At 09:45 12/04/99 -0400, you wrote:
I'm trying to install Mandrake 5.3 on a Pentium II 200 with two 4 gig SCSI
hard drives connected to an Adaptec 2940. I would like to install linux on
the second hard drive (sdb). However, during a Custom install, after I
select the partioning I want (600mb
Sorry, I don't know anything about power saving :-(
Is there a way to reboot the linux machine by telnetting into it from my
Win98 machine?
Just use the normal command to turn off your linux box :-)
as root '/sbin/shutdown -h now'
and to become root : 'su' + root password
- Rémi -
Remi..i too am a newbietrying to install Linux...I bought it off e-bay
and had no manual with it...my question is how do I set my cd rom drivers
for use under dos to do an install??? I am using sytem commander.
Well, you got some answers before mine (that's the purpose of a mailing
list), so
At 00:01 12/03/99 EST, you wrote:
In a message dated 3/11/99 8:50:32 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would have imagined that /dev would cause problems (a simple cp in
/dev will quickly fill your destination directory... that /dev/zero file
just never ends...)
i ment
I don't mean to be rude or question whether this really works. I don't
have extra space, else I'd try it myself. Can anyone confirm that this
works??
No it won't work. You are perfecly right with the problems in dev and the
boot sector. What you have to do is use the dd command to make a
At 15:06 11/03/99 -0800, you wrote:
A very good test to see if it's memory or bios-too-"optimized" related is
to compile something big (a kernel for example) several times in a row. If
your system succeeds to do so without any error, your system can be
considered clean on that point and you
make xconfig;
make config;
make menuconfig;
make mrproper.
When I try to run these commands I get complaints about some target not
being
found;
Can you tell us whitch targets? Always give the full error message.
2) How do I go about configuring sound? Do I have to compile that into
the
