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a     KNOPPIX is a bootable Live system on CD or DVD, consisting of a representative collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics
I am willing to setup a dual boot on my PC. But my PC has only one C drive which is 20 GB. Windows 2k Pro and other programs have taken up 4GB currently. If i want to install RedHat 9 along with win2k
I downloaded tomsrtbt program to my machine and created a linux boot floppy disk. My machine is an NT 4.0/ex-Linux system. ex-Linux because the partition is broken. I'm trying to get some c and perl s
...k usage we found out that root partition is full. But actually it isn't. du reports 6.8M /bin 5.2M /boot 339K /dev 19M /etc 1.9G /home 1.0K /initrd 41M /lib 12K /lost+found 763M /misc 3.0K /mnt 1....
I am running a dual boot system using Red Hat 8.0 and Windows 95. W95 is for my internet browsing, and, obviously, I need to download files for my Linux system as well. The problem I am encounteri
...B-yuk). What I need now are: a few classes on TCP/IP networking in Linux, a deeper understanding of the boot process how the kernel works how to work with modules for the kernel and applications apach...
...sk.i tried to install kernel 2.4.21 along with my present kernel.After compiling the new kernel while rebooting i get an error message: please append a correct 'root'= kernel panic:unable to mount r...
I use a dual boot laptop at work. When i'm in linux (RH7.2) my ethernet connection trickles at ~250Kbs. But when I boot into windows, I get ~2500Kbs. At home on my cable internet (through a router b
...I do this init 1 (go to single user). followed by my normal init 3. Or I can even edit my / tree from a bootdisk! While Unix systems have been around since 1970. I find their configuration system ea...
...ff. Plus it seems that I'm always tweaking adding or removing hardware on this system that requires a reboot. Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever hit a month solid uptime yet with this syst...
...eone give me their thoughts on the following questions? 1) I'd like to have 4 partitions: root, swap, boot, and home. (In understand that the first two are mandatory.) I'd like to keep both my data ...
...ded such that roughly the first half of the NTFS with the rest containing my install divided into root, boot and home partitions. I am using a stock kernel (as installed by the Mandrake 9.1 install)...
...9.0. I have Slack 8.1 with kernel 2.4.18 on hda1 I have Slack 9.0 with kernel 2.4.20 on hdb2. Both will boot successfully. But if I run lilo from the hda1 parition both partitions boot with 2.4.18. If...
...sly, I install it, and run the manufacturer's setup utility, do any BIOS settings, etc. But then do I boot from the original hda and run a linux utility to format it? Then I guess I edit /etc/fstab....
I just get a GRUB console when I try to boot from the floppy. IT never gives me a menu. HEre's what happened. OK I have SuSE 8.2 pro stock install and I boot off the floppy since I dual boot. I take
...e-control-panel, and changed the fonts. The changes in fact did reflect to the GTK apps. But when I rebooted, these changes were not remembered. Is there any way around that? What does gnome-contr...
...oader, so I used the 'dd' command to create the 512 bytes file: 'dd if=/dev/hda5 bs=512 count=1 of=hda5.boot' copied the file in c:/hda5.boot and modified the boot.ini file (I know the procedure, I us...
...ws ME. I had a friend use Partition Magic to repartition the disk, and then installed Linux. It is dual boot since I occasionally need Windows. Now I would like to replace the internal hard drive wi...
... deleted the partition on the 2nd HD and created a new NTFS partition, forgetting that I have this dual boot setup... everything was happy until I rebooted. the machine stopped at the Grub prompt. ...
...ver disk at the same time. Does anyone know how ? after i type 'linux rescue' the system continues to boot without asking me for a driver disk. (this is on linux redhat advanced server 2.1) thanks...
...stall of Gentoo on a box that I have so it could co-exist with Suse. All went well. It runs. The dual boot part is OK. Here is the *real* problem. When Gentoo boots up, the screen looks normal for...
... not seem to appreciate that, so I did anoter compile and put mousedev back into the kernel. Now when I boot my system, when the hotplug startup script is run, I see an error message that reads 'modpr...
I am running a RH 7.1 system. It is set up as dual boot with two SCSI disks, Windows 2000 on /dev/sda and Linux on /dev/sdb. It currently uses lilo as boot loader. I have finally got around to thinkin
.... I know Windows will overwrite my MBR and whatever and I am aware that I will need to copy my MBR to a boot floppy, so I can restore it after I install windows. BTW.. I am using grub as my bootloader...
Hi All, I triple boot (win98/RH7.3/MDK9.1) with /boot of RH in /dev/hda8 and / in /dev/hda9 . LILO(RH with location of MDK indicated in /etc/lilo.conf) is at present in MBR. I thought I will give
... guy here has never used Linux and has jumped right in. He couldn't get the RARP daemon working so he rebooted the machine. Well, it still wasn't working and he looked around and discovered there was ...
I'm trying to dual boot a computer with windows xp and am running into a few problems. The first was that windows refused to install unless it had a partition it could write to on hda. I wouldnt giv
...s. When I run this script from the command line, everything is fine. I need to execute this script at boot time, but I don't know how. As a side note, I also tried logging in as root and su - myus...
In the past week, I've been playing around with creating my own bootdisk. My eventual goal will be to create my own distribution. Redhat is very nice these days, but I think making my own could be a b
...Linux (Mandrake) for a week weeks now but I'm a bit stumped about something. At work I'd like to dual boot linux with my current win98 setup, that's the easy bit.... We have a NT4 box that adminis...
...as a lot of questions about Linux, he's already been looking at it in stores and is figuring for a dual-boot to start. The funny thing is that I was so swamped I never had time to offer my usual ran...
And what is your point? You prefer the reboot for every change that Microsoft Windows offers versus the reboot at your next convenient time that GNU/Linux offers? Have you run /sbin/lilo -v to ensure
Old motherboard died, so i got an XP 1600+ and motherboard from Maplin for £150. 1) Booted into Linux - Everything worked. 2) Booted into ME - Everything worked. 3) Booted into XP. Blue scree
...ed fine (1024x768 with 256 colours). However under 9.1 I cannot get X to work at any resolution. When I boot the system the X login screen fails to start, and when I log in and try to startx manually ...
Well, about five years ago, I clobbered the boot area of Linux that followed a Windows NT 4.0 FAT partition for my F-drive. I made some valiant efforts to get access to some perl and c files out there
...ow much it would be confused by a different mobo chipset. If I swap motherboards/processors, will Linux boot and will my compiled programs run on the new combination? Or would I need to recompile a lo...
... decided to add some ram. I added another 128 mb chip, giving me a total of 256 mb. But shortly after booting, the system crashed, saying that a kernel paging request failed (I didn't write down the...
...g for no good reason, forcing me to bring up an XP rescue prompt and run FIXMBR just so I can get XP to boot so I can type this rant. Perhaps someday I'll fix it. Maybe I'll just use Windows for a w...
...as Solaris 5.7 I can't seem to get it to answer DHCP from my d-link with the open firmware. I tell it boot net:DHCP and it goes on about ARP/RARP broadcasts! I need to get something else on it's h...
...its and pieces that needed to be done, everything seemed to be going swimmingly, and the new kernel was booting up nicely as expected... until it got to 'Mounting local filesystems', when it just sat ...
I have red hat 7.1 and windows 98 dual booting on one of my desktop computers. The problem I am having is that the time is wrong one or the other. If I set the correct time on linux for instance, the
How can I prevent users from editing the grub command line and appending the word single to the kernel boot line and thus enabling to get users into su privileged mode? Running RH 8.0 (in this case).
is there a way to mount a NTFS windows 2000 partition read-write? Is there a boot disk available supporting this. I tried leka's but alas it was RO.
I have created a minimal, single user linux that boots from CD. Mouse support is compiled into the kernel. When booting, gpm is run and the mouse comes alive. The mouse will copy/paste from a console.
... used in fstab for defining mount points. I had two partitions with the same label, and Linux would not boot. I bypassed the problem by removing one of the partitions, but I wanted to fix the problem ...
I boot my Linux (Debian/GNU 3.0 2.4.19) from a floppy. The lilo.conf file below works just fine (created by mkboot) except that it won't take the last two lines, which I added. I have to do this at
...so installed Red hat 7.0 -> 8.0 and NOTHING I've done, will get linux back onto the internet. When it boots, it hits the eth0 section, then pauses for a long while. Like say 2 minutes, finally comin...
...ing happens in the blink of an eye. Puppy himself is under 20M. Experimenters wanted, to get Puppy to boot off different media. First take on it is I have Puppy booting off a USB flash card. Possibi...
...cked up. Users Many users don't log off before leaving work. His answer is to write a script that reboots all the DCs in the middle of the night in order to boot them off the network. Network ...
My problem is after install win2k in my pc, the linux lilo boot loader replace by win2k. So that I cannot start linux again, I also try to use bootable CD and use this following command ' boot : linux
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