Linux-Misc Digest #892, Volume #25 Thu, 28 Sep 00 18:13:03 EDT
Contents:
laTex/TeX or groff for documents? (S.Brautaset)
Re: New HD question (Flint Slacker)
Re: Get the Red Hat 7.0 iso's here (Scott Alfter)
syslog troubles ("Ron Bookman")
Re: laTex/TeX or groff for documents? (Grant Edwards)
Re: Redhat Download ("Michael J. Johnston")
Re: Partitioning..... (Ignacio Vidal)
Re: laTex/TeX or groff for documents? (Ignacio Vidal)
NEWBIE: exploring Linux + win/lin modem ("Emil Vatai")
RIGHT NOW!!! anyone reading this, how long till I get my answer ("Emil Vatai")
wavelan + intel pro 100 nic configuration question (should be an easy one) ("Matt
Baker")
Re: ATI Xpert (Rage 128, AGP) - RedHat 7 (Vic Gedris)
Re: ATI Xpert (Rage 128, AGP) - RedHat 7 (Vic Gedris)
Re: Linux driver for Voodoo 5??? (Kris Kundert)
Re: New HD question (ray)
Disabling directory browsing/listings in Apache (Richard R. Kaufman)
Re: boot from lan (Uncle Meat)
Re: laTex/TeX or groff for documents? (Floyd Davidson)
Re: HELP! - Corel Linux install ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Li..... (Colin Mackinlay)
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Subject: laTex/TeX or groff for documents?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (S.Brautaset)
Date: 29 Sep 2000 04:09:23 +0100
Hope I'm not starting a flame-war here, but wich would be the prefered tool for
writing short reports and essays? (The kind you hand in at universities.) I
know that both can be used for typesetting whole books, but how is the learning
curve for the both of them? And, I use emacs; TeX is best supported here, isn't
it?
Sincerely, Stig
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Flint Slacker)
Subject: Re: New HD question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 19:28:32 GMT
Why not just add this as a new device complimenting the current one?
Then copy some files off the current drive to free some space up. Job
done, no rebuilding, no headaches.
Flint
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:11:10 -0700, "Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I'm running out of space on my drive, and I want to *add* a new one (I have
>an extra). I don't want to copy the whole system over, just part of it.
>I'm running Mandrake 7.0, with everything on one big partition. Which
>directories should I copy over? Do I need to change any settings after
>copying them over, or will the system take care of that? Also, since now
>would be a good time to create new partitions, are there any suggestions for
>good setups? I'm thinking I could have all the system files on the original
>drive, with the rest on the new one.
>
>BTW, I've read the new hard drive howtos. Call me stupid if you want, but I
>need further assistance.
>
>Matt O.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Get the Red Hat 7.0 iso's here
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 19:32:09 -0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Robert Lewis wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:23:11 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod
>> Smith) wrote:
>> >I even got respectable download
>> > speeds (~60MB/s on my 608/128 DSL connection).
>>
>> I really doubt you got ~60 MB/s on a DSL connection.
>
>Why?
Because 60 MB/s is nearly half of the bandwidth of a Gigabit Ethernet
connection. DSL and cable-modem connections are good for only a bare
fraction of that (~50 kB/s incoming on the 512/128-kbps cable-modem
connection I use, for instance).
_/_
/ v \
(IIGS( Scott Alfter (remove Voyager's hull number for email address)
\_^_/ http://salfter.dyndns.org
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From: "Ron Bookman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: syslog troubles
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:39:51 -0500
I've made a couple of modifications to my default /etc/syslog.conf file and
if I restart syslogd manually or reboot the machine, the changes take
effect. However, every week when the system does its log rotation and
restarts syslogd itself, logging behavior reverts to default. I've looked at
and read everything I can think of, but I'm missing something somewhere. (It
wouldn't be the first time!) I'm running a Red Hat 6.1 system.
Thanks,
Ron Bookman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: laTex/TeX or groff for documents?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 19:57:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, S.Brautaset wrote:
>Hope I'm not starting a flame-war here, but wich would be the
>prefered tool for writing short reports and essays? (The kind
>you hand in at universities.) I know that both can be used for
>typesetting whole books, but how is the learning curve for the
>both of them? And, I use emacs; TeX is best supported here,
>isn't it?
Personally, I find LaTeX much easier to use than groff, and
it's the preferred format in most scientific fields.
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! Actually, what
at I'd like is a little toy
visi.com spaceship!!
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From: "Michael J. Johnston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat Download
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:56:06 -0600
It's not just today. A month ago I tried downloading Redhat 6.2 and I was
having the exact same effect... And no, I can't wait a few days...
"Andreas K�h�ri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <8qvsuh$p5v$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Michael J. Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Does any know of a fast Redhat download mirror? Every single site in
that
> >is listed with Redhat seems extremely slow. I have a T3 connection and
am
> >looking for a much faster way to download the new Redhat 7. Thanks!
> >
> >Mike
> >
> >
>
>
> If anyone posts a mirror site here, it will too be extremely slow
> witin a short period of time. Can't you guys wait for a couple of
> days?
>
> /A
>
> --
> Andreas K�h�ri, <URL:http://hello.to/andkaha/>. Junk mail, no.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> What part of "GNU" did you not understand? <URL:http://www.gnu.org/>
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From: Ignacio Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partitioning.....
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:05:27 -0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >No, all space on my drive is set in a dha partition, for windows.
>
> You'll need to shrink that partition to provide free non-partitioned
> space to install Linux on.
>
Maybe its dangerous... before it: how much free space can you get in
your M$ partition of the disk?
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From: Ignacio Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: laTex/TeX or groff for documents?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:17:19 -0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I�ve used LaTex with good results.
"S.Brautaset" wrote:
>
> Hope I'm not starting a flame-war here, but wich would be the prefered tool for
> writing short reports and essays? (The kind you hand in at universities.) I
> know that both can be used for typesetting whole books, but how is the learning
> curve for the both of them? And, I use emacs; TeX is best supported here, isn't
> it?
>
> Sincerely, Stig
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From: "Emil Vatai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NEWBIE: exploring Linux + win/lin modem
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:57:32 +0200
1st the Modem: Lucent Win Modem (says Win98), LT modem (says Win2K), Genius
GM56PCI-L 56Kmodem (says it's box)?
The prob is half fixed: I've got REDHAT 6.0 (I don't know its kernel #) but
I got a driver for "lucent chipset"? (I think) and it need's 2.2.12-20
(which is higher than linux RH 6.0's). I don't know if the modem driver will
work for me and getting a kernel is new for me (shoul I be afraid? or is it
no biggy?).
The last part carries me to the next topic...
I'm relatively new to linux. I've been reading about it, understood most of
it, and I'm cool whit it. But since I haven't found anything yet (I hope)
that I can do on Linux what I can't do on Win, I'm still pretty much Windows
based (don't hate me for it I'm just 17). To tell you the truth I still find
windows 2000 better (but I say that I hope that will change in time). btw I
this is my first contact whit other Linux users.
My aproach to Linux, is it good?
I don't have any, I'm useing it beside win98 and win2k, I made an acount for
my selfe, but I find it anoying that when ever I wana do something I have to
'su', I find X window a bit slower than MSwindows, and I'm thinking that
maybe I should look at it more as a server and less as win95 workstation.
Internet?
Since I have a winmodem I don't connect Linux and the Internet too much
(I've downloaded the Xfree86 Server for my Voodoo3 once, and the lucent
modem driver, that's all). But at the same time it's absolutly no problem to
get a pirat CD and theire really cheap and not illegal (that is, no one
cares! cute). So I've bought RH 5.2, and RH6.0... can I keep it up
continueing like that?
I think that's about it, tell me what to do first - I think I know the
basics.
Thanx, Emil Vatai
(from Yugoslavia)
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From: "Emil Vatai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RIGHT NOW!!! anyone reading this, how long till I get my answer
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:08:29 +0200
should I hang up or keep the conection! ('cause I just posted a msg)
btw I'm listening to "Should I saty or sould I go" from the Clash :)
Guess that got me inspired sorry to bother.
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From: "Matt Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: wavelan + intel pro 100 nic configuration question (should be an easy one)
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:14:47 -0400
Hi, I have a compaq presario which came with an intel pro 100 network card
on the motherboard. I also have a wavelan pc card. I am a little new to
linux so I got one of my friends to make linux work on the network with the
wave lan. My boss went on a business trip and decided to borrow my wavelan
so now I need to use my built in intel prov100 nic instead.
The problem is that although I went into linuxconf and changed the driver
for eth0 to eepro100 (the intel pro 100 one), it still won't start the
network. I remember when they were setting up my wavelan that they bypassed
all the graphical configuration stuff and started editing network
configuration files. What I need is the name and location of those files
and what changes should be made them.
Thanks alot for your help..
matt
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From: Vic Gedris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Xpert (Rage 128, AGP) - RedHat 7
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:59:18 -0400
Brian wrote:
>
> I just installed RedHat 7... Much to my surprise my ATI Xpert (Rage 128,
> AGP) would not work properly. RedHat detected the card, but when I went to
> test it, it failed every time, under every resolution. Is this a problem
> with XFree86 4.01, which is used by RedHat 7? If so, is there any way to
> fix this? By the way, also RedHat could not start up it's graphical
> installer on my system, so it defulted to the old menu based one...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks for any help! =)
>
> - Brian -
>
> (P.S. please send copies of responses to my email as well as the newsgroup.
> Thanks. [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
Brian,
I'm using an ATI Xpert2000 Rage 128 AGP (32MB) and it works flawlessly
(so far) under Redhat 7.0. I was also able to use the graphical
installer.
I'm not sure what the problem on your end is....
Cheers,
Vic
(remove "microsoft" from my email address to email back)
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From: Vic Gedris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Xpert (Rage 128, AGP) - RedHat 7
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:00:14 -0400
Brian wrote:
>
> I just installed RedHat 7... Much to my surprise my ATI Xpert (Rage 128,
> AGP) would not work properly. RedHat detected the card, but when I went to
> test it, it failed every time, under every resolution. Is this a problem
> with XFree86 4.01, which is used by RedHat 7? If so, is there any way to
> fix this? By the way, also RedHat could not start up it's graphical
> installer on my system, so it defulted to the old menu based one...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks for any help! =)
>
> - Brian -
>
> (P.S. please send copies of responses to my email as well as the newsgroup.
> Thanks. [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
Brian,
I'm using an ATI Xpert2000 Rage 128 AGP (32MB) and it works flawlessly
(so far) under Redhat 7.0. I was also able to use the graphical
installer.
I'm not sure what the problem on your end is....
Cheers,
Vic
(remove "NO SPAM" from my email address to email back)
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From: Kris Kundert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,linux.help,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux driver for Voodoo 5???
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:40:39 -0600
Brandon Hoppe wrote:
> Is there a driver for Voodoo 5 or what driver will work?
>
> Thanx
> Brandon
Go to linux.3dfx.com
I have never tried them since i dont have the card but i presume they
will work.
Kris K
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From: ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New HD question
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:26:19 GMT
Leejay Wu wrote:
> Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.misc: 28-Sep-100 New HD question by
> "Matt O'Toole"@deltanet.
> > I'm running out of space on my drive, and I want to *add* a
> > new one (I have an extra). I don't want to copy the whole system
> > over, just part of it. I'm running Mandrake 7.0, with everything
>
> (N.B. -- I've never used Mandrake. They may have spiffy tools
> for automating this sort of task, for all I know.)
>
> > on one big partition. Which directories should I copy over? Do
>
> Well, what takes space?
>
> First, some directories that you generally should not move...
>
> /bin (often-important programs, like mount...)
> /dev (no "real" files there, anyway)
> /etc (configuration files)
> /lib (important libraries, often needed for /bin, /sbin tools)
> /lost+found (a place to store chunks if ext2 gets hosed)
> /proc (system interface, again no "real" files)
> /root (if it exists, it's normally root's home dir)
> /sbin (nominally for system binaries)
>
> Most other dirs should be fair game. In particular...
> /home (regular user's home dirs)
> /opt (used by certain OPTional packages)
> /usr (shouldn't contain critical packages)
> /usr/local (often used for packages not included w/ a distro)
> /var (often for spooling and other temp files)
>
> /home is probably a particularly good candidate for a multi-user
> system, if you can estimate total needs, as doing so may make it
> easier to back up, restore, or preserve when upgrading, and it
> also makes it a little less likely that a user can fill up
> important partitions and bring everything to a halt...
>
> /opt may be good if you have meaty packages their like StarOffice.
>
> And so forth. See the Partitioning HOWTO for ideas. Since it's
> an existing install, you probably have some idea by now of how
> much space you'll need for each, so you're a lot less likely to
> find out that you underestimated and need to grow a partition...
>
> Moving a directory to a new partition could be done as --
>
> [ This is from memory, so if somebody points out an error,
> listen to them -- I'm not copying from a HOWTO or other
> manual here. ]
>
> 0. I hope you have a full, recent backup. Nothing should
> go wrong, but it never hurts to prepare...
> 1. Reboot into single-user mode, if you want to be really
> careful. You really don't need hordes of daemons running
> around trying to access the files you want to move.
> 2. fdisk the new disk. Create partitions and set their types.
> Usually something like '/sbin/fdisk /dev/hdb', some
> invocations of 'n' to create new partitions, and 't' to
> set their types to 83 (Linux native), followed by 'w'
> to write/exit.
>
> Substitute the appropriate device, of course; /dev/hdb is
> only for the primary slave of the first IDE controller.
> 3. Make new filesystems, using /sbin/mke2fs, such as
> /sbin/mke2fs /dev/hdb1 (for the first partition on
> the aforementioned device). You don't really need to
> use any options, but -c (check for bad blocks) is probably
> not a bad idea on a new drive.
> 4. Mount them, such as
> mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/tmp
>
> (if you have an empty directory prepared such as /mnt/tmp)
>
> Likewise, mount the dirs to move, like
>
> mount /usr/local
> 5. Copy the contents, such as
> cp -a /usr/local /mnt/tmp
>
> (-a to preserve the structure as much as possible).
> 6. For safety reasons, we don't have to delete the old directory
> until we're sure that the new one works, so we can do something
> like
>
> mv /usr/local /usr/local-backup
>
> and prepare to undo this if necessary.
> 7. Tell the system where the directory now is.
> If this were a top-level like /usr, this would definitely
> look something like
>
> /dev/hdb1 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
>
> and /usr should just be a placeholder directory (mkdir /usr).
>
> For something like /usr/local, if /usr were already another
> filesystem in its own right, we might do something like
>
> mkdir /usr1
> ln -s /usr1 /usr/local (/usr has to be mounted to do this, 'natch)
>
> and add
>
> /dev/hdb1 /usr1 ext2 defaults 1 2
>
> to /etc/fstab, which means that even if /usr isn't
> mounted, we can mount /usr1. And if /usr and /usr1 are
> both mounted, /usr/local will point to /usr1 which will
> contain those files. This approach works. I've not
> tried using just /usr/local in /etc/fstab when /usr
> was also a separate fs; it might work as well.
>
> /etc/fstab is used by mount (often a 'mount -a' is
> done when booting, to mount the non-removable filesystems),
> so that's why we need to update this. See the fstab
> man page for semantics.
>
> 8. Reboot; /sbin/shutdown -r now.
> 9. Start normally. Try X. Try the things you normally do
> that use the partitions created. If absolutely nothing
> breaks and you believe it really worked, *now* you can
> "rm -rf /usr/local-backup". If not, umount the bad
> /usr/local and rename the backup to its original name,
> and try to diagnose the problem...
>
> > I need to change any settings after copying them over, or will
> > the system take care of that? Also, since now would be a good
>
> If you do it the manual way above, the fstab bit and any
> symlink / mount point changes need to be done as well. MDK
> might have a spiffy tool for this, but like I said, I wouldn't
> know.
>
> > time to create new partitions, are there any suggestions for good
> > setups? I'm thinking I could have all the system files on the
> > original drive, with the rest on the new one.
>
> See the Partition HOWTO for some suggestions. Yes, your system
> files should likely stay there...
>
> Keeping data and your own tools on the new drive particularly
> makes sense if it's a spiffy one that you might want to bring
> with you into another computer some day, as well.
>
> > BTW, I've read the new hard drive howtos. Call me stupid if you
> > want, but I need further assistance.
>
> HTH. HAND.
> --
> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the silly student |
> |--------------------------| he writes really bad haiku |
> | #include <stddiscl.h> | readers all go mad |
>
>
Well, I have nothing to add to that, I think it's going to work fine.
What i DO have to add is this:
The new 2.4.X kernels, completely stable for me, have LVM features. This
eliminates forever the need to guess about your space requirements. Make up
some partitions, and you can make virtual drives from them on the fly, add
and subtract space as your needs change. Go to Google and type linux
LVM for the full story and the software you will need. I have, maybe, 4
months experience with this, not a glitch of any kind, so far.
Good LUCK!
--
Ray R. Jones
Errors have been made. Others will be blamed.
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From: Richard R. Kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Disabling directory browsing/listings in Apache
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:30:07 -0000
Hi,
I am interested in disabling people who visit my website from browsing my
directories by going to http://my.server.com/myuser/folder and being able
to view the contents of the folder if there is no default document in it.
Can someone tell me what modification I have to make to apache's
configuration to disable this? Thanks in advance for any help.
Richard R. Kaufman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Uncle Meat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boot from lan
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 04:21:34 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Olivier Thibault
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I got a problem with net booting.
> I have a RH 6.2 installed on a computer, and it works fine.
> But i want my computer to boot on the network.
> So i put a 3com nic with a flash rom, configure a bootp and tftp
> server
> and made a boot image (with the netboot package).
> The computer loads the image properly and loads the kernel, but i have
> a
> message during the boot process :
>
> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= options to kernel.
>
> Can anybody explain me this message and help me ?
Can't explain the "why" but, it appears that the "what" is it
doesn't know what runlevel to boot into (man init) and it
may possibly be missing in /etc/inittab. Try, at the
commandline for booting, typing:
linux init=3
If that works, you need to fix /etc/inittab to get you into
the console or graphic login.
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: laTex/TeX or groff for documents?
Date: 28 Sep 2000 13:05:20 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (S.Brautaset) wrote:
>Hope I'm not starting a flame-war here, but wich would be the
>prefered tool for writing short reports and essays? (The kind
>you hand in at universities.) I know that both can be used for
>typesetting whole books, but how is the learning curve for the
>both of them? And, I use emacs; TeX is best supported here,
>isn't it?
>
>Sincerely, Stig
Almost without exception you will find that LaTeX will be
prefered.
There are exceptions... I would use TeX myself. Someone who
for whatever reason spends more time with groff than with
(La)TeX might prefer that too.
But if you are going to learn one of them, for most people LaTeX
is easier than TeX, and either one is far preferable to groff.
If you are like I am and do not like the extra layer of
abstraction which is provided by LaTeX, then maybe plain TeX is
worth learning.
--
Floyd L. Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HELP! - Corel Linux install
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:51:38 GMT
In article <8qvlu2$4bb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Glen Stromquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tried the mount -tvfat /dev/hdb /home/win98, but still get an error.
> I don't think the disk is physically damaged because Norton showed it
> as ok, other than the boot sector. I'll try the other commands you
> suggested and see what happens. When I ran fdisk then ran the l
command
> on it the disk showed 1 big partition I think, there was a partition
on
> hdb1 that I deleted with linux fdisk, prbably shouldn't have done that
> huh? I was going to delete the other linux partition using linux fdisk
> but thought I may lose all my data, (if I already hadn't by then).
> Interestingly, dos fdisk shows one big primary, active partition on
the
> disk when I run it to show partition info.
>
> I downloaded the demo version of Ontracks easyrecovery program and ran
> it just to look at the disk, it shows the drive as having one
> big "unknown" filesystem partition, and finds about 28 files and 19
> empty directories, so I dont know if that means the other files are
> toast or it just cant see them.
>
> I am debating on whether or not to remove the linux partition using
> linux fdisk, but wouldn't that destroy the data for sure?
>
> Even after all of this I am not soured on linux, (I'm familiar with
and
> work with AIX), but I will be VERY carefull next time I install it on
> its own disk, in fact I will remove the win(lose) disk completely
> before doing this and use a boot utility instead of an os dual boot
> method. And I don't think Corel will be my choice!, although what I
did
> see I liked, to be perfectly honest about it.
>
is it possible that there is some kind of bootsector virus blocking
access to the disk?
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From: Colin Mackinlay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Li.....
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:28:14 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric
<URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Colin Mackinlay wrote:
> >
> > > Just boot from DOS diskette and run: fdisk /mbr
> > I have the same problem when I moved my hd from a secondary in a 686
> > dual (with w98) system to the primary of a linux only system. I deleted
> > all partitions and did a fresh install of linux but got the same Li and
> > then a freeze. I currently boot with a floppy but would like to fix it.
> >
> > fdisk/mbr gets rid of the MBR ok booting gices a missing operating sytem
> > error. How can I get Lilo re-installed. I've tried using linuxconf but
> > it just puts back the Li freezing problem!
> >
> > --
> > Colin Mackinlay
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> rerun fdisk /mbr AND make sure the win98 partition is set as the only
> active
> partition.
Sorry, I didn't make myself clear! There never was w98 on this disk. It
was the linux dedicated HD of my dual system. Now it is he linux
dedicated disc of my linux only system.
Colin
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Colin Mackinlay
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