[eug-lug]SUSE 8.1 Professional

2003-09-13 Thread Jim K
I spent the last week trying to set-up my machine as a dual boot with windows and linux. I have used up another windows 98SE CD . I was wondering has anybody else had problems with windows 98 or ME on a disk with EXT3 partition on it? especially messed up superblocks, magic numbers( I

Re: [eug-lug]SUSE 8.1 Professional

2003-09-13 Thread T. Joseph Carter
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 04:08:19PM -0700, Jim K wrote: I spent the last week trying to set-up my machine as a dual boot with windows and linux. I have used up another windows 98SE CD . I was wondering has anybody else had problems with windows 98 or ME on a disk with EXT3 partition

Re: [eug-lug]SUSE 8.1 Professional

2003-09-13 Thread Jim K
I have installed windows on this machine 2-4 times a year in hda1 with lilo or grub mostly mandrake with no problem until until last spring. When this disk problem popped up both times I had mandrake in an ext3 partition. I have suse now and will reinstall mandrake both in reiserfs partitions.

Re: [eug-lug]SUSE 8.1 Professional

2003-09-13 Thread Jim K
The support license has expired on the SUSE 8.1's. Oh well. Jim K Jim K wrote: I spent the last week trying to set-up my machine as a dual boot with windows and linux. I have used up another windows 98SE CD . I was wondering has anybody else had problems with windows 98 or ME on a disk

[eug-lug]using a UPS

2003-09-13 Thread Mr O
How many are using a UPS on a linux system? What program are you using to monitor? I have a Belkin UPS hooked up to my serial port but haven't quite found software for it yet. Hoping for a little advice before I go about breaking things. I read that if you send the wrong commands to a smart UPS