Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 09 April 2004 08:57 pm, Owain Sutton wrote: > JoeHill wrote: > > On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:15:34 +0100 > > > > Owain Sutton disseminated the following: > >>Ho-humnow Mandrake claims that the FAT is corrupted, and won't do > >>any partitioning without wiping the lot. Windows is still OK,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread Owain Sutton
JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:15:34 +0100 Owain Sutton disseminated the following: Ho-humnow Mandrake claims that the FAT is corrupted, and won't do any partitioning without wiping the lot. Windows is still OK, though. Any more ideas? Did you get rid of the FAT32 partitions (3

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 23:55, et wrote: > so is this a fork, or just the new name for the 2.6.x kernel version of the > drity old MANdrake version? Nah - it's a "phourk". stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer services a kuhn media australia company http://kma.0ca

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:15:34 +0100 Owain Sutton disseminated the following: > Ho-humnow Mandrake claims that the FAT is corrupted, and won't do > any partitioning without wiping the lot. Windows is still OK, though. > Any more ideas? as an absolute *last resort*, and this in not the 'reco

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:15:34 +0100 Owain Sutton disseminated the following: > Ho-humnow Mandrake claims that the FAT is corrupted, and won't do > any partitioning without wiping the lot. Windows is still OK, though. > Any more ideas? Did you get rid of the FAT32 partitions (3 and 4) in XP

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread Owain Sutton
Owain Sutton wrote: JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 12:42:52 +0100 Owain Sutton disseminated the following: That's pretty much what I did, although I didn't describe it well. I had four partitions, with Windows in the first and windows programs and stuff in the second. The third and fou

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread Owain Sutton
JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 12:42:52 +0100 Owain Sutton disseminated the following: That's pretty much what I did, although I didn't describe it well. I had four partitions, with Windows in the first and windows programs and stuff in the second. The third and fourth were empty FAT32s

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread et
On Friday 09 April 2004 02:42 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 16:14, JoeHill wrote: > > Whatever happened to that Mandrake-based pr0n distro we were going to put > > out, you know, the one that comes on like 4 DVD's (hmmm, poor choice of > > words there). > > > > I always thought th

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread et
On Friday 09 April 2004 02:14 am, JoeHill wrote: > On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:25:14 +1000 > > Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: > > And pr0n. > > Well, that goes without saying doesn't it? 'Sides, Linux, and Mandrake in > particular, are highly optimized for pr0n, esp with the low latency kernel

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 12:42:52 +0100 Owain Sutton disseminated the following: > That's pretty much what I did, although I didn't describe it well. I > had four partitions, with Windows in the first and windows programs and > stuff in the second. The third and fourth were empty FAT32s. I booted

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-09 Thread Owain Sutton
JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 10:56:30 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: I installed Mandrake 10 onto spare space on my main hard drive, which has XP in the first partition. Everything went fine on the Linux side - but choosing Windows from the boot options caused a freeze,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 16:14, JoeHill wrote: > Whatever happened to that Mandrake-based pr0n distro we were going to put out, > you know, the one that comes on like 4 DVD's (hmmm, poor choice of words there). > > I always thought that was a great idea, all you need is the kernel, XFree, video > an

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-08 Thread John Wilson
On April 8, 2004 05:17 pm, Owain Sutton wrote: > Extreme newbie here.. > > I installed Mandrake 10 onto spare space on my main hard drive, which > has XP in the first partition. Everything went fine on the Linux side - > but choosing Windows from the boot options caused a freeze, with a > flas

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-08 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:25:14 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: > And pr0n. Well, that goes without saying doesn't it? 'Sides, Linux, and Mandrake in particular, are highly optimized for pr0n, esp with the low latency kernel :-D Whatever happened to that Mandrake-based pr0n distro we

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-08 Thread Troy T. Hall
eHill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 21:30 Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot > On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 10:56:30 +1000 > Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: > > > > I installed Mandrake 10 onto

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 12:30, JoeHill wrote: > > EZiest way - DELETE XP. > > Can't argue with that. > > However, if you really must keep XP around, do the install by booting from the > Mandrake CD *after* you have XP installed (leave some unpartitioned space, at > least 5 or 6 GB). Sounds from wh

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-08 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 10:56:30 +1000 Stephen Kuhn disseminated the following: > > I installed Mandrake 10 onto spare space on my main hard drive, which > > has XP in the first partition. Everything went fine on the Linux side - > > but choosing Windows from the boot options caused a freeze, with

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 10:17, Owain Sutton wrote: > Extreme newbie here.. > > I installed Mandrake 10 onto spare space on my main hard drive, which > has XP in the first partition. Everything went fine on the Linux side - > but choosing Windows from the boot options caused a freeze, with a

[newbie] Mandrake 10 destroying Windows XP boot

2004-04-08 Thread Owain Sutton
Extreme newbie here.. I installed Mandrake 10 onto spare space on my main hard drive, which has XP in the first partition. Everything went fine on the Linux side - but choosing Windows from the boot options caused a freeze, with a flashing cursor on black screen. The XP recovery console c