USB CD burner

Hi, I have an external CD-RW attached to my laptop. When I use it with the PCMCIA card interface it is recognized as an external CD. Can be mounted and burned to using SCSI emulation. Well, since I was gettting lots of coasters I decided to try out the USB interface of the same CDRW. I see

RH8.0 very unstable

I think that is my verdict on Red Hat 8.0. Not only that in trying to install GRUB (and getting it right) it screwed up my WinXP installation (I lost valuable data). I freezes quite often. And when it freezes I can only move the mouse but can't focus on anything to perform anything useful.

Help Boot got screwed!

I am in desperate need of serious help. As I mentioned I have been trying to get my system to boot as it did. Well, things haven't worked out they way I expected. 1) Having followed the advice of commands to do in the grub prompt (when booted from the grub floppy), it now seems (actually it IS

More boot problems (complete details 4 help)

In follow up to the previous email, my system still doesn't boot windows. So this is what I did now and the current situation: a) My system a) I modified a lilo.conf locally to install LILO on the MBR: boot=/dev/hda5 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message

Booting problems (continued, full details 4 help)

OK, it still doesn't boot windows so this is the situation: I. My system /dev/hda3 WinXP active partition /dev/hda5 /boot /dev/hda8 / II. Both GRUB and LILO are installed on the sytem. 2.1 This is the GRUB.CONF file in /boot/grub/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that

Re: Help boot got screwed

Yes, I have checked my grub.conf and see both OS entries there. The problem there is that when I select the WinXP entry at boot, instead of booting XP it simply shows the Grub screen again. The lilo.conf I posted had the omission, the one I actually used did have boot=/dev/hda so it would install

Re: boot got screwed II

Well it seems this time it was a big screw up since nobody has been able to provide a good answer :(. I took some time away today and analysed away from my dead laptop and came to the following conclusions: a) The MBR is ok, LILO is there and I see its prompt when I boot from the hard disk.

Boot Loader in RH8.0

I. Previous condition (Red Hat 7.2) The bootloader configuration contained an entry for an old kernel, one for the current kernel, and yet another for WinXP. Booting was done primarily with the WinXP boot loader. There I selected Red Hat Linux, then I got the graphical LINUX boot screen where

Procmail not working anymore?

I discovered something funny with the mail delivery agents. At first I did not realize the mail config was now in /etc/mail. Once I realized that I was able to modify the .mc file to make it suitable for UUCP (still uses SMTP and PROCMAIL as well) as it has always been on my system. So now I

Grub installation

I am going to eliminate LILO and try GRUB by installing it using the /sbin/redhat-grub-something command once I install the RPM. But I have a nagging doubt as to how to do it... I suppose once I have GRUB I can safely eliminate LILO, right? My system has a root partition '/' in /dev/hda8