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No, no it's not the problem. I have a working dual boot MBR, but no lilo.conf file that correspond to it. What's the point of backing up a lilo.conf file that is of no use? I cannot play with the lilo command because if I mess things up, I have no lilo.conf to restore a working MBR. And the trouble is, I need windows to be the default selected option at boot. Is there a way to "create" a lilo.conf file out of an installed MBR? I know you usually do it the other way round, but is it possible?

I tried that and I got exactly the same error message: "Fatal: open /boot/message: No such file or directory" What's puzzling me is that the lilo.conf content does not correspond to the menu that is displayed on boot. The boot menu is working fine for both Win2K and MDK, I don't mind the extra options, but I'd like windows to be the default selected option. How can I change that with a corrupted lilo.conf file?

I mean: I don't want to add the DNS IP on every client machine to be 192.168.1.1 I want it to work with the setting "Optain DNS IP from DHCP server"

You rule!! I did exactly what you wrote and it's working for me as well. Now there is still one problem in fact: on my client (windows) machines, the DNS is set to 127.0.0.1 What would be the correct setting and how can I set it up?

wxPythonGTK-2.4.2.4-2mdk.i586.rpm Sorry for the mixup, this is exactly what I have installed at the moment. I've tried the 2 other RH rpm but I alwyas have this error. Is your Boa Constructor working on mandrake?

I have a recurrent error in Boa Constructor, especially when I try to activate code completion: a message box reads "UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xaa in position 52: ordinal not in range(128)" I couldn't find any google resource on that error. I have Python 2.3.3 with Boa Construtor 0.3.1 on Mandrake Linux 10. wxPython is from wxPythonGTK-py2.3-2.5.2.7-RH9.i386.rpm I also tried wxPythonGTK2-py2.3-2.5.2.7-RH9.i386.rpm but had the same error. Those RPMs are from www.wxpython.org where it says that "install and use on my Mandrake 9.2 system without any troubles." Any tip on this? Thanks in advance

Thanks! (To you not to windows!)

From Linux I can access my windows files, for in /mnt I can see my windows partitions: /mnt/win_c /mnt/win_d /mnt/win_e But from windows I don't see the Linux partitions. Would it be possible? How? Also although I have set windows permissions on some folders to "all users have full control" I cannot in Linux add files to that windows folder. Why?

Could that be Krusader? I've found this interesting webpage: http://www.kde-apps.org/index.php?xcontentmode=284

/boot/message exists, it's a link that points to "message-graphic" but there is no such file in /boot I don't know what to do with that. I thought that using MDK boot loader was straitforward but apparently you have to modifiy that lilo.conf yourself

Thanks for the help. Any idea on why windows isn't selected by default?

Isn't it for GNOME only?

Is there any other file management tool for KDE except Konqueror?

My lilo menu has half a dozen of options but I only need MDK and Win2K. (why are there so many options??) In MDK CC Boot loader there is only Windows (/dev/hda1)* I guess Linux is implicit? Also the star supposedly makes windows the default but when I boot it's Linux the default. How do I clean up the boot menu to only have Win32 (default) and MDK 10 when the control center is of no help? I read about a liilo.conf file... Here is my /etc/ lilo.conf : # File generated by DrakX/drakboot # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map default="windows" prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw other=/dev/hda1 label="windows" table=/dev/hda If I run "lilo" as root I get "Fatal: open /boot/message: No such file or directory" What should I change in my lilo.conf? Win2k is on hda1 (there are 3 NTFS partitions on the hda HD) and MDK on hdb3 I think... There are 3 linux partitions on hdb but I could not find out a way to display information about it. I think hdb1 is a boot partition, hdb2 a swap and hdb3 is where the MDK install is on.