[newbie] Installing to another drive when updgrading

2002-05-19 Thread Prashant Nayak
Hi I am planning to upgrade to 8.2. I currently have 8.1 installed and all the Linux partitions are on a second (slave) drive. My primary drive has Windows. I would like to get rid of the Windows install on the primary and use that drive with Linux. I want to maintain my existing (non

[newbie] Moving root and other filesystems from slave to master IDE drive

2002-05-19 Thread Prashant Nayak
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Re: [newbie] Can't ping from or to Mandrake box

2002-02-18 Thread Prashant Nayak
prontomail wrote: Could someone please tell the best How-To resource available for Linux on the net? In the meantime, why is it that I can't ping my new Mandrake installation. I know connectivity is there because I access the web from this box through my MSWindows-hosted internet sharing.

[newbie] LM 8.1 - Mouse focus rightshift problem

2002-02-17 Thread Prashant Nayak
Would appreciate thoughts/suggestions on fixing this weird problem I am having with my mouse. Every so often, the focus rightshifts by about 0.5 inches. One cause (unconfirmed) might be opening up more than a certain number of applications (any combination - xterms, Netscape, xmms, etc).