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Dual Boot Question

Posted: 03 Mar 2004 07:37 PM PST

On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 04:08:53 +0000, Andy Fraser wrote:
 

I've dual booted with Suse, Mandrake, and RH for the last four years,
using the included tools to repartition both fat32 and ntfs with no
problems whatsoever.

I'd say go for Mandrake 9.2 or wait a bit for 10--the partitioning tools
and installer are wonderful. I'm using Fedora,but find it to be lacking
compared to Mandrake for a workstation--stable enough, but it's got some
serious borkage going on with the package manager. If you're tech savvy
enough to install apt-get and synaptic, go for it. Mandrake and Suse will
automatically mount your windows partition at /mnt/windows :) But Redhat's
policies don't allow them to do that by default. Something to think about.

As an another poster mentioned:YOU MUST DEFRAG BEFORE DOING THIS!!!!

sorry about the screaming, but it's that important

CDRS are cheeeep. Back up back up--since Your mileage may vary.

Good luck!

easy question for redhat linux experts (how to get to shell prompt...)

Posted: 03 Mar 2004 05:34 PM PST

Neil uttered the immortal words:
 

On my Debian system view is a symlink to vim so ":q!" (colon q exclamation
without quotes) should guarantee you get out. ":q" (colon q) will also get
you out if you haven't accidently edited the file.

--
Andy.

Permissions problem running KPPP

Posted: 03 Mar 2004 01:54 PM PST

Maurice Batey wrote:

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For security reasons access to some devices and files is
restricted for normal users. There are several ways to deal with
that but with kppp it is save to do it the easy way. Get a shell
and as root type 'chmod u+s $(which kppp)' w/o the quotes. Now
kppp runs with suid meaning with root permission.

Ransom
--
For real email get public key 0xF6BB5695 from www.keyserver.net

Create distribution on a DVD

Posted: 03 Mar 2004 09:22 AM PST


"Lamp" <it> wrote in message
news:5vo1c.55526$tin.it... 
years. 

Yes, but it's not trivial. For RedHat, I think you'd have to merge the
contents of the CD's into a single directory with all the CD labeling .files
in place, then create a new ISO image with all of that material and the boot
image appropriately marked for booting, burn that to DVD, and when the
installation asks for the next CD, just hit "Enter" and it will find its
next CD contents on the same DVD.

looking for SuSE 9.0 Iso images

Posted: 03 Mar 2004 04:51 AM PST

Michael Heiming <michael+heiming.de> writes: 
... 

The first sentence there is:

The object of this licence is the YaST (Yet another Setup Tool) program

I wasn't refering to Yast. There's a bunch of trademarks on the back of
a box of Suse. If you download Suse the ftp way, it sez:

Merely a few program packages have been excluded due to license reasons.

-Mike "urgan legend indeed"

Cannot execute /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

Posted: 02 Mar 2004 09:35 PM PST

Oops, I think I accidentally replied, wrong button...

As for choosing an alternate sysinit file, I was informed on going through my
linux install disc and running 'linux rescue' and copying/moving/whatever a backup.
That fixed my first problem

I'll give the bash -n a try for my second problem, thanks!

os moma <no> wrote: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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Want to dual-boot Windows2K Pro and RH 9?

Posted: 02 Mar 2004 07:56 PM PST

On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 03:56:47 +0000, Bill Weissborn wrote:
 
I see the post by Andy Fraser, and that has good information. You should
definitely look those documents over. Red Hat has had a link called
"understanding what you are doing." This is a good policy to save
time and mis-steps/mistakes.

Generally, I would say you are on the right track. Save any files you
need from the 10G drive as preparation for it to be reformatted to ext2 or
ext3 for use with Red Hat. To clarify, linux needs a native partition
type to install, and NTFS does not fit that requirement.

Back to dual boot issues:
Generally, I recommend grub for the loader for use with Windows/Linux.
I like it installed at the MBR on the primary disk. Check the manual and
the FAQ here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/index.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.en.html

If you keep Win2k as primary master IDE drive, then minimal tricks are
required to boot either windows or linux. Probably, this will be
built for you when you setup linux, in grub.conf:

title Windows 2000
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1


There will be another stanza which loads linux. Note: the stanza I have
shown above makes assumptions about the partitioning on your 40G drive
which may not be correct. Be careful that the only change on your
40G drive is to the MBR loader- don't damage your windows partition(s)
during your RH install.

Ask more questions as you go along, if necessary.

--
Ah, bloody hell. I'm going to die to Boney M.
http://www.tonez.co.uk/ringtones/brown_girl_in_the_ring-7085.htm
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0379557/

multiple processes with applications

Posted: 02 Mar 2004 06:50 PM PST

Sandro Mangovski wrote:
 

Thanks for clearing that up for me. Obviously I've done something to cause
the video problem.

P.

framebuffer-questions; fbdev for 1600x1200???

Posted: 02 Mar 2004 11:00 AM PST

I tried

knoppix screen=1600x1200 xmodule=nv

It produces the same result as

knoppix screen=1600x1200

And the /etc-files say that also in the latter case the module nv
is chosen. So the detection of the video card seems o.k.,
although during the start it reports (shown for a short time)
that an NVidia Quadro4 550 GoGL was detected.
It should be 500 GoGL.
I'm not sure, whether this card (550 GoGL) exists (it is not
contained in the list of cards given in the expert mode).
So it just may be a typo.

It seems that the problem is not solvable for knoppix.
The fbdev or vesafb doesn't support 1600x1200,
the module nv produces the distortion as already explained:
It looks as if an output with 1280 pixels per line is displayed
on 1600 pixels per line: each line is displaced a bit compared
to the prior.

However, I hope that the problem doesn't occur with Red Hat,
which I'll try in some weeks. Or are the basic drivers the same
for all distributions?

Thanks so far,
Norbert

redhat9, 2 hard disks, can only boot from floppy

Posted: 02 Mar 2004 06:18 AM PST

Eric Moors <land> wrote in message news:<c22631$d97$surfnet.nl>...
 

Thanks. I tried this with results which initially looked ok. The machine
booted from hard disk yesterday evening and seemed ok, but this
morning it was sitting there
with a screen full of "resetting ide0... disabling dma... seek retry failure..."
with block numbers and such like. This does not look good.


I think I'll try using just the other hard disk and see what happens with
that.

"/dev/ttyX : Permission denied" on bootup

Posted: 02 Mar 2004 06:08 AM PST

Royce Da 5'11 <gtg947a@-nospam-prism.gatech.edu wrote: 

I'm using them there fairly painlessly. I need to play with a Sony Viao to
get all the widgets to work again, but yes, the kernel basically works just
fine.

adding a user to a group

Posted: 02 Mar 2004 04:15 AM PST

Larry Smith wrote: 

This one really *does* work! I have made a script called "user2group"
with that. Thanks very much.

Regards,

knocte

Problems mounting an USB 2.0 Memorystick

Posted: 01 Mar 2004 06:54 AM PST

I now have a Kingston Data Traveler 2.0 stick (256MB).


"Dave Stanton" <net> wrote in message
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help: j2eesdk-1_4-dr-linux-eval -- how do i get it started?

Posted: 28 Feb 2004 03:54 PM PST

peter wrote:

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P.