At 2004-05-27T142901+1200, Don Gould wrote:
> I couldn't copy the content of my home folder to \mnt\win\my
> documents\linux without being presented by hundreds of errors about
> things that I didn't understand so gave up.
I suspect that the warnings were telling you that the ownership and
permissions on the files could not be retained when they were copied to
the FAT/NTFS filesystem. Since you've been so vague, it's impossible to
know for sure.
> The man for tar sux. I eventually figured out how to create a tar
> with the content of a folder (\home\don) so that I could restore my
> email.
Not surprising--you'll be using GNU tar. If you want detail, read the
info page for tar. This is documented quite clearly in the man page.
In both of the above cases, you're using backslashes where you should be
using slashes. If you're using backslashes on the command line, you'll
definitely be having problems. Pay more attention to important details.
> I have yet to workout how to log on as root.
Why would you want to? Log on as a normal user, then open a terminal
and su to root.
> When ever I do a warm boot I loose the onboard lan card. The only way
> to get the network card back is to cold boot.
Look at the output of dmesg after a cold boot. Compare the results to
the output from dmesg after a warm boot. Look particularly for anything
that mentions your network card, and the lines surrounding that.
If would also be easier for us if you posted more details, like the type
of network card and the version of the Linux kernel you're running.
Cheers,
-mjg
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