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I dunno, but I have the notion that this they'll be shipping packs about the same time or maybe even before the final ISO's hit the servers. I have absolutely no idea where I got this idea, but lets face it it's what they should do. Paying customers and club members first then the sub-humans and free-loaders. Sorry I meant people who aren't members of Mandrake Club :lol:

I read the docs late into the night, from what I can gather, though maybe I was a little sleepy headed, you can copy an NTFS partiton but you can't write to it. The documentation on the website seems to be a bit behind the software so maybe I'll post to the forum. Ghost: I'm a little reluctant to buy software as this is not a job I intend to do regularly. Weird as of this morning the Windows drive has quietened down again, creepy....

Has anyone used Part Image to migrate XP/NTFS to another hard drive? Any thoughts or warnings? It must be my time for problems cos my Windows HD has started to buzz!

I'm not familiar with koncd but it sounds like its set to burn ISO Level 1 CDs. These are meant to be compatible with DOS and so file names are restricted to 8 letters and 3 for the file extension. Take a look and see if theres an option for ISO Level 2 which afaik gives you 31 characters for the file name and 3 for the file extension.

Is this a combo drive dvd-rom/cdrw? For playing DVD I created a symlink ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd even though my DVD drive is master on my secondary IDE channel this works for me. There was a problem I had for while immediately after installing 9.0 It was something to do with KDE and desktop icons. It prevented me from accessing my DVD ROM from the Removable/media/DVD icon. The fix was simple enough: Rename Desktop to something like ~Desktop and create a new folder called Desktop Log-out and then log in again. sounds weird biut it worked for me.

I usually just save the Mail folder in home. I take the whole thing and burn it to cd. Or if you want you can save the important messages as text files. Into another folder in home and just back those up. Though in the future you'll have to view them as text files. Or you can compress the Mail folder and gunzip it if it's huge: tar czvf MyNewBackUp.tar.gz Mail roughly translated thats make a gunzipped tar archive from the folder Mail If your reinstalling you don't have to format home anyway, providing you created a home partiton the last time you installed.

I reckoned on leaving it alone too. But I'd still like to know what it is!

Swapped my hard drives again! And tried Motts instructions for using Mandrake Rescue it turned out to be a little awkword but it worked! Tom's Reboot downloaded it but I haven't tried it yet. Knoppix I'll try it if I can ever get it! PartImage, I appreciate the suggestion but I'm not into restoring the partition I just want to be able to edit a few config files. bvc: can you explain a bit more please. Paul: I'm downloading the mkcdrec as I type looks very interesting. Apparently DemoLinux is good for this sort of thing too.

The viapdf driver is missing even though it was installed BUT everything seems to be working satisfactorily I wasn't going to muck with it.

Very good value for club-members of which I am one! I think they should charge a nominal fee to download. They give it away for free just a bit too easy. Charge $10 for the newest release and give the old release away. I think Libranet does this. AND For me this forum is the reason to choose Mandrake. It's also the reason I reccomend Mandrake to those who are interested. I know that there is help available. For goodness sake theres even help available here for the occasional Red Hat or SuSe user! I've lost count of the time that the docs were in chinese or the man pages were indecipherable but somebody here knew what to do. I consider myself a newbie who has got as far as "I can follow the instructions if I concentrate hard" this place is invaluable.

Motts: To be honest I can't remember, if I have to do it again I'll try it with your instructions and see what happens. At the moment Thunderbirds are go! and its gonna stay that way until, oh say 9.1 :lol: I thought it was time I got me a rescue strategy rather than just booting Windows in a panic to post to this board. I intend to look at all the things mentioned here I absolutely refuse to be caught out again! It's toooo scary. :shock:

Chipset: 761 pci/agp controller VT82C 686B PSIPC

ISA Slots are pretty damn good. Back before broadband :) I had a 56K ISA modem which I honestly believe is better than any PCI modem I've ever seen. It worked (still works) with any Linux Distro I threw at it. I used to wonder what all the fuss about winmodems was. Ah those were the days. About 4 years ago! On my last ABIT mobo there was an ISA slot but if you had no devices you could disable it in the BIOS. Maybe you can do the same.

Which is parctically a distro in its own right incredible!

Motts: Tried that but no matter what I did I couldn't run Lilo. I was able to get the files edited but it made no difference. I reinstalled. It wasn't too bad as I kept my home partition but it was a nuisance. I've no intention of going through that again if I can help it. The systems sorted at the moment and God willing its going to stay that way! I'll take a look at knoppix. Sounds interesting in its own right.

Having just spent about 2 weeks messing about with my system and having fstab and lilo -v up to my back teeth. I thought wouldn't it be great if I had some sort of rescue disc. Then if I made a mistake in fstab lilo or whatever i could just boot this disc access my root account and edit those files. Now I know there are whole cds full of rescue linuxes and cd bootable linuxes and so on. But all I want to do is be able to boot a disc open vi access my hard disc su to root and edit a few files. Has anybody got any reccommendations? Something quick and simple. Then the next time I move hard disks about I won't have to reinstall. (I wanted to change Lilo before I moved the hard disk the last time but I couldn't run lilo -v "no hard drive attached") Moving the other drives wasn't a problem thanks to help from people on this forum.

I'm sorry about it too! I'm a mature student and could have done without the expense of a new drive. Someone said early on that I should change the media, but I've been using that kind for a while so I thought they were OK. They did in the end prove to be part of the problem, I wonder (as I've said somewhere else) if continually trying to use these disks damaged the drive? A freind of mine reckons it's just the diode and thinks she can fix it. If she can get the part. It'll be interesting to see if she can. _____________________________________ The media: Intenso, The discs used to be a golden green in colour now they are a pale yellowy silver. They're also noticeable thinner than they used to be. The edged of the discs are also pretty ragged.

Well said that man! Here, here! My budget is limited, but what a boxed distro costs is about the same as a night out, and I get a helluva lot more enjoyment out of Mandrake. :D

By now I've tried most things! Some of my earlier assumptions about the cd-writer were misfounded as the CD-Writer proved to be faulty. It seems to me that you are right in that Windows does not like to be a slave. Though seems happy on any channel BUT with Linux on IDE 3 and Windows on IDE 4 everything was OK except CD burning which became problematic (although at this time I still had the failing CD burner). Linux seems happy anywhere, perhaps this is because you can get into fstab and tell it where things are rather than relying on on some hidden sort of autodetection in Windows. Currently CD-Burner on 1 DVD on 2 , XP on 3 Linux on 4. Linux is still the boot drive. This setup seems to be working well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One of the early problems with the CD Writer did come from faulty media I wonder if continually trying to use these discs hastened the Writers demise? I had used these budget discs for a couple of years so I didn't really believe that the media could be causing a problem. After hunting through dozens of help files and possibly hundreds of cd burning forums I found: CD-R's are scanned for an ID the ID is in the form of the sector where recording can start. This ID sets certain burning parameters which are then used to setup the CD-Writer and I presume the software as well. So if the signals your burner recieves are unrecognised or don't match or whatever the first thing you get in Nero is "Possible Read Error" In Gnome-Toaster it's something like "Burner Returns Sector 150!" The really cracker thing about both these programs is they don't tell you anything about the error. In fact both are happy to continue on and produce decorative but totally useless silver discs! I'm happy now. Maybe I'll rivet the case back together and leave it alone forever. :D

Maketing as a philosphy: I don't know but I beleive you! I did a marketing unit last year, and it was weird the sort of stuff that came up. eg About one in 4 people will suffer from some sort of mental health problem. BUT 3/4's of Psycologists work in advertising. I actually quite enjoyed it but it was odd how you started to notice things. Ever notice how in movies product logos that are never half even a little obscured? .......................... I haven't seen the following myself but it was mentioned in a textbook. I think it's in Star Chamber that Miachel Douglas is seen using an Apple laptop. Now normally when you sit with ibook before you open it the log appears facing you. So when you open it, seen from the back, the logo would be upside down. In the film it's the right way up. And other fascinating stuff like that.

New drive: All seems well. Old drive had a one year RTB guarantee it was purchased on 20th February 2002..... It just made it passed the deadline. ( I thought it was only 6 months old ) Cheap dirt. My mother always said that if you bought it cheap you'd buy it twice. She never mentioned the bit about buggering about for a week trying to get faulty rubbish to work. Someone else said "The quality will be remebered long after the price is forgotten." Many thanks to all who've replied to my many posts on this and the related Reconfiguring system topic. Your efforts are always appreciated. Hopefull my new Plextor drive will give at least a couple of years of service.

Ok I think the drive is busted. PC now consists of One hard drive and one cd writer. Writing still fails. Doesn't matter if hard drive is Master and CD writer slave or Hard Drive is master on IDE Primary and CD writer is Master on secondary still fails. I've also noticed that in My Computer the drive is recognised as CD Drive (D:) I'm almost but not quite sure that it was originally recognised as CD-RW Drive (D:) or something like that. Can some kind dual booting person with XP take a look and let me know?

I've been through much of this before<G> All the drives seem to work where ever I put them, with the exception of the CD burner which only ever worked on either primary Master or Slave Secondary Master or Slave. Everything is now on a seperate channel. CD writer on one. I've tried the latest version of Nero and one of the older versions. It's a legitimate serial number I bought 5.5 a while ago. I've used the CDr's I'm currently using for at least a year but they do seem subtly different. Less golden in colour.

It's under System Devices. I looked it up on google and all I can get is other peoples device manager printouts with the same thing appearing. One page was from a Red Hat user which led me to think it might actually be my Linux hard drive.

So right, so what your saying is this Plato bloke was a C programmer who worked for Kodak. He was mate of Linus and thought that all life was an illusion. Therfore one operating system was the same as another, like not catching trout. Simple!