Re: partition resides on first track

2003-02-06 Thread Ray Olszewski
Originally to: All At 09:46 AM 2/5/03 +0100, Andrew Langdon-Davies wrote: >Above is returned by fdisk (more or less; I am at a different machine and >can't remember exactly). Presumably, this is why trying to install >Mandrake 9.0 failed repeatedly at the bootloader stage (with no way out of >t

ppp-go anomoly??

2003-02-06 Thread Hal Macargle
Originally to: All configure - working perfectly for several months.. All of a sudden, for no apparent reason; when invoking 'ppp-go', I get the screen report "Connect script failed" and no cursor.. Entering a ^C, then invoking ppp-go again - starts the dialup normally. Oddly enough; when turnin

How to install two linux OSes on the same PC

2003-02-06 Thread Narsimha Reddy Challa
Originally to: All Hi All, I want to do two different linux installations rh 7.2 and rh 8.0 on the same pc with single hard disk. I installed the rh 7.2 in partitions say /dev/hda5 ( /) , /dev/hda6 (/home) , /dev/hda7 ( /usr) , /dev/hda8 ( /tmp),... /dev/hda11 etc. But how can I i

partition resides on first track

2003-02-06 Thread Andrew Langdon-davies
Originally to: All Above is returned by fdisk (more or less; I am at a different machine and can't remember exactly). Presumably, this is why trying to install Mandrake 9.0 failed repeatedly at the bootloader stage (with no way out of the installation program) and eventually trashed the partiti

Re: How to install two linux OSes on the same PC

2003-02-06 Thread Pa3gcu
Originally to: All On Wednesday 05 February 2003 22:08, Narsimha Reddy CHALLA wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to do two different linux installations rh 7.2 and rh > 8.0 on the same pc with single hard disk. I installed the rh 7.2 in > partitions say /dev/hda5 ( /) , /dev/hda6 (/home) , /dev/

Re: ppp-go anomoly??

2003-02-06 Thread Ray Olszewski
Originally to: All Hal -- Look at the logs; usually, pppd (and chat, if your setup uses it) reports more detail on failures there than what you are seeing at the command line. It could be something like LCP negotiation timing out. Speculating as to why it happens sometimes but not others is hop

Re: ppp-go anomoly??

2003-02-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Originally to: All On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Ray Olszewski wrote: > Hal -- Look at the logs; usually, pppd (and chat, if your setup uses it) > reports more detail on failures there than what you are seeing at the > command line. It could be something like LCP negotiation timing out. > Speculating as to

Re: Network card and kernel module problems

2003-02-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Originally to: All On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Amin wrote: > Hi people, > > First --- sorry about not including specific error messages earlier. The > attached file is a (snipped) list of bootup messages, and contains the > messages I'm concerned with. > > I've decided to reinstall, perhaps try a differ

Re: How to install two linux OSes on the same PC

2003-02-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Originally to: All On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Narsimha Reddy CHALLA wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to do two different linux installations rh 7.2 and rh > 8.0 on the same pc with single hard disk. I installed the rh 7.2 in > partitions say /dev/hda5 ( /) , /dev/hda6 (/home) , /dev/hda7 ( > /usr) ,

Re: ppp-go anomoly??

2003-02-06 Thread Hal MacArgle
Greetings: As usual Ray and Lawson came to the rescue making it easy to find the problem.. Maybe I need a brain transplant? I did a "quick" fix first by commenting out "ABORT NOCARRIER" in the chat script which is probably not a good idea except the mail still arrives OK.. I was in the wrong ball g

Re: Keyboard Freeze

2003-02-06 Thread Haines Brown
On the keyboard freeze, I was one that complained about it a month or two ago. Irregular freezes every few hours or few days forced dirtry RESETs to escape. MOre often than not the freeze also included the mouse. My nVidia card had a manufacturing flaw (heat sink adhesive), and so I obtained a new

Re: new computer - mainboard question

2003-02-06 Thread Brian Jackson
I am having pretty good luck with Gigabyte boards(ga-7vrxp & ga-7vaxp i believe). All the onbaord hardware, even the NIC's just work (with 2.4.20 anyways). AGP 8x support still isnt there, but that is okay since I don't have any 8x cards. One thing to watch out for on the kt400 boards is that AG

Re: Keyboard Freeze

2003-02-06 Thread pa3gcu
On Thursday 06 February 2003 06:55, Peter wrote: > Several months ago when I changed from RH7.2 to RH7.3 the keyboard would > freeze when trying to open certain games like tuxracer or invoking some > screensavers or doing 'blank screen now' in screensaver window. > > A lot of suggestion I got from

new computer - mainboard question

2003-02-06 Thread McClain
Hello ppl, I recently bought a new computer with a Asus A7N8x mainboard(nForce2 chipset). Everything worked well, except for one thing: every piece of hardware on the board, ethernet, ps/2 mouse and keyboard, graphics card etc, caused a slight noise on the sound channel(onboard as well). Now I go