Re: [SLUG] Linux Partition Resize

2003-09-01 Thread Steven O'Reilly
I have done this using gparted or partboot images on an ext2 system, although it was awhile ago. I think the package comes with floppy disk images. I did make the other OS partition the first one and formatted it before installation. Since it couldn't see the ext2 partition everything went OK and

Re: [SLUG] two intractable problems

2003-09-14 Thread Steven O'Reilly
>On the Toshiba Tecra 780 laptop, I can't get sound with any modern >distro. Not Debian, not Redhat 9, not SuSE 8.2. SuSE 7.3 does it, but Hi I got the sound working on my tecra 550cdt by following the instructions at http://www.physics.adelaide.edu.au/~jwoithe/toshiba-550CDT.html there are

Re: [SLUG] Help! Trying to restore MBR?

2003-12-04 Thread Steven O'Reilly
Micheal These are just guesses. Where is LILO on hda or hdb? Is it possible that your bios is pointing at harddisk1 (hdb in LILO)as the boot disk? otherwise it could be that the XP boot stuff is on partition hda1 rather than at the mbr of hda so it is not visible to the boot process. the follow

Re: [SLUG] Help! Trying to restore MBR?

2003-12-04 Thread Steven O'Reilly
Michael If you use the debian install cd it should act as a rescue boot disk, you DO need to select this option or it will wipe and reinstall your system. Once it does you can start linux and then just type 'lilo' or '/sbin/lilo' at the prompt and it should restore your previous config. you can

Re: [SLUG] gpilotd issues

2003-12-21 Thread Steven O'Reilly
Dave I haven't used this for months and I remember it was a nusiance. IIRC with my old palm I had to use the evolution menu item for pilot-link (?or sync)and change any option (then change it back) then this would start a deamon and it would sync when I pressed the cradle button. This was evoluti

Re: [SLUG] Re: Installing Nvidia card

2007-01-30 Thread Steven O'Reilly
Patrick When I did the same thing on an Intel board there was a BIOS option for whether the AGP or PCI should be the first/primary video device (the one that gets all the start up messages) there was also the option to disable the on-board video. If you have two monitors you will see which is w

[SLUG] Expanding partition

2002-02-28 Thread Steven O'Reilly
Hi I have what I hope is a simple problem. My laptop has 4 partitions (Red Hat, Debian, Win95 and swap) Since I'm running out of space I want to combine the two linux partions into one, but keep my debian installation which has all my e-mail etc and gets the most use. Is my only otion to leave

Re: [SLUG] Debian ate my partition table

2002-05-14 Thread Steven O'Reilly
Mikal Sorry I wrote it in a rush, I've checked and it was gnu parted and the image was called partboot.img its at http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ sorry if it messed you round Steven On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 07:11, Michael Still wrote: > On 14 May 2002, Steven O'

Re: [SLUG] winmodems & fedora 3

2005-01-20 Thread Steven O'Reilly
Phill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-20 22:37]: > Has anyone managed to get a lucent winmodem to operate correctly under > fedora 3? I am trying to use it to set a fax server under hylafax Hi Phill I have the lucent modem working in an old toshiba laptop running Debian, its worked for 4 or 5 years.

Re: [SLUG] SQL Brain teaser...

2005-06-01 Thread Steven O'Reilly
Grant I'm not sure that what you have is really a SQL syntax problem. It looks like an "Operations research queuing" problem. Googling on this should help - or confuse. hope this is relevant Steven O'Reilly On 6/1/05, Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[SLUG] ADSL connection advice

2005-06-07 Thread Steven O'Reilly
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Re: [SLUG] data recovery

2003-06-05 Thread Steven O'Reilly
> >> >> The questions I have are >> is this totaly fatal? and >> are there any open source tools that I could use to attempt to recover data? >> > >If this were me, I would be taking the drive out and connecting it up to a >PC with a big disk and then trying to mount the disk there. > >If that

[SLUG] data recovery

2003-06-04 Thread Steven O'Reilly
with. Thanks Steven O'Reilly -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] netscape

2001-06-06 Thread Steven o'reilly
sluggers I am using Netscape Communicator 4.72 with RH6.2 on a toshiba laptop. My only achievement is to get this working with the internal modem. My problem is that when I attempt to use the address book every netscape component exits. This is a pain. I have set up other user accounts and t

[SLUG] shrinking a partition

2001-07-03 Thread Steven O'Reilly
instaling GNU/linux, but what I read about fdisk and cfdisk seem to only allow deleting but not resizing. Is what I want to do possible and where do I look to find out how? Thanks Steven O'Reilly -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: