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| 600365 | 2007-10-11 03:33:00 | I do not think I have ever seen anyone having all the problems you have had,not even with Windows . The live disk should have run as it does not use either HDD . Nope . . . it just sits there . . . all black and dark . . . the blinking light on the monitor doesn't even go green now . I'm not suggesting it the L-based thing . . . it's just a screwed hdd . . . and it was only about 6 months old . I'll get another one tomorrow when Staples opens in the AM . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 600366 | 2007-10-11 03:34:00 | ...create a HOME bout 1 GB linux swap bout 500 MB ant the rest is / WHICH IS ROOT where yr OS will go...And you worked this out how? 1GB is waaaaay too small, you will run out of space extremely quickly. I recommend you leave /home on the same partition as /, no need to keep it separate unless you have a very weird setup. 500MB swap is meaningless - how much ram is already in the system? What tasks are you wanting to do with it etc? The Windows rules of thumb for determining swap size don't apply here; Linux uses it differently. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 600367 | 2007-10-11 03:37:00 | Ooooooo, strangely like the kubuntu install I just did for my MCE, however I may have also fried the new CPU :( I'm sure that makes you feel better SJ :D Yeah . . . a little happier at your problems . . which of COURSE, I don't think are trivial . Sorry that it looks like I am celebrating your troubles . . I am NOT! CPU you say?!? Hmmmmmmmm . Ewwwww! :waughh: |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 600368 | 2007-10-11 03:41:00 | If Home is kept separate then on a reinstall all the Settings etc are there and the reinstall will come back to almost as it was before and if email folders are in home then emails also are retained..Also it is just a bit easier to access Home from another OS. | kjaada (253) | ||
| 600369 | 2007-10-11 03:45:00 | Oh boy, PLEASE do not do the above./boot will stuff up yr duel boot. Explain to me why. Then explain to me why my Laptop dual boots Linux and XP-Pro-SP1 with the following partitioning: hda1 Windows hda2 D Drive hda3 Logical partition hda4 /boot hda5 swap hda6 / (includes /home) You can have a /boot partition. It won't screw up a dual boot system. If you read about grub or read your /boot/grub/grub.conf (or menu.lst) you will see that grub (situated in /boot) is what controls all bootable partitions. You will also see that if you select to boot Windows, grub then sets that windows partition as active so that windows will boot (makeactive) |
Myth (110) | ||
| 600370 | 2007-10-11 04:00:00 | BTW: Where did the new version of PCLOS go that I was going to burn to the cd to save my settings? I made the file..but never found it again. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 600371 | 2007-10-11 04:23:00 | From memory (of what I browsed) remasterme will write it to the home directory of the user running the command | Myth (110) | ||
| 600372 | 2007-10-11 04:25:00 | gonna go looking..thanks | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 600373 | 2007-10-11 04:27:00 | Explain to me why. Then explain to me why my Laptop dual boots Linux and XP-Pro-SP1 with the following partitioning: hda1 Windows hda2 D Drive hda3 Logical partition hda4 /boot hda5 swap hda6 / (includes /home) You can have a /boot partition. It won't screw up a dual boot system. If you read about grub or read your /boot/grub/grub.conf (or menu.lst) you will see that grub (situated in /boot) is what controls all bootable partitions. You will also see that if you select to boot Windows, grub then sets that windows partition as active so that windows will boot (makeactive) There are many ways to set up partitions and I found out after many installs over a long learning period that disaster recovery is easier if a separate home is used.There are all sorts of traps for a newbie like the "hidden"files in HOME that are used to keep settings etc.Getting the best out of Linux is a long learning curve and some documentation leaves a bit to be desired.Getting to know grub is a reasonable test all on its own. |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 600374 | 2007-10-11 04:41:00 | Can you give me some sort of drill-down to find that folder? cron.c and dkms and bonobo-activation don't make much sense.... Am I looking for a file? Where does PCL hide them? I looked in file:/home for a file called "remasterme" but it just iggys me all the time. |
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