Re: [newbie] Why does ps shows uid for dbus-daemon-1, but user name for all other processes?
On Sunday 20 February 2005 4:33 pm, Michael Woinoski wrote: On Mandrake 10.1 Community, when I run ps -ef, the UID column shows the user name for the owner of all processes except the dbus-daemon-1 process owned by uid 72. The line for that process shows the numeric uid instead of the user name. /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group all have an entry for a user named messagebus with uid 72. Why doesn't ps display the user name for this process? messagebus is actually somewhat of an invalid username in that it is longer than 8 characters. So, it won't fit into the space on the ps output line. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
Alexander Ruoff wrote: I'm running 224Mb ram which I would have thougbt was enough. Although vid memory is probably a bit light at 16Mb Hi Graham, since the OO problem is solved I just got one question... you got a 16 MB graphic card (which shouldn't be a problem... used 8 MB and 16 MB until very recently with both 9.2 and 10.0) or do you have one of the intel extrem graphic cards? There you can change it in the bios and even if the max. is 16 in the bios setting, the card can use the full 32 or 64 MB as fare as I know. If I am wrong 'bout this info, please correct me ;) Alex Hi Alex, I've got an onboard graphics card SiS530 3D PCI/AGP which borrows memory off the board. Although I believe it can be adjusted in the bios, the mobo documentation stipulates 16Mb as the recommended maximum. So its probably safest to leave it alone. I hope to do some serious upgrading fairly soon anyway. Cheers, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
Miark wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:22:04 +0100, Graham wrote: It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box on it. Blow away your .openoffice directory and that'll probably fix it: rm -rf ~/.openoffice Miark Been there, done that and it does seem to be opening up a lot faster now. Printing quicker too. I'll see how it goes from now on. Thanks for all the advice folks. Dunno where I'd be without this list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
I'm running 224Mb ram which I would have thougbt was enough. Although vid memory is probably a bit light at 16Mb Hi Graham, since the OO problem is solved I just got one question... you got a 16 MB graphic card (which shouldn't be a problem... used 8 MB and 16 MB until very recently with both 9.2 and 10.0) or do you have one of the intel extrem graphic cards? There you can change it in the bios and even if the max. is 16 in the bios setting, the card can use the full 32 or 64 MB as fare as I know. If I am wrong 'bout this info, please correct me ;) Alex Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 16:22, Graham Watkins wrote: Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box on it. Oh, and I can't figure out how to change the default printer settings and right now life's too short to try. It's just as well I've got Star Office because if all I had to use was OO, I think I'd be forced to spend a lot more time in Windows. Come to think of it, I might get faster results using Word with Wine. Is everyone else here having the same experience? How do you cope? I'm using it with Mandrake 9.2 and KDE 3.1. on a Pentium III for all the difference it makes. I have no plans to upgrade the software until I get a faster computer. Cheers Abiword. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? --- Your picture of the world often changes just before you get it into focus. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
Am Do, den 28.10.2004 schrieb Graham Watkins um 8:22:
Well, why?
In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go
at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing.
It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small
alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box
on it.
Oh, and I can't figure out how to change the default printer settings
and right now life's too short to try.
It's just as well I've got Star Office because if all I had to use was
OO, I think I'd be forced to spend a lot more time in Windows. Come to
think of it, I might get faster results using Word with Wine.
Is everyone else here having the same experience?
How do you cope?
I'm using it with Mandrake 9.2 and KDE 3.1. on a Pentium III for all the
difference it makes. I have no plans to upgrade the software until I get
a faster computer.
Cheers
How much memory do you have? I used until recently a PIII 450 with 128
MB, MDK 10.0 in the office and OO was slow but it didn't need 15 Minutes
to open a document.
Now with a Celeron D and 512 MB OO is fast and I see no difference with
my Pentium M and 512 MB. Thus I assume that it's either due to low
memory or there is a problem with your OO installation. Have you tried
to reinstall OO yet?
Alex
PS: Even my really old K6 200 with 112 MB doesn't need 15 mins to open a
file with OO, I just tested it... ('bout 30 secs for 10,7 kb)
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Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
On Thursday 28 October 2004 02:22 am, Graham Watkins wrote: Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box on it. Oh, and I can't figure out how to change the default printer settings and right now life's too short to try. It's just as well I've got Star Office because if all I had to use was OO, I think I'd be forced to spend a lot more time in Windows. Come to think of it, I might get faster results using Word with Wine. Is everyone else here having the same experience? How do you cope? I'm using it with Mandrake 9.2 and KDE 3.1. on a Pentium III for all the difference it makes. I have no plans to upgrade the software until I get a faster computer. Cheers What you are experiencing is not normal and sounds like a configuration issue of some kind. Can you make another user on your box and try to start it there? Are you using Mandrake packages of OO.o or the binary installer provided by OO.o? -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 16:22, Graham Watkins wrote: Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box on it. (snipped) Is everyone else here having the same experience? How do you cope? (snipped again) Abiword. I can see your point but the compatibility with Word is likely to keep me looking at OO, SO or . Word ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
Alexander Ruoff wrote:
Am Do, den 28.10.2004 schrieb Graham Watkins um 8:22:
Well, why?
In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go
at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing.
(snipped)
Is everyone else here having the same experience?
How do you cope?
(snipped again)
How much memory do you have? I used until recently a PIII 450 with 128
MB, MDK 10.0 in the office and OO was slow but it didn't need 15 Minutes
to open a document.
Now with a Celeron D and 512 MB OO is fast and I see no difference with
my Pentium M and 512 MB. Thus I assume that it's either due to low
memory or there is a problem with your OO installation. Have you tried
to reinstall OO yet?
Alex
PS: Even my really old K6 200 with 112 MB doesn't need 15 mins to open a
file with OO, I just tested it... ('bout 30 secs for 10,7 kb)
I'm running 224Mb ram which I would have thougbt was enough. Although
vid memory is probably a bit light at 16Mb
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Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 28 October 2004 02:22 am, Graham Watkins wrote: Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. (Snipped) Is everyone else here having the same experience? How do you cope? (Snipped again) What you are experiencing is not normal and sounds like a configuration issue of some kind. Can you make another user on your box and try to start it there? Are you using Mandrake packages of OO.o or the binary installer provided by OO.o? Just tried running under root (yes, I know I shouldn't) and it was much faster. Then tried starting it as me using xfce4 which is less of a memory hog - such a slow opening I wondered for a while if it had crashed. Looks like you may have something with the configuration problem idea. I'm using mandrake binaries which came with the original installation. Cheers, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:21:40 +0100 Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: snip, snip, snip Just tried running under root (yes, I know I shouldn't) and it was much faster. Then tried starting it as me using xfce4 which is less of a memory hog - such a slow opening I wondered for a while if it had crashed. Looks like you may have something with the configuration problem idea. I'm using mandrake binaries which came with the original installation. Cheers, Maybe your pspfontcache-file has grown too big. Google for openoffice slow pspfontcache Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
On Thursday 28 October 2004 03:41 pm, Björn Olsson wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:21:40 +0100 Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: snip, snip, snip Never say that to a guy :-D Just tried running under root (yes, I know I shouldn't) and it was much faster. Then tried starting it as me using xfce4 which is less of a memory hog - such a slow opening I wondered for a while if it had crashed. Looks like you may have something with the configuration problem idea. I'm using mandrake binaries which came with the original installation. Cheers, Maybe your pspfontcache-file has grown too big. Google for openoffice slow pspfontcache You could also try removing or renaming your ~/.openoffice directory and let it be recreated. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 03:45, Graham Watkins wrote: Abiword. I can see your point but the compatibility with Word is likely to keep me looking at OO, SO or . Word ;-) What I do - when I have to use OO, is to open up one instance of it, and then minimise it - then when I have to open a document or OOW again, it's heaps faster - but then again, I have tweaked and tuned my machine and HD settings, and have 892mb of RAM and have updated all the packages religiously... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? --- I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation. -- G. B. Shaw Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 04:21, Graham Watkins wrote: Just tried running under root (yes, I know I shouldn't) and it was much faster. Then tried starting it as me using xfce4 which is less of a memory hog - such a slow opening I wondered for a while if it had crashed. Looks like you may have something with the configuration problem idea. I'm using mandrake binaries which came with the original installation. Cheers, Create a new user. Login as that new user. Fire up OO and see if that still takes an eternity to start. If it doesn't, then something is strange about YOUR account/profile/home/settings -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? --- I try to keep an open mind, but not so open that my brains fall out. -- Judge Harold T. Stone Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
On Thursday 28 October 2004 14:21, Graham Watkins wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 28 October 2004 02:22 am, Graham Watkins wrote: Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. (Snipped) Is everyone else here having the same experience? How do you cope? (Snipped again) What you are experiencing is not normal and sounds like a configuration issue of some kind. Can you make another user on your box and try to start it there? Are you using Mandrake packages of OO.o or the binary installer provided by OO.o? Just tried running under root (yes, I know I shouldn't) and it was much faster. Then tried starting it as me using xfce4 which is less of a memory hog - such a slow opening I wondered for a while if it had crashed. Looks like you may have something with the configuration problem idea. I'm using mandrake binaries which came with the original installation. Cheers, what does your host file, and resolve.conf say. -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:22:04 +0100, Graham wrote: It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box on it. Blow away your .openoffice directory and that'll probably fix it: rm -rf ~/.openoffice Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why does my eth0 show failed?
From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp try changing this to =static I will give it a try, but ultimately I will need to use DHCP. What is weird is that the network actually works. The trouble I have is that I don't know what log file to look to narrow down what thinks there is an error (is it hardware configuration, TCP/UDP net access, server trouble, DNS negotiations, DHCP negotiations, etc.) Is there a place to look to find out what is causing the FAILED message? Thanks...David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why does my eth0 show failed?
On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 11:55, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 21 May 2004 17:16, David A. Ferguson wrote: snip Why does my eth0 show failed? When Mdk10oe boots it hangs on the 'bring up eth0' message for a long time and then says [FAILED]. Where can I go to look and see more detailed information on why it failed? /snip Don't know if this will help : I had this message all of a sudden, without changing anything. After some looking around, I simply noticed that an extra diode-light had shown up on my DSL-modem. The light in question was marked lock. After restarting the modem, everything was in order. I haven't the faintest idea, why it locked. ...A short power-off, maybe ? HTH Kaj Haulrich. Wirrrd, Kaj. ?? LX Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why does my eth0 show failed?
On Friday 21 May 2004 19:26, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 11:55, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 21 May 2004 17:16, David A. Ferguson wrote: snip Why does my eth0 show failed? When Mdk10oe boots it hangs on the 'bring up eth0' message for a long time and then says [FAILED]. Where can I go to look and see more detailed information on why it failed? /snip Don't know if this will help : I had this message all of a sudden, without changing anything. After some looking around, I simply noticed that an extra diode-light had shown up on my DSL-modem. The light in question was marked lock. After restarting the modem, everything was in order. I haven't the faintest idea, why it locked. ...A short power-off, maybe ? HTH Kaj Haulrich. Wirrrd, Kaj. ?? LX Very much so. But sometimes we have short power outages here, way out from everything, including power stations. I tried to mimick an outage by shortly switching the power off/on, and you know what ? - The lock light came on, and my eth0 FAILED. But that's only me, I suppose. Nice to have you onboard again, Lyvim. Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] WHY Alt + F2 AND konquerer command does not function ??
Op Thu, 20 May 2004 14:47:59 +0300 schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As far as I know after Alt + F2 and writing konquerer and pressing enter , Konquerer must run. But with my Mndrk. 10.0 does not run . Why ??! What do you recommmend ? Open an xterm and see if you can run 'konqueror' from the command line. If it starts, something weird goes on. Looks then that konq is not in the path. If you can run it from the menu and it fires up, that should be it from what I can tell. Otherwise it is not installed. Paul -- You can compare character with the foundation of a house. It lies beneath the surface. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] WHY Alt + F2 AND konquerer command does not function ??
With an xterm I can not run konquerer. It says command not found H.ERTAS Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by:cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [newbie] WHY Alt + F2 AND konquerer command does not function ?? andrake.com 20.05.2004 14:53 Please respond to newbie Op Thu, 20 May 2004 14:47:59 +0300 schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As far as I know after Alt + F2 and writing konquerer and pressing enter , Konquerer must run. But with my Mndrk. 10.0 does not run . Why ??! What do you recommmend ? Open an xterm and see if you can run 'konqueror' from the command line. If it starts, something weird goes on. Looks then that konq is not in the path. If you can run it from the menu and it fires up, that should be it from what I can tell. Otherwise it is not installed. Paul -- You can compare character with the foundation of a house. It lies beneath the surface. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] WHY Alt + F2 AND konquerer command does not function ??
Op Thu, 20 May 2004 14:58:15 +0300 schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: With an xterm I can not run konquerer. It says command not found - Does it work from the menu? - Can you locate the program running locate konqueror from the command line? Yes- It is not in the path No - It is not installed On MDK9.1 (running here) it is installed in /usr/bin. (Note the spelling, it is konqueror with an O, not konquerer with an E) Check echo $PATH if that is in the path with you. And see with ls /usr/bin/konqueror if that shows up something. If not, load mcc (Mandrake Control Center) and find the RPM to install it with. Good luck Paul -- You can compare character with the foundation of a house. It lies beneath the surface. http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted
On Wed, 19 May 2004 19:58:42 -0700, David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2004 17:52:23 -0500 David A. Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the tip. I will look in syslog the next time it happens. I ran a surface scan of the disk and it said ok. I don't know how to test the RAM but I haven't had any other problems at all so I would bet the RAM is fine. Well, it pays to be prudent, so first install the memtest RPM, it will create a boot entry for it, so you can shutdown/reboot and let the test run for as long as you wish, typically overnight. It's not the most robust memory tester, but it is pretty good. Sorry I didn't catch the original post, but here's another idea to look into. Do you have *any* ROM Shadowing turned on in your BIOS? If so, turn it off. Mandrake expects to have access and control of all memory. I was getting inconsistent problems during the install of Mandrake, and then file corruption problems after the install when I had Video ROM shadowing enabled in the BIOS. HTH The Other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] WHY Alt + F2 AND konquerer command does not function ??
On Thursday 20 May 2004 07:58 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - -With an xterm I can not run konquerer. It says command not found - -H.ERTAS Umm...its spelled konqueror... :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] WHY Alt + F2 AND konquerer command does not function ??
On Thursday 20 May 2004 07:47 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Friends, As far as I know after Alt + F2 and writing konquerer and pressing enter , Konquerer must run. But with my Mndrk. 10.0 does not run . Why ??! What do you recommmend ? do not capitalize it spell it konqueror or make an alias Best regards H.ERTAS -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted
On Mon, 17 May 2004 17:52:23 -0500 David A. Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the tip. I will look in syslog the next time it happens. I ran a surface scan of the disk and it said ok. I don't know how to test the RAM but I haven't had any other problems at all so I would bet the RAM is fine. Well, it pays to be prudent, so first install the memtest RPM, it will create a boot entry for it, so you can shutdown/reboot and let the test run for as long as you wish, typically overnight. It's not the most robust memory tester, but it is pretty good. The other thing to try is mprime, which is available over at www.mersenne.org. Its claim to fame is that it's probably the most robust and thorough test of computing hardware (processor/ram/cache) around, especially in the torture test (./mprime -m 17). If this test passes, you're practically assured of a rock-solid system. If not, well, caveat emptor ;). ps. a new Mersenne prime has been found per that site. -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted
That's probably not corruption. You are just experiencing one difference between windows-like linebreaks and Unix-style linebreaks. When you open the textfile on windows you see a small square where the line should end, right? This is normal. If you need to convert a file to windows style, try importing in in ms word. Damian El jue, 13-05-2004 a las 17:53, David A. Ferguson escribi: I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the shared data on a FAT. Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted. Is there some special setting I should have in my 'fstab' or something? It is so bad that it is basically useless. I don't do anything special just open KWrite, enter some journal entries and exit. Thanks...David __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted
From: Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's probably not corruption. You are just experiencing one difference between windows-like linebreaks and Unix-style linebreaks. When you open the textfile on windows you see a small square where the line should end, right? This is normal. If you need to convert a file to windows style, try importing in in ms word. It is not the line endings the /file system/ is corrupt. When I reboot to Windows and attempt to access any file, Windows warns that the directory is corrupt and I should run chkdsk. When I do chkdsk reports cross linked files, unowned blocks and truncated files. David Then you should check your system for bad RAM or bad disks. FAT support on UNIX systems has been stable for many years now. (btw, do you check /var/log/syslog for weird records while writing to these partitions?) Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted
From: Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Damian Gatabria [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's probably not corruption. You are just experiencing one difference between windows-like linebreaks and Unix-style linebreaks. When you open the textfile on windows you see a small square where the line should end, right? This is normal. If you need to convert a file to windows style, try importing in in ms word. It is not the line endings the /file system/ is corrupt. When I reboot to Windows and attempt to access any file, Windows warns that the directory is corrupt and I should run chkdsk. When I do chkdsk reports cross linked files, unowned blocks and truncated files. David Then you should check your system for bad RAM or bad disks. FAT support on UNIX systems has been stable for many years now. (btw, do you check /var/log/syslog for weird records while writing to these partitions?) Thanks for the tip. I will look in syslog the next time it happens. I ran a surface scan of the disk and it said ok. I don't know how to test the RAM but I haven't had any other problems at all so I would bet the RAM is fine. Thanks...David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?
And just another thought. I found that unless you included [ actually typed ] the file extension name ( eg *.txt) then my system when within windows is not happy about it at all. To check others concerns issue the following from your command client: $su Password #fdisk /dev/hda(assuming you are using only one harddrive) At the prompt type p (exclude quotes) The result should show you exactly what that partition is. At the prompt type q to quit and return to your command prompt #exit You might already know all this but others reading this thread may need to know how to find out. Enjoy Regards Frank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Marc Lijour wrote: Le May 13, 2004 05:00 pm, David A. Ferguson a écrit : I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the shared data on a FAT. Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted. Is there some special setting I should have in my 'fstab' or something? It is so bad that it is basically useless. I don't do anything special just open KWrite, enter some journal entries and exit. Thanks...David I use the same config. My entry: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,uid=500,umask=0 0 0 You should definitely check twice, is it really FAT32? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?
I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the shared data on a FAT. Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted. Is there some special setting I should have in my 'fstab' or something? It is so bad that it is basically useless. I don't do anything special just open KWrite, enter some journal entries and exit. Thanks...David David, You may already know this but.. are you sure its FAT and not NTFS .. I dont have W2K, but IIRC it uses NTFS and Linux can't write to it. It can read NTFS .. just no writing to it. or it could be that kwrite is saving it in unix format which has a different EOL character, so you could look into dos2unix, which will convert between the 2 different types. or I could be way off with my guessing HTH .. somehow 8) RickS Thanks for the reply. I am sure its FAT. I create a 1GB FAT partition (hda1) for file tansfer. W2K is NFTF (hda2). I also boot to DOS on that partition to run some old programs that only run under DOS. Its not line endings or anything like that. It file system corruption. When I run the DOS scandisk, it complains about cross linked files, unused sectors, etc. The directory is messed up. I regularly lose data for linux writes. Its is wierd because sometimes even Linux will realize that the directory is hosed (while I am working in a Linux session). Thanks for the tips...David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?
- Original Message - From: Marc Lijour [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux? Le May 13, 2004 05:00 pm, David A. Ferguson a écrit : I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the shared data on a FAT. Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted. Is there some special setting I should have in my 'fstab' or something? It is so bad that it is basically useless. I don't do anything special just open KWrite, enter some journal entries and exit. Thanks...David I use the same config. My entry: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,uid=500,umask=0 0 0 You should definitely check twice, is it really FAT32? I thought it would have thought it was FAT16 or FAT12. I formated it with a Win98 (DOS booting) floppy and selected *no* big partions. It is only 1GB in size. Maybe I should try specifing FAT16/FAT12 in the fstab and see if I get better results? David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?
David A. Ferguson wrote: - Original Message - From: Marc Lijour [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux? Le May 13, 2004 05:00 pm, David A. Ferguson a écrit : I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the shared data on a FAT. Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted. Is there some special setting I should have in my 'fstab' or something? It is so bad that it is basically useless. I don't do anything special just open KWrite, enter some journal entries and exit. Thanks...David I use the same config. My entry: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,uid=500,umask=0 0 0 You should definitely check twice, is it really FAT32? I thought it would have thought it was FAT16 or FAT12. I formated it with a Win98 (DOS booting) floppy and selected *no* big partions. It is only 1GB in size. Maybe I should try specifing FAT16/FAT12 in the fstab and see if I get better results? David If you want it to support long file names, you have to use vfat. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 13 May 2004 16:00:24 -0500 David A. Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the shared data on a FAT. Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted. Is there some special setting I should have in my 'fstab' or something? It is so bad that it is basically useless. I don't do anything special just open KWrite, enter some journal entries and exit. Thanks...David David, You may already know this but.. are you sure its FAT and not NTFS .. I dont have W2K, but IIRC it uses NTFS and Linux can't write to it. It can read NTFS .. just no writing to it. or it could be that kwrite is saving it in unix format which has a different EOL character, so you could look into dos2unix, which will convert between the 2 different types. or I could be way off with my guessing HTH .. somehow 8) RickS - -- Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Official) for i586 Linux 2.6.5-1.tmb.5mdk-i686-up-4GB i686 gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x24AABE61 + Make it too tough for the enemy to get in, and you won't be able to get out -- Murphy's Military Laws n°53 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFApEgbJo/ckCSqvmERAjYQAKCXqNcUlW2pLIl4UUg1R2S64zczfwCfc+eC +yNdgQvUrR5Oz9JcmJDs+UE= =U8bi -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?
Le May 13, 2004 05:00 pm, David A. Ferguson a écrit : I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the shared data on a FAT. Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted. Is there some special setting I should have in my 'fstab' or something? It is so bad that it is basically useless. I don't do anything special just open KWrite, enter some journal entries and exit. Thanks...David I use the same config. My entry: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,uid=500,umask=0 0 0 You should definitely check twice, is it really FAT32? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why does tilde seem to equal %7E ??
Tsiteerin Bob Read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know why the ~ (tilde) in a URL often shows up in the URL box in Mozilla as %7E ?? 0x7E or 126 in decimal is the ASCII code of tilde symbol. In urls a few special characters (most notably the space within a filename) get automatically converted, but you can also represent the entire url in encoded form: http://users.ids.net/%7E%62%6f%62%72%65%61%64/%63%6f%74%6d%2e%68%74%6d Aavo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why does tilde seem to equal %7E ??
Thanks Aavo -- glad I asked. ;-) Bob Aavo Tambur wrote: Tsiteerin Bob Read [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know why the ~ (tilde) in a URL often shows up in the URL box in Mozilla as %7E ?? 0x7E or 126 in decimal is the ASCII code of tilde symbol. In urls a few special characters (most notably the space within a filename) get automatically converted, but you can also represent the entire url in encoded form: http://users.ids.net/%7E%62%6f%62%72%65%61%64/%63%6f%74%6d%2e%68%74%6d Aavo -- -- Bob Read // Registered Linux user #287118 http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/e/bestill.htm Soli Deo Gloria-Solus Christus-Sola Gratia-Sola Fide-Sola Scriptura The Church of The Master [Baptist] Providence, Rhode Island http://users.ids.net/~bobread/cotm.htm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why do I get this ?/
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:34:00 + trufflesdad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did update the eslrahc site and if I do a urpmi gift-plugin it tells me there is no package by that name.. That is correct there is no pkg named gift-plugin. gift-plugin is provided by gift-openft urpmi gift-openft Also try adding a different plf source. Charles -- It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt - Mandrake Linux 10.0 on PurpleDragon 2.6.1-1.tmb.8mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Why do I get this ?/
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:02:34 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:34:00 + trufflesdad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did update the eslrahc site and if I do a urpmi gift-plugin it tells me there is no package by that name.. That is correct there is no pkg named gift-plugin. gift-plugin is provided by gift-openft urpmi gift-openft Also try adding a different plf source. Charles -- It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt - Mandrake Linux 10.0 on PurpleDragon 2.6.1-1.tmb.8mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - Hi Charles Thanks for the reply... I get no package named gift-openft when I do the rpmi call... How do I find out which repository to add to get it Sorry for the hassle but it I am just coming back to Mandrake -- Regards Ted Wager Using Mepis Linux Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Why do I get this ?/
ON Wednesday, January 21, 2004 8:17 AM trufflesdad scribbled: On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:02:34 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:34:00 + trufflesdad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did update the eslrahc site and if I do a urpmi gift-plugin it tells me there is no package by that name.. That is correct there is no pkg named gift-plugin. gift-plugin is provided by gift-openft urpmi gift-openft Also try adding a different plf source. Charles -- It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt - Mandrake Linux 10.0 on PurpleDragon 2.6.1-1.tmb.8mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - Hi Charles Thanks for the reply... I get no package named gift-openft when I do the rpmi call... How do I find out which repository to add to get it Sorry for the hassle but it I am just coming back to Mandrake Google is your friend!!! http://www.google.com/linux?hl=enlr=ie=ISO-8859-1q=gift-openftbtnG=Googl e+Search Rob Smith Linux newbie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why do I get this ?/
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:29:30 -0600 Smith, Robert A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get no package named gift-openft when I do the rpmi call... How do I find out which repository to add to get it Sorry for the hassle but it I am just coming back to Mandrake The first thing I would suggest it to remove your current plf source. I have 2 defined, 1 as primary which is used when I run my urpmi alias and a second which is additionally used if I run 'urpmi.update -a'. I use easynet and club-internet To keep wordwarp from affecting urpmi.addmedia plf ftp://ftp.easynet.fr/plf/mandrake/9.2/i586/ with ../hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia plf1 http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandrake/9.2/i586/ with ../hdlist.cz When actually doing the command it should be as such but without the urpmi.addmedia plf location with ../hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia plf1 location with ../hdlist.cz Both sites Do have gift-openft-0.2.1.1-4plf.i586.rpm Charles -- Those who can, do; those who can't, simulate. - Mandrake Linux 10.0 on PurpleDragon 2.6.1-1.tmb.8mdkenterprise http://www.eslrahc.com - pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [newbie] Why MicroSlop wants Google!
Schwartz Avi wrote: On Nov 11, 2003, at 8:21, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Check it out - very interesting reading. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12603 Unfortunately for the Inquirer, the article is wrong. If you run the Linux Windows search you get on the first page indeed 'Results 1-15 of about 18 containing Linux Windows' but if you click on Next now it changes to 'Results 16-30 of about 8921757 containing Linux Windows'. At the same time, Google gives me 'Results 1 - 10 of about 9,370,000'. So the difference is not as big as claimed. How hard was it for the writer to test it out first? Avi Yes, but its also possible that microsoft tweaked it when the article was released... It would be very bad press if mainsteam media noticed it and were able to verify... We just don't know. which means if MS did tweak it, then they got away with it. rgds Franki -- Please sign our petition to encourage notebook manufacturers to offer video card upgrades just like desktops. http://www.petitiononline.com/inspiron/petition.html For free scripts, online webmaster tools, HTML, XHTML, Perl PHP tutorials and stuff, visit: http://htmlfixit.com, Free web developer resources. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why MicroSlop wants Google!
On Nov 11, 2003, at 10:13, Franki wrote: Schwartz Avi wrote: On Nov 11, 2003, at 8:21, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Check it out - very interesting reading. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12603 Unfortunately for the Inquirer, the article is wrong. If you run the Linux Windows search you get on the first page indeed 'Results 1-15 of about 18 containing Linux Windows' but if you click on Next now it changes to 'Results 16-30 of about 8921757 containing Linux Windows'. At the same time, Google gives me 'Results 1 - 10 of about 9,370,000'. So the difference is not as big as claimed. How hard was it for the writer to test it out first? Avi Yes, but its also possible that microsoft tweaked it when the article was released... It would be very bad press if mainsteam media noticed it and were able to verify... We just don't know. which means if MS did tweak it, then they got away with it. Their search sucks but I don't think it is because of bad intentions as much as incompetence. If you search for Windows on MSN you'd expect to see many millions of pages, right. Wrong: I tried the same with searching for Windows. MSN initially gave me 2399 results but after many clicks on Next it ended up being only 1069! Google gave me 98,600,000. Can you say MSN sucks? Yes, but that is all you can say about them. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why MicroSlop wants Google!
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 09:31, Schwartz Avi wrote: On Nov 11, 2003, at 10:13, Franki wrote: I tried the same with searching for Windows. MSN initially gave me 2399 results but after many clicks on Next it ended up being only 1069! Google gave me 98,600,000. Can you say MSN sucks? Yes, but that is all you can say about them. I tried a couple similar searches on google and msn. Searching for windows msn returned 1-15 of about 2399 google returned 1-10 of about 100,000,000 Searching for linux msn returned 1-15 of about 376 google returned 1-10 of about 96,300,000 Going past the first page on MSN did not increase the numbers for either seach the way it did for the linux windows search. Is MSN biased or just bad? My vote is for both. -- Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. - Einstein Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why MicroSlop wants Google!
On Nov 11, 2003, at 10:47, Charlie wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 09:31, Schwartz Avi wrote: On Nov 11, 2003, at 10:13, Franki wrote: I tried the same with searching for Windows. MSN initially gave me 2399 results but after many clicks on Next it ended up being only 1069! Google gave me 98,600,000. Can you say MSN sucks? Yes, but that is all you can say about them. I tried a couple similar searches on google and msn. Searching for windows msn returned 1-15 of about 2399 google returned 1-10 of about 100,000,000 Searching for linux msn returned 1-15 of about 376 google returned 1-10 of about 96,300,000 Going past the first page on MSN did not increase the numbers for either seach the way it did for the linux windows search. Is MSN biased or just bad? My vote is for both. Bad. If you click on next enough times the number start changing. Going up and down until at some point the settle down. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why MicroSlop wants Google!
That article belongs in a rag such as the (US) National Inquirier...come one people. You're really not that bored?! And JFK was killed by Hobbits. MRW - Original Message - From: Schwartz Avi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Why MicroSlop wants Google! On Nov 11, 2003, at 10:13, Franki wrote: Schwartz Avi wrote: On Nov 11, 2003, at 8:21, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Check it out - very interesting reading. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12603 Unfortunately for the Inquirer, the article is wrong. If you run the Linux Windows search you get on the first page indeed 'Results 1-15 of about 18 containing Linux Windows' but if you click on Next now it changes to 'Results 16-30 of about 8921757 containing Linux Windows'. At the same time, Google gives me 'Results 1 - 10 of about 9,370,000'. So the difference is not as big as claimed. How hard was it for the writer to test it out first? Avi Yes, but its also possible that microsoft tweaked it when the article was released... It would be very bad press if mainsteam media noticed it and were able to verify... We just don't know. which means if MS did tweak it, then they got away with it. Their search sucks but I don't think it is because of bad intentions as much as incompetence. If you search for Windows on MSN you'd expect to see many millions of pages, right. Wrong: I tried the same with searching for Windows. MSN initially gave me 2399 results but after many clicks on Next it ended up being only 1069! Google gave me 98,600,000. Can you say MSN sucks? Yes, but that is all you can say about them. Avi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.532 / Virus Database: 326 - Release Date: 10/27/03 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Why MicroSlop wants Google!
mwafkowski said: That article belongs in a rag such as the (US) National Inquirier...come one people. You're really not that bored?! Nope...please note the National Enquirer URL: http://www.nationalenquirer.com/ and the URL for the article: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12603 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why MicroSlop wants Google!
On Tuesday 11 November 2003 11:47 am, Charlie wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2003 09:31, Schwartz Avi wrote: On Nov 11, 2003, at 10:13, Franki wrote: I tried the same with searching for Windows. MSN initially gave me 2399 results but after many clicks on Next it ended up being only 1069! Google gave me 98,600,000. Can you say MSN sucks? Yes, but that is all you can say about them. I tried a couple similar searches on google and msn. Searching for windows msn returned 1-15 of about 2399 google returned 1-10 of about 100,000,000 Searching for linux msn returned 1-15 of about 376 google returned 1-10 of about 96,300,000 Going past the first page on MSN did not increase the numbers for either seach the way it did for the linux windows search. Is MSN biased or just bad? My vote is for both. And stupid Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?
I don't believe you answered the question:- Possibly you don't have kde available as an option in the dropdown list , and that is your real problem ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?
M.A.Bell wrote: mike wrote: M.A.Bell wrote: Greetings. I've had this problem for a couple of months and had hoped that installing 9.2 would fix it, but it didn't. After I boot up, I see a terminal window on a blue screen. When I enter startkde, it does. How can I get my system to do this automagically? Mike, I ran drakboot and, as I expected, the launch graphical... box was already checked. So that's not the problem. So you get to the login window, and you select a user, give password(if required) and then from the dropdown list select kde and that should launch a kde desktop.Once kde has been selected once it adopts it as default until you change it again.Possibly you don't have kde available as an option in the dropdown list , and that is your real problem ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?
mike wrote: M.A.Bell wrote: mike wrote: M.A.Bell wrote: Greetings. I've had this problem for a couple of months and had hoped that installing 9.2 would fix it, but it didn't. After I boot up, I see a terminal window on a blue screen. When I enter startkde, it does. How can I get my system to do this automagically? Start kde then open a terminal window type su then enter root password when prompted.Then type drakboot It will give a menu and just check the box next to (launch the graphical enviroment when system starts) then click ok. Mike, I ran drakboot and, as I expected, the launch graphical... box was already checked. So that's not the problem. In a terminal window type cat /etc/inittab without quotes. And see what the line below the runlevels says, It will look like this below. id:3:initdefault: mine is set to runlevel 3 which boots to console id:5:initdefault: this would boot to graphical login see what yours says and if it says? mine says id:5:initdefault: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?
John Richard Smith wrote: M.A.Bell wrote: mike wrote: M.A.Bell wrote: Greetings. I've had this problem for a couple of months and had hoped that installing 9.2 would fix it, but it didn't. After I boot up, I see a terminal window on a blue screen. When I enter startkde, it does. How can I get my system to do this automagically? Mike, I ran drakboot and, as I expected, the launch graphical... box was already checked. So that's not the problem. So you get to the login window, and you select a user, give password(if required) and then from the dropdown list select kde and that should launch a kde desktop.Once kde has been selected once it adopts it as default until you change it again.Possibly you don't have kde available as an option in the dropdown list , and that is your real problem ? John No, I don't get to the login window. I get a terminal window with the user already logged in (no interaction on my part). Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?
Tony S. Sykes wrote: What is your hardware? If you have a nvidia geforce4 have you installed the drivers? Tony. -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 8:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually? M.A.Bell wrote: mike wrote: M.A.Bell wrote: Greetings. I've had this problem for a couple of months and had hoped that installing 9.2 would fix it, but it didn't. After I boot up, I see a terminal window on a blue screen. When I enter startkde, it does. How can I get my system to do this automagically? Mike, I ran drakboot and, as I expected, the launch graphical... box was already checked. So that's not the problem. So you get to the login window, and you select a user, give password(if required) and then from the dropdown list select kde and that should launch a kde desktop.Once kde has been selected once it adopts it as default until you change it again.Possibly you don't have kde available as an option in the dropdown list , and that is your real problem ? John It's an ATI Radeon 8500. I believe the drivers are properly installed. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 08:04 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: What is your hardware? If you have a nvidia geforce4 have you installed the drivers? Tony. I don't believe that's the problem. I have a GeF4 and it works out of the box with the Xfree86 'nv' driver. No need to install any drivers. OTOH, there's no tellin what kind of bugs installin the proprietary nVidia driver can cause. -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 8:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually? M.A.Bell wrote: mike wrote: M.A.Bell wrote: Greetings. I've had this problem for a couple of months and had hoped that installing 9.2 would fix it, but it didn't. After I boot up, I see a terminal window on a blue screen. When I enter startkde, it does. How can I get my system to do this automagically? Mike, I ran drakboot and, as I expected, the launch graphical... box was already checked. So that's not the problem. So you get to the login window, and you select a user, give password(if required) and then from the dropdown list select kde and that should launch a kde desktop.Once kde has been selected once it adopts it as default until you change it again.Possibly you don't have kde available as an option in the dropdown list , and that is your real problem ? John I had the problem quite a while ago that Mike describes. In my case it was a corrupted /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc file. Mike, if you want I can email you (send me a request off list) my kdmrc file. You won't be able to use it as is, other than to compare it to yours. You might also look in /usr/share/config/kdm/ and see if you don't already have a backup, probly with a rpm.new or rpm.save extension. I tried just about everything I found different in your kdmrc, but nothing fixed the problem. Now I get the login dialog and, regardless of which user and/or desktop I choose, after about 10 secs the dialog box sort of wiggles, and the password field is cleared. I.E. I can't login. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 06:44 pm, M.A.Bell wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 08:04 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: What is your hardware? If you have a nvidia geforce4 have you installed the drivers? Tony. I don't believe that's the problem. I have a GeF4 and it works out of the box with the Xfree86 'nv' driver. No need to install any drivers. OTOH, there's no tellin what kind of bugs installin the proprietary nVidia driver can cause. -Original Message- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 8:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually? M.A.Bell wrote: mike wrote: M.A.Bell wrote: Greetings. I've had this problem for a couple of months and had hoped that installing 9.2 would fix it, but it didn't. After I boot up, I see a terminal window on a blue screen. When I enter startkde, it does. How can I get my system to do this automagically? I tried just about everything I found different in your kdmrc, but nothing fixed the problem. Now I get the login dialog and, regardless of which user and/or desktop I choose, after about 10 secs the dialog box sort of wiggles, and the password field is cleared. I.E. I can't login. The dialog box wiggle means you gave it the wrong password, it is shaking its head no. You may have to change your password.HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?
M.A.Bell wrote: Greetings. I've had this problem for a couple of months and had hoped that installing 9.2 would fix it, but it didn't. After I boot up, I see a terminal window on a blue screen. When I enter startkde, it does. How can I get my system to do this automagically? Start kde then open a terminal window type su then enter root password when prompted.Then type drakboot It will give a menu and just check the box next to (launch the graphical enviroment when system starts) then click ok. Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?
mike wrote: M.A.Bell wrote: Greetings. I've had this problem for a couple of months and had hoped that installing 9.2 would fix it, but it didn't. After I boot up, I see a terminal window on a blue screen. When I enter startkde, it does. How can I get my system to do this automagically? Start kde then open a terminal window type su then enter root password when prompted.Then type drakboot It will give a menu and just check the box next to (launch the graphical enviroment when system starts) then click ok. Mike Mike, I ran drakboot and, as I expected, the launch graphical... box was already checked. So that's not the problem. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?
M.A.Bell wrote: mike wrote: M.A.Bell wrote: Greetings. I've had this problem for a couple of months and had hoped that installing 9.2 would fix it, but it didn't. After I boot up, I see a terminal window on a blue screen. When I enter startkde, it does. How can I get my system to do this automagically? Start kde then open a terminal window type su then enter root password when prompted.Then type drakboot It will give a menu and just check the box next to (launch the graphical enviroment when system starts) then click ok. Mike, I ran drakboot and, as I expected, the launch graphical... box was already checked. So that's not the problem. In a terminal window type cat /etc/inittab without quotes. And see what the line below the runlevels says, It will look like this below. id:3:initdefault: mine is set to runlevel 3 which boots to console id:5:initdefault: this would boot to graphical login see what yours says and if it says? -- Mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why is it..
On Thursday 30 October 2003 11:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... that BEFORE you get Linux, those who speak in favour of it say things like oh, get Linux coz it is far less demanding on hardware or you have much more control configuring hardware or you are in control Then when you do install Linux and the gee whizz GFX card won't work or the CD-ROM can't be mounted or the poor network performance is the fault of that low end NIC (all which work very well on another OS :-)), the experts all respond in unison - for Linux you need the very BEST hardware. Get rid of that crappy junk. Buy new. Buy the best :-) Feeling mischievous BECAUSE LINUX ROCKS Rob -- Linux: For the people, by the people. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why is it..
On Thursday 30 October 2003 11:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... that BEFORE you get Linux, those who speak in favour of it say things like oh, get Linux coz it is far less demanding on hardware or you have much more control configuring hardware or you are in control Then when you do install Linux and the gee whizz GFX card won't work or the CD-ROM can't be mounted or the poor network performance is the fault of that low end NIC (all which work very well on another OS :-)), the experts all respond in unison - for Linux you need the very BEST hardware. Get rid of that crappy junk. Buy new. Buy the best :-) Feeling mischievous i got junk but got no trouble (except what I cause myself ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why is it..
On Friday 31 October 2003 02:02 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... that BEFORE you get Linux, those who speak in favour of it say things like oh, get Linux coz it is far less demanding on hardware or you have much more control configuring hardware or you are in control Then when you do install Linux and the gee whizz GFX card won't work or the CD-ROM can't be mounted or the poor network performance is the fault of that low end NIC (all which work very well on another OS :-)), the experts all respond in unison - for Linux you need the very BEST hardware. Get rid of that crappy junk. Buy new. Buy the best Because the low end hardware is designed specifically for use in the other OS, mostly by emulating hardware functionality in software, thus reducing the cost of the hardware vendor. Also, linux is not less demanding on hardware, but more so. I mean, you can run it on hardware with lower performance specs than other OS's need, which is waht I think you mean, but the linux kernel gives the hardware more of a workout, so if it is not up to quality spec, it might not work even though it works in Windows. This is what you imply with your second statement. As for the latest and greatest, because the hardware vendors don't release the specs to the developers to develop kernel modules (drivers), so they have to figure it out and it takes a little while. You don't need the best, you just need standards compliant. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why is it..
On Friday 31 Oct 2003 12:49 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 31 October 2003 02:02 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: linux is not less demanding on hardware, but more so. I think it used to be true, when linux was mainly being used to run a few server apps. Nowadays we want it to do as wide a variety of tasks as windows, so it's not surprising that it needs as many and as high spec resources. ISTM that this is a function of linux 'growing up'. Perhaps it's not fair that we think of linux, the system, in both contexts with the same criteria IYSWIM Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why is it..
On Friday 31 Oct 2003 7:02 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... that BEFORE you get Linux, those who speak in favour of it say things like oh, get Linux coz it is far less demanding on hardware or you have much more control configuring hardware or you are in control Then when you do install Linux and the gee whizz GFX card won't work or the CD-ROM can't be mounted or the poor network performance is the fault of that low end NIC (all which work very well on another OS :-)), the experts all respond in unison - for Linux you need the very BEST hardware. Get rid of that crappy junk. Buy new. Buy the best :-) Feeling mischievous When you have problems on windows it takes you a day to solve them and you come out of it knowing no more than when you started, totally demoralised, knowing the computer got the better of you and feeling like you've done ten rounds against Mike Tyson. When you have problems on Linux it takes you two days to solve them, but you have fun, learn a lot, and come out of it feeling more in control than when you started. You *can* run Linux on crappy old hardware, but not crappy new hardware, because it uses windows to do the work. If the hardware is too old you might have to start from scratch or strip the distibution to bare bones and find old drivers on the net that the distributer didn't package. There is no free lunch; ten year old hardware will give you ten year old speed and power. You wont be running KDE on a 32MB 486, but it would make a decent firewall/mail/web server. -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why torrent is too slow!!!
On Wednesday 15 Oct 2003 11:55 pm, Lucio_Costa wrote: Hi guys, I´m experimenting download 3 mdk 9.2 iso using torrent, I don't know why but it's too slow. I accessed this link: http://torrent.mandrakesoft.com:6969 and I saw my infos below. Is it normal? BitTorrent download info * tracker version: 3.3 * server time: 2003-10-15 23:05 UTC info hash completedownloading downloaded 003b62fea4d3bd301d364feae6bc306045941125 96 293 397 4b53fb281276f855dfa991491a64455e563140a4 261 712 1024 ce91553fd644781e6f1d5e24103c047d73a16910 2 0 1562 0 files 335/359 943/10052983/2993 SNIP Thanks in advance Lucio Costa That info is a count of how many people are currently in the torrent for each of the 3 torrents available. (Not sure which is which) So for the first torrent 96 people have the complete file and are currently uploading it to others, and 293 people are currently downling it from each other and the completed people, while 397 people have completed the torrent and signed off. You will find that your download rate will improve if you open ports 6881:6889 to allow uploads, and some people have reported better download rates if they limit the upload rate to something less than their broadband connection maximum. My cable allows 128kbps upstream, so I have limited upload rate to 13 KBs ( --max_upload_rate 13 ) You will also get better download rates if people will leave their torrent running after they have completed to help others BTW: The problem with Error 404 has been fixed now. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
I suggest you model yours after mine, making the necessary adjustments. The syntax is not that hard to understand. Once you have updated your lilo.conf, post it here. Note, the append line will be completely different for you, so I suggest you skip these lines in your file. append=failsafe is required if you want to boot into failsafe, however. It works John !!! Thanx for everything and sorry for the duh questions... Flávio Henrique HTH, John Drouhard -- Wed Oct 8 21:42:48 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 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] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
flavio, if you have done fdisk /dev/hdd and confirmed that windows is indeed on the first parttition on that disk and that it does have the number 1 - not necessarily the same thing! then i suggest that lilo is choking ion your other entries, perhaps those other entries regarding /dev/hdd1? bascule image=/dev/hdd1 root=/dev/hdc6 image=/dev/hdd1 root=/dev/hdc6 image=/dev/hdd1 root=/dev/hdc6 other=dev/hdd1 label=windows table=/dev/hdd map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 -- `Credit?' he said. `Aaaargggh...' These two words are usually coupled together in the Old Pink Dog Bar. -- Ford in a spot of bother. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
flavio, if you have done fdisk /dev/hdd and confirmed that windows is indeed on the first parttition on that disk and that it does have the number 1 - not necessarily the same thing! then i suggest that lilo is choking ion your other entries, perhaps those other entries regarding /dev/hdd1? yes... indeed exist another particion in my second hd... but is empty my hd have 20Gb and I make a particion with 7GB to install windows... the rest is empty... don't have a partition there... in MD9.1 when I run MCC and look for my partions, in hdd I have the /dev/hdd1 monted in /home/d2 and the rest of the disk empty... I don't know if this is the problem.. But I'll try to do what John Drouhard suggest me and see what happens... I'm leaving the work now and goint to home... in some minutes I have the answer... Thanx for everyone... Bye Flávio Henrique Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
let me put it up top so Flavio might see it I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position on the ide bus, and the x is a number for a partition. your error might be any part of /etc/lilo.conf, so post the whole thing. On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 22:36, Aron Smith wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 19:27, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 07:10, Flávio Henrique wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 00:52, yankl wrote: On Thursday 09 October 2003 04:46 am, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi... I'm very newbie in Linux and I have a problem to make something here... After install Mandrake 9.1 in my hd, I bring another with win98 already have and install it... I trying to insert the win98 in LILO menu but it does not work... The hd that have md9.1 is hdc6 and the other, that have win98, is hdd1... What I did: Configuration - KDE - System - Boot Manager (LILO) in the second page (OS), Add another SO: boot disk = /dev/hdd1 label = windows98 Ok - Ok... even do that, the option to enter in windows98 does not show in LILO menu... What I miss or what I did wrong ?? thanx in advance... Flávio Henrique Go to the command line and as root run lilo command: #su #lilo After type lilo I receive a following message: Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed Fatal: Not a number: padrã and nothing happens... Flávio Henrique I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position on the ide bus, and the x is a number for a partition. I don't think you are gonna get win9x on without it being on the first partition of the first drive on the first IDE bus, ie hda1 or maybe hda5. I seem to remember something about Win9x insisting that it be first because of a nasty habit of rewriting the boot sector. __ 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 -- ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:01:42 + Flávio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my Linux is in hdc6 and my win98 is in hdd1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# lilo Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed Fatal: Not a number: padrã [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# Could you kindly post the entire contents of your /etc/lilo.conf file? It sounds like a problem with another part of this file. John Drouhard -- Wed Oct 8 16:47:59 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
let me put it up top so Flavio might see it I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position on the ide bus, and the x is a number for a partition. your error might be any part of /etc/lilo.conf, so post the whole thing. Ok... here is my lilo.conf boot=/dev/hdc prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message root=/dev/hdc6 vga=padrã image=/boot/map label=map root=/dev/hdc6 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk label=2.4.21-0.13 root=/dev/hdc6 read-only image=/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage label=Linux_Compiled root=/dev/hdc6 read-only optional image=/dev/hdd1 root=/dev/hdc6 image=/dev/hdd1 root=/dev/hdc6 image=/dev/hdd1 root=/dev/hdc6 other=dev/hdd1 label=windows table=/dev/hdd map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 Thanx for everyone Flávio Henrique Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:30:58 + Flávio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: let me put it up top so Flavio might see it I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position on the ide bus, and the x is a number for a partition. your error might be any part of /etc/lilo.conf, so post the whole thing. Ok... here is my lilo.conf boot=/dev/hdc prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message root=/dev/hdc6 vga=padrã Right here is the problem. Make the line that currently reads vga=padra to vga=788 image=/boot/map label=map root=/dev/hdc6 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk label=2.4.21-0.13 root=/dev/hdc6 read-only image=/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage label=Linux_Compiled root=/dev/hdc6 read-only optional image=/dev/hdd1 root=/dev/hdc6 image=/dev/hdd1 root=/dev/hdc6 image=/dev/hdd1 root=/dev/hdc6 Why do you have three of the same entries? What are these for anyway? I think you would be safe in getting rid of these. other=dev/hdd1 label=windows table=/dev/hdd map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 After making the changes, run lilo as root. John Drouhard -- Wed Oct 8 20:01:58 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
Why do you have three of the same entries? What are these for anyway? I think you would be safe in getting rid of these. other=dev/hdd1 label=windows table=/dev/hdd map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 After making the changes, run lilo as root. John Drouhard Ok... I made these changes and run #lilo... now the message is the following: Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed Added map * Added 2.4.21-0.13 Skipping /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage Fatal: open dev/hdd1: No such file or directory seems to be not right... and the /dev/hdd1 is mounted, so the file exist... look the last line: [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# mount /dev/hdc6 on / type reiserfs (rw,notail) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) none on /dev type devfs (rw) /dev/hdc1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620) none on /home/dug/d type supermount (rw,dev=/dev/hdd6,fs=vfat,--) none on /mnt/cdrom type supermount (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,dev=/dev/hdb,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0) none on /mnt/floppy type supermount (rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0) /dev/hdd1 on /mnt/hd type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0,user=dug) what now ? Flávio Henrique Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:31:50 + Flávio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you have three of the same entries? What are these for anyway? I think you would be safe in getting rid of these. other=dev/hdd1 label=windows table=/dev/hdd map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 After making the changes, run lilo as root. John Drouhard Ok... I made these changes and run #lilo... now the message is the following: Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed Added map * Added 2.4.21-0.13 Skipping /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage Fatal: open dev/hdd1: No such file or directory seems to be not right... Ok, let me ask you why you have an entry that will try to boot /boot/map? This is my /etc/lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hdc map=/boot/map vga=normal default=linux-mm. keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=80 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hdc5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=noapic devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht vga=794 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-10mm.1mdk label=linux-mm root=/dev/hdc5 read-only optional vga=794 append=noapic devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-10mm.1mdk.img image=/boot/vmlinuz label=failsafe root=/dev/hdc5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append=failsafe noapic devfs=nomount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=ht read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 other=/dev/fd0 label=floppy unsafe I suggest you model yours after mine, making the necessary adjustments. The syntax is not that hard to understand. Once you have updated your lilo.conf, post it here. Note, the append line will be completely different for you, so I suggest you skip these lines in your file. append=failsafe is required if you want to boot into failsafe, however. HTH, John Drouhard -- Wed Oct 8 21:42:48 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
On Thursday 09 October 2003 04:46 am, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi... I'm very newbie in Linux and I have a problem to make something here... After install Mandrake 9.1 in my hd, I bring another with win98 already have and install it... I trying to insert the win98 in LILO menu but it does not work... The hd that have md9.1 is hdc6 and the other, that have win98, is hdd1... What I did: Configuration - KDE - System - Boot Manager (LILO) in the second page (OS), Add another SO: boot disk = /dev/hdd1 label = windows98 Ok - Ok... even do that, the option to enter in windows98 does not show in LILO menu... What I miss or what I did wrong ?? thanx in advance... Flávio Henrique Go to the command line and as root run lilo command: #su #lilo -- Yankl Tiny IT guy. 100 % Micro$oft free. Registered linux users 181086 URL: http://yankele.com --- To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 00:52, yankl wrote: On Thursday 09 October 2003 04:46 am, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi... I'm very newbie in Linux and I have a problem to make something here... After install Mandrake 9.1 in my hd, I bring another with win98 already have and install it... I trying to insert the win98 in LILO menu but it does not work... The hd that have md9.1 is hdc6 and the other, that have win98, is hdd1... What I did: Configuration - KDE - System - Boot Manager (LILO) in the second page (OS), Add another SO: boot disk = /dev/hdd1 label = windows98 Ok - Ok... even do that, the option to enter in windows98 does not show in LILO menu... What I miss or what I did wrong ?? thanx in advance... Flávio Henrique Go to the command line and as root run lilo command: #su #lilo After type lilo I receive a following message: Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed Fatal: Not a number: padrã and nothing happens... Flávio Henrique Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 07:10, Flávio Henrique wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 00:52, yankl wrote: On Thursday 09 October 2003 04:46 am, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi... I'm very newbie in Linux and I have a problem to make something here... After install Mandrake 9.1 in my hd, I bring another with win98 already have and install it... I trying to insert the win98 in LILO menu but it does not work... The hd that have md9.1 is hdc6 and the other, that have win98, is hdd1... What I did: Configuration - KDE - System - Boot Manager (LILO) in the second page (OS), Add another SO: boot disk = /dev/hdd1 label = windows98 Ok - Ok... even do that, the option to enter in windows98 does not show in LILO menu... What I miss or what I did wrong ?? thanx in advance... Flávio Henrique Go to the command line and as root run lilo command: #su #lilo After type lilo I receive a following message: Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed Fatal: Not a number: padrã and nothing happens... Flávio Henrique I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position on the ide bus, and the x is a number for a partition. I don't think you are gonna get win9x on without it being on the first partition of the first drive on the first IDE bus, ie hda1 or maybe hda5. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position on the ide bus, and the x is a number for a partition. I don't think you are gonna get win9x on without it being on the first partition of the first drive on the first IDE bus, ie hda1 or maybe hda5. __ my Linux is in hdc6 and my win98 is in hdd1 Flávio Henrique 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] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 19:27, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 07:10, Flávio Henrique wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 00:52, yankl wrote: On Thursday 09 October 2003 04:46 am, Flávio Henrique wrote: Hi... I'm very newbie in Linux and I have a problem to make something here... After install Mandrake 9.1 in my hd, I bring another with win98 already have and install it... I trying to insert the win98 in LILO menu but it does not work... The hd that have md9.1 is hdc6 and the other, that have win98, is hdd1... What I did: Configuration - KDE - System - Boot Manager (LILO) in the second page (OS), Add another SO: boot disk = /dev/hdd1 label = windows98 Ok - Ok... even do that, the option to enter in windows98 does not show in LILO menu... What I miss or what I did wrong ?? thanx in advance... Flávio Henrique Go to the command line and as root run lilo command: #su #lilo After type lilo I receive a following message: Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed Fatal: Not a number: padrã and nothing happens... Flávio Henrique I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position on the ide bus, and the x is a number for a partition. I don't think you are gonna get win9x on without it being on the first partition of the first drive on the first IDE bus, ie hda1 or maybe hda5. I seem to remember something about Win9x insisting that it be first because of a nasty habit of rewriting the boot sector. __ 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] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 11:32:29 + Flávio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position on the ide bus, and the x is a number for a partition. I don't think you are gonna get win9x on without it being on the first partition of the first drive on the first IDE bus, ie hda1 or maybe hda5. _ _ my Linux is in hdc6 and my win98 is in hdd1 Make this your windows entry in /etc/lilo.conf: other=/dev/hdd1 label=windows table=/dev/hdd map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 Save the file, then (without the # sign) #su (enter root password) #lilo HTH, John Drouhard -- Tue Oct 7 21:46:13 CDT 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux User # 315649 Registered Machine # 201001 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
my Linux is in hdc6 and my win98 is in hdd1 Make this your windows entry in /etc/lilo.conf: other=/dev/hdd1 label=windows table=/dev/hdd map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 Save the file, then (without the # sign) #su (enter root password) #lilo well... I did it... but as root, 'cause my normal user don't have permission... but I'm still receiving the same message.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# lilo Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed Fatal: Not a number: padrã [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# Flávio Henrique HTH, John Drouhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] why I can't insert a new OS in my LILO menu ??
It worked for me. I installed Linux 9.0 on a brand new 60 gig HD then slaved my old 40 gig Win98 drive to that one, pointed Lilo to it and it booted just fine. My Win drive has since crashed altogether so I am totally Linux now. I did my editing in MCC Russ I guess it means you better post your /etc/lilo.conf cause you don't have the right hdyx (here y is a letter for the drive position on the ide bus, and the x is a number for a partition. I don't think you are gonna get win9x on without it being on the first partition of the first drive on the first IDE bus, ie hda1 or maybe hda5. I seem to remember something about Win9x insisting that it be first because of a nasty habit of rewriting the boot sector. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?
On Friday 03 October 2003 01:33 pm, mwafkowski wrote: There is no Kentucky Fried Chicken, remember, as in Kentucy - associated with rednecks?/fried chicken-as in fried=heart attacks. It's KFC to you , Suh! MRW Well, I do live in Kentucky... I did stain (cedar siding) part of my house yesterday, so the back of my neck could be a bit red...from the Sun... and I like fried chicken, so I guess I'll take my chances :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?
On Friday 03 October 2003 05:31 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: hehe... hm... think they'd let me off if I put the little Copyright symbol in there? Debatable... Running from Col.Sanders Femme Hehehehe, you better - I hear one of his fav slogans is the birds the word lol -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 02:39, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 03 October 2003 05:31 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: hehe... hm... think they'd let me off if I put the little Copyright symbol in there? Debatable... Running from Col.Sanders Femme Hehehehe, you better - I hear one of his fav slogans is the birds the word lol As the Taxidermist said(while. taking his girlfriend to dinner) you gotta stuff the bird before you mount it Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?
On Saturday 04 October 2003 11:53 am, Aron Smith wrote: As the Taxidermist said(while. taking his girlfriend to dinner) you gotta stuff the bird before you mount it Yea, and I'm a firm believer that one in the bush is worth 2 in the hand anytime wicked grin -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?
On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 21:17:10 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 02:08, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Femme: Well, now we know why you didn't choose a career in the diplomatic service.-- cmg Yeah - that might be true...God...I wanted to say something horribly rude, but I can't bring myself to do it - FEMME - HAND ME SOME DRUGS. NOW. PRONTO. stephen kuhn - owner *gives stephen some morphine...* cut em in half so they don't kill you dear call the paramedics if you start breathing very shallowly orgoing too numb. :) PharmaFemme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?
On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 21:27:41 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 03:07, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2003 10:31 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: Finger-Licking-Good-Femme (or so they tell me) roflol I can see a herd of lawyers from Kentucky Fried Chicken bearing down on you, even as we speak Femme! :-) Brings to mind the same old question: Smells like fish - tastes like chicken Smells like chicken - tastes like fish ?? Only FEMME can answer that one... stephen kuhn - owner *blink...* I'm not touching that one... EVER... F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?
On Thursday 02 October 2003 07:52 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 01:18:19 -0700 M J Pipkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is unsolicited spam and an invasion of my privacy. Please send no further newbie communicationsand remove my name from your list. and who the flying monkey fuck are you? remove yourself. don't bitch at us for signing you up...you did that yourself or someone who knows your address did. Femme Femme: Well, now we know why you didn't choose a career in the diplomatic service. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?
On Thursday 02 October 2003 10:31 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: Finger-Licking-Good-Femme (or so they tell me) roflol I can see a herd of lawyers from Kentucky Fried Chicken bearing down on you, even as we speak Femme! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?
There is no Kentucky Fried Chicken, remember, as in Kentucy - associated with rednecks?/fried chicken-as in fried=heart attacks. It's KFC to you , Suh! MRW - Original Message - From: Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 1:07 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ? On Thursday 02 October 2003 10:31 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: Finger-Licking-Good-Femme (or so they tell me) roflol I can see a herd of lawyers from Kentucky Fried Chicken bearing down on you, even as we speak Femme! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.516 / Virus Database: 313 - Release Date: 9/1/03 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:08:42 -0400 Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2003 07:52 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 01:18:19 -0700 M J Pipkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is unsolicited spam and an invasion of my privacy. Please send no further newbie communicationsand remove my name from your list. and who the flying monkey fuck are you? remove yourself. don't bitch at us for signing you up...you did that yourself or someone who knows your address did. Femme Femme: Well, now we know why you didn't choose a career in the diplomatic service.-- cmg heh Mr.Curmudgeon yessir... I um got up on the wrong side of the email that day. ya... I suck at diplomacy some days... :) least I admit it? F Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 13:07:42 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2003 10:31 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: Finger-Licking-Good-Femme (or so they tell me) roflol I can see a herd of lawyers from Kentucky Fried Chicken bearing down on you, even as we speak Femme! :-) -- /\ DarkLord \/ hehe... hm... think they'd let me off if I put the little Copyright symbol in there? Running from Col.Sanders Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?
On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 1:44 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: Whenever a desktop user sees a problem in his screen, he/she goes uf, grabs the phone and calls you. This is why they seem so stubborn and closed-minded about change. It's, quite simply, not their concern. You (we) are the ones supposed to keep the computer going. right? That's what we get paid for. You overlook the fear element. It is very real for many people Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?
El jue, 02-10-2003 a las 03:03, Anne Wilson escribió: On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 1:44 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: Whenever a desktop user sees a problem in his screen, he/she goes uf, grabs the phone and calls you. This is why they seem so stubborn and closed-minded about change. It's, quite simply, not their concern. You (we) are the ones supposed to keep the computer going. right? That's what we get paid for. You overlook the fear element. It is very real for many people Anne You are right... forgot about the fear thingy. Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 21:33, Carroll Grigsby wrote: And now you know why I haven't gotten the nerve to try to resuscitate my old Win98SE installation since I rebuilt my system four months ago. I don't need no aggravation. -- cmg this statement makes me wonder,,, I have/had a triple boot, winME, Win2k, and MDK9.1. after a few problems (me screwing around) hosed first winME and then 2k, and I know I 'can' fix them, it just takes time, and reboots, and I don't need to bother with those partitions. I wonder how many of 'previous' dual-booters are waiting for hell to freeze before they find the time to fix their MS partitions. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?
ed tharp wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 21:33, Carroll Grigsby wrote: And now you know why I haven't gotten the nerve to try to resuscitate my old Win98SE installation since I rebuilt my system four months ago. I don't need no aggravation. -- cmg this statement makes me wonder,,, I have/had a triple boot, winME, Win2k, and MDK9.1. after a few problems (me screwing around) hosed first winME and then 2k, and I know I 'can' fix them, it just takes time, and reboots, and I don't need to bother with those partitions. I wonder how many of 'previous' dual-booters are waiting for hell to freeze before they find the time to fix their MS partitions. to me , the only reason to fix the win partition is if you use it for something. I use 1. ( one ) , ( uno ) programs that I can't run in linux. otherwise I'd simply remove windows altogether. if you have to run a win app thru crossover or need excel or something, you kinda have to fix them sometimes. sadly I have fixed windows partition way too many times. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mike McNeese Springdale, Arkansas USA == Dual booting 98lite;MDK 9.1 stock kernel Kde 3.1 Registered Linux User #248955 liquid/acqua Theme == If obstacles are what you see in your path... Then you have lost sight of your goal! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 20:43, ed tharp wrote: this statement makes me wonder,,, I have/had a triple boot, winME, Win2k, and MDK9.1. after a few problems (me screwing around) hosed first winME and then 2k, and I know I 'can' fix them, it just takes time, and reboots, and I don't need to bother with those partitions. I wonder how many of 'previous' dual-booters are waiting for hell to freeze before they find the time to fix their MS partitions. I've got an XP Pro partition on my server - it's been a year since it's been booted - two motherboards and some other hardware since that time - and the thought of even taking the server down aside from it's monthly dust-out/shutdown - which I try to minimise the downtime - can't seem to bring myself to even TRYING booting into the XP Pro partition...hate to think how much shit I'll have to deal with in the first place - finding all the new hardware - drivers - reboots - and THEN the frigging patches - yikes...nah...it's a small partition and I'll save it for a really really rainy day...if ever... If I want to torture myself enough, I fire up a VM session - and only for a short while...that's bad enough... Besides, I'm married. I'm tortured enough as it is without having Micro$SCOft torture me further... stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0catch.com -- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents -- Yow! Now we can become alcoholics! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 2, 2003 04:43 am, ed tharp wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 21:33, Carroll Grigsby wrote: And now you know why I haven't gotten the nerve to try to resuscitate my old Win98SE installation since I rebuilt my system four months ago. I don't need no aggravation. -- cmg this statement makes me wonder,,, I have/had a triple boot, winME, Win2k, and MDK9.1. after a few problems (me screwing around) hosed first winME and then 2k, and I know I 'can' fix them, it just takes time, and reboots, and I don't need to bother with those partitions. I wonder how many of 'previous' dual-booters are waiting for hell to freeze before they find the time to fix their MS partitions. Hi Ed; I played the dual boot game for nearly two years; until one day I decided that I needed a local mirror of some distribution or other and the only available space of an adequate size on any partition on any of the drives was where Windows 98 SE lived. I actually had to try to remember when the last time I had booted that OS was. 3 months was my best guess. That's where the mirror went. This all happened in the year 2000. So I guess you could say I fixed my MS drive. Permanently. G Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 11:29:51 up 12 days, 50 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.07 We are anthill men upon an anthill world. -- Ray Bradbury -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/fGIJG11CaRuZZSIRAkIEAJ4mH/k4xZSKDXClgyLybjXK+21WNACdFxAK 2eH3OZDACfmvpVpTkrED3l8= =2TBq -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?
On Thursday 02 Oct 2003 11:43 am, ed tharp wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 21:33, Carroll Grigsby wrote: And now you know why I haven't gotten the nerve to try to resuscitate my old Win98SE installation since I rebuilt my system four months ago. I don't need no aggravation. -- cmg this statement makes me wonder,,, I have/had a triple boot, winME, Win2k, and MDK9.1. after a few problems (me screwing around) hosed first winME and then 2k, and I know I 'can' fix them, it just takes time, and reboots, and I don't need to bother with those partitions. I wonder how many of 'previous' dual-booters are waiting for hell to freeze before they find the time to fix their MS partitions. That's how I lost w2k. I started out on w2k/w98/Mdk8.1 Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Why so many reboots ?
On 02 Oct 2003 06:43:41 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 21:33, Carroll Grigsby wrote: And now you know why I haven't gotten the nerve to try to resuscitate my old Win98SE installation since I rebuilt my system four months ago. I don't need no aggravation. -- cmg this statement makes me wonder,,, I have/had a triple boot, winME, Win2k, and MDK9.1. after a few problems(me screwing around) hosed first winME and then 2k, and I know I 'can' fix them, it just takes time, and reboots, and I don't need to bother with those partitions. I wonder how many of 'previous' dual-booters are waiting for hell to freeze before they find the time to fix their MS partitions. some day I may hose windows...and if I do..well I'll fix it asap likely as there is still stuff I only do in windows..though that is diminishing rapidly...as I have not booted to windows in 4 weeks now. :) I'm a little Femme, short stout! Tip Me over make me Shout! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
