Re: [newbie] A bit dangerous
I would actually like to figure out how make Windows *bootable* again. It doesn't seem to boot even if I choose the Windows option from the startup screen. doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001): YEs, time for a forum article This time, I thought, HOWTO make windows unbootable Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A bit dangerous?
On Monday, December 24, 2001, at 08:30 PM, Doug Lerner wrote: Not really. But then again Mac OS 9 does the same thing. You can click on any partition on the Desktop and then choose Initialize from the Special Menu and without a single word or warning the partition is initialized! doug Well thats not true at all. First of all Mac OS 9 won't let you initialize the startup partition/disk at all. You have to boot from another volume/CD to do that. This is the prompt you get The disk 'USS ENTERPRISE' could not be erased, because it is the startup disk, which contains the active system software. Next when you go to initialize a volume which you CAN format you get this warning Completely erase 'DEEP SPACE NINE' (ATA Bus 0 Dev 0, v3.2.5)? So as you can see you get warnings whenever you go to format a disk or drive for any reason under Mac OS 9. Where did you get the without a single word or warning the partition is initialized from? --- Linux is Luke. FreeBSD is Yoda. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A bit dangerous
On Tuesday 25 December 2001 04:07 am, you wrote: I would actually like to figure out how make Windows *bootable* again. It doesn't seem to boot even if I choose the Windows option from the startup screen. Maybe, post your lilo.conf Also explain which drine/partition windows is on. We might see something, else its difficult to help Gerald Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] A bit dangerous?
I am installing Mandrake 8.1 now on my HP Pavilion. I still don't know if it will be successful or not, but the installer seems to be happily installing all the packages. I started with two partitions on my hard drive: one for Windows 98 and one for Windows 2000. I decided I could get along with just the Windows 2000 partition and so at the partitioning stage I clicked on the Windows 98 partition, selected delete and then auto-allocate. Auto-allocate used the deleted Windows 98 partition and created linux, home and swap partitions instead. Then it went on to select and install packages, which it is doing now. All this without any warnings at all! You would think that before an entire partition was deleted you would get warnings like This will delete all the data on this entire partition. Are you sure you want to do this? But there was none of that. I was surprised. I would recommend inserting such a warning step into the procedure. doug Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A bit dangerous?
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Doug Lerner wrote: Maybe a warning dialog first like: This will delete your entire partition and all your data will be lost. OK? Call me crazy, but if I accidently hit the wrong button I would like at least one chance to take something like that back. :-) I think you actually still can at that point - just so long as you haven't actually hit Done. And when you do this, you get a pop-up saying that it's going to write new partitioning scheme to disk. So, there you go. Feel a little more secure now? ;-) doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001): On Monday 24 December 2001 16:58, you wrote: I started with two partitions on my hard drive: one for Windows 98 and one for Windows 2000. I decided I could get along with just the Windows 2000 partition and so at the partitioning stage I clicked on the Windows 98 partition, selected delete and then auto-allocate. What exactly do you expect will happen when you select an option called delete? Maybe ... that that particular partition will be deleted? -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn 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] A bit dangerous?
There are two things I have noticed about Linux. 1) An inherent cheekiness in the documentation. 2) The assumption that you know what you are doing. It has been said that with windows, it something doesnt work you can just keep poking buttons until you figure it out. With Linux that approach will result in a meltdown. Reading the manual is dull, unrecoverable errors are much more exciting. On Monday 24 December 2001 12:25, you wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Doug Lerner wrote: Maybe a warning dialog first like: This will delete your entire partition and all your data will be lost. OK? Call me crazy, but if I accidently hit the wrong button I would like at least one chance to take something like that back. :-) I think you actually still can at that point - just so long as you haven't actually hit Done. And when you do this, you get a pop-up saying that it's going to write new partitioning scheme to disk. So, there you go. Feel a little more secure now? ;-) doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001): On Monday 24 December 2001 16:58, you wrote: I started with two partitions on my hard drive: one for Windows 98 and one for Windows 2000. I decided I could get along with just the Windows 2000 partition and so at the partitioning stage I clicked on the Windows 98 partition, selected delete and then auto-allocate. What exactly do you expect will happen when you select an option called delete? Maybe ... that that particular partition will be deleted? -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] A bit dangerous?
Not really. But then again Mac OS 9 does the same thing. You can click on any partition on the Desktop and then choose Initialize from the Special Menu and without a single word or warning the partition is initialized! doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001): On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Doug Lerner wrote: Maybe a warning dialog first like: This will delete your entire partition and all your data will be lost. OK? Call me crazy, but if I accidently hit the wrong button I would like at least one chance to take something like that back. :-) I think you actually still can at that point - just so long as you haven't actually hit Done. And when you do this, you get a pop-up saying that it's going to write new partitioning scheme to disk. So, there you go. Feel a little more secure now? ;-) doug [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tuesday, December 25, 2001): On Monday 24 December 2001 16:58, you wrote: I started with two partitions on my hard drive: one for Windows 98 and one for Windows 2000. I decided I could get along with just the Windows 2000 partition and so at the partitioning stage I clicked on the Windows 98 partition, selected delete and then auto-allocate. What exactly do you expect will happen when you select an option called delete? Maybe ... that that particular partition will be deleted? -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n nx dmnstrtn 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
