and different box?! Any excuse, any at all... An iMac, eh? Cool. Mine is grape and is quite neglected since this Linux thing came around. Thanks, Kathleen
Re: [newbie] LILO and modem issues
How about switching your drives? If you make Linux /dev/hda and Windows /dev/hdb (make Linux your primary master and put windows on your primary slave). You shouldn't have to change too much, just the jumpers on your Windows drive. I would like to say that I have two drives. On the first (20GB) I've got WinNT, Win98 and finally, Mandrake Linux. On the second (13GB), I have extra storage space for FAT32 and Linux. This works great for me, I've never lost any data. Mike The Russells wrote: Yup, I tried it. I ran "lilo" at the command prompt after I saved it and it told me /dev/hdb is not a regular file. Maybe this is a good excuse to get a whole new and different box?! Any excuse, any at all... An iMac, eh? Cool. Mine is grape and is quite neglected since this Linux thing came around. Thanks, Kathleen -- The Penguins are coming!!! Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
