Re: [newbie] URGENT! Windows partion has gone! (fwd)

2000-01-31 Thread Jon K. Miller
first off, your lilo.conf does show your windows partitions other=/dev/hda1 label=windows table=/dev/hda do not boot from a floppy, but when you receive the LILO boot prompt type in "windows" without the quotes of course, hitting the tab key should give you something like this; linux

Re: [[newbie] URGENT! Windows partion has gone!]

2000-01-31 Thread Jon K. Miller
you need to boot with the bootdisk you made during install, you did make one didn't you? just let it boot from that and it should boot correctly, do not use the resue boot img do not use the bootdisk that came with the distro. Jon MERCATOR GmbH wrote: the first linux partition (e.g., hda,

Re: [newbie] sound card problems

2000-01-21 Thread Jon K. Miller
What sound card are you using? Jon Wayne Wallace wrote: in installed mandrake but my sound card does not seem to work. I don't really know what I am doing with this os so any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Wayne