[expert] zip s-l-o-w-s down the system

2000-08-02 Thread tessonec
Hi! I have one question that I hope somebody could answer me. I have an IDE zip drive and a PIII 550 with 128Mb with an everything-motherboard, my mdk installation is (still) 6.1, But this weekend I'll upgrade. Well, when I mount a zip disk onto the /mnt/zip, and I copy a reasonable amount

Re: [expert] Linux and NT Together

2000-07-14 Thread tessonec
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Matt Stegman wrote: I'd suggest using NTFS for the system volume- commonly known as the "C: drive.". NTFS is a much better performer than FAT. If you need to move files between the operating systems, make a small, 200MB-or-so FAT partition. Or however large you want.

[expert] /dev trouble

2000-05-02 Thread tessonec
Hi all! i am trying to configure the local network on the pc i use in my job. i'm sure that i made something VERY wrong trying to detect the eth0, because in the /dev directory there is no file (or device) named eth?. while the computer is booting, there is a failure in

Re: [expert] Use of Windows may be hazardous to your Linux

2000-04-21 Thread tessonec
Hi Well, when i first installed Linux (during '98) the guy who bring me the debian CDs that i used to set up my box told me that i shouldn't put the root directory (i mean "/") after a vfat partition because he experienced the problem that when he was running win-defrag, such program

[expert] Lilo Remove

2000-04-15 Thread tessonec
Many thanks (once again) for your reply. Ok, i removed all the partitions, rewritten the partition table with just a fat 32 booteable partition in order to use fips later. But a problem appears. Lilo was not removed from MBR (i must say: "i couldn't remove lilo from MBR"). then, it tries to

[expert] Troubles With Partitions

2000-04-14 Thread tessonec
Hi all. Last week i bought a box with w98 preloaded. Without thinking about it, i took my mdk 6.1 cd (i didn't burned a 7.0 cd yet) and i repartitioned the HD to install linux in the PC. Obviously i deleted the old w98 installation. i was trying to install wnt4.0 in a separate

[expert] Digital camera

2000-04-14 Thread tessonec
Hi again I have another question. the only reason why i decided to install a win partition is due to a digital camera fujifilm mx1200. if a want to download the photos to my box, the bundled software is for winbugs. Does anybody know if there is software for such cameras??? It simply has

[expert] atapi zip drive- hdd4

2000-01-12 Thread tessonec
Hi! Just a question: Why does appear the pre-formated disks (also the windows-formatted disks) as /dev/hdd4??? - Claudio J. Tessone E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Departamento de