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Dual Booting My nephew, who is Windows XP user, now wants to switch over to Linux. He is thinking of installing either Ubuntu or PCLinuxOS. He is also upgrading his HDD from present 40GB to 160GB. However before completly switching over to Linux he wants to try out Linux by dual booting it with Windows XP, which he is ... 5 Apr 2008 17:08
A new reader? Welcome to comp.os.linux.setup, read this first if you're new here (FAQ) Netiquette 2007-08#1 New reader? Great! Welcome! Here's how to make best use of this newsgroup and get yourself a slice of the best help available. Now read on ... TESTING YOUR CONNECTION Errm, first a delicate point. Often users accessing ... 4 Apr 2008 16:18
Removal of RPM after installing update I have a general question about RPMs. I have a RH3 system that originall was configured with Perl as an RPM. It has maybe 18 other packages installed as well that are dependant on Perl. I have recently gone to the Perl site, downloaded the source and built and installed the latest perl5.8.8. It is up and runnin... 5 Apr 2008 17:08
hacker contest I heard about the hacking contest where the Mac and Vista were hacked into but not Linux. Does anyone know which distribution of Linux it was? Thanks, JM ... 5 Apr 2008 01:45
Setting up raw prinit queue on RHEL 5, how? Older versions of RedHat and RHEL had configuration tools that I remember as easily supporting raw print queues. The newer 'system- config-printers' tool does not have graceful options for this. I'm dealing with an application that prints already-formatted PCL, and all the printers around me can actually handle i... 4 Apr 2008 03:02
Choosing PCI IRQs Martin Fenelon schrieb: kernel 2.6.23.8 SMP I'm seeing a few little problems with the DVB card that weren't present when used with a KM4ML mobo, which I assume is the conflict making itself known. Other than moving the card to another slot, can the kernel be made to use a different irq? Maybe look a... 2 Apr 2008 10:04
Which, for Dell Dimension E520? Anyone know the best version of Linux for a Dell Dimension E520? Preferably, a Debian release. I'd like to use one of the architectures for Etch, but in my searches I keep coming across references to Ubuntu, which I'm not familiar with, at all. Thanks. ... 13 Apr 2008 11:56
A Unix / Linux / BSD / Minix support for installing to USB drives(Live CDs / DVDs) ... Max Power wrote: I have downloaded Free BSD's 7.0 ISO's: the livefs that I put on to a CD-R seems to only run in character mode and to want to install to HD. It is really more of a rescue disk, not like to linux live disks. Just use cd no 1 for installation A Unix / Linux / BSD fix I would lik... 2 Apr 2008 07:51
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error in partition table leaves some space inaccessible My partition table has gotten damaged. Specifically, the extended partition has an incorrect ending cylinder, which leaves some unused disk space inaccessible. My disk started out with a Vista partition at the beginning and a recovery partition at the end, so as fdisk says, "Partition table entries are not in... 2 Apr 2008 18:34 |