[rahewlett@aol.com: linux and the internet]
- Forwarded message from Robert Hewlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Robert Hewlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 20:57:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: linux and the internet ** This message was sent from the EUGLUG message board. Since ** ** the person who submitted this question may not be on the ** ** mailing list, please reply directly or on the message board. ** Hello...I've moved to Eugene recently and was glad to find this site. If anyone has some time to spare, I have some questions about Linux. I have been fooling around with Caldera 1.3 on a 486 w/ 12 meg. ram and a crappy videocard. I'm actually using Windows 3.1 to get online (and AOL only for a free month until I can find the best provider in the area...Eugene Free Net?). For various reasons, I'd love to be using Linux and be able to be online as well, but I have not been able to figure out how to do this. The KDE and XWindows that came with Caldera take such an incredibly long time to boot and move within that I have taken to Win 3.1 to find help in setting up the system to use Linux and the internet in a text only mode. Can someone lend assistance with getting around having to use KPPP for configurations...ie. doing it from the command line? Is this possible? I'd like to use Lynx and Pine but am not sure how to get a hold of them...I did notice that there are ! local meetings which I do plan to attend, but if anyone cares to have a dialogue I would be appreciative! - End forwarded message -
Re: Resizing an NTFS partition?
Seth Cohn wrote: On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Bob Miller wrote: Anne's new laptop is a Dell Lattitude LS. It has a 12 Gb disk, which is partitioned like this. hda115 Mb type 222 hda211491 MbNTFS (or HPFS) She'd like to make it dual-boot between Win2K and Linux. What tools are available to shrink the NTFS partition without erasing it? We want to make it dual-boot Linux, of course... Partition Magic will... System Commander will make sure you use the latest version Okay, so I blew that off. Anne copied her files to another machine. She can restore them later. This laptop is the first machine I've seen with one of the Windows Recovery CDs that created such an uproar a while ago. After trying a lot of things that didn't work, I found out that the LoserDOS Recovery CD will install onto whatever partitions it finds, so I used the Mandrake installer to create two 6 Gb partitions, then I "recovered" LD2K onto one of them. So now I have LoserDOS2000 and Mandrake 7.1 dual-booting, and I've gotten X working. Mandrake installer insisted on 480x640 as a default resolution, and the Dell's keyboard can't type CTL-ALT-Keypad-Plus or CTL-ALT-Keypad-Minus. I'm going to punt on sound (if it were my machine, I'd want sound, but Anne always turns it off anyway). Anyway, it's a nice machine. Not as nice as my VAIO, but... (-: I can't wait until the mainstream HW vendors start supporting Linux. Laptops are always a pain to install. -- Kbob [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jogger-egg.com/
