Re: [newbie] partitions

2002-01-19 Per discussione radsky
You're right about a messy defrag with this option on. What I do is run Defrag in Safe Mode and leave the checks in place. But, before defragging, I run Scan Disk and then right after defragging, I run Scan Disk again. (the old BELT and SUSPENDERS philosophy). Then, I use Partition

Re: [newbie] No sound for window/system events (Gnome/Sawfish/LM8.1)

2002-01-18 Per discussione radsky
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Re: [newbie] partitions

2002-01-18 Per discussione radsky
Do you mean deselect: Rearrange program files so my programs start faster ? My defragger doesn't have anything about optimizing performance On 19 Jan 2002 at 14:17, Brian Parish wrote: One other note to this - yes, run the defragger, but ensure you have deselected the option to place

[newbie] Backup????

2001-02-10 Per discussione radsky
We see many recommendations to do a backup before getting into potential trouble. Easy recommendation to make and the wisdom of doing a regular or specific backup is obvious. It'd be interesting to see the different ways a backup is made. I searched the net and a tape backup seems to be the

[newbie] Boot disks only

2001-02-08 Per discussione radsky
I don't know if I'm in the right forum for this I'm trying to install a variety of Linux systems onto a 30 GB HD which is in Primary Slave position. I may be wrong on this but there seems to be no option to NOT install a booter during a Linux installation. Each Linux installs its own

[newbie] Re: Boot disks only

2001-02-08 Per discussione radsky
Thanks for the advice on eliminating LILO (or GRUB) I've been installing various Linux distributions the easiest way, ie., 'recommended' because it never dawned on me that there may be some way to block the boot menus in the 'expert' or 'custom' installations. This seems to best way,