Linux-Setup Digest #111, Volume #19 Sat, 8 Jul 00 11:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Changing keymappings (Jordi Warmenhoven)
Re: configuration send-mail + fetch-mail (Alex Fitterling)
Startup files for modules (Samuel Irlapati)
Re: Help me to dual-boot my system!! ("Andrew E. Schulman")
how can I set my termial init dir? (Wesley Wong)
Re: what is .config of a default RH kernel ? ("Gene Heskett")
Corel Linux ("FIFIH")
Re: Startup files for modules (Michael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sch=F6ls?=)
Re: Starting from scratch on Alpha... (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: Booting windows from second drive (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: Still doesn't work... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help me to dual-boot my system!! (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: Linux Newbie: How to boot with Windows 98? (DeAnn Iwan)
compaq XE466 sound? Dlink DE220 driver? (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: fetchmail problems (Chiefy)
Re: Startup files. (Stan J Klimas)
Re: Can't install Win98 after I've installed Linux. Help. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: software development for linux: (Robie Basak)
Re: Where to do this? (Robie Basak)
Re: Lilo problems booting NTFS partition ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Large HD <=> FDISK (Jan Fischer)
Re: Slackware: trimming unwanted packages (Chiefy)
Re: Linux Newbie: How to boot with Windows 98? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Jordi Warmenhoven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Changing keymappings
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 12:32:20 +0200
Hi,
Can someone perhaps explain how to change the keyboard mappings in X11?
I browsed through the documentation on loadkeys, XF86Config and so on.
But it is not clear to me how I can easily switch from my standard US
keymapping to say a French one. Do I need to change the fonts as well? I
guess I am more or less looking for something similar to the MS Windows
way of adding an extra keyboard in Control Panel|Keyboard and switching
witch Alt+Shift.
Thanks,
Jordi
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Fitterling)
Subject: Re: configuration send-mail + fetch-mail
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 13:47:00 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's me again... ..who else could it be ?! ;))
changing the expression of OSTYPE in contents of the line below to
suse-linux instead of linux it worked !
>OSTYPE(`linux')dnl
Finally I helped my self.... but why ? Didn't sendmail just work only
because of this stupid mistake ??
Further all I did not mention that sendmail -q gave out a message saying that
OSTYPE is wrong .. hmm ?!? I got no glue... where else is OSTYPE set ?
Is there a need to be ?
Alex
P.S: Working opossite rule by discussing my own problems with myself...
(I tell you - it's fun...) hehe... but if everyone did the communication
level at all would be get rather poor in this group.... in addition pooring
its own reputation -
so my advice to you.. don't do it the same ! :))
- Thx
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From: Samuel Irlapati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Startup files for modules
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 07:57:12 -0400
I use redhat 6.2 with the kernel 2.4.0-test2.
I am trying to get my SyQuest sparq hard drive mounted at startup. After
startup I can use the following commands to mount the drive--
insmod paride
insmod epat
insmod pd
mount /dev/pda1 /mnt/SyQuest
I know for the mount command I can add an entry into the fstab file. But
what about the other three commands? what format and which file do they
go
in?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help me to dual-boot my system!!
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 08:28:01 -0400
> Hi linux Gurus,
>
> Iam new to linux. I have windoze and Caldera 2.4 in my system. everything
> was working properly till i did something. By mistake i executed
> /sbin/lilo.
> Now my computer does not give me options to boot windoze. I get caldera
> initial screen but the option for windows is gone . I did not do anything
> else. Please help!!
> The following is the listing of my /etc/lilo.conf file
>
> # target
> boot = /dev/hda
> install = /boot/boot.b
>
> #options
> prompt
> delay = 50
> timeout = 50
> message = /boot/message
>
> default = Linux
>
> other = /dev/hda1
> label = Windows
>
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-pc97-2.2.14-modular
> label = linux
> root = /dev/hda5
> vga = 274
> read-only
> append = "debug=2 noapic nosmp"
Hm, well, I don't know what your /boot/message says, but from this setup
it looks to me as though you should be able to type "windows" at the
"boot:" prompt, and start Windows. Have you tried it?
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From: Wesley Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how can I set my termial init dir?
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 12:30:14 GMT
Somehow I messed up my gnome panel so I copy all the .gnome* file from a
user to my dir (I am root) hoping to fix the problem. The problem is fixed,
but a new one existed. Now, every time I run the gnome-terminal, it start
from the user dir (rather than root even if I am logging in as root).
Anyone know how to fix it?
Wesley
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Date: 8 Jul 2000 8:32:1 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what is .config of a default RH kernel ?
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Hal Burgiss;
HB> On Sat, 8 Jul 2000 02:07:19 GMT, Vince Skahan
HB> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>I'm trying to add a patch (specifically 801.1Q VLANs)
>>to my RH-6.2 systems and want to just add that one
>>feature, keeping everything else the same as the binary
>>kernel that comes out of the box from RH.
>>
>>Is there anywhere that the .config that corresponds
>>to the RH-6.2 kernel is available so I can use that
>>as the default answers ?
HB> All the .configs are in the kernel*src.rpm (on the 2nd CD). They
HB> wind up in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES IIRC. This is not the same as
HB> kernel-source*rpm. Don't know for sure if they are in that one
HB> too or not.
That may be true, in which case whats the poor guy who downloads only
the iso of the first disk (on a 56k line yet) supposed to do? Frankly,
I've found that deleting or renaming the existing .configs, and running
make oldconfig isn't that reliable. As its typically 11- 12k, I see no
reason to make life difficult for the newbie by not including it in the
kernel sources when they have been installed.
The .configs, all 3 of them, should be present and accounted for in the
base install that includes the kernel source, name suffixes of each
being the extended name of the choice of kernel chosen. Like .config.SMP
etc.
Does anyone from RH actually read this newsgroup? If so, please fix
this for future releases. Surely you can find something to remove from
the iso thats essentially just duplicated effort in order to make room
for that approximatly 50k. It would be far more valuable to us, even if
we had to go dl that 50k once we had a working install.
Cheers, Gene
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From: "FIFIH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Corel Linux
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 15:01:12 +0200
J'ai un celeron 466 avec un disque dur de 14 giga que j'ai partitionn�:
-une partition primaire de 10 giga pour Win98se (d�j� install�)
-le restant pour linux
Apr�s l'installation, l'ordinateur reboot et m'indique syst�me
d'exploitation manquant.
Que dois-je faire (il ne me lance pas LILO)
KromX
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Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 15:19:05 +0200
From: Michael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sch=F6ls?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Startup files for modules
Hi,
i know of 2 possebilitys for you
1. put the commands in your rc.local -File, normally locate at /etc/rc.d/
2. Modules are loaded at boottime from /etc/conf.modules or
/etc/modules.conf (only one should exist!)
add apropriate entries there like "alias foobar paride" and so on. Replace
foobar with an corresponding name. Try 'man conf.modules' for more help on
the syntax of that file.
hope this helps
Michael
Samuel Irlapati wrote:
> I use redhat 6.2 with the kernel 2.4.0-test2.
> I am trying to get my SyQuest sparq hard drive mounted at startup. After
> startup I can use the following commands to mount the drive--
>
> insmod paride
> insmod epat
> insmod pd
> mount /dev/pda1 /mnt/SyQuest
>
> I know for the mount command I can add an entry into the fstab file. But
> what about the other three commands? what format and which file do they
> go
> in?
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeAnn Iwan)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Starting from scratch on Alpha...
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 13:25:44 GMT
On Sat, 8 Jul 2000 00:50:35 +0100, John Beardmore
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm about to inherit an old DEC Alpha box which has spent its corporate
>life running NT4. I think it's 133MHz.
>
>I want to put Linux on it to perform the following tasks:
...
Linux and the alpha box should be able to handle this. Any
major distribution should work about as well as the others for you.
My personal favorite is Suse--because it comes with a good manual, a
good set of setup/maintenance tools and many cds worth of
software--all at a relatively cheap price ($30 US at COMPUSA--should
be similarly priced in the UK). Check out the howtos, and invest in
at least one other comprehensive Linux manual, if you can afford it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeAnn Iwan)
Subject: Re: Booting windows from second drive
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 13:33:35 GMT
On Sat, 08 Jul 2000 05:12:58 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have 2 hard disks, wd 10.2Gb and 6.4Bb, I would like to have Linux
>installed on the IDE Primary Master and Windows on the Secondary Master
>and be able to boot to windows from the LILO promt.
>
>My Current configuration is as follows:
>
>/dev/hda WD 10.2Gb Drive Linux
>
>/dev/hdb Iomega Zip 250 Internal
>
>/dev/hdc WD 6.4Gb Drive windows
>
>/dev/hdd 40x ATAPI CD-ROM Drive
>
>If it is necessary I can rearange these Drives, I think that it has
>something to do wilth the bios = option and telling LILO to swap what it
>sees as Primary and Secondary Master.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>John
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
Windows will only boot from the first drive (C: or hda).
You can get around this by changing the active drives in BIOS bootup
or running a boot manager that does the same thing. It is easier,
IMHO, to just rearrange the drives before you start.
Many BIOS (all?) will only boot from the first 2 ide drives.
If there is a slave on the first IDE controller, this means only
booting from drives on that first controller. Only if there is no
slave on the first controller, will you be able to boot from the
second controller master.
So rearrange your drives to:
hda -the windows drive (master on first controller)
hdb-the linux drive (slave on the first controller)
hdc-cdrom (master on the 2nd controller)
hdd-iomega (slave on the 2nd controller)
Note, the order of the cdrom/iomega is not critical. Usually, you
want the faster device first or the drive that is used most often
first.
Note, you will probably have to change the jumper settings on the
drives to match their new master/slave relationship. Many drives have
decals that tell how to set the jumpers; most of the rest have pages
on the net that show how to set the jumpers.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Still doesn't work...
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 13:36:32 GMT
if worst comes to worst, after your system boots, and you login,
press"Ctrl+Alt+F2". this will turn off the X server and put you into
native command line mode. you will have to login again, but that is
how it works. i know it is not a fix, but 'till you get one this will
give you a work around.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS. if you want to get back into X from there, just hit "Ctrl+Alt+F7"
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On Fri, 07 Jul 2000 05:55:11 -0700, RMB
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I posted the other day about a problem I was having with X
>starting up. I was told that in order to keep it from booting
>up, you go into the /etc/inittab file and change the line
>id:5:initdefault to id:3:initdefault.
>
>This didn't work.
>
>Is there anything else I need to change? I am having some
>problems configuring X. I don't want it to boot, I just want to
>boot into text mode.
>
>Thanks for the help.
>
>Ryan
>
>Ryan
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeAnn Iwan)
Subject: Re: Help me to dual-boot my system!!
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 13:37:47 GMT
On Sat, 08 Jul 2000 08:30:12 GMT, BO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi linux Gurus,
>
>Iam new to linux. I have windoze and Caldera 2.4 in my system. everything
>was working properly till i did something. By mistake i executed
>/sbin/lilo.
>Now my computer does not give me options to boot windoze. I get caldera
>initial screen but the option for windows is gone . I did not do anything
>else. Please help!!
>The following is the listing of my /etc/lilo.conf file
>
>
># target
>boot = /dev/hda
>install = /boot/boot.b
>
>#options
>prompt
>delay = 50
>timeout = 50
>message = /boot/message
>
>default = Linux
>
>other = /dev/hda1
> label = Windows
>
>image = /boot/vmlinuz-pc97-2.2.14-modular
> label = linux
> root = /dev/hda5
> vga = 274
> read-only
> append = "debug=2 noapic nosmp"
>
>
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You should be able to type "Windows" at the boot prompt to
get to windows. If you want windows as your default, change the
default line (to "default=Windows"). It's a good idea to simply
comment out any line you change (with a leading "#") so that it is
easy to restore the earlier configuration if you mess up. You can
also hit the tab key to get a listing of available boot options at the
lilo prompt. You can also increase your timeout if you need more time
to choose OSs.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeAnn Iwan)
Subject: Re: Linux Newbie: How to boot with Windows 98?
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 13:40:56 GMT
On Sat, 08 Jul 2000 06:30:03 GMT, Halwapuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just installed Corel Linux onto my machine..but now I don't know how to
>boot it. I installed in on a seperate 1gb partition on my second hard
>drive. This hard drive doesnt' have any other os on it. I have Windows 98
>on my first hardrive and thats about it. Is there any way to boot Linux
>from a disk at the start? Or is there a way to get a menu option to select
>which os i want to boot with??
>
>Could anyone out there please explain this to me in layman's terms???
>
>Thanks for taking the time to answer my question..
>
>
you can run lilo (linux loader) and write to the master boot record
(hda). Lilo should find both your OS and come up with a boot prompt
that will allow you to choose which OS. (to get a menu at the prompt,
hit the tab key). It's a good idea to make a boot disk for each
operating system before running Lilo so that it is easier to recover
from any mistake.
>Hal.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DeAnn Iwan)
Subject: compaq XE466 sound? Dlink DE220 driver?
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 13:59:46 GMT
I have linux running on a few old compaq deskpro x3 466s. These
machines have mike and speaker jacks at the back, leading me to
believe they might have some sort of on-board sound chip. But I have
no idea what that chip might be. Does anyone know a) if the 466s had
on-board sound, b) what kind of sound chips, or c) how to configure
the sound for linux?
Yes, I know these are old machines....but they are cheap enough
that I can afford my very own network in my basement.
BTW, another thing I am looking for is a linux driver for a
D-link DE220 NIC. The only linux d-link drivers I can find are for
later cards. Can anyone help me out here.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiefy)
Subject: Re: fetchmail problems
Date: 8 Jul 2000 14:08:51 GMT
On Sat, 8 Jul 2000 04:36:36 +0200,
Alex Fitterling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Fortunately after a lot of time spending on that problem I fixed it...
>it was due to a corrupt sendmail config file.... AFAIK fetchmail i
>s trying to
>connect to localhost and tries to send all incoming mail via smtp port...
>So far, so good... I'm having fetchmail to fetch mail... even functionally..
>
>but now, it seems, that sendmail doesn't send the mail it did get via
>fetchmail to the local users.... what's wrong now ?
>
>Can anyone send me his sendmail.cf to take a look at ?
Afraid I can't help with the sendmail.cf, Exim's in use here.
I do remember a problem with fetchmail being unable to deliver locally
due to a permission error with the Exim mail log which stopped delivery.
Not much help I know, but it's surprising how small an error needs to be
to prevent correct operation.
Regards.
LGB.
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From: Stan J Klimas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Startup files.
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 14:11:14 GMT
I would put my command at the end of the file
/etc/rc.d/rc.local
You need to be a root to modify this file.
Hope this helps. Best regards,
Stan
Samuel Irlapati wrote:
>
> I use redhat 6.2 with the kernel 2.4.0-test2.
> I am trying to get my SyQuest sparq hard drive mounted at startup. After
> startup I can use the following commands to mount the drive--
>
> insmod paride
> insmod epat
> insmod pd
> mount /dev/pda1 /mnt/SyQuest
>
> I know for the mount command I can add an entry into the fstab file. But
> what about the other three commands what format and which file do they go
> in. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can't install Win98 after I've installed Linux. Help.
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 14:13:05 GMT
On Fri, 07 Jul 2000 10:54:33 -0600, Vincent Dang
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I should have went with Eric's suggestion of yanking the Linux drive and
>just install Win98 onto the ONE remaining drive (it seemed the safest
>bet), but Hey! Inquiring minds want to know : ) And I'm a newbie so I
>wanna learn. Anyways, I did this:
> 1. created a boot disk
> 2. changed my /etc/fstab file to reflect my drive swap
> 3. physically swapped drives (forgot to reset the Master/Slave jumper
>switches and sat and scratched my head for a while : )
> 4. rebooted from floppy
> 5. boot: linux root=/dev/hdd1
> 6. Warning: unable to open an initail console. Kernal Panic: no init
>found, try passing init= option to kernal.
>
>What init parameters are available? Is the init option also another
>pointer to yet another file (besides the root param and the /etc/fstab)?
>Now I can't get back into /etc/fstabs to actually edit it back to the
>way it was. I guess I can always install Linux onto my new drive so I
>can edit the old drive and then re-install Win98 on the new drive : )
>
>Anyways, if you have any suggestions, let me know, otherwise I'll just
>do a clean slate.
>Vinnie.
because of how the LInuxLOder works, if you are going to run both a
microshaft O/S and LINUX O/S on the same system (dual boot) then you
need to load microshaft O/S first, otherwise it wont work.
i run windoze 98 / red hat 6.1 on my system, and for boot integerity i
use a boot floppy as i have had problems with dual boot in the past (2
or 3 O/S's on the same machine has tended to corrupt my boot record in
the past so that none will work)
i have windoze as my default boot, and uxw linux on boot floppy. that
way there is no chance of corrupting my MBR.
i have crashes so sevier in the past, that i had to low level format
my hard drive just to get it to fdisk!
suggestion:
back up anything you wish to keep
use dos boot floppy that came with win98(95?)
run : fdisk create 2 partitions, with the primary for win,
then extended for linux.(dont worry about logical drives, as linux
will reformat the extended when you load it.
exit: fdisk
format: /MBR
(the spaces are for clarity, if you need help with the commands,
e-mail me)
reboot with the boot floppy
install win in the usual manner
after you get win configured to your likeing, install linux
when you get to the disk druid, be very careful to select the
second partition as windows will be on the first!! if you do ANYTHING
to that first partition, wou will have to start ALL over again (i know
from experience)
when selecting options for linux, make sure to add LILO (if
you use it) to the MBR, and select the option to make a boot disk.
after copying files, DO NOT skip the boot disk creation step.
also after disk druid runs, there should be the screen for
setting up LILO options,and selecting defualt boot options, select
"DOS" as your default, that will keep the O/Ses seperate.
IE: no floppy = win
floppy = linux
also in that screen, there should be an option for "linear read for
scsi hard drive" or something like that, if there is a help screen
available, consult that rescource as to weather you need to check or
clear the checkbox, on my system i had to check the box because i have
a 20 gig hdd set in bios as LargeBlockAddressing (LBA mode) after
checking the box, i left the command parameter box blank.
set your CMOS to boot from "A" , then "C" etc. (e-mail me and i can
tell you how if you dont know)
this is a lot of work, i know but after 3 complete systemwide crashes,
i found this will work. it is not the only soultion but this one does
work flawlessly for me.
if there is any thing else i may be able to help with, i check this
group almost daily.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: software development for linux:
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 8 Jul 2000 14:18:10 GMT
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 19:49:46 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Does anyone know of a software development package for linux similar to
>Borland's Turbo C/C++.
>This package has an editor, header files, libraries etc. all in in
>place.
If you want a nice, fancy IDE, try KDevelop - search for it on the
net.
You don't need that, though - if you're willing to learn how to use
them, you'll find that a combination of vim/emacs, make, autoconf,
automake and gcc/g++ is just as powerful as any IDE.
Robie.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: Where to do this?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 8 Jul 2000 14:19:52 GMT
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 12:01:29 -0700, RMB said:
>What does the 5 and 3 mean?
They are just arbitrary numbers which Redhat chose to represent
graphical and text logins, respectively. 3 and 4 or 4 and 5 could also
have been used.
These things are called runlevels - type 'man init' and 'man inittab'
to get more information.
Robie.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Lilo problems booting NTFS partition
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 14:21:40 GMT
On Fri, 07 Jul 2000 19:28:13 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have a system running Windows NT on the primary master and I just
>bought a new hard disk. I removed the NT drive and installed Linux on
>the new drive. Now I want to keep Linux on hda and put the NT drive
>back as the primary slave (hdb). I am having problems setting up the
>lilo.conf file to transfer control to the NT boot loader on the NTFS
>partition (/dev/hdb1). Any help with this would be appreciated as the
>only way I can boot NT now is by switching the hard disks so the NT
>drive is the primary master. Thanks.
>
>--Wes
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
leave nt on the primary master, and go into cmos and change your boot
order under the bios settings, then reeboot.
assumeing nt is on c and linux is on d, change the boot sequence to:
(old) boot sequence a,c,scsi
(new)boot sequence d,cdrom,a
the choices run something like that, you should look at all of them
(pgup/pgdwn) before selecting
be very careful not to change anything else in cmos, because it could
crash youe system if you dont know what you are changing.
after selecting the new boot config, hit Esc, then F10, anser yes to
the save prompt, and your machine will reboot to the new
configuration.
DISCLAIMER: This is only a suggestion, and i take no responsibility
for damage done to a system because of improper use of this
information.
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Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 16:20:15 +0200
From: Jan Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Large HD <=> FDISK
Hi!
I have got a rather big IDE-HD (WD 20.5GB), which I want to partition
with fdisk on Linux. But this doesn't work at all. Neither in BIOS
mode LBA, nor LARGE, nor NORMAL.
I am getting nonsense partition data (HD-size only 8GB or partitions
which are overlapping).
Any hints? Please send mail!
Jan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiefy)
Subject: Re: Slackware: trimming unwanted packages
Date: 8 Jul 2000 14:23:40 GMT
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 23:05:12 -0700, Rob Komar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Charlie Gibbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>Each package is bigger than it was back then, so you'll have fewer
>packages installed if you want to take up the same disk space.
>Creeping featuritis is attacking most packages these days. However,
>personally, I'm not complaining, as I bought a 20 GB hard drive for
>CDN $220 a while ago. This means that my Slackware distribution fits
>into about $10 of disk space. That doesn't seem unreasonable, by any
>past standards, to me.
>
>Cheers,
>Rob Komar
And I thought my system was big.
130Mb with a very basic X for the kids to use.
I think I'll stick with Debian for now :-)
LGB.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux Newbie: How to boot with Windows 98?
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 14:29:27 GMT
change the boot sequence in cmos
On Sat, 08 Jul 2000 06:30:03 GMT, Halwapuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just installed Corel Linux onto my machine..but now I don't know how to
>boot it. I installed in on a seperate 1gb partition on my second hard
>drive. This hard drive doesnt' have any other os on it. I have Windows 98
>on my first hardrive and thats about it. Is there any way to boot Linux
>from a disk at the start? Or is there a way to get a menu option to select
>which os i want to boot with??
>
>Could anyone out there please explain this to me in layman's terms???
>
>Thanks for taking the time to answer my question..
>
>
>Hal.
>
>--
>Posted via CNET Help.com
>http://www.help.com/
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