Cannonfodder
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I've put my win2k partitions in many places and haven't had problems. Can the XP bootloader be bypassed? Eg. edit your boot.ini file and remove the win98 (backup first). Set the default to XP and the timeout to a small value. Then setup lilo to book win98. XP should do the same thing. I don't believe this is a physical problem. However, as a suggestion, I would put your linux on a separate drive so as to minimize the risk of snafuing your partition table by using a windows utility to manage linux partition formats.
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Correct...
and then either you are set or you are fscked..
If fscked then you need to backup important files (if possible) and then reinstall. Then implement a backup system so you can easily step back and recover when these things happen. Try checking out partimage as a partition backup tool or mondo.
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I would start with this..
1. Boot off of CD1, hit F1, type rescue, do not load partitions, go to prompt. Do not CHROOT /mnt.
2. Mount your root partition (it may already be mounted). You can check by going cd /mnt and looking at what is there.
3. Type cat /etc/fstab and look at the mount entries. Check each one related to a partition and see if it is already mounted. If not, try mounting it. See if you can identify the trouble spot. If you only have one partition for the entire linux system than that shouldn't take so long.
4. If you identify a troubled partition, try doing repairs on it.
I personnally use reiserfs as its been extremely stable. Gets a lot of development work on it.
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cp -pax <source> <Destination>
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Thought he has done that a few times before? Probably lost in the Deno shuffle..
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if you want to check into whether you have large numbers of files somehow, check out the df command..
man df
It will help you see how big each subdirectory is starting from root. Then you can go into that directory and repeat the df command until you locate the location of the files.
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If you have webmin already installed and it won't work (comes with Mandrake), you can uninstall it and then install the newest version from webmin's web site. This will run a config app to allow you to setup webmin correctly..
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Another possibility is that you did a mandrake update and selected a large number of updates?
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:lol:
was that a bad move? am i an "evil mod :tm:" now?
Tyme... good move and good posting :)
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If you saved your original kernel config file for Mandrake, maybe you can do some comparision shopping to see what is on/off... I haven't tried it but its an idea.. is it just a text file?
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or do some googling on bash scripting and look at what others have written and then do further googling on specific commands to learn how it works (plus man of course)
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Let us know how you make out with it..
:wink:
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probably easiest way.. otherwise partimage... been using it a long time..
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It is not easy but you can use wine. It should already be installed on your Mandrake system. Do a search for
wine
and/or
winex
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Generally mandrake does it for you during the installation (installs scripts to run hdparm). If for some reason you don't have that, then you can manually insert it yourself at some appropriate location. However, you might want to search your /etc/ directory for hdparm to see if it is already being done..
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Since you all seem to know what you are talking about, maybe you guys should bump heads and write a good indepth faq on this? It's an interesting topic..
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Since you don't know what files you altered, it sounds like you didn't do it correctly.. did you update the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file manually as the instructions tell you to do? If not, that may be all you have to do to complete this process..
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Try reading this faq...
http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php?t=4960
To summarize, the file system on linux requires a partition to be mounted into a specific location on the already mounted file system.
E.g.
/
/mnt
-->/win_c
The mount in this case would go into win_c (or any folder really). So, the folder win_c is there ahead of time and serves as the location for the mount before it happens. Afterwards, when you look inside, you will see the file system continue into the mounted windowns partition as if it was all one big hard drive. Different approach to what windows does with C:, D: so on.
Read the FAQ and read the other faq's under installation too.
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just do a search for
fstab /dev ntfs
its in our board.. here's a fax on our board..
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Thing to remember with Opera's mail client is that you only have one folder where the emails reside physically and that is All Messages/Received. All the other folders are what you call "VIEWS". You can delete a view folder and the emails in the view will still be in received. It's a slightly different way of handling mail. I was used to the concept of moving it into a folder physically to sort my mail. Also, when you go to a view and delete the email individually it really does delete it.
You should also check out popfile at http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile for a proxy software that will pre-filter your email before opera sees it. You can have it label your email in various fashions to catagorize it. Opera view folders can be setup to display any email that contains a label. E.g. The header for the email can be altered to show [spam] subject and opera's spam folder can be setup to view any email with [spam] in the header.
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you're right, he's root! So suggestion number 1 is no good. But can still check the directory listing..
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Do a directory listing on the file and determine who owns it and who has rights to it..
Also, to execute a file you need to set the execute flag.
e.g. chmod +x filename
Problem within LILO with booting WinXP
in Installing Mandriva
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Ok, here's some things to try..
1. Post your /etc/lilo.conf file here.
2. Post the contents of your boot.ini here. It's just a text file. If you can't see it for some reason, you may need to open a file window and go to Tools/folder options/view and turn on the option that lets you see extensions and allows you to view hidden files.
Start with that and then we can pick this apart. However, if you look at boot.ini you will see it defines where each partition is. You can remove the windows 98 entry and put it in lilo (avoids the double-selection). Since XP is the only option left, it will probably just skip the bootloader screen.
What is happening is that lilo boots XP and XP runs its bootloader. Whether this is related to your autocheck problem, who knows? :)
Another thing to do just to be sure, is add the XP partition to your /etc/fstab file so it is auto mounted.
Then run lilo again to make sure lilo contains the right settings in the MBR.