Re: [newbie] two systems

2002-03-22 Thread Graham Watkins
Derek Jennings wrote: > Almost all of us either run dual booting machines, or used to before kicking > the windows habit entirely. It's a breeze.. > > Just remember to defragment your Win98 drive first (and do not select the > check box that offers to make programs load faster) This will free

Re: [newbie] two systems

2002-03-21 Thread Derek Jennings
Almost all of us either run dual booting machines, or used to before kicking the windows habit entirely. It's a breeze.. Just remember to defragment your Win98 drive first (and do not select the check box that offers to make programs load faster) This will free up space on your hard drive so a

Re: [newbie] two systems

2002-03-20 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 20:10, Ron Grace wrote: > does anybody run both linux and windows on the same machine? how much > trouboe was it to get to work. I have done this on several systems, dual-booting Win98/Caldera, Win98/Red Hat, Win98/SuSE, Win98/Mandrake, Win2k/SuSE, Win2k/Mandrake. It

Re: [newbie] Two systems....

2000-10-09 Thread Greg Stewart
AIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Greg Stewart > > Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 6:52 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [newbie] Two systems > > > Your description is a bit vague, please diagram your setup... are all your > &

RE: [newbie] Two systems....

2000-10-09 Thread gcobb
learn just a little about protocols you can go a long way. Sorry I'm not any more help. -Greg- > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Larry Marshall > Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 7:37 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Su

RE: [newbie] Two systems....

2000-10-09 Thread gcobb
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Greg Stewart > Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 6:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Two systems > Your description is a bit vague, please diagram your

Re: [newbie] Two systems....

2000-10-09 Thread Larry Marshall
> Shah, Steve. Linux Administration, A Beginner's Guide: Osbourne/McGraw Hill. > Berkley, Calif. 2000. > > By no means "A Beginner's Guide", but well written, easy to understand, and > very comprehensive. The networking section is at the end of the book, but > everything in the text is useful.

Re: [newbie] Two systems....

2000-10-09 Thread Greg Stewart
Shah, Steve. Linux Administration, A Beginner's Guide: Osbourne/McGraw Hill. Berkley, Calif. 2000. By no means "A Beginner's Guide", but well written, easy to understand, and very comprehensive. The networking section is at the end of the book, but everything in the text is useful. If you have a

Re: [newbie] Two systems....

2000-10-09 Thread Larry Marshall
> Your description is a bit vague, please diagram your setup... are all your > machines DHCP within a LAN? Or, is this an attempt to establish DHCP > assignmet through a DSL/Cable ISP? Is your router the only server doing DHCP > assignment? Greg, can you recommend a good book on doing small netw

Re: [newbie] Two systems....

2000-10-09 Thread Greg Stewart
Your description is a bit vague, please diagram your setup... are all your machines DHCP within a LAN? Or, is this an attempt to establish DHCP assignmet through a DSL/Cable ISP? Is your router the only server doing DHCP assignment? What steps did you take to set up the NICs? Did you do this manu

Re: [newbie] Two systems

1999-12-23 Thread Ernest N. Wilcox Jr.
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Robert Thrall wrote: | I am running both Windows 98 and Linux-Mandrake 6.5 on my machine, but | Windows is on one hard disk with these specs: Partition -1 Statis- A | Type-PRI DOS Volume Label- My Computer Mbytes-8025 System-Fat 32 | Usage-100%. I have loaded

Re: [newbie] Two systems

1999-12-22 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Eric Mings wrote: > >Unless they are useing one of the internal cablemodems it most likely to > >work. They general just plug into a ethernet card. They may require extra > >software however that doesn't have a linux port.. > > I have a cable modem connnected to the uplink

Re: [newbie] Two systems

1999-12-22 Thread Eric Mings
>Unless they are useing one of the internal cablemodems it most likely to >work. They general just plug into a ethernet card. They may require extra >software however that doesn't have a linux port.. I have a cable modem connnected to the uplink port of an ethernet hub and it works great for my

Re: [newbie] Two systems

1999-12-22 Thread Axalon Bloodstone
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: > On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote: > > > My local cabel company COGECO informs me that no Linux system is > > > compatible with their modems so I can not connect to the Internet > > > through Linux. However, can Linux read Windows 98? Can I still dowload

Re: [newbie] Two systems

1999-12-22 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote: > > My local cabel company COGECO informs me that no Linux system is > > compatible with their modems so I can not connect to the Internet > > through Linux. However, can Linux read Windows 98? Can I still dowload > > software in Windows and somehow transfer it to

Re: [newbie] Two systems

1999-12-22 Thread M Thompson
/DOS_hdc1. Use Kexplorer and navigate to the /mnt/DOS_hdc1 directory. You should be looking at all your windows files. BINGO! HTH, Matt >From: Robert Thrall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [newbie] Two systems >Date: Tue,

Re: [newbie] Two systems+CableModem

1999-12-22 Thread WH Bouterse
Being a cable-modem user here in Alaska we have had some difficulty at first getting them to recognize us Linux users as a bonifide group, but the change has come rapidly, in fact the last Tech Support person I talked to runs LInux-Mandrake at home and in fact the ISP has switched to running a Lin

Re: [newbie] Two systems

1999-12-21 Thread jmccaffrey
Bigger question, what makes a cable modem activated via > LINUXdifferent than through Windows that the cable company can't > accommodateyou? I don't have one and so ask out of ignorance. I answer out of ignorance... I think they aren't sure, and Linux to many people is this esoteric, radic

Re: [newbie] Two systems

1999-12-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
> My local cabel company COGECO informs me that no Linux system is > compatible with their modems so I can not connect to the Internet > through Linux. However, can Linux read Windows 98? Can I still dowload > software in Windows and somehow transfer it to Linux. The word > 'transfer' may be wr

Re: [newbie] Two systems

1999-12-21 Thread Toyswins
Yes you can read files from different OS's partitions in a single system and I think there's a HOWTO or Mini HOWTO on it. I'm not at my machine with the information handy, but you simply direct LINUX to the location on the drive and grab the file. You can use Microsoft to get the data and then r

Re: [newbie] Two systems

1999-12-21 Thread DJW
the fat 16 and any of my os's can access it, but still can't see each other. Works for me anyway. Good luck, Don - Original Message - From: Robert Thrall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 9:45 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Two syste

Re: [newbie] Two systems

1999-12-21 Thread Robert Thrall
How about running through what you did to make Windows work on your Linux system. Let us say that you just downloaded something into your Windows System. How do you get your Mandrake Linux system to use this download in its own system? Linux is mainly DOS commands. You say your Windows 98 is mo

Re: [newbie] Two systems

1999-12-21 Thread MickeyMutant
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, you wrote: > I am running both Windows 98 and Linux-Mandrake 6.5 on my machine, but > Windows is on one hard disk with these specs: Partition -1 Statis- A > Type-PRI DOS Volume Label- My Computer Mbytes-8025 System-Fat 32 > Usage-100%. I have loaded Mandrake-Linux 6.5 on