On Friday 20 September 2002 08:09 pm, you wrote:
Many people suggested a FAT32 common area to read/write files between
Linux and WindowsXP but I can't do that here. The Windows disk that came
with my machine will only install using NTFS and it takes the entire 40g
hard drive for itself
I have a fairly new install of Mandrake 8.2. If (when) I decide to upgrade to
9.0 what should I or can I save? Is it easier to start from scratch or can I
save what is in my /home directory? I'm just not sure if eveything in /home
would be compatible with whatever would be installed during an
OK I'm stumped. I've been having a grand time playing with Mandrake 8.2 and
I've got many things configured to my liking. Then I did this
Right click on panel
Add
Applet
Runaway Process Catcher
I now have a smiley on my panel that frowns from time to time. How do I get
rid of him? I can't
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 09:37 pm, you wrote:
I prefer to find everything on the entire install that I want to keep,
including home, any config stuff and whatever else.. and put the lot in its
own directory... (say /backup)
Then tar that directory up...:
tar -zcvvf backup.tar.gz
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 09:19 pm, you wrote:
I now have a smiley on my panel that frowns from time to time. How do
I get rid of him? I can't find anything in the help files or menus to
make him go away. TIA...
Keep left or right? clicking on the left side of the little panel the
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 10:20 pm, you wrote:
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /windows
Mandrake puts mount points in /mnt, so it may be /mnt/windows. I use
/mnt/winnt.
/dev/hda is the disk, /dev/hda1 is a partition. you want to mount a
partition.
BTW, it WILL be
I'm new to Mandrake and fairly new to Linux (ran Slackware for a few months
back around 3.5-4.0 on a P166)
Now I have a new machine, 1.3g celeron, 384m RAM and two 40g hard drives. I
have been installing and toying with many distros but Mandrake is the first
that has my interest for more than
