Whoops- I lied. The command for step 4 should be:
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/root/BOOTSECT.LIN bs=512 count=1
Of course, you still replace hda1 with your Linux partition.
-Matt Stegman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] how to dual boot
Here's what I know
Aaron deRozario wrote:
On a slightly different note, I also would like to install Mandrake 6.0 on a
computer without CD-ROM boot. Could I use a boot disk from RedHat 5.2 to
select CDROM install and then let teh Mandrake CDROM take over?
Aaron
snip
Yes, I think you could use the RH 5.2
I would say that as long as you have a good boot disk and/or have a copy of the
old kernel on the hard disk that you should go ahead and crank yourself a new
kernel.
I was also a little intimidated my first couple tries. After all I thought to
myself, I don't want to have to re-install the
Thanks to all! The card is now working.
Paul Benjamin [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09/02/99 02:05:48 PM
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings)
Subject: Re: [newbie] 32 Bit Video Cards
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I think this may be an opportunity of Mandrake Soft to make its own name.
Call it Mandrake-Linux. Tell people its based on the most well known and
largest selling Linux Distribution. Mandrake has been growing steadily away
from Red Hat anyway. A lot of people who are angry with the business
Hello. I am a real Linux newbie, and
this appears to be the place I'm allowed to ask real newbie questions.
I am running Mandrake 6.0 (with KDE) on a
Dell Optiplex GX1 (with an ATITechnologies 3D PRO TURBO graphics card)
with Windows NT 4.0. I have LILO installed on the 14gig C drive. I
HeyI had an error with a built-in cron job a few days ago and
someone told me I had an extra carriage-return in there, so I nuked
it. Now it tells me "unexpected end of file." (below is the EXACT
quote...):
From root Thu Sep 2 04:02:07 1999
Return-Path: root
Received: (from root@localhost)
My lot in life is working with Unix and DOS based systems at the same time,
and this sort of problem is extremely common. Some text editors are noticed
for their ability to tag on control characters, my particularly nasty one is
^M for carriage returns. If you hit one of these control characters
"Schmarr, Grant" wrote:
Hi all,
I have a problem configuring the sound card on my system. System is a PIII
450 on an Intel SR440BX Motherboard (integrated video and sound card).
Sndconfig detects the card as a Creative/Ensoniq AudioPCI 1371 (ES1371).
A dialog appears stating that a sound
Hershel S Robinson wrote:
Hello. I am a real Linux newbie, and this appears to be the place I'm
allowed to ask real newbie questions. I am running Mandrake 6.0 (with
KDE) on a Dell Optiplex GX1 (with an ATI Technologies 3D PRO TURBO
graphics card) with Windows NT 4.0. I have LILO installed
Hi
I tried to load a couple programs last night for MP3 players and extracted the
files into another folder before installation. They were supposed to install
with the ./configure command and then 'make' and then 'make install'. I saw some
action on the screen as if things were proceeding fine
Hershel S Robinson wrote:
Hello. I am a real Linux newbie, and this appears to be the place I'm
allowed to ask real newbie questions. I am running Mandrake 6.0 (with
KDE) on a Dell Optiplex GX1 (with an ATI Technologies 3D PRO TURBO
graphics card) with Windows NT 4.0. I have LILO installed
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Hi John,
May I please ask how you did it? If the disk was one big partition,
how did you partition it without destroying the data, then how did you
get Linux to install with out destroying the DOS partitions.
To be honest, I don't recall now I think I
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
From: Aaron deRozario [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On a slightly different note, I also would like to install Mandrake 6.0 on
a
computer without CD-ROM boot. Could I use a boot disk from RedHat 5.2 to
select CDROM install and then let teh Mandrake CDROM take over?
I recently asked how to access my Win98 partition and was told to edit
/etc/fstab. and add something similar to toe following:
/dev/hda1/mnt/dosvfatdefaults
I did this and after rebooting I could access my Win98 files but when Linux
boots I get a msg saying share/config/kdmrc file
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, you wrote:
On a slightly different note, I also would like to install Mandrake 6.0 on a
computer without CD-ROM boot. Could I use a boot disk from RedHat 5.2 to
select CDROM install and then let teh Mandrake CDROM take over?
Most
XCDRoast
If you did an 'install everything', you have it.
If you need help with setting up scsi emulation for ide cdr's see
www.whitem.demon.co.uk
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Ralph |byte-runner | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 2:37
Umm, is this flameage really appropriate? Let's stick to my computer is
better than yours and I've got a newer kernel, okay. Don't make this
maillist a crappy place to visit please.
Brian
-Original Message-
From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stephan Schutter [EMAIL
It took me 1 hour to install Mandrake 6.0 - create boot disk from a DOS
window in W95 - I didn't know that is possible - install the package and I
also took a tour.
Very impresing - I think I'll like this Mandrake.
Next? Printer, scanner, email,Netscape,sound, StarOffice ...
THanks to all for
I recompiled my kernel in the following manner:
make xconfig
...checked the stuff I needed
make dep
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
make install
Everything was placed in the correct areas but when my computer boots the
new kernel, it hangs at Finding Modules and does
On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Hershel S Robinson wrote:
1 How do I change the screen resolution within Linux? It is too high
and everything is hard to read.
If your XF86Config file has multiple resolutions defined in it, you can
switch by pressing Ctrl-Alt-plus or Ctrl-Alt-minus (use the + and - keys
I told you you had an extra carriage return in there. I also said to
hex edit the file and replace the second to last '0A' (LF) with a '20'
(space). I didn't say nuke it. And that was for the slocate.cron only.
If you open the file in the hex editor the offending character is just
to the left
What were the error messages? It might be easier to decipher your
problem if we knew them.
Also, were you aware that there are two mp3 players that come with the
Mandrake distribution. One is x11amp (or something to that effect),
which is a WinAmp clone, and another one I can't remember. If
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Thanks Martin I give it a look over
Ralph
XCDRoast
If you did an 'install everything', you have it.
If you need help with setting up scsi emulation for ide cdr's see
www.whitem.demon.co.uk
Martin.
- Original Message -
From: Mike Fieschko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 4:10 PM
Subject: [newbie] threads
"Manny" == Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is anyone else starting to get threaded messages out of order?
I am now
- Original Message -
From: Richards, Donald D. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 4:53 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Install cannot find filesystems
You're using a rather large disk, like I am, and the installation
documentation refers to the need
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote:
It has been my experience to simply disable the onboard sound in BIOS and just
install a real sound card. I got a SB PCI-512 ($70) and am using the SB
Live drivers from Creative Labs.
InterestingI've got 16-bit sound on-board my dual-PPro
200 (SB16
I totally agree that childish comments are out of place on any mail group.
On a recent holiday in France I found that there is a lot of support for
Linux there. At least one French chap responded to my recent request for
info about Star Office. As the mail is in French we've found it easier to
Hi,
Does anyone know of the differences between Linux Mandrake 6.0 and 6.1? I'm
getting a pre release version of 6.1, and I would like to know it it's worth
installing it over my present installation?
--
Best Regards,
Paul Hendrick
http://www.btinternet.com/~engprin1/linux.htm
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote:
On shutdown I get a msg saying that NFS mountd Failed.
Everything seems to be working OK, I can still access my files in a read
only mode and I can't see any other problems. Should I ignore these msg's or
correct them? If I correct them how do I go about
I was one of the one's suggesting to edit your fstab file. I'm not sure
if this will answer your problem but I'll list my entries in fstab as
they pertain to my dos partions. That might give you some ideas for
your own.
/dev/hda1 /mnt/drive-cvfat exec,dev,nosuid,rw,conv=auto 1 0
John Aldrich wrote:
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote:
It has been my experience to simply disable the onboard sound in BIOS and just
install a real sound card. I got a SB PCI-512 ($70) and am using the SB
Live drivers from Creative Labs.
InterestingI've got 16-bit sound on-board my
I presently have a Viper 770 AGP 16M card in my computer. I am looking to sell
it to a friend and purchase a Voodoo3 3000 AGP card. Is it going to be a
hassle to change my settings. What do I have to do? First, uninstall my
present X-server and then install the 3dfx server. Do I need to do
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I told you you had an extra carriage return in there. I also said to
hex edit the file and replace the second to last '0A' (LF) with a '20'
(space). I didn't say nuke it. And that was for the slocate.cron only.
If you open the file in the hex editor the
- Original Message -
From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 8:16 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] C++ compiler error when loading programs
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Also, were you aware that there are two mp3 players that come with
Hi,
I installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0. I have two hard drives. hda has one
partition - a dos/win95 partition. hdb has 3 partitions: hdb1 = /boot,
hdb2 = swap, hdb3 = /
When using linux, I boot from a floppy (the floppy I created during the
mandrake install).
Here's my problem: I was
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Yeah, I didn't like the thought of giving up another slot for something already
built in but I tried EVERY combination of card / settings I could (all the way to
"wiping" the /etc/config.modules file and rebooting between attempts) and the best I
got was a
It was still called X11Amp in the Mandrake 5.3 release.
Brian
-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote:
Also, were you aware that there are two mp3 players that come with the
Mandrake distribution. One is x11amp (or something to that
I have a Creative Ensoniq PC! 1371 and had no problems configuring it.
sndconfig autodetected it and configured it automatically. It's working fine.
El jue, 02 sep 1999, escribiste:
Hi all,
I have a problem configuring the sound card on my system. System is a PIII
450 on an Intel SR440BX
Dan Voeks wrote:
Hi,
I installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0. I have two hard drives. hda has one
partition - a dos/win95 partition. hdb has 3 partitions: hdb1 = /boot,
hdb2 = swap, hdb3 = /
When using linux, I boot from a floppy (the floppy I created during the
mandrake install).
Here's my
Dan Voeks wrote:
Hi,
I installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0. I have two hard drives. hda has one
partition - a dos/win95 partition. hdb has 3 partitions: hdb1 = /boot,
hdb2 = swap, hdb3 = /
When using linux, I boot from a floppy (the floppy I created during the
mandrake install).
Here's my
Maybe this would do it (as a shell script):
#! /bin/sh
for $i in `find .`; do
cp $i $i.old
cat $i.old | sed -e "s/MarketingWorks\/Collard
Associates/MarketingWorks" $i
next;
I am NOT a shell script guru- you can tell because my for loop syntax is
wrong, and I'm not sure what
Stuart,
Sun just bought StarOffice/StarDivision and now when you go to the
StarDivision
site you end up at the Sun site. It is still free from Sun. ( and well
worth
the price) g
BTW, just signed up for cable modem and tried the download from Sun and
it
took under three (3) minutes. I was
Hello,
I have tried numerous times to recompile my kernel. I run make dep after the
changes and then make clean. Before I make bzImage. I then do make modules
and then make modules_install . My problem is when I go to reboot it can never
find the modules and stops there during the boot. I ran
When using fmirror why am i excluding the hdlist file? What is is and why
do have to rebuild it, if I was to mirror another distro, say Red Hat,
whould i have to do the same thing?
- Original Message -
From: Paul Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 9:09 PM
Subject: [newbie] hdd problem
After several attempts to load and run Linux-Mandrake 6.0 I have the
following problem.
Program hangs-up at line "Starting Hard Drive
I recently had a system crash. I was able to put the filesystem back
together with fsck, but now I have the problem of not being able to
start the xserver for any of my users except root. I get the following
error message each time I try to start x.
Authentication failed
Long, sad story:
I downloaded Mandrake distro...6.1(Cassinini) evidently is the only one
available on all the mirrors I tried...for my first ever attempt at Linux.
Installed it in a partition on a Compaq Deskpro 2000 (5166/2500), 80 megs
RAM, along with Win 95. Did the default Workstation
Thanks for the info Stuart. One of my friends is trying the download this
weekend. He had CD writer and is also with BT Internet. We are both seeing
if the 0800 number is worth paying for.
I got my copy of Mandrake from French magazine on holiday. Where have you
found to be useful in UK?
I'm
(1) I actually got the Internet to work in Linux! Yay! I tried IRC
chat a little bit, but no one cool was on... and no, I was not
logged in as root at the time.
(2) To fix a poor partition structure (/boot, [swap], and one huge /)
and a few other things (odd... shutting down
Stuart,
Sun just bought StarOffice/StarDivision and now when you go to the
StarDivision site you end up at the Sun site. It is still free from Sun.
and well
worth the price) g
BTW, just signed up for cable modem and tried the download from Sun and
it took under three (3) minutes. I was
I had the same problem. First I booted with my thrusty floppy ( You made a
boot floppy whe you first installed right??). After booting my machine I
deleted /lib/modules/2.2.9mdk-27 Then do make modules_install again
Sean Armstrong wrote:
I recompiled my kernel in the following manner:
make
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