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| 295183 | 2004-11-23 21:45:00 | Fair enough Jen C, I was being a *tad* pedantic : ) Although I still advocate not having just one large / partition but I am by no means a Linux expert and this is after all, a desktop system. | Caesius (3758) | ||
| 295184 | 2004-11-23 22:24:00 | I did that once.... I found I had a few hundred megs spare in half the partitions due to the fact that certain apps _could_ use that much. Did they? Mostly no - So it was a waste of space and I put redhat9 back with just one partition. For a home user, aside from a / partition, I might suggest /boot (Ext2, so you can use GrUB with your Reiser4 rootfs), / (Reiser4 of course) and possibly /home if you fear you may format sometime, Dual-Boot, or simply want to keep it seperate. I wouldnt recommend more though unless you're building a production server. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 295185 | 2004-11-25 00:21:00 | well im back, and no i didnt enjoy my first linux experience, i posted this thread because it looked a tad confusing partioning the drive in the yoper install, but then i saw chill online so i asked him a few questions and i thought i knew what i was doing. so i carryed on with the install, i thought i had partioned it correctly and yoper was installing, i was happy, i loged in and though wow, this is amazing, i had a little look around and then i wanted to go on the net, i set up my connection settings but i couldnt find where to install the modem, so i loged out of yoper and tried to get into windows and ask how i install my modem, but there was a slight problem, when i selected to go into windows it said in the top of the screen that it was "loading windows......" so i left it for 10min and still no change, im screwed. so i then thought bugger this im gonna reformat and start again. and so the problem continues, i insterted my xp home disk in, formated the drive and it started to copy the files, it then said it will restart my pc, as it always says that, but when i turned on again it said "error loading operating system" and i knew now that i stuffed it. But the strange thing was that i could install yoper but not xp, so i went to the qtparted thing in the yoper install and formated it there and did something and then i went to reboot and it couldnt detect my hdd, so i ripped open the case, took everything out and there was it, a tiny tiny tiny part in the ide cable to the hdd was broken, so i swaped it and then i install xp no problems :D lucky i did back up my important files:p but now im a tad scared of trying this again, i think i will buy my rounded ide cables install them, then follow Jen C's post. thanks for all the help, im gonna carryon reading this thread and print out the instructions because i dont wanna go through this again :p thanks for all the help |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 295186 | 2004-11-25 01:33:00 | Ouch. That sounds almost like my first foray into the world of the penguin. What modem do you have? If its a pci internal, it could be a winmodem, which makes things a little more awkward. (At the moment, I'm busy trying to compile a driver for my dynalink internal winmodem on mandrake 10oe. God bless Lindows liveCD for allowing me to access the net) Persevere though, Prescott. The dodgy IDE cable could have been the cause of your initial reboot probs. Catweazle |
Catweazle (2535) | ||
| 295187 | 2004-11-25 01:44:00 | Bummer - Its as easy as uninstalling Lilo, the Linux Bootloader.... Thats it... And it woulda been sweet.... Either that or boot the WinXP CD and type: fixboot fixmbr ...when you're at the rescue console Or if you have a Win98 Boot Disk: fdisk /mbr Any would have sufficed. Seems a shame you brought so much more hassle into the sitution, but you werent to know. Lets hope your next experience is better Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 295188 | 2004-11-25 02:03:00 | > Bummer - Its as easy as uninstalling Lilo, the Linux Bootloader.... :_|:_|:_|:_|:_| >Thats it... And it woulda been sweet.... what?! man i am a newbie at this :_|:p thanks guys |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 295189 | 2004-11-25 08:35:00 | ok, i think i have a bit of time this weekend and im gonna give it another shot, but firstly how do i install my pci modem in yoper? im looking at device manager in winxp and it says "Intel V92 HaM data fax voice" it must be the modem name, otherwise i have no idea :p so yeah, how do i install it in yoper cheers |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 295190 | 2004-11-25 08:58:00 | Note down everything about the modem, except the windows drivers of course. It should be detected correctly by Yoper then it will be a matter of setting it up from the KDE control centre (little spanner icon in the panel menu [quick launch to windows folk]) you should be looking for ppp0 or kppp, Yoper Conf (link on desktop). I've not installed a modem, so don't know what to expect but, if you have your usual ISP info at the ready it should be a matter of entering that in the logical spaces. Some of the terminology is a little different but not that much (most of the time). There, does that make you feel confident ;) I'm sure someone else who has dealt with modems will cruise by soon. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 295191 | 2004-11-25 09:04:00 | yes i did find out where to enter the isp's number and password, i could see where to add new modem but from there i was stcuk, im gonna give it another shot tommorow | Prescott (11) | ||
| 295192 | 2004-11-25 09:19:00 | Good man . Remember there's usualy a way out of most things without resorting to drastic action . That was damned bad luck with the cable though, good spotting . |
Murray P (44) | ||
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