On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Aaron wrote:
Hi all,
I have a hard disk which has an 'extra' partition which I want to
install windoze on, currently it is a reiser partition.
I am looking for a program that will let me format it fat32 from within
linux.
if your system supports fat32 [named vfat on
HI
I am having trouble installing windoze, I seem to only have a no
bootable version. The original is lost and I have on disk the portion I
have used for win4lin. Is there a way to make this bootable?
I have a winxp disc but I am afraid I will never be able to boot linux
again with it, is that
Hi all,
I have a hard disk which has an 'extra' partition which I want to
install windoze on, currently it is a reiser partition.
I am looking for a program that will let me format it fat32 from within
linux.
I have a small dos partiton at the beginning of my harddrive, which I
was reserving
You could do it quite easilly. Use:
/sbin/mkfs.vfat /dev/hd**
(You should use the right letter and number for the extra partition).
Afterwards, using fdisk, make this partition active. If you do so, Windows
(assuming it's either XP or 2k) will reffer to it as C:, and you could
install it there.
Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
Windows is already not allowed to be exported to Iran, so no
native NTFS... BTW, I miss the computer shops in Tehran. It's
really hard to find any specific hardware here. I simply buy
online.
I don't get it. If Windows is not allowed in Iran, how come the Linux
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Oleg Kobets wrote:
Hi all,
A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is
that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...)
on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how
to partition it?
Hi all,
A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is
that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...)
on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how
to partition it? Constraints:
* I use Linux, so NTFS is not an option.
* The friends in
Hi all,
A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is
that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...)
on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how
to partition it? Constraints:
They have a 250 Gees HD in Iran ? WOW :-)
* I use
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 03:03:01AM -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
Hi all,
A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is
that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...)
on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how
to partition it?
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
* First, how should I setup that under Linux? It's a Maxtor
one. Both windows and linux detect it as 33GB. Which drivers
should be loaded, ...?
Some old award bios (old as in intel 440LX era and earlier) would hang
the boot process if they saw
Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
Hi all,
A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is
that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...)
on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how
to partition it? Constraints:
* I use Linux, so NTFS is not an
, 31 2003, 10:03,Behdad Esfahbod:
Hi all,
A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is
that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...)
on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how
to partition it? Constraints:
* I use Linux,
Oleg Kobets wrote:
Hi all,
A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is
that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...)
on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how
to partition it? Constraints:
They have a 250 Gees HD in Iran ? WOW
please shahar, no politics.
, 31 2003, 21:24,Shachar Shemesh:
Oleg Kobets wrote:
Hi all,
A friend in Iran has bought me a 250GB hard disk. The plan is
that they are supposed to put my files there (movies, clips, ...)
on it, and send it to me in Canada. The problem now is that how
On 17/10/2002 13:04, Ira Abramov wrote:
Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct:
Hi
I'm setting up a new server and I wondered about hdd partitioning - I
need big /var and also a big /home - I thought about creating one big
/home and symlinking the /var to /home/var
Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Fri, 18 Oct:
Now when I think of it RedHat puts both WWW and FTP data in /var as well
(/var/{www|ftp}).
I used to move it to /home/www until now. Is it better to keep
everything in /var? this data is mostly static, so I wonder why RedHat
decided to
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002, Ira Abramov wrote about Re: hdd partitioning:
Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Fri, 18 Oct:
I used to move it to /home/www until now. Is it better to keep
everything in /var? this data is mostly static, so I wonder why RedHat
decided to move
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 17:37:30 +0200
Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why is /var/www preferred over /usr/lib/www, /usr/share/www, /usr/www,
and so on? It's a matter of taste and philosophy.
Unix/Linux systems allows the administrator almost infinite flexibility,
which means you can put
Quoting Oleg Goldshmidt, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct:
It seems a recurring motive for quite a few posters here (and
elsewhere). I have not tried RH 8.0, so I should shut up, but just to
remind those who have forgotten, it has long been the Common Wisdom
not to try *.0 releases for anything
Hi
I'm setting up a new server and I wondered about hdd partitioning - I
need big /var and also a big /home - I thought about creating one big
/home and symlinking the /var to /home/var .
Is there anything that should stop me from doing that? Any performance
issues?
I'm using ext3.
Sagi
Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct:
Hi
I'm setting up a new server and I wondered about hdd partitioning - I
need big /var and also a big /home - I thought about creating one big
/home and symlinking the /var to /home/var .
Is there anything that should stop me from
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:45:39 +0200, Sagi Bashari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm setting up a new server and I wondered about hdd partitioning - I
need big /var and also a big /home - I thought about creating one big
/home and symlinking the /var to /home/var .
I divide the disk into 3
On 10/17/2002 1:04 PM, Ira Abramov wrote:
Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct:
Hi
I'm setting up a new server and I wondered about hdd partitioning - I
need big /var and also a big /home - I thought about creating one big
/home and symlinking the /var to /home/var
Quoting Sagi Bashari, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct:
I need a big /var for logs and databases (mysql currently). What if I
create small /var(cache|spool) and symlink the logs/databases to
/home/var?
better leave the logs behind as well. as for the database - you can give
it a path to crate
Ira Abramov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
8.0 seems to be annoying even workstation users.
It seems a recurring motive for quite a few posters here (and
elsewhere). I have not tried RH 8.0, so I should shut up, but just to
remind those who have forgotten, it has long been the Common Wisdom
not to
Hello
On my effort to gain a new Linux user, I went to my friend's house
with a Red Hat CD with the intention of installing it on his brand
new Hard Disk.
It seems that partitioning a large hard disk is trickier than I thought
!
I've tried to install Red Hat 6 on a 17GB HDD Along with Windows
|According to my plan the disk partitions should go
|7 GB FAT32 -- 10 MB /boot -- 5 GB FAT32 -- 3 GB root-- 127MB swap
|
|When I try to insert the fifth partition (no matter what order) I
|get an error message saying that I con't allocate any more
|partitions because I ran out of primary
Hi
Isaac Aaron wrote:
[snip]
According to my plan the disk partitions should go
7 GB FAT32 -- 10 MB /boot -- 5 GB FAT32 -- 3 GB root-- 127MB swap
[There was quite a long discussion on the size and use of partitions,
so I give no comments]
When I try to insert the fifth partition (no
--
From: Isaac Aaron[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: ? 30 1999? 22:19
To: ILUG
Subject: Partitioning
Hello
On my effort to gain a new Linux user, I went to my friend's house
with a Red Hat CD with the intention of installing it on his brand
new Hard Disk
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