Re: Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-02 Thread Ray Olszewski
While you got a lot of feedback on the disk repartitioning question, responses to your other question seemed cursory. At 08:16 PM 4/2/2003 -0800, Arthur Kng wrote: [...] also i have 128MB RAM. so what should be the size of my Swap partition? Anywhere between 0 and 256 MB, depending on things

Re:Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-02 Thread james niland
AK WROTE : I have a 20GB hard disk with a 5GB primary partition(C drive, DOS partition) and 15GB logical partition(D drive, extended DOS partition). The C drive has WinME and all application softwares and has 3.74 GB of free space. The D drive has all my data and has 9.84 GB of free space. I want

Re: Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-02 Thread James Miller
Repartitioning a drive is always risky - more so if you're new at it. Be prepared for the possibility of losing data and/or having to start everything from scratch again (including your DOS/Win partitions). There's just no absolutely safe way to do this sort of thing: I've done it many times and ha

RE: Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-02 Thread Stanley Yee
You'll need to use Partition Magic to repartition your drive or save off your data and reinstall everything from scratch. Unfortunately, you've allocated all of your hard disk as DOS partitions. So you don't have any left over for linux. Only me, Stanley Yee -Original Message- From: Art

Hard disk repartitioning

2003-04-02 Thread Arthur Kng
Dear all, I have a 20GB hard disk with a 5GB primary partition(C drive, DOS partition) and 15GB logical partition(D drive, extended DOS partition). The C drive has WinME and all application softwares and has 3.74 GB of free space. The D drive has all my data and has 9.84 GB of free space. I want t

Re: PPP in Slackware

2003-04-02 Thread Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > As Ray has explained quite well i have no futher comments more as to > say use KPPP, it will do what you want. Unfortunately it is not the case. I suspect the pppsetup is where the dog is buried. Before I used kppp or for that matter gnome-ppp I had done a pppsetup. O

Re: New module: kernel recompile?

2003-04-02 Thread Petre Bandac
make menuconfig - check there the right module and then make modules && make modules_install I did it a few times and it went ok HTH, petre On Wednesday 02 April 2003 17:43 Anno Domini, Amin wrote using one of his keyboards: > Hi, I've installed a new RH8.0 system after losing the old one.

~/.Xclients permissions

2003-04-02 Thread Haines Brown
I decided to add an ~/.Xclients file, but it hangs X (that is, the "X" loading symbol remains permanently and the desktop has a black background). However, the xterm in this file loads as well as do the other Xclients. #!/bin/bash # This is a comment xterm This .Xclients file is owned by

New module: kernel recompile?

2003-04-02 Thread Amin
Hi, I've installed a new RH8.0 system after losing the old one. Problem is, the fresh installation doesn't support my (Myson) Ethernet card, and I have to load the ``fealnx'' module to get it to do so. And that module isn't already compiled and insertable. So: is it possible to compile the modul

Re: recovering files after rm

2003-04-02 Thread Haines Brown
Peter, Interesting. "SafeDelete" is simultaneously a linux program to support undeleting files and at the same time a company that makes software to make it impossible to undelete files! Haines - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [