[newbie] Windows 2000 and Mandrake 8.2 / 9.0

2002-08-04 Thread K. Spress Jr
I want to create a dual boot system for my machine and have Windows 2000 SP3 and Mandrake 8.2 or 9.0 installed also what is going to be the easiest way to do it? Kenneth Spress [EMAIL PROTECTED] == This is not a spam! Your are receiving this

Re: [newbie] windows 2000 dual boot

2001-05-29 Thread Terry
Haroon, I had this same problem the first time I tried to install LM 7.2 on my win 2000 machine here at work. It totally wiped out my Windows partition. The only way I was able to get it to work properly was to use Partition Magic to resize my windows partition so that it didn't take up the

Re: [newbie] windows 2000 dual boot

2001-05-29 Thread Randy Kramer
haroon, Just to provide a little more information (IIRC): 1. Yes, it's better if there is free space (i.e., not within a Windows partition) on the disk. Partition Magic is not the only way to free up some space. 2. Some of the installation modes (what are they -- beginner(?), (?), expert)

Re: [newbie] windows 2000 dual boot

2001-05-29 Thread Ed Kasky
I have a dual boot system with win2k but use a second hd on which I installed Mandrake. I didn't like the way it handled the windows partition. Once you get it installed you'll need to recompile the kernel using xconfig to enable ntfs support so you can see the partition... Ed At 09:15 AM

[newbie] Windows 2000 Policy's working with Linux

2001-05-29 Thread gizim69
In my local school we have a windows 2000 network running multi user policy's that restrict users to some parts of the system and network. Is there away that a user can login with Windows 98se or 2000. And linux will handle the policy? linux will restrict the user? and not use the windows

Re: [newbie] windows 2000 dual boot

2001-05-29 Thread John W
i now have windows 2000 (advanced server) on my system and would like to get it to dual boot with linux. the drive is ntfs formatted. any advice would be great. thanks in advance, haroon _ Do You Yahoo!?

[newbie] windows 2000 dual boot

2001-05-26 Thread Haroon A. Qureshi
hello, i just purchased mandrake 7.2 and wanted to configure my system to dual boot between windows 2000 and linux. when i installed linux, i lost my windows (i wasn't able to boot to it) and ended up rebuilding my system. i now have windows 2000 (advanced server) on my system and would like

RE: [newbie] windows 2000 dual boot

2001-05-26 Thread Haroon A. Qureshi
A. Qureshi Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] windows 2000 dual boot On Sat, 26 May 2001, Haroon A. Qureshi wrote: I have Mandrake 8.0 and Windows 2000 professional, and everything works just fine. How did you lost your Windows? I have never experienced this, but exactly the opposite - Linux

Re: [newbie] windows 2000 dual boot

2001-05-26 Thread Tanel
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Haroon A. Qureshi wrote: I have Mandrake 8.0 and Windows 2000 professional, and everything works just fine. How did you lost your Windows? I have never experienced this, but exactly the opposite - Linux won't boot up after installing Windows. i just purchased mandrake 7.2

Re: [newbie] Windows 2000 dualboot... doesn't boot!

2001-02-18 Thread David
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, you wrote: I had win2000 installed on one 40 gig disk divided in 2 partitions c and d. I emptied the d partition and proceeded with the madrake 7.2 installation. During partitionning I resized the d to 10 gigs and put the 3 new linux partitions in the new space. Linux

Re: [newbie] Windows 2000 dualboot... doesn't boot!

2001-02-18 Thread eryl
when i had a dual boot system grub used to mess the windoze boot loader every time i had to make any modification to grub eg a kernel update. i noticed the windows bit now showed some numbers in brackets that were not there before. while booted in linux i went to the grub config file in

Re: [newbie] Windows 2000

2001-01-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Wine might work for you, but I doubt it'll be stable enough to use. Win4Lin is meant to be good at this sort of thing - some even say that it's faster than running Windos natively! Unlike wine, however, it costs money :-(. Plex86 (an open source VMware) is still very much under development,

Re: [newbie] Windows 2000

2001-01-22 Thread Tim Holmes
You should also try running appz from the StarOffice suite. It should come installed *STANDARD* with Mandrake 7.2. But you should be able to create and open Office2000 files in StarOffice with very little problems. And there should be NO problems opening Office9x in StarOffice. If it did not

[newbie] Windows 2000

2001-01-21 Thread Blomquist, Niklas
All, I have installed MD 7.2 for a couple of days ago, and dam, I like it! But on my work do I need to run Office 2000. Is there any way to run Office 2000 under Linux (exept from VMWare)? Is there any Windows-emulator that works? /N -Ursprungligt meddelande- Frn: civileme

RE: [newbie] Windows 2000 Source Code

2000-03-13 Thread Tom Berger
Good one! Thanks! tom On 13-Mar-2000 Mike Perry wrote: I know this is off topic, but couldn't resist it :-) For SW engineers eyes only. Windows 2000 Source Code So the secret is disclosed here ... /* Source Code to Windows 2000 */ #include "win31.h" #include "win95.h"

Re: [newbie] Windows 2000 Source Code

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