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| Thread ID: 23914 | 2002-08-29 04:41:00 | URGENT: Accessing a windows partition from Linux. | nz_liam (845) | Press F1 |
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| 74789 | 2002-08-30 03:10:00 | in lilo ... you can edit the /etc/lilo.conf file if the GUI tool is obscure. The keyword is "label=". After any change to lilo.conf, you must run lilo. The conf file isn't read at boot time --- it can't be accessed until the system has booted --- so the lilo programme actually alters the boot sector. MYOB --- don't know. Dreamweaver? Mozilla --- try dropping the screen resolution. You can do that without too much trouble -- there's even a hot key combination (is it Ctrl/Alt/{keypad + or -}?) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 74790 | 2002-08-30 04:58:00 | Thanks for your help. However I now have a new problem; Windows NT had replaced my linux/windows boot loader. It seems to have changed the master boot record (i think) so that it boots straight into windows and doesn't bring up the options screen. How do I get this back? |
nz_liam (845) | ||
| 74791 | 2002-08-30 05:04:00 | wouldn't that be in a boot.ini file? (Just a newbie to this myself....) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 74792 | 2002-08-30 05:33:00 | Oh . Bother . :_| Yes, MS tends to do this . X-( The recommended sequence is to install any MS OSs, then install linux . At the worst you will have to reinstall Linux . :-( You might get away with telling the installation that you are doing an upgrade . That should leave most things as as they are set . But all is probably not lost . Did you make a floppy emergency Linux disk? If so, you should be able to recover . I think that about RH6 . 2 they stopped using the normal 2 boot (install) floppies as rescue disks, so you can't just use RAWRITE to make floppies from the image files on the CD (in the images directory), but have a look at the help/readme files before giving up on that . There might even be rescue images there . . . or you might be able to boot the CD, then break out of the install routine . We need to run lilo and restore the boot sector . I haven't done this . . . but is goes something like this: boot the rescue floppy (ies) . . . (the old images asked and you could give the "rescue" option) . That comes up with a "#" prompt (root), but the only disk it knows about is the floppy, and a ram drive . You then find a "spare" directory -- like "mnt" on the ram drive which you can use to mount the hard disk on . Then, find the lilo programme . . . it will probably be in /sbin (which could be /mnt/sbin) . Do a "<pathto>/lilo --help" to see its options . There are options which let you specify where your lilo . conf is (e . g . /mnt/etc . lilo . conf) , and what disk to write to (/dev/hda) . Experiment, but look and think before doing anything which will write to anything . That way you can't do too much damage . Basically once you have a linux root prompt, you are in business, but it's thinking about where things are, and where they are mounted which gets tricky . Try the "chroot" command . . . "chroot /mnt" . That might simplify things . I HATE MULTI BOOTED SYSTEMS Have a read of the HOWTOs on the documentation CD . There might be one about rescue . I'll have a look, too and post again if I spot anything . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 74793 | 2002-08-30 06:13:00 | Windows NT?? I thought you had ME. Have you reloaded ME, then NT? Were you using "bootpart" ? How did it work before? Have a look at the Linux+NT-Loader.html in the mini HOWTOs section. If you can't find it on the CD, the LUG has it (dunedin.lug.net.nz) . There's another: Linux+WinNt (dunedin.lug.net.nz). |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 74794 | 2002-08-30 13:18:00 | I have Windows ME, XP, & Mandrake 8.2 Linux all on one drive. I use "Boot Magic" to manage them, & place the "Lilo" loader on the Linux Boot partition. This way the systems don't interfere with each other as "Boot Magic" hides the primary partitions taht are not active. I have used Linux to manipulate Windows files when Windows has opbjected. You can also boot with a Windows start floppy & then make an image of your system with Norton Ghost. You can then extract any files you want from the image with Ghost Explorer. |
Mzee (158) | ||
| 74795 | 2002-08-30 21:16:00 | Try this; To put a Icon on KDE desktop to read windows partitions. step 1 Edit /etc/fstab file, put in dev/hda1 mnt/C:drive vfat noauto,user 0 0 if you save fstab file now a icon called C:drive will appear on the desk top step 2 Make folders in /mnt folder such as /mnt/C:drive step 3 To put more Icons from other partitions on desktop, if you have extended partitions you will have to get the D: drive hda# off the partition table as given in step 4, it might be for example hda5 repeat step 1 and step 2 changing C:drive to D:drive or what ever. step 4 To get partition table log on as root and type in fdisk -l /dev/hda |
E.ric (351) | ||
| 74796 | 2002-09-02 12:43:00 | Firstly thanks to everyone who helped me resolve this problem I really appreciated it. Secondly this is what I ended up doing: 1 Upgraded RedHat 7.3, however it did not upgrade the kernel and therefore did not upgrade/fix the boot loader (setup told me so); however it did make me a boot disk. 2 Using the boot disk I booted Linux. 3 Searched redhat.com for GRUB, found this link www.redhat.com which instructed me to run the following command ‘/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda’ 4 Did that, it fixed up the MBR to how it was before Redmond screwed it up. I am now happily dual booting my system. Thanks again everyone for your help. Kind Regards Liam |
nz_liam (845) | ||
| 74797 | 2005-04-26 05:28:00 | About the Dreamweaver-like app: I use a program called NVU (nvu.com/) (http:) . I was looking for a Dreamweaver-like app too, and I came across that.. I think it's a great program. It even has a built in spell-checker. It's more stable than dreamweaver too with my experiences, then again, Dreamweaver runs on Windows... The only feature I wish it had is the split screen code/design view. It is more like MS Visual Studio with tabs on the bottom to switch between views. I think that it's a great program and I would definetly recommend it to anyone. | Anonymous1 (1678) | ||
| 74798 | 2005-04-26 07:42:00 | ***? | Sam I Am (1679) | ||
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