Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access

2000-07-16 Thread Sean David McCurry-Nieto
Tom~ I've tried what you were saying and changed the bootGUI from 1 to 0. I also noticed that at the top it says UninstalDir=D. That is the drive that i am missing. could that have something to do with it? sean On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: I

Re: [Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access]

2000-07-15 Thread Jaguar
Why not hit "F8" just after your system finishes counting RAM, maybe even F8 a few times just in case you are faster than the computer, then choose COMMAND PROMPT ONLY, much easier than editing MSDOS.SYS and maybe screwing things up there. IMO Jaguar Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access

2000-07-09 Thread Charles A Edwards
y, July 08, 2000 3:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access Charles, For the D drive, I never created it. It came from the manufacturer with two partitions already on it. But D is FAT32. ANd yes, I was able to access the D windows partition before i installed Linux. Sean On

Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access

2000-07-09 Thread Harry Flaxman
Space or did you select the D drive and then Auto-Allocate? Charles - Original Message - From: "Sean David McCurry-Nieto" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 3:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access Charles,

Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access

2000-07-09 Thread Sean David McCurry-Nieto
- Original Message - From: "Sean David McCurry-Nieto" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 3:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access Charles, For the D drive, I never created it. It came from the manufacturer

Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access

2000-07-09 Thread Alan Shoemaker
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 3:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access Charles, For the D drive, I never created it. It came from the manufacturer with two partitions already on it. But D is FAT32. ANd yes, I was able to access the

Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access

2000-07-09 Thread Harry Flaxman
Alan, Thanks. I am able to reformat under Windows and copy files to it, but whenever linux is run, Windows loses it. It is strange. Like I say, it seems like a m$ bug of some sort. I have checked the partition and it is not hidden. Harry Alan Shoemaker wrote: Harryit sounds as if

Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access

2000-07-09 Thread Dana
] partition (drive) access Alan, Thanks. I am able to reformat under Windows and copy files to it, but whenever linux is run, Windows loses it. It is strange. Like I say, it seems like a m$ bug of some sort. I have checked the partition and it is not hidden.

Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access (Dana)

2000-07-09 Thread Charles A Edwards
but what it doesn't know won't hurt it. Charles - Original Message - From: "Dana" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake Linux Newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access Windows does not play well

Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access (Dana)

2000-07-09 Thread Harry Flaxman
AIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access Windows does not play well with others. It has to be installed first in a dual boot system. - Original Message - From: Harry Flaxman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access

2000-07-08 Thread Charles A Edwards
- From: "Sean David McCurry-Nieto" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 3:45 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access Charles, I was able to get PM. When I ran it though, i couyld see two files. There was a FAt which was labled as my C drive

Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access

2000-07-08 Thread Sean David McCurry-Nieto
David McCurry-Nieto" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 3:45 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access Charles, I was able to get PM. When I ran it though, i couyld see two files. There was a FAt which was labled as my C drive

Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access

2000-07-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote: I was wondering if someone could answer a technical question for me. Recently I installed Mandrake 7.1 on my personal computer. Mandrake will automaticaly mount your media for you, whether it's HDs, zips, cds, etc. I am using a dual boot system, windows

Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access

2000-07-07 Thread Sean David McCurry-Nieto
TECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access Charles, I don't have partition magic. I used the utility during the install to partition the disk. Might there be another way? I'll look for patition magic

[newbie] partition (drive) access

2000-07-06 Thread Sean David McCurry-Nieto
I was wondering if someone could answer a technical question for me. Recently I installed Mandrake 7.1 on my personal computer. Mandrake will automaticaly mount your media for you, whether it's HDs, zips, cds, etc. I am using a dual boot system, windows and then of course linux. On the

Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access

2000-07-06 Thread Sean David McCurry-Nieto
t: [newbie] partition (drive) access I was wondering if someone could answer a technical question for me. Recently I installed Mandrake 7.1 on my personal computer. Mandrake will automaticaly mount your media for you, whether it's HDs, zips, cds, etc. I am using a dual boot system, windows and then

Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access

2000-07-06 Thread Charles A Edwards
uly 05, 2000 6:51 PM Subject: [newbie] partition (drive) access I was wondering if someone could answer a technical question for me. Recently I installed Mandrake 7.1 on my personal computer. Mandrake will automaticaly mount your media for you, whether it's HDs, zips, cds, etc. I am

Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access

2000-07-06 Thread Sean David McCurry-Nieto
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access Charles, I don't have partition magic. I used the utility during the install to partition the disk. Might there be another way? I'll look for patition magic to download but i'm