The
dd if=/boot/boot.0301 of=/dev/hda bs=446 count=1
went through, ("1+0 in, 1+0 out" etc) but made no difference to booting --
still "Lil-" and system hangs.
also tried `lilo -U /dev/hda1' which seemed to work okay but didn't make any
difference to bootup either.
I also tried (treading dangero
Thanks to all for all the help and ideas, but it still won't work: here's
what has gone wrong:
The DOS 'fdisk /MBR' ran with no errors, but made no difference to bootup.
'lilo -u /dev/hda' says "boot sector of /dev/hda does not have a lilo
signature"
'lilo -u' runs fine and says that it has rest
When I load from a boot disk (created by "format /s" at dos prompt in
Win95), fdisk doesn't work because it doesn't exist, thus
fdisk /MBR
doesn't work. If I try this in linux, it says MBR not found
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Tristan -- one unhappy WinNT4 and Debian dual-booter.
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Everybody's talking about hamm and I'm feeling left out =(
Phone lines are expensive over here in England and if you've read my recent
questions on zipping, you'll know I don't even have a modem connected to my
own computer yet, let alone a network or ISDN connection.
So...
Is there anywhere I can
Thanks for the shell info, I must have a messed up howto.
Unfortuantely things didn't run sweetly:
-After trying it, I found that it isn't a shell script
-It's in .gz format, _not_ .tar.gz, changing it just confuses tar and gzip,
and tar tells me that it doesn't think it's an archive.
- That's a
Here's my situation:
I have a Win95 machine connected to the internet at home
My own machine has Debian and NT, but NT is completely down at the moment.
I downloaded Netscape Communicator, a whopping 11MB, and had to span.
So I used my faithful PKZIP, a wonderful .zip compression utility, to sp
Okay, I've just downloaded the NTFS driver for linux.
It was in .gz format so I unzipped it, and got the same file minus the .gz
bit. I expected to find lots of other files, but didn't, which wasn't a
problem because I looked in the resulting file and found what seems like a
shell script.
Now I h
Thanks to everyone who gave opinions and advice on the HTML editor. I can't
stand 'vi' (the DOS to Linux HOWTO is right when it says that DOS users
probably won't like vi! Is there a good tutorial? the man page assumes you
know it well), so when I get everything working again (see below) I think I
I'm not pleased. Not at all. I've used MS Frontpage 97 on WindowsNT for
quite a while for my web site, and for compatibility and to save
confusion, I typed all filenames and target frames in capital letters (eg a
href="BLAH.HTM" target=MAIN). However MS doesn't like all capitals, and
changes it on
About 3 weeks ago I managed to get dual booting WinNT4 and Debian 1.3.1 (I
doubt it's R6) but faced the following problems, so I think they may be of
use to you seeing as I used the same mini-HOWTO.
I don't think that the HOWTO made clear that you have to run lilo (by simply
typing in 'lilo') befo
Fatal mistake no1: Searched for Debian Port of Quake2
Fatal mistake no2: FOUND Debian Port of Quake2
Fatal mistake no3: Got libc6 and xlib6 as needed
Fatal mistake no4: Tried to install using dpkg, which told me it conflicted
Fatal mistake no5: Used dselect
Then the conflict screen came up, and I
I'll probably get lots of flames from this, but anyway,
I'm a newbie who got X up and running a couple of weeks ago and am gradually
getting everything to work, (eg laser printer, sound card, etc) and I really
think that this piece of information is quite useful:
I see (and have written) a great
I've got xemacs installed on my stable Debian 1.3.1, and it works just fine,
but I want to use emacs for file viewing and manipulation in a normal
console because I don't like vi. I tried to install emacs in dselect but it
tells me I have to take components of xemacs out, because they conflict. Is
I keep getting an error message telling me that I can't unmount my CD drive.
I mount it with
mount /dev/hdc /cdrom
and normally I am able to unmount it with
umount /dev/hdc /cdrom
but whatever I do:
umount /dev/hdc
or
umount /cdrom
or the first command, it tells me that the CDROM is in use
I can play CDs through my headphone jack on the drive, but Debian doesn't
like my sound card.
Tkdesk always looks for one at /dev/audio and tells me that it doesn't
exist. I know that /dev/audio doesn't exist but how do I get it there? I
looked for a sound card driver package, and only found AWE o
About a month ago there were many people raving about deity, the replacement
to dselect.
Will it be in the Debian 2 release?
Also what about StarOffice being in the next release? I saw a .deb installer
for it in 'unstable'.
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Do you really have to use a .deb installer file for every program you want
to install?
Thing is that I accidently downloaded the wrong netscape (v4.2 or something
similar) and it was 8 megs long so it took 2 hours on my humble 14.4
Anyway, it wouldn't work because the .deb installer is for 3.01 s
I have a genuine Intel P200 MMX, with 32mb RAM
It runs v. well in Linux but in Windows it's disappointing unless you have a
really nice graphics card (like at least 8 meg) but anyway, memory and hard
drive speed is what slows down my computer, so I'd recommend 64meg and an
ultra-fast-wide-scsi har
I think what they mean by *true* multitasking is:
1. Win95 is designed to make the program that you have 'active' (the top
program you are using at the time) work fastest and gives it max power while
the background tasks (the ones you've got open but aren't using at the
moment) have a very small a
fvwm95 won't work. It says it's installed but nothing happens and ovwm comes
up instead. If I uninstalled ovwm would fvwm95 take its place? I've
installed fvwm95, fvwm-common and fvwm2.
Also, how do you change the colours for the desktop and for the windows (eg
title bar) ? My colours are distinct
Thanks for the links guys, but unfortunately they quickly brought me to a
very large download. Here in England there's no free local calls, and I'm
paying for my own, so when I see a 40 meg dnld, I quickly get the hell out
of there. That's annoying, because you can't get it on CD can you?
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I hear everyone saying how good staroffice is but don't know where I can get
it.
Also netscape won't install because it says it needs a .tar.gz file not a
deb file with netscape in. What do I do?
Cheers,
Tristan
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When trying to install lib6 and many x-related packages to get x running, I
keep being unable to install them, as dpkg tells me that I haven't got
libICE something-or-other. I looked thru www.debian.org/packages and can't
find it.
Also one of the packages says it needs ccp whatever that is.
Also,
After loads of problems with LSL ( after 2 weeks they wrote back to me
saying my credit card was out of date because 1/10/98 in England means 1st
October and over in America it's 10th Jan, and I wrote back correcting them
but they said that I have to use another card)
I am facing a real dilemma wi
I'm from Britain, and ordered a distribution CD thru LSL < www.lsl.com > 10
days ago
On the confirmation screen I was told I would recieve a reciept and that
"all orders will be posted within 24hrs"
Anyway, concerned about whether or not my order was sent, I wrote 5 days ago
to their reception <
When I ask Debian 1.3.1 to unmount my 3.5" to take it out of the drive, I
get 'Command Not Fount' or something along these lines: it seems "unmount"
doesn't exist! How do I get round this so I don't have to reboot every time
I change disks?
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After going through the 'NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO,' I managed to dual
boot Linux and NT, but only using a boot floppy for Linux. Although I am
pleased that this time I installed Debian it didn't lock me out of NT, I
still want to dual-boot from my hard drive as promised by the HOWTO.
I have
OK, I'm finding all this Linux thing really difficult because I'm using it
on my home computer and have to go to my mother's college to download
things, and I'm a total newbie so I
don't have a clue when it comes to recompiling the Kernel to put NTFS
compatibility on, and installing X Window etc.
Being *completely* new to Linux, I thought the Windows-like environment
would be part of the Debian Installation.
I guess what I was after was Xwindow/Xfree or something.
I looked all over the site and searched for both, but can only find
reference and packages that run ON it rather than xwindow i
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