Re: [newbie] Install error

2001-06-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 22 June 2001 07:31 pm, Michael Leone wrote: No. There's no permissions in Winblows, which is one reason it's so inherently insecureable. M$ uses those attributes (ie, hidden and Windows most certainly has file permissions. Or have you never looked at WinNT or Win2K? Check

Re: [newbie] Install error

2001-06-22 Thread Michael Leone
From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Install error On Thursday 21 June 2001 08:15 am, Randy Kramer wrote: One followup question: Must I restore those attributes for any (functional) reason after the defrag? (I mean, is there any reason something (in Windows

Re: [newbie] Install error

2001-06-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 20 June 2001 05:48 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: Charles (or anyone else), Noticed your post, thought you might be able to answer a few questions related to shrinking Windows partitions: 1. Sometimes when I defrag a Windows partition there are clusters that can't be moved in various

Re: [newbie] Install error

2001-06-21 Thread Randy Kramer
Tom, Wonderful! Thanks! One followup question: Must I restore those attributes for any (functional) reason after the defrag? (I mean, is there any reason something (in Windows) would not work because the attributes have been changed?) Thanks, Randy Kramer Tom Brinkman wrote: Boot to

Re: [newbie] Install error

2001-06-21 Thread Randy Kramer
Thomas, Thanks very much! I made one correction (which I think matches your intent) so that anybody else reading this is not confused. I think you meant: attrib +r +s -r c:\*.sys Hmm, and I'm not sure why the +r ... -r -- guess I'll learn when I try it. (If I'm confused, correct me!)

Re: [newbie] Install error

2001-06-21 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 21 June 2001 08:15 am, Randy Kramer wrote: One followup question: Must I restore those attributes for any (functional) reason after the defrag? (I mean, is there any reason something (in Windows) would not work because the attributes have been changed?) No. There's no

RE: [newbie] Install error

2001-06-20 Thread Charles A Edwards
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gary Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Install error Hope you don`t mind - Ive just bought this distro and got as far as the file system part of

Re: [newbie] Install error

2001-06-20 Thread Paul
It was Wed, 20 Jun 2001 21:01:31 +0100 when Gary wrote: I don't mind. What are you installing? Linux 4 Windows? Hope you don`t mind - Ive just bought this distro and got as far as the file system part of install when: windows partition is too fragmented, please run defrag first at

Re: [newbie] Install error

2001-06-20 Thread John Rye
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:48:51 -0400 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy, Those 'can't be moved' clusters always gave me trouble when I attempted skrinking. For the past few Linux installs where dual-booting was going to be used, I found it a better option to remove and reinstall

Re: [newbie] Install error

2001-06-20 Thread Randy Kramer
Charles (or anyone else), Noticed your post, thought you might be able to answer a few questions related to shrinking Windows partitions: 1. Sometimes when I defrag a Windows partition there are clusters that can't be moved in various locations throughout the partition -- can resize move those

Re: [newbie] Install error

2001-06-20 Thread Ed Tharp
]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Install error On Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:48:51 -0400 Randy Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy, Those 'can't be moved' clusters always gave me trouble when I attempted skrinking. For the past few Linux installs