[909linux] Knoppix problems

2004-12-03 Thread Roger E. Rustad, Jr.
For whatever reason, I can't get the latest Knoppix to run on my laptop unless I run it in "failsafe" mode. Any ideas? I see several "laptop modes" on the cheat sheet. Perhaps it's something there? I've been able to get past versions going, so I can't imagine what it could be this time... Roge

RE: [909linux] Dual Boot

2004-12-03 Thread William Diehl
http://marc.herbert.free.fr/linux/win2linstall.html is pretty cool -- grub for NT allows direct booting of Grub and thus installing a distro as long as you have a distro's kernel and initrd files :) no cdrom, etc needed! William -Original Message- From: 909linux-boun...@909linux.org [mai

Re: [909linux] Dual Boot

2004-12-03 Thread Joel Brauer
Use Partition magic to create space, then install Gentoo. cfdisk is descent for creating partitions. On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 09:28 -0800, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. wrote: > Does the Gentoo Live cd have a good partitioning tool in it? Or should > I partition it with (something like) Partition Magic firs

Re: [909linux] Dual Boot

2004-12-03 Thread Roger E. Rustad, Jr.
Does the Gentoo Live cd have a good partitioning tool in it? Or should I partition it with (something like) Partition Magic first?

Re: [909linux] Dual Boot

2004-12-03 Thread Roger E. Rustad, Jr.
I have a 20GB drive and was just gonna use Partition Magic to partition 7 gigs or so for Linux (ext3, I assume?). Then I was just gonna install Gentoo and edit the grub.conf file. Before all of this, I had Red Hat 9 on there. I nuked it and now have a completely clean install of XP. Hopefully i

Re: [909linux] Dual Boot

2004-12-03 Thread Roger E. Rustad, Jr.
I have a 20GB drive and was just gonna use Partition Magic to partition 7 gigs or so for Linux (ext3, I assume?). Then I was just gonna install Gentoo and edit the grub.conf file. Before all of this, I had Red Hat 9 on there. I nuked it and now have a completely clean install of XP. Hopefully i

Re: [909linux] Dual Boot

2004-12-03 Thread Roger E. Rustad, Jr.
Cool; thanks, Will. I just dropped by CIS, and Jared printed out for me his grub.conf I like the idea of using XP's boot record, as XP will pretty much stay on permanently, but the Linux distros will come and go William Diehl wrote: > I like to use the XP boot manager, maybe because I'm us

Re: [909linux] Dual Boot

2004-12-03 Thread Joel Brauer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What kind of suggestions are you looking for? A howto? Caveats? What I have found is that since winblows thinks it's God's gift to the PC, it makes it's partition the active one whenever you boot into it. So the only way to make sure you have a Gru

[909linux] Dual Boot

2004-12-03 Thread Roger E. Rustad, Jr.
Anyone have any suggestions on dual booting XP and Linux? Just put XP on and am now forming a plan for Linux (preferably Gentoo).