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| Thread ID: 31964 | 2003-04-05 11:57:00 | Is this realistic, or am i pushing the preverbial uphill with a soft toothpick? | Clueless (181) | Press F1 |
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| 133648 | 2003-04-08 04:48:00 | Does SuSE 8 support RPM's? I simply went here: linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net And downloaded! However, it'll be a little different I guess due to you being on SuSE8, but at linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net there are other srpms, and .tar.gz files too. Probably a little late anyways ;-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 133649 | 2003-04-08 05:27:00 | Chilling_Silence. If Sam liked booting of a CD the knoppix disc would be most handy, but Sam has always had a little trouble with this concept.... Graham L Rescue floppy???? Mess with Lilo???? No. That's the sort of thing people who know what they are doing might do.... OK.. There is a rescue mode on the SuSE install CD. seems my best bet. It of course starts it in the most powerful of modes, init 3, where i am of course hopeless.. What is the commands to rename files so i can restore the original name to the original kernel? Chilling_Silence. What exactly is this NTFS rpm you speak of????? .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 133650 | 2003-04-08 05:34:00 | Chilling_Silence. Sorry.. I didnt see your rpm reply... Yes SuSE indeed supports RPMs, it was a rpm that installed the cursed new kernel. .Clueless |
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| 133651 | 2003-04-08 05:56:00 | The rename command is mv, of course. :D As in: "mv oldname newname". But after doing anything to do with the kernels, you must run /sbin/lilo to update the booting information. It doesn't save filenames in the boot sector; it saves the disk address of the kernel. A new kernel will be in a different place on the disk. When I make a new kernel I edit the lilo file /etc/lilo.conf so I have a choice between the old and new kernels. That covers me if I have made a cockup. I don't quite know what happend to your system ... Lilo works in a number of phases ... L I L O come up slowly because there's a lot going on between each character. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 133652 | 2003-04-08 06:17:00 | Ok.. 2 more annoying questions Please tell me........ A command to show ALL the files in a directory, in such a way that i will be able to read them. A command that allows me to edit LILO without it booting up. Please assume i know nothing, where in fact i know very little. .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 133653 | 2003-04-08 07:11:00 | "ls -al | more". Or "ls -al | less". (less is the improved more, but most mores have been improved so they behave like less. :D ) The space bar goes down a page, arrow keys go up/down a line ... Q to exit.I assume that you don't like seeing only the last20-odd lines of the directory. If you mean that you want to edit the lilo.conf file without booting Linux ... the only way is to have a system which uses the UMS file system (when you can use DOS ... with great care) :D You have to be booted (but to single user is enough --and best for fixing things). Then you can use any of the text editors. pico, joe, jed, vi, emacs ... (though I don't recommend vi or emacs). |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 133654 | 2003-04-08 08:31:00 | Well i attempted to follow the commands, but ultimately got to the problems of What do i edit? What values? What with? How? and with what (non) system? However i reinstalled Lilo and the default kernel using the SuSE install disks, and here i am back on my preffered computer, Sam. Hopefully nothing else got stuffed up in the process. I was able to pick up email where Dyan showed insight: "Hey, CLUE-LESS!... (Command Line User Environment-LESS!)" The system seemed to be in shock, it took a minute after log in before i had anything but blank screen. Whatever it has to do, it is doing as i do indeed seem to have a functional system, and now it is at it's "normal" speed. Now to try the rpm suggested by Chilling_Silence, lets see if i can break it again! :p .Clueless |
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| 133655 | 2003-04-08 08:33:00 | If you're really wanting to get Knoppix to go, there's the boot.img file included in the CD's \Knoppix directory. Download a proggy called Rawrite and make a boot disk of that image. This is all provided that you still have the CD (Im lucky, Ive got about 15 of the things!) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 133656 | 2003-04-08 08:39:00 | Yeah, cool! AFAIK the RedHat rpm works on all rpm supporting linuxes. I just found it in konqueror and double clicked, otherwise the rpm -ivh works too ;-) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 133657 | 2003-04-08 08:46:00 | Thanks Chill.. But i think i'll give Knoppix a miss. I tried running it on Vanessa. It offered no joy as the poor beasts graphix were not up to it. There's something terribly useless about a screen full of noize. Sam is so similar in basic spec that i suspect there is little point trying, particually now that i'm back on the computer i should be on anyway. I'll give the redhat rpm a go to see if i can get NTFS readible. Thanks to all .Clueless |
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