Re: convert primary partition into logical

2004-04-22 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 05:38:10PM +1200, Michael JasonSmith wrote: Can someone remind me: * There is a limit on the number of primary partitions, but not on the number of logical partitions, yes? Correct. The limit is 4 primary partitions per disk. The number of logical

Re: Modem compiles, no action

2004-04-22 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Thursday 22 April 2004 16:58, Douglas Royds wrote: The winmodem driver is by Smart Link, www.smlink.com. The readme file said that the installation would: - create character tty device entry '/dev/ttySL0' with major number 212 and symbolic link 'dev/modem'. - config you

Re: Modem compiles, no action

2004-04-22 Thread Chad
If your not logged in as su or root do so. As thats the usual reason you can access lsmod. chad Douglas Royds wrote: The winmodem driver is by Smart Link, www.smlink.com. The readme file said that the installation would: - create character tty device entry '/dev/ttySL0' with major

mepis - was convert primary partition into logical

2004-04-22 Thread greg mckenzie
Coincidence? - I looked at that the day before yesterday but can't seem to find where to download it. Did you manage to find a link somewhere? Paul William wrote: *very* interesting article but I want to install mepis :( greg mckenzie wrote: Hi Paul Yesterday I was reading the article for

LAN between Win laptop and linux box...

2004-04-22 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi CLUG team! I've just installed Win2000 Pro on my old laptop and bought a 10/100 NIC PCMCIA/Cardbus LAN adaptor for the laptop, so I can connect to my linux box for file transfers etc... I've used Mandrake to activate the LAN on my box, and the Network/Internet config says its a via-rhine

Re: mepis - was convert primary partition into logical

2004-04-22 Thread Paul William
I got given a set from osdisc.com . greg mckenzie wrote: Coincidence? - I looked at that the day before yesterday but can't seem to find where to download it. Did you manage to find a link somewhere? Paul William wrote: *very* interesting article but I want to install mepis :( greg mckenzie

Re: LAN between Win laptop and linux box...

2004-04-22 Thread Robert Fisher
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 19:17, Chris Wilkinson wrote: How do I actually get it to talk to the Win2k end? I'd like to be able to mount either end in a file manager at either end, and seamlessly transfer files like they are in a directory based locally... On Windows simply share the folders you

Re: Random computer parts

2004-04-22 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
I have some random computer parts just sitting around and i want to get rid of them. 1 2.5G hard disk drive$15 I'll have that if it's still going (and assuming it works) Thanks Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in

Re: convert primary partition into logical

2004-04-22 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Friday 23 April 2004 10:32, Lance Blackler wrote: I did it yesterday - so yes it can. Mind you, the primary partion was the last one before the beginning of the extended - don't know how it handles it if it is not like that. The problem with all these tools which shuffle data around on the

OT - zip drive giveaway

2004-04-22 Thread Roger Searle
Hi list members, can't really think of any way to make this on topic... I have a zip drive and 33 disks that are surplus to our requirement - they haven't been used in some years and are of no value to us. Rather than throw them out I thought that someone here may be supporting a community group

RE: RE: convert primary partition into logical

2004-04-22 Thread David Taylor
Considering that it queues up all the operations, it would probably do a whole bunch of shuffling. I always get paranoid it will bomb out half way through. Backup backup I was creating a 4 gig fat32 on the laptop, and during the resizing of the primary ntfs, it crashed with an error. I had

RE: OT - zip drive giveaway

2004-04-22 Thread Roger Searle
Zip drive and disks has found a new home. Regards Roger -Original Message- From: Roger Searle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 April 2004 1:37 p.m. To: CLUG (E-mail) Subject: OT - zip drive giveaway Hi list members, can't really think of any way to make this on topic... I have a

West Coast Queenstown Trip Report

2004-04-22 Thread Don Gould
Hi All, I now have 2 Linux boxes installed and a very interested client. I'm going to document the sites as reference sites and look at writing up some case study stuff. The West Coast site ended up being wifi'ed as well. Both locations have retail shops. West Coast also has a manufacturing

Re: LAN between Win laptop and linux box...

2004-04-22 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi there, Robert Fisher wrote: On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:43, you wrote: I'm curious...should I just have to enable sharing with Win2k, enable a share or two with Samba Configuration, and chuck a cat 5 between the 2 machines? If so it hasn't worked! :-) I am worried that I might be aiming at too

Re: LAN between Win laptop and linux box...

2004-04-22 Thread Chris Noel
Hey Chris, look in /etc/conf.d for the file net, open it up and replace the lines as follows replace iface_eth0 blah blah with iface_eth0=192.168.1.2 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 replace gateway blah blah with gateway=eth0/192.168.1.1 do the same with your other machine

Re: LAN between Win laptop and linux box...

2004-04-22 Thread Chris Wilkinson
Hi there, Chris Noel wrote: Hey Chris, snip voila all done and yay etc I know how in Windows, but not Linux. Windows makes that quite easy for me, but Linux is baffling, since ethernet and smb HOWTO's seem to assume this is passe... Excellent advice dude! I shall report back with progress...

Re: LAN between Win laptop and linux box...

2004-04-22 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Friday 23 April 2004 17:10, Chris Wilkinson wrote: Hi there, Chris Noel wrote: Hey Chris, snip voila all done and yay etc I know how in Windows, but not Linux. Windows makes that quite easy for me, but Linux is baffling, since ethernet and smb HOWTO's seem to assume this is

Re: West Coast Queenstown Trip Report

2004-04-22 Thread nick
Hi All, I now have 2 Linux boxes installed and a very interested client. I'm going to document the sites as reference sites and look at writing up some case study stuff. The West Coast site ended up being wifi'ed as well. Both locations have retail shops. West Coast also has a

Re: Modem compiles, no action

2004-04-22 Thread Douglas Royds
Thanks Christopher I'll try out your various suggestions. I was running minicom via sudo, i.e.: sudo minicom -s but I didn't really know what to do once I was in there. This is a laptop, so it's geographically located wherever I want! I live in Opawa and work at Tait (near the airport). Were

Re: Modem compiles, no action

2004-04-22 Thread InfoHelp
After 2 weeks of nil declared interest, the May hall booking was cancelled. Rebooking may be possible. Douglas Royds wrote: Thanks Christopher I'll try out your various suggestions. I was running minicom via sudo, i.e.: sudo minicom -s but I didn't really know what to do once I was in there.