Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
A folowup: To: Cody Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Your support request: WB-01807 - Usersupport f or PC / Dac´s (Unsigned Mail) Unfortunately not. The disk is encrypted. You can see this by booting from a floppy and trying to access to the hard disk. The only way you can solve this is to have someone who knows the system password to help you. The only other option is to format the drive. Best regards, Petri . At 09:16 PM 6/4/2003 +0100, you wrote: On Mon, 02 Jun 2003 19:28:13 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:34 PM 6/2/2003 -0300, you wrote: Whats her face has left the building me thinks is no longer in the mood to help. beleive me i tried. Hehehe. Kids of today, no manners. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -Cody Harris ++ | Linux Rox My Sox! | | Check out HCHS! | | http://vectec.net | ++--+ | Proud to use Mandrake Linux 8.1 as a server. | | Not proud to use Windows as a primary server. | ++--+ | Registered Linux user #315598 | | Registered Linux Computer #200951 | | Wrote on a Windoze Computer :( | ++
Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
On Mon, 02 Jun 2003 19:28:13 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:34 PM 6/2/2003 -0300, you wrote: Whats her face has left the building me thinks is no longer in the mood to help. beleive me i tried. Hehehe. Kids of today, no manners. Richard -- Registered Linux user 246658 at http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Laptop Question
Ok, scenario: I have a laptop with Windoze 95 on it. It's partition is Pri DOS. I cannot read this from a boot disk and can not log into Windoze (PC/DACS disabled my login after windoze fudged up after installing a PC CARD (network)). I tried removing the hard drive and installing it on my computer, but the cable is a different size. It's 48 MB with a P1. My question is: how do i get onto the drive, send my files over the network, and format without installing a full version of Linux. Remember: I don't want anything to be written to the drive, so i need a version that can either run across a network or from a disk. Any other suggestions welcome! -Cody Harris ++ | Linux Rox My Sox! | | Check out HCHS! | | http://vectec.net | ++--+ | Proud to use Mandrake Linux 8.1 as a server. | | Not proud to use Windows as a primary server. | ++--+ | Registered Linux user #315598 | | Registered Linux Computer #200951 | | Wrote on a Windoze Computer :( | ++
Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
On Monday 02 June 2003 21:46, Cody Harris wrote: At 03:37 PM 6/2/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Monday 02 June 2003 02:53 pm, Cody Harris graced me with: Ok, scenario: I have a laptop with Windoze 95 on it. It's partition is Pri DOS. I cannot read this from a boot disk and can not log into Windoze (PC/DACS disabled my login after windoze fudged up after installing a PC CARD (network)). I tried removing the hard drive and installing it on my computer, but the cable is a different size. It's 48 MB with a P1. My question is: how do i get onto the drive, send my files over the network, and format without installing a full version of Linux. Remember: I don't want anything to be written to the drive, so i need a version that can either run across a network or from a disk. Any other suggestions welcome! Hey, Cody, I'm not sure that I am reading your post correctly, so please help me out and forgive if I am way off Are you trying to run Linux without installing to your hard drive, or to recover data off your hard drive, or what? I'm confused with your purpose, that's all. :-) Recover data Since I am not sure what you want to do, you could take this for what it's worth. Knoppix is designed to run off the CD-ROM drive. If this portable beastie is blessed with a CD-ROM drive, you could run that and never really have to use your hard drive for it. There are some caveats...and they would be big ones for you: Knoppix, at least a modern copy, is going to need lots of RAM. That's where all your important directories and files that need to loaded are put (like /home, for instance). It essentially divides up and uses your RAM memory as if it was your hard drive. Once you turn of your computer, all is lost (though you could opt to save configs to the hard drive so that you wouldn't have to re-config each time you boot-up...your choice, there.) If I read your post correctly, your laptop only has 48 MB of RAM. Did I? That's not enough for this. If I understood that your P1 refers to a Pentium Classic, a P233 MHz is going to be the bottom end and still be able to run KDE or Gnome. At least this is what I experienced on a test PC running a P233 with 128 MB RAM, using Knoppix 3.2. Yes, it has CD. It's an old laptop, so Knoppix wouldn't work. There are some projects out there that provide Linux on a floppy disk, and some minimal O/S installs that might work, but the floppy one is the only one that I seem to recall would allow you to run without using the hard drive. This information is the better part of a year old, so I can't vouch for your ability to find any of these resources. Try doing a search using some key words that imply running on a floppy or from a CD. But will they run my network card? I'll take a look at my old bookmarks and see if I can find this stuff for you. I save everything, but then I can't seem to find where I put things afterwardI had that workstation here moments ago...h... Ok, thanks. HTH, T Frankly you have a few options here, depending on what you're out out to retain. If you just want yer Windoze95 back up and running and know where to look and edit: Get a tomsrtb boot floppy off the net (http://www.toms.net/rb/) and boot from that. Don't use knoppix or anything with a gui if you've only got 32M ram! If this is too much: find a friend or go to http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/w9xbtflp.htm for a winders boot floppy and use that. And/or: Shove winders and install linux:o) Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
On Monday 02 June 2003 02:46 pm, Cody Harris wrote: At 03:37 PM 6/2/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Monday 02 June 2003 02:53 pm, Cody Harris graced me with: Ok, scenario: I have a laptop with Windoze 95 on it. It's partition is Pri DOS. I cannot read this from a boot disk and can not log into Windoze (PC/DACS disabled my login after windoze fudged up after installing a PC CARD (network)). I tried removing the hard drive and installing it on my computer, but the cable is a different size. It's 48 MB with a P1. My question is: how do i get onto the drive, send my files over the network, and format without installing a full version of Linux. Remember: I don't want anything to be written to the drive, so i need a version that can either run across a network or from a disk. Any other suggestions welcome! Hey, Cody, I'm not sure that I am reading your post correctly, so please help me out and forgive if I am way off Are you trying to run Linux without installing to your hard drive, or to recover data off your hard drive, or what? I'm confused with your purpose, that's all. :-) Recover data If all you are trying to do is recover data and transfer it to another drive there is a handy hard drive adapter made that will mate most laptop hard drives to a standard IDE cable. I have not seen any of these adapters in the store but they seem to be all over ebay for $5 to $10. That should allow you to plug your laptop hard drive into a desktop and make the data recovery as simple as drag and drop in windoze or ML. Note if your laptop HDD is in a carrier you may have to remove it from the carrier to make the adapter work but thats just a extra 4 or six screws. I dont know if this is the answer that you were looking for but this method has worked for me in the past. Marc KM5KW -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and Windows free computer with Mandrake Linux 9.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
Cody Harris wrote: At 03:37 PM 6/2/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Monday 02 June 2003 02:53 pm, Cody Harris graced me with: Ok, scenario: I have a laptop with Windoze 95 on it. It's partition is Pri DOS. I cannot read this from a boot disk and can not log into Windoze (PC/DACS disabled my login after windoze fudged up after installing a PC CARD (network)). I tried removing the hard drive and installing it on my computer, but the cable is a different size. It's 48 MB with a P1. My question is: how do i get onto the drive, send my files over the network, and format without installing a full version of Linux. Remember: I don't want anything to be written to the drive, so i need a version that can either run across a network or from a disk. Any other suggestions welcome! Hey, Cody, I'm not sure that I am reading your post correctly, so please help me out and forgive if I am way off Are you trying to run Linux without installing to your hard drive, or to recover data off your hard drive, or what? I'm confused with your purpose, that's all. :-) Recover data Since I am not sure what you want to do, you could take this for what it's worth. Knoppix is designed to run off the CD-ROM drive. If this portable beastie is blessed with a CD-ROM drive, you could run that and never really have to use your hard drive for it. There are some caveats...and they would be big ones for you: Knoppix, at least a modern copy, is going to need lots of RAM. That's where all your important directories and files that need to loaded are put (like /home, for instance). It essentially divides up and uses your RAM memory as if it was your hard drive. Once you turn of your computer, all is lost (though you could opt to save configs to the hard drive so that you wouldn't have to re-config each time you boot-up...your choice, there.) If I read your post correctly, your laptop only has 48 MB of RAM. Did I? That's not enough for this. If I understood that your P1 refers to a Pentium Classic, a P233 MHz is going to be the bottom end and still be able to run KDE or Gnome. At least this is what I experienced on a test PC running a P233 with 128 MB RAM, using Knoppix 3.2. If ram is limited, you may want to take a look at http://www.linx-bbc.org and their verstion 2.1. It can run on a lot less ram and has all the essential tools you would need. Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
At 10:03 PM 6/2/2003 +0200, you wrote: On Monday 02 June 2003 21:46, Cody Harris wrote: At 03:37 PM 6/2/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Monday 02 June 2003 02:53 pm, Cody Harris graced me with: Ok, scenario: I have a laptop with Windoze 95 on it. It's partition is Pri DOS. I cannot read this from a boot disk and can not log into Windoze (PC/DACS disabled my login after windoze fudged up after installing a PC CARD (network)). I tried removing the hard drive and installing it on my computer, but the cable is a different size. It's 48 MB with a P1. My question is: how do i get onto the drive, send my files over the network, and format without installing a full version of Linux. Remember: I don't want anything to be written to the drive, so i need a version that can either run across a network or from a disk. Any other suggestions welcome! Hey, Cody, I'm not sure that I am reading your post correctly, so please help me out and forgive if I am way off Are you trying to run Linux without installing to your hard drive, or to recover data off your hard drive, or what? I'm confused with your purpose, that's all. :-) Recover data Since I am not sure what you want to do, you could take this for what it's worth. Knoppix is designed to run off the CD-ROM drive. If this portable beastie is blessed with a CD-ROM drive, you could run that and never really have to use your hard drive for it. There are some caveats...and they would be big ones for you: Knoppix, at least a modern copy, is going to need lots of RAM. That's where all your important directories and files that need to loaded are put (like /home, for instance). It essentially divides up and uses your RAM memory as if it was your hard drive. Once you turn of your computer, all is lost (though you could opt to save configs to the hard drive so that you wouldn't have to re-config each time you boot-up...your choice, there.) If I read your post correctly, your laptop only has 48 MB of RAM. Did I? That's not enough for this. If I understood that your P1 refers to a Pentium Classic, a P233 MHz is going to be the bottom end and still be able to run KDE or Gnome. At least this is what I experienced on a test PC running a P233 with 128 MB RAM, using Knoppix 3.2. Yes, it has CD. It's an old laptop, so Knoppix wouldn't work. There are some projects out there that provide Linux on a floppy disk, and some minimal O/S installs that might work, but the floppy one is the only one that I seem to recall would allow you to run without using the hard drive. This information is the better part of a year old, so I can't vouch for your ability to find any of these resources. Try doing a search using some key words that imply running on a floppy or from a CD. But will they run my network card? I'll take a look at my old bookmarks and see if I can find this stuff for you. I save everything, but then I can't seem to find where I put things afterwardI had that workstation here moments ago...h... Ok, thanks. HTH, T Frankly you have a few options here, depending on what you're out out to retain. If you just want yer Windoze95 back up and running and know where to look and edit: Get a tomsrtb boot floppy off the net (http://www.toms.net/rb/) and boot from that. Don't use knoppix or anything with a gui if you've only got 32M ram! Where do i get PKUNZIP for dos? If this is too much: find a friend or go to http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/w9xbtflp.htm for a winders boot floppy and use that. And/or: Shove winders and install linux:o) Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -Cody Harris ++ | Linux Rox My Sox! | | Check out HCHS! | | http://vectec.net | ++--+ | Proud to use Mandrake Linux 8.1 as a server. | | Not proud to use Windows as a primary server. | ++--+ | Registered Linux user #315598 | | Registered Linux Computer #200951 | | Wrote on a Windoze Computer :( | ++
Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
At 03:37 PM 6/2/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Monday 02 June 2003 02:53 pm, Cody Harris graced me with: Ok, scenario: I have a laptop with Windoze 95 on it. It's partition is Pri DOS. I cannot read this from a boot disk and can not log into Windoze (PC/DACS disabled my login after windoze fudged up after installing a PC CARD (network)). I tried removing the hard drive and installing it on my computer, but the cable is a different size. It's 48 MB with a P1. My question is: how do i get onto the drive, send my files over the network, and format without installing a full version of Linux. Remember: I don't want anything to be written to the drive, so i need a version that can either run across a network or from a disk. Any other suggestions welcome! snips Slicks drivel... :) Coyote Linux. Runs on floppy. TomsBRT IIRC Does too...its a rescue distro and does exactly what you want it to do. avoid Small Linux like the plague. Its a POS. And is very tough for any newbie to figure out. need more info ask i'll send bookmarks stuff. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
At 04:05 PM 6/2/2003 -0600, you wrote: At 03:37 PM 6/2/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Monday 02 June 2003 02:53 pm, Cody Harris graced me with: Ok, scenario: I have a laptop with Windoze 95 on it. It's partition is Pri DOS. I cannot read this from a boot disk and can not log into Windoze (PC/DACS disabled my login after windoze fudged up after installing a PC CARD (network)). I tried removing the hard drive and installing it on my computer, but the cable is a different size. It's 48 MB with a P1. My question is: how do i get onto the drive, send my files over the network, and format without installing a full version of Linux. Remember: I don't want anything to be written to the drive, so i need a version that can either run across a network or from a disk. Any other suggestions welcome! snips Slicks drivel... :) Coyote Linux. Runs on floppy. TomsBRT IIRC Does too...its a rescue distro and does exactly what you want it to do. avoid Small Linux like the plague. Its a POS. And is very tough for any newbie to figure out. What's the site? need more info ask i'll send bookmarks stuff. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -Cody Harris ++ | Linux Rox My Sox! | | Check out HCHS! | | http://vectec.net | ++--+ | Proud to use Mandrake Linux 8.1 as a server. | | Not proud to use Windows as a primary server. | ++--+ | Registered Linux user #315598 | | Registered Linux Computer #200951 | | Wrote on a Windoze Computer :( | ++
Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
At 06:24 PM 6/2/2003 -0300, you wrote: Where do i get PKUNZIP for dos? -Cody Harris Repeat after me: Google is my friend... now write that on a blackboard 100 times before you go home. http://nct.digitalriver.com/fulfill/0018.4 - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
At 04:10 PM 6/2/2003 -0600, you wrote: At 06:24 PM 6/2/2003 -0300, you wrote: Where do i get PKUNZIP for dos? -Cody Harris Repeat after me: Google is my friend... now write that on a blackboard 100 times before you go home. http://nct.digitalriver.com/fulfill/0018.4 it won't download. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -Cody Harris ++ | Linux Rox My Sox! | | Check out HCHS! | | http://vectec.net | ++--+ | Proud to use Mandrake Linux 8.1 as a server. | | Not proud to use Windows as a primary server. | ++--+ | Registered Linux user #315598 | | Registered Linux Computer #200951 | | Wrote on a Windoze Computer :( | ++
Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
At 06:24 PM 6/2/2003 -0300, you wrote: Where do i get PKUNZIP for dos? ignore last post check your pvt mail. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
On Monday 02 June 2003 23:24, Cody Harris wrote: Where do i get PKUNZIP for dos? Frankly: Dunno I've got it somewhere in the abyysses of my comps...if you really want it I can send it to youincluding: unrar :o) Google says: http://www.pkware.com/products/ :oD Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
At 07:06 PM 6/2/2003 -0300, you wrote: snip What's the site? http://www.coyotelinux.com/ - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt Good Decisions Your boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
At 12:12 AM 6/3/2003 +0200, you wrote: On Monday 02 June 2003 23:24, Cody Harris wrote: Where do i get PKUNZIP for dos? Frankly: Dunno I've got it somewhere in the abyysses of my comps...if you really want it I can send it to youincluding: unrar :o) Google says: http://www.pkware.com/products/ :oD What's her face tired to send it to me. And i can't download it from the site. Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -Cody Harris ++ | Linux Rox My Sox! | | Check out HCHS! | | http://vectec.net | ++--+ | Proud to use Mandrake Linux 8.1 as a server. | | Not proud to use Windows as a primary server. | ++--+ | Registered Linux user #315598 | | Registered Linux Computer #200951 | | Wrote on a Windoze Computer :( | ++
Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 00:19, Cody Harris wrote: What's her face tired to send it to me. And i can't download it from the site. Frankly, I know I've still got it somewhere on one of my machines or HD's (I even keep a 35M HD with win3.1 on it) but I 'm goin to need a devil of a time to find it. Especially since my hardware tends to drift apart...litteraly. So pray tell what you really need it for, that can't be done with unzip using a rescue distrib? It's a lot less work using minix/linux than that DOS nightmare. Just thinking of it gives me qbasic nightmares:o) The only useful thing (for what it's worth) I've ever been able to do using DOS/winders boot floppy is re-installing the boot sequence in the mbrand actually I shouldn't even need it to do thatjust for old times sake, I do though:o) So if you really want it (should be a few Mb anyway) I can try and find it...just give the word. It certainly won't be today or tomorrow though, with a little luck; this week. Good Luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
Ok, i have coyote linux, but how do i mount my drive? At 12:48 AM 6/3/2003 +0200, you wrote: On Tuesday 03 June 2003 00:19, Cody Harris wrote: What's her face tired to send it to me. And i can't download it from the site. Frankly, I know I've still got it somewhere on one of my machines or HD's (I even keep a 35M HD with win3.1 on it) but I 'm goin to need a devil of a time to find it. Especially since my hardware tends to drift apart...litteraly. So pray tell what you really need it for, that can't be done with unzip using a rescue distrib? It's a lot less work using minix/linux than that DOS nightmare. Just thinking of it gives me qbasic nightmares:o) The only useful thing (for what it's worth) I've ever been able to do using DOS/winders boot floppy is re-installing the boot sequence in the mbrand actually I shouldn't even need it to do thatjust for old times sake, I do though:o) So if you really want it (should be a few Mb anyway) I can try and find it...just give the word. It certainly won't be today or tomorrow though, with a little luck; this week. Good Luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -Cody Harris ++ | Linux Rox My Sox! | | Check out HCHS! | | http://vectec.net | ++--+ | Proud to use Mandrake Linux 8.1 as a server. | | Not proud to use Windows as a primary server. | ++--+ | Registered Linux user #315598 | | Registered Linux Computer #200951 | | Wrote on a Windoze Computer :( | ++
Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 04:53, Cody Harris wrote: Ok, scenario: I have a laptop with Windoze 95 on it. It's partition is Pri DOS. I cannot read this from a boot disk and can not log into Windoze (PC/DACS disabled my login after windoze fudged up after installing a PC CARD (network)). I tried removing the hard drive and installing it on my computer, but the cable is a different size. It's 48 MB with a P1. My question is: how do i get onto the drive, send my files over the network, and format without installing a full version of Linux. Remember: I don't want anything to be written to the drive, so i need a version that can either run across a network or from a disk. Any other suggestions welcome! -Cody Harris Are you sure that the Win95 stuff ain't actually running Drivespace or DoubleDisk ??? Cuz it would surely be unavailable via boot disk mate... -- Tue Jun 3 08:55:00 EST 2003 08:55:00 up 3 days, 18:04, 4 users, load average: 0.17, 0.16, 0.16 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * If you flaunt it, expect to have it trashed. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
At 08:56 AM 6/3/2003 +1000, you wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 04:53, Cody Harris wrote: Ok, scenario: I have a laptop with Windoze 95 on it. It's partition is Pri DOS. I cannot read this from a boot disk and can not log into Windoze (PC/DACS disabled my login after windoze fudged up after installing a PC CARD (network)). I tried removing the hard drive and installing it on my computer, but the cable is a different size. It's 48 MB with a P1. My question is: how do i get onto the drive, send my files over the network, and format without installing a full version of Linux. Remember: I don't want anything to be written to the drive, so i need a version that can either run across a network or from a disk. Any other suggestions welcome! -Cody Harris Are you sure that the Win95 stuff ain't actually running Drivespace or DoubleDisk ??? Cuz it would surely be unavailable via boot disk mate... I don't know. -- Tue Jun 3 08:55:00 EST 2003 08:55:00 up 3 days, 18:04, 4 users, load average: 0.17, 0.16, 0.16 - | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * If you flaunt it, expect to have it trashed. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -Cody Harris ++ | Linux Rox My Sox! | | Check out HCHS! | | http://vectec.net | ++--+ | Proud to use Mandrake Linux 8.1 as a server. | | Not proud to use Windows as a primary server. | ++--+ | Registered Linux user #315598 | | Registered Linux Computer #200951 | | Wrote on a Windoze Computer :( | ++
Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 00:53, Cody Harris wrote: Ok, i have coyote linux, but how do i mount my drive? At 12:48 AM 6/3/2003 +0200, you wrote: OK..linux running on the commandline: mkdir /win Mount -t vfat /dev/hd? /win # hd? is your win-partition (hda1 prob.) that's it! Now you can read and write.no .exe's though!:o) If your not sure on the partition use fdisk to see which one first. Personally I'd recommend tomsrtb to coyotelinux for rescues though, but I might be outdated there. I always thought coyote was only meant to be a diskless firewall. Mulinux is fun too:o) Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Laptop Question
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 14:24, Cody Harris wrote: At 10:03 PM 6/2/2003 +0200, you wrote: On Monday 02 June 2003 21:46, Cody Harris wrote: At 03:37 PM 6/2/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Monday 02 June 2003 02:53 pm, Cody Harris graced me with: Ok, scenario: snip Where do i get PKUNZIP for dos? Check out this site http://www.target4.com/dc/download/dos.html and get the shareware version for dos the windoze version is not as powerful Goo luck! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -Cody Harris ++ | Linux Rox My Sox! | | Check out HCHS!| | http://vectec.net| ++--+ | Proud to use Mandrake Linux 8.1 as a server. | | Not proud to use Windows as a primary server. | ++--+ | Registered Linux user #315598 | | Registered Linux Computer #200951 | | Wrote on a Windoze Computer :( | ++ -- Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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At 01:06 AM 6/3/2003 +0200, you wrote: On Tuesday 03 June 2003 00:53, Cody Harris wrote: Ok, i have coyote linux, but how do i mount my drive? At 12:48 AM 6/3/2003 +0200, you wrote: OK..linux running on the commandline: mkdir /win Mount -t vfat /dev/hd? /win # hd? is your win-partition (hda1 prob.) Error: Block Device Required. that's it! Now you can read and write.no .exe's though!:o) If your not sure on the partition use fdisk to see which one first. Personally I'd recommend tomsrtb to coyotelinux for rescues though, but I might be outdated there. I always thought coyote was only meant to be a diskless firewall. Mulinux is fun too:o) Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -Cody Harris ++ | Linux Rox My Sox! | | Check out HCHS! | | http://vectec.net | ++--+ | Proud to use Mandrake Linux 8.1 as a server. | | Not proud to use Windows as a primary server. | ++--+ | Registered Linux user #315598 | | Registered Linux Computer #200951 | | Wrote on a Windoze Computer :( | ++
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just a small correction. it's http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ - Original Message - From: Barry Premeaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 4:07 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Laptop Question Cody Harris wrote: At 03:37 PM 6/2/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Monday 02 June 2003 02:53 pm, Cody Harris graced me with: Ok, scenario: I have a laptop with Windoze 95 on it. It's partition is Pri DOS. I cannot read this from a boot disk and can not log into Windoze (PC/DACS disabled my login after windoze fudged up after installing a PC CARD (network)). I tried removing the hard drive and installing it on my computer, but the cable is a different size. It's 48 MB with a P1. My question is: how do i get onto the drive, send my files over the network, and format without installing a full version of Linux. Remember: I don't want anything to be written to the drive, so i need a version that can either run across a network or from a disk. Any other suggestions welcome! Hey, Cody, I'm not sure that I am reading your post correctly, so please help me out and forgive if I am way off Are you trying to run Linux without installing to your hard drive, or to recover data off your hard drive, or what? I'm confused with your purpose, that's all. :-) Recover data Since I am not sure what you want to do, you could take this for what it's worth. Knoppix is designed to run off the CD-ROM drive. If this portable beastie is blessed with a CD-ROM drive, you could run that and never really have to use your hard drive for it. There are some caveats...and they would be big ones for you: Knoppix, at least a modern copy, is going to need lots of RAM. That's where all your important directories and files that need to loaded are put (like /home, for instance). It essentially divides up and uses your RAM memory as if it was your hard drive. Once you turn of your computer, all is lost (though you could opt to save configs to the hard drive so that you wouldn't have to re-config each time you boot-up...your choice, there.) If I read your post correctly, your laptop only has 48 MB of RAM. Did I? That's not enough for this. If I understood that your P1 refers to a Pentium Classic, a P233 MHz is going to be the bottom end and still be able to run KDE or Gnome. At least this is what I experienced on a test PC running a P233 with 128 MB RAM, using Knoppix 3.2. If ram is limited, you may want to take a look at http://www.linx-bbc.org and their verstion 2.1. It can run on a lot less ram and has all the essential tools you would need. Barry 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
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On Tuesday 03 June 2003 02:34, Cody Harris wrote: Error: Block Device Required. typ! sorry, mount /dev/hda1 -t vfat /win (epecting dos on hda1) but you could've found that out yourself. good luck, HARM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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On Tuesday 03 June 2003 12:21, Cody Harris wrote: coyote# mount /dev/hda1 -t vfat /win Mounting /dev/hda1 on /win failed: block device required what does fdisk have to say about your hd and it's partitions? Good luck, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Stephen Kuhn wrote: Are you sure that the Win95 stuff ain't actually running Drivespace or DoubleDisk ??? Cuz it would surely be unavailable via boot disk mate... being that his eudora mail is stuck in html, or just plain old because he is using eudora, it could well be that someone has hacked him and/or a virus is hiding drive. not that i would wish such a thing on an 'html head'. :) femme sems to have grown tired of him. ;) peace out. tc,hago. g . -- =+= think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email: text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code attachments. =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy made in america. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 14:00, g wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: Are you sure that the Win95 stuff ain't actually running Drivespace or DoubleDisk ??? Cuz it would surely be unavailable via boot disk mate... being that his eudora mail is stuck in html, or just plain old because he is using eudora, it could well be that someone has hacked him and/or a virus is hiding drive. not that i would wish such a thing on an 'html head'. :) femme sems to have grown tired of him. ;) peace out. tc,hago. g I'd assume from attempting to follow the thread that either the Win95 was using Drivespace, or the partition table is damaged... -- Tue Jun 3 22:35:01 EST 2003 22:35:01 up 4 days, 7:44, 3 users, load average: 0.44, 0.23, 0.36 - |____ |kuhn media australia| | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids? -- I. I. Rabi to the Atomic Energy Commission Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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speed (like size) isn't everything. so my wife tells me. What? Are you telling me that a king size bed isn't better than a standard double? Come on now :-) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Femme, Might not be a burner problem. An old Toshiba laptop of mine refused to read CDs I had burnt (ML 8.0 download). I had used CD-RWs, which had worked fine on my newer computers. I then tried using plain CD-Rs and the Tosh was fine. Just a thought, Ron. --- FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Spatz wrote: On Wednesday 10 July 2002 19:10, Femme wrote: Trust me Nick, thats the first thing I tried! It says it will boot off teh CD when I set it in the BIOS, but it doesn't work *scratching my head on that one!*. Heh, next suggestion? Femme Femme, Mine did the same thing to me, although I do have both drives. I found out that my burner wasn't doing the CD right. I bought a set from linux-for-less, another one of the cheapbytes online thingies, and it booted right up with those. Bill Well Bill I'm baffled. Truly...because the CD's I stuck into that lapdogs CDRom are the same ones I used to load MDK on my desktop machine. HOwever, in the interest of scientific curiousity, I shall try loading MDK 8.0 which is a store bought copy. If it works I know its a burner problem. Thx for the idea! I'll let the list know. Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Ron Bouwhuis wrote: Femme, Might not be a burner problem. An old Toshiba laptop of mine refused to read CDs I had burnt (ML 8.0 download). I had used CD-RWs, which had worked fine on my newer computers. I then tried using plain CD-Rs and the Tosh was fine. Just a thought, Ron. --- FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Spatz wrote: On Wednesday 10 July 2002 19:10, Femme wrote: Trust me Nick, thats the first thing I tried! It says it will boot off teh CD when I set it in the BIOS, but it doesn't work *scratching my head on that one!*. Heh, next suggestion? Femme Femme, Mine did the same thing to me, although I do have both drives. I found out that my burner wasn't doing the CD right. I bought a set from linux-for-less, another one of the cheapbytes online thingies, and it booted right up with those. Bill Your suggestions perfectly valid Ron. One kink: I use only CD-R's. I never use CDRW's. Mostly b/c other CDRoms won't read them an my desktop doesn't have a burner, but my g/f's does. So I just use CDR's which the desktop reads fine. Thx though ;) Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Well Bill I'm baffled. Truly...because the CD's I stuck into that lapdogs CDRom are the same ones I used to load MDK on my desktop machine. HOwever, in the interest of scientific curiousity, I shall try loading MDK 8.0 which is a store bought copy. If it works I know its a burner problem. Thx for the idea! I'll let the list know. Femme Same symptoms here. Although my lappy is a Toshiba. My burned ones worked fine with everything but this laptop. Bill --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.373 / Virus Database: 208 - Release Date: 07/01/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 19:58, bascule wrote: before i forget, didn't there use to be a 'dosstart' boot method or somesuch where one could start the install from a dos prompt? perhaps if the laptop can be in dos with the cd drive recognised you could try this, i think there was/is a directory on cd1 with .bat file to launch under dos, I hope so b/c this would likely work for it. anyway, once you have a partition with the iso or cd contents on you will need to know how to describe it to the install i.e. /dev/hda1 etc. you say you have tried this before and it didn't work, did you do anything different to what i have described? bascule The way I tried this in the past was on a huge FAT32 partition I have on my secondary drive. I put all the files into one central directory called Mandrake, then under that: CD1, CD2, CD3. When I went to install I pointed the .img file to my partitions beforehand, and as I installed yes it asked for the files where they were. Yet, no matter what I did, I couldn't get it to accept the directories I'd created for it. I don't know what I did wrong...? Tia Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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bascule wrote: before i forget, didn't there use to be a 'dosstart' boot method or somesuch where one could start the install from a dos prompt? perhaps if the laptop can be in dos with the cd drive recognised you could try this, i think there was/is a directory on cd1 with .bat file to launch under dos, Are you refering to loadlin. I have read about it but never used it. Lots of info about it in google. It sounds like this may work for the install. Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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On Wednesday 10 July 2002 19:10, Femme wrote: Trust me Nick, thats the first thing I tried! It says it will boot off teh CD when I set it in the BIOS, but it doesn't work *scratching my head on that one!*. Heh, next suggestion? Femme Femme, Mine did the same thing to me, although I do have both drives. I found out that my burner wasn't doing the CD right. I bought a set from linux-for-less, another one of the cheapbytes online thingies, and it booted right up with those. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Hi Femme, What about a network install? I have done these a number of times, both from a LAN and from the internet and they worked fine, a bit slow, but fine. regards, Steve. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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I had that same problem - What I finally had to do was get rid of the separate ...\CD1, ...\CD2, ...\CD3 directories. I made one ?:\MNDRK81 directory and copied all three CDs into that one. Made a boot floppy with the HD img, and installed from there -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Femme Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 1:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Laptop question On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 19:58, bascule wrote: before i forget, didn't there use to be a 'dosstart' boot method or somesuch where one could start the install from a dos prompt? perhaps if the laptop can be in dos with the cd drive recognised you could try this, i think there was/is a directory on cd1 with .bat file to launch under dos, I hope so b/c this would likely work for it. anyway, once you have a partition with the iso or cd contents on you will need to know how to describe it to the install i.e. /dev/hda1 etc. you say you have tried this before and it didn't work, did you do anything different to what i have described? bascule The way I tried this in the past was on a huge FAT32 partition I have on my secondary drive. I put all the files into one central directory called Mandrake, then under that: CD1, CD2, CD3. When I went to install I pointed the .img file to my partitions beforehand, and as I installed yes it asked for the files where they were. Yet, no matter what I did, I couldn't get it to accept the directories I'd created for it. I don't know what I did wrong...? Tia Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Bill Spatz wrote: On Wednesday 10 July 2002 19:10, Femme wrote: Trust me Nick, thats the first thing I tried! It says it will boot off teh CD when I set it in the BIOS, but it doesn't work *scratching my head on that one!*. Heh, next suggestion? Femme Femme, Mine did the same thing to me, although I do have both drives. I found out that my burner wasn't doing the CD right. I bought a set from linux-for-less, another one of the cheapbytes online thingies, and it booted right up with those. Bill Well Bill I'm baffled. Truly...because the CD's I stuck into that lapdogs CDRom are the same ones I used to load MDK on my desktop machine. HOwever, in the interest of scientific curiousity, I shall try loading MDK 8.0 which is a store bought copy. If it works I know its a burner problem. Thx for the idea! I'll let the list know. Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Steve Borrett wrote: Hi Femme, What about a network install? I have done these a number of times, both from a LAN and from the internet and they worked fine, a bit slow, but fine. regards, Steve. If I can get teh right cable, I'd be happy to do it! :) I'll poke around for one, as I have no clue where to get it. Its an old Omnibook so I doubt HP Still carries them... :| Thx for the idea, if I get the right cable, believe me, i'll try it ;p Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Laptop question
I have come into ownership of an older HP Omnibook, a PII 233 iirc, and its got a removeable CD-Rom Floppy drive. Can't have both attached at once. I had planned to stick mandrake on it, however I ran into a small snag. If I can't boot the CD itself, and can't have both floppy CD-Rom attached at the same time, I can't boot from floppy then install. Nor may I just install off the CD. So..what to do? I looked at the linux for laptops site. No luck there. The one page devoted to this stuff was fairly useless. I went to HP's site for info on the BIOS stuff, and got little else but BIOS info. So any suggestions? Ideas? Help? Thx, Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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Femme: Can't the BIOS be set to boot off the CD? Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have come into ownership of an older HP Omnibook, a PII 233 iirc, and its got a removeable CD-Rom Floppy drive. Can't have both attached at once. I had planned to stick mandrake on it, however I ran into a small snag. If I can't boot the CD itself, and can't have both floppy CD-Rom attached at the same time, I can't boot from floppy then install. Nor may I just install off the CD. So..what to do? I looked at the linux for laptops site. No luck there. The one page devoted to this stuff was fairly useless. I went to HP's site for info on the BIOS stuff, and got little else but BIOS info. So any suggestions? Ideas? Help? Thx, Femme -- nickE __ Your favorite stores, helpful shopping tools and great gift ideas. Experience the convenience of buying online with Shop@Netscape! http://shopnow.netscape.com/ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 19:05, Nick Emans wrote: Femme: Can't the BIOS be set to boot off the CD? Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have come into ownership of an older HP Omnibook, a PII 233 iirc, and its got a removeable CD-Rom Floppy drive. Can't have both attached at once. I had planned to stick mandrake on it, however I ran into a small snag. If I can't boot the CD itself, and can't have both floppy CD-Rom attached at the same time, I can't boot from floppy then install. Nor may I just install off the CD. So..what to do? I looked at the linux for laptops site. No luck there. The one page devoted to this stuff was fairly useless. I went to HP's site for info on the BIOS stuff, and got little else but BIOS info. So any suggestions? Ideas? Help? Thx, Femme Trust me Nick, thats the first thing I tried! It says it will boot off teh CD when I set it in the BIOS, but it doesn't work *scratching my head on that one!*. Heh, next suggestion? Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 19:27, bascule wrote: how big is the hard disk, if there is space and win is installed and you have the utilities to do it you could make room for a partition to copy one iso to and do a hard disk install using the hd.img on floppy, you could then add the other cd's to rpmdrake/urpmi and install whatever else you need a bit long winded, but unless there is any networking built in? and you can't get cd booting to work i can't think of any other solution that doesn't involve taking the hard drive out bascule The HDD is only 4gb as far as I know. Now what you're suggesting is perfectly feasible Bascule, except I tried this on my own desktop machine not long ago had zero luck with the installations. I gave up just went back to doing it by booting the CD's themselves. Now, iirc when I did it on the desktop machine, I had copied all files from the CD's onto the HDD (Not in ISO format) into one big directory. Any idea on how to do that make it work? Or using the ISO Idea...same thing. Because I sure couldn't manage to make it go last time. Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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iirc one can copy the contents of all the cds into one single directory stucture with cds 2 and 3 going under .../Mandrake/RPMS2 and /RPMS3 respectively, however the partition with the install files on it is then unavailable for installing onto and it might be nice to maximise the space available during the install by creating a partition just large enough for one cd - iso or contents, the hd.img can handle either, as i mentioned after install one can then install from the other cd's before i forget, didn't there use to be a 'dosstart' boot method or somesuch where one could start the install from a dos prompt? perhaps if the laptop can be in dos with the cd drive recognised you could try this, i think there was/is a directory on cd1 with .bat file to launch under dos, anyway, once you have a partition with the iso or cd contents on you will need to know how to describe it to the install i.e. /dev/hda1 etc. the install will ask for the partition the file(s) are on and then for the directory they are in, if you feed the correct details then all should be plain sailing, if you don't get 'loading second stage' then the install is probably not able to find the install files, if you do and then it fails then either the file(s) are corrupt or there maybe some hardware problem/incompatiblity - obviously of you copy the cd onto a partition using windows it will be a fat16/32 - i'm not aware of that being a problem but i can't swear that the boot floppy kernel will recognise the full range of file systems - perhaps someone else could comment? you say you have tried this before and it didn't work, did you do anything different to what i have described? bascule On Thursday 11 July 2002 2:37 am, you wrote: On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 19:27, bascule wrote: how big is the hard disk, if there is space and win is installed and you have the utilities to do it you could make room for a partition to copy one iso to and do a hard disk install using the hd.img on floppy, you could then The HDD is only 4gb as far as I know. Now what you're suggesting is perfectly feasible Bascule, except I tried this on my own desktop machine not long ago had zero luck with the installations. I gave up just went back to doing it by booting the CD's themselves. Now, iirc when I did it on the desktop machine, I had copied all files from the CD's onto the HDD (Not in ISO format) into one big directory. Any idea on how to do that make it work? Or using the ISO Idea...same thing. Because I sure couldn't manage to make it go last time. Femme -- ## Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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On Wednesday 10 July 2002 20:54, Femme wrote: I have come into ownership of an older HP Omnibook, a PII 233 iirc, and its got a removeable CD-Rom Floppy drive. Can't have both attached at once. I had planned to stick mandrake on it, however I ran into a small snag. If I can't boot the CD itself, and can't have both floppy CD-Rom attached at the same time, I can't boot from floppy then install. Nor may I just install off the CD. It says it will boot off teh CD when I set it in the BIOS, but it doesn't work Are you sure you can't have both drives connected at the same time? I had an Omnibook once, a P166. The way I remember it, you could only have one drive at a time in the swappable bay. But if you wanted, you could have the CD-ROM drive in the bay and the floppy drive just sitting beside the Omnibook on the desk, and the floppy drive plugged into the parallel port on the back. The BIOS on that one was not capable of booting from CD-ROM. I installed SuSE using the arrangement just described - booting from the floppy, which was plugged into the parallel port, and having the CD-ROM drive in the bay. SuSE 7.1 installed on it fine that way. I never got the sound working, though. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Laptop question...
I have a Dell Inspiron 7500 with Mandrake 8.0 installed on it. Whenever I close the lid, though, it suspends the computer. Is there any way for me to change this so that it doesnt do that? (or better, just turns the screen off) Cheers, Jesse
