On Sep 5, 2005, at 9:11 PM, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
On 9/5/05, Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It'll be a while 'til you can get a copy of OS X that will run on
non-Apple Intel hardware, but in the meanwhile, FreeBSD itself is
very
well-regarded from a security standpoint and has all the
On many occasions, including at 04:48 AM
Wednesday 8/31/2005, William T Goodall has signed off with:
It is our belief, however, that serious professional users will run
out of things they can do with UNIX. - Ken Olsen, President of DEC,
1984.
It always reminds me that my experience with
On 9/5/05, Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, any recommendations?
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¹As I mentioned a few days ago when I was trying
to get these new hard drives installed, I have
the latest version (8.0) of Partition Magic and
the Boot Magic program which comes with it in
order to
At 07:57 PM Monday 9/5/2005, Maru Dubshinki wrote:
On 9/5/05, Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, any recommendations?
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¹As I mentioned a few days ago when I was trying
to get these new hard drives installed, I have
the latest version (8.0) of Partition Magic and
the Boot
On 9/5/05, Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 5, 2005, at 6:18 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
is a universe of possibilities. We haven't even *begun* to discuss
the
other Unixes out there!
Any suggestions appreciated.
Then I hope you won't mind a mention of FreeBSD, about
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Has anyone here played with the xscreensaver?
I am interested in using the molecule screensaver to create
an animated molecule that can be exported to a file.
I have trouble with two steps:
(a) where are those damned .pdb files?
I think you can find them, as well as a
Has anyone here played with the xscreensaver?
I am interested in using the molecule screensaver to create an animated
molecule that can be exported to a file.
I have trouble with two steps:
(a) where are those damned .pdb files?
(b) how can I send the output of the program to a file?
Alberto
Answer:
1) Backup data
2) FW Windows XP. WARNING: when it asks if you want to convert
to NTFS [Non Transparent to Free Software?] tell it to go to hell
3) Install Linux. When it doesn't partition the disk automatically,
reduce _manually_ the size of the Windoze [FAT!] partition, then
create the
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:32:06PM -, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Answer:
1) Backup data
2) FW Windows XP. WARNING: when it asks if you want to convert
to NTFS [Non Transparent to Free Software?] tell it to go to hell
Forgot to reduce the Windows XP partition. It will let you make a
smaller
Erik Reuter wrote:
1) Backup data
2) FW Windows XP. WARNING: when it asks if you want to convert
to NTFS [Non Transparent to Free Software?] tell it to go to hell
Forgot to reduce the Windows XP partition. It will let you make a
smaller than full size partition during the XP install.
No,
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:38:29AM -, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Forgot to reduce the Windows XP partition. It will let you make a
smaller than full size partition during the XP install.
No, I didn't. No, it didn't.
Yes, you did! Yes, it does!
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BTW, this thread reminded me of a UserFriendly strip.
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19990523mode=classic
Julia
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Alberto Monteiro wrote:
It might have taken less, if I kept watching the spawny of Satan ask me for
CDs.
Here's what you should have done: http://www.datadocktorn.nu/us_frag1.php
Doug
8^)
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Erik Reuter wrote:
You really need to give a better description of the problem if you want
relevant suggestions. Please explain exactly what you did and what error
messages you got.
If I knew exactly what is the problem, I would solve it :-P
But right now my problem has boiled down to one
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Erik Reuter wrote:
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:41:13PM -0400, Bryon Daly wrote:
[curiously, I did get Erik's reply to Bryon, but not Bryon's
message... this has happened for some time]
It didn't recognize the hard disk at all? Or just not
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 01:34:32PM -, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
You really need to give a better description of the problem if you want
relevant suggestions. Please explain exactly what you did and what error
messages you got.
If I knew exactly what is the problem,
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Erik Reuter wrote:
But right now my problem has boiled down to one single step:
I can't partition my Windows XP HD using the tools that XP
provides. I have no idea why, and I would be very happy if I
could solve this problem without knowing why - Windows
I did the FR solution. Now I have Linux but not XP - and I
am not inclined to install XP, unless I can't figure out how to
use the CDRW, the DVDROM and the sound output. And I
haven't tested the modem...
Alberto Monteiro
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The Fool wrote:
Is there any solution other than the classical FR?
Well you could always just use bootpart like I suggested.
No, I couldn't, because bootpart requires that a partition already
exists.
FR Maru
Alberto Monteiro
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From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Fool wrote:
Is there any solution other than the classical FR?
Well you could always just use bootpart like I suggested.
No, I couldn't, because bootpart requires that a partition already
exists.
You weren't clear.
When
How can I install Linux if my computer is infected by
a virus called Windows XP?
THe procedure aborted when the partition thing
didn't recognize the HD
Alberto Monteiro
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Alberto Monteiro wrote:
How can I install Linux if my computer is infected by
a virus called Windows XP?
THe procedure aborted when the partition thing
didn't recognize the HD
It can probably be solved by configuring boot loaders
the right way. Putting Linux on first, and then
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I install Linux if my computer is infected by
a virus called Windows XP?
THe procedure aborted when the partition thing
didn't recognize the HD
http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm
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* Alberto Monteiro [Tue, 16/09/2003 at 13:59 -]
How can I install Linux if my computer is infected by
a virus called Windows XP?
THe procedure aborted when the partition thing
didn't recognize the HD
It may be that you don't have free room on your HD. Make sure you have
free room on
From: Alberto Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I install Linux if my computer is infected by
a virus called Windows XP?
THe procedure aborted when the partition thing
didn't recognize the HD
It didn't recognize the hard disk at all? Or just not the type of partition
on the hard disk? (I
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:47:35AM -0400, David Hobby wrote:
It can probably be solved by configuring boot loaders
the right way. Putting Linux on first, and then making XP
install second would probably work. But I bet there's a better
way...
The problem with that is that Windows
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:41:13PM -0400, Bryon Daly wrote:
It didn't recognize the hard disk at all? Or just not the type of
partition on the hard disk? (I assume the latter...) What Linux
distro are you using - is it a recent one? Red Hat and SuSe are
probably the easiest
David Hobby wrote:
It can probably be solved by configuring boot loaders
the right way. Putting Linux on first, and then making XP
install second would probably work.
The classical Format Reinstall solution :-/
Alberto Monteiro
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* Erik Reuter [Tue, 16/09/2003 at 12:54 -0400]
For ease of install, most people like Mandrake better than Red Hat, but
the difference is slight.
I second that, I advice Mandrake for a beginner
I use Debian, but that is by no means easy to install for a beginner.
I use Debian too, I've
From: Erik Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:41:13PM -0400, Bryon Daly wrote:
It didn't recognize the hard disk at all? Or just not the type of
partition on the hard disk? (I assume the latter...) What Linux
distro are you using - is it a recent one? Red Hat and SuSe are
Alberto,
You really need to give a better description of the problem if you want
relevant suggestions. Please explain exactly what you did and what error
messages you got.
My best guess from your sketchy description is that you have a computer
(possibly a notebook computer? otherwise how are you
Erik Reuter wrote:
If you need to keep the current Windows XP data, then you COULD try
resizing the partition, by first defragging your Windows partition and
then running something like FIPS to do the resizing.
I tried that, but FIPS aborts :-/
But this process
is fraught with peril and I
Erik Reuter wrote:
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 12:41:13PM -0400, Bryon Daly wrote:
[curiously, I did get Erik's reply to Bryon, but not Bryon's
message... this has happened for some time]
It didn't recognize the hard disk at all? Or just not the type of
partition on the hard disk? (I
Erik Reuter wrote:
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:47:35AM -0400, David Hobby wrote:
It can probably be solved by configuring boot loaders
the right way. Putting Linux on first, and then making XP
install second would probably work. But I bet there's a better
way...
The problem
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