It's my understanding that Mandrake is built with Pentium optimizations in
place. You may wish to try Red Hat 6.0 instead.
- Original Message -
From: Colin Eddy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 1999 7:01 PM
Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 6.0 install
Actually I've tried both the Mandrake and RedHat 6.0 installs and they do
the exact same thing and hang in the same place. Plus I wouldn't think
that
pentium optimizations would cause a hang on the install before anything
really happens.
If they both hang in the same place, that points to a
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shuts down X
It's supposed to, but it took maybe an hour for it to respond. Usually
it's instant, but it wasn't in this case.
A second is more like it. You've got something stealing cycles in a big way!
I still want to know how to shut either X or the process down instantly.
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace shuts down X
P.S. Is "differed" really a word?
It is, but the word you needed was deferred.
It's NOT "rocket science" my dear Mr. Capone!
People: it's also not worth going around and around. This thread has become
half the traffic here.
I know that one of those fields is for order of fsck checking at
bootup. Look into the man page for fstab for details.
The last one is the fsck order, and should be set in ascending order on
partitions on a common spindle, else fsck will be run in parallel on the
partitions, causing
I downloaded some utilities on my win98 machine, and want to transfer them
over to my linux machine, but when I put the disk in the drive and click
on
the icon, it says:
could not mount
error log:
mount you must specify the filesystem type
It's a DOS floppy, so:
mount -t fat /dev/fd0
It's a DOS floppy, so:
mount -t fat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
That should do it.
I thought that was -t msdos.
it could be msdos, or fat, or vfat.
vfat would be best, as it supports long file names.
none of it matters, though, if you still have problems with the command.
The Syquest Sparc, if internal, will be supported
as an ATAPI device, I think. If it is a parallel device, I don't know how or if
it will be supported.
William Meyer
- Original Message -
From:
Joe Brault
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 5:26 PM
Some products are worth paying for, but sometimes I don't really need
them that badly. That PartitionMagic thing... I don't even know why I
need it. And then I don't see a point to use it more than once. If it
was free, then I would just download it. Since it isn't, ... you know.
I'll
Basically what Partition Magic does that fdisk doesn't, is resize existing
partitions without requiring you to first destroy them (and everything on
them)
and recreate them. I guess that's convenient but -I- wouldn't pay $70 for
it.
:)
It also does a good job of cleaning up after other
The 3.0 version is the one that I am familiar with. It works great. I
bought
mine for $15 with a $15 rebate. I also have calder'a 2.2 but I can't get
partition magic's bootloader to see my mandrake partitions.
3.0 was great, but didn't know from ext2
William Meyer
no choice.
There is a tool called Magic Mover, which comes with Partition Magic. It
does a great job of moving Windows apps and repairing registry entries. It
can't handle the special cases which occur in connection with \Program
Files, however.
William Meyer
Hoping life under Linux will be easier
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