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debian 3.0 r2 question

Posted: 29 Sep 2004 11:35 AM PDT

Andreas Janssen wrote: 
I'm having difficulties with chosing packages...And when I choose
packages I'm getting couple of messages that installation wasn't
succesful. Then, I try again, and I don't get error mesages. After
rebooting I don't get any GUI (like KDE or Gnome), just terminal mode to
login. What kind of linux is that?

Linux cannot see hard drive

Posted: 29 Sep 2004 04:11 AM PDT

On 29 Sep 2004 04:11:02 -0700, co.uk (L-Plates) wrote:
 

You may want to update /etc/fstab to reflect the change in the FS-type from
ntfs to vfat. Use any text editor to do this.

It might also be advisable to update the FS-type in the partition table.
'fdisk' can do this with the 't' command, but, Windows may have done this for
you already.

--John

minicom: cannot open /dev/usb/tts/0: No such file or directory

Posted: 28 Sep 2004 08:58 PM PDT

Floyd L. Davidson wrote:
 

Pot, kettle, black. Pretend to be an adult, leave the tantrums by the door.
 

On the topic of infantile displays of ego and useless posts, you are without
peer.

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Lilo on Floppy

Posted: 28 Sep 2004 06:45 PM PDT

Thanks for the responses, especially Peter's, which contained a bit
more sass and sarcasm than I generally care for. But really, all the
others were a great help.

Thanks to Lew Pitcher for agreeing that it's good to not risk things
you don't have to.

Anyway, I have decided that once I wrap up some critical college
applications and essays that I have going on, I will jump in again and
boot Linux. It's just that I think it would be very bad to have to
fix my computer while I have things on it that I spent a lot of time
on. Of course, I could back them up (and do), but I like to work on
them too.

So, based on your combined suggestions and the sorry realization that
Lilo is not able to do anything in Windows, I will probably redo my
Linux install (shouldn't have to do it all over again), and see if it
will do something nicer than last time.

Thanks again,

Aaron

Operating System Not Found

Posted: 28 Sep 2004 02:50 PM PDT

John S wrote:
 

You said that the recovery disk (by which I take it you mean
Fedora disk #1 in rescue mode) worked,
in which case there cannot be too much wrong with your system.

Using the rescue disk, try re-installing grub.
After "chroot /mnt/sysimage" look at /etc/grub.conf
and make sure it looks for the right partition.
(You would get the "OS not found" error message
if it was looking at the wrong partition.)
Assuming grub.conf is correct,
say "grub-install --recheck /dev/hda",
and see if it works now.


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X forwarding

Posted: 28 Sep 2004 10:12 AM PDT

Doru-Catalin Togea wrote: 

Maybe you need to give a xhost command as: xhost +name.of.machine
to allow the other machine to use the Xserver.


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XP and Linux installation on seperate hard drives

Posted: 28 Sep 2004 08:47 AM PDT

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:01:12 -0400, Spot wrote:
 

Well, SuSE 9.0 Pro's GRUB installation does.

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Red_Hat installation problem

Posted: 28 Sep 2004 02:58 AM PDT

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In comp.os.linux.setup Hany <com> suggested:
 
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Already outdated/discontinued, I'd suggest fedora if you want RH
or some other recent distro, with support/patches.

You didn't told which kind of system you are using (CPU/mobo).
 

Perhaps, but it's you who is in front of the system, not me.;)


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Where is my mouse?

Posted: 28 Sep 2004 12:23 AM PDT

Hello

Thomas A Torda (<edu.au>) wrote:
 

Try

# modprobe psmouse

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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