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129253
Reminder from: pamiga Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pamiga/cal IRC session reminder Sunday October 7, 2007 9:00 pm - 12:00 am (This event repeats...
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129254
Reminder from: pamiga Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pamiga/cal IRC session reminder Sunday October 7, 2007 9:00 pm - 12:00 am (This event repeats...
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129255
I wondered about putting Linux on another H/D and turning the C (Windows system) drive off, To save all the boot up alternatives, I wondered if I could just...
Dennis
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Oct 9, 2007
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129256
Hello Dennis, ... There's no need to run the windows drive off, you'll want it in if you ever want to access your Windows files from Linux. Linux plays nicely...
Neil Bothwick
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Oct 9, 2007
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129257
... From: "Neil Bothwick" <neil@...> To: <pamiga@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [pamiga] Linux ... or use...
Jade Falcon
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Oct 9, 2007
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129258
... So how do you boot it? Almost all Linux distros take care of this automatically, by adding a bootloader that gives you a choice of Windows or Linux each...
Neil Bothwick
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Oct 9, 2007
11:26 am
129259
G'day How are you all? I thought I would pop back for a while to pay a visit....
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Oct 9, 2007
12:23 pm
129260
... My problem in the past has been, I installed Linux, played with it, then decided to remove it. But I was still left with the bootup option "Windows or...
Dennis
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Oct 9, 2007
7:14 pm
129261
... Boot your Windows CD in rescue mode and run fixmbr. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 7: Definite maybe...
Neil Bothwick
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Oct 9, 2007
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129262
... From: "Neil Bothwick" <neil@...> To: <pamiga@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:26 PM Subject: Re: [pamiga] Linux ... it comes on the...
Jade Falcon
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Oct 9, 2007
9:27 pm
129263
Hello Jade Falcon, ... My question was "How do you boot Windows?". Do you really have to faff around with a boot CD and changing partition flags every time you...
Neil Bothwick
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Oct 9, 2007
10:56 pm
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... From: "Neil Bothwick" <neil@...> To: <pamiga@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 11:56 PM Subject: Re: [pamiga] Linux ... but that was...
Jade Falcon
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Oct 10, 2007
3:22 pm
129265
... I would agree with neil i only have 4 years windows experience but installing suse 10.2 linux was dead easy. Just creat a new partition and then boot the ...
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Oct 10, 2007
5:34 pm
129266
Hi all... ... Two guys in a bar are talking about their wives. "My wife is mad at me again," says the first. "Why?" "I was bombed at the bar across the street...
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Oct 10, 2007
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129267
Hello Jade Falcon, ... I know. I thought it was a bad idea at the time and I still do. You're both trying too hard to fix a problem that doesn't exist, Linux...
Neil Bothwick
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Oct 10, 2007
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129268
Hello wisecracker@..., ... You're right :) -- Neil Bothwick "I think not," said Descartes, and promptly disappeared....
Neil Bothwick
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Oct 10, 2007
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129269
Thankyou people for your suggestions re Linux and switching off a drive. I will go for an installation on another Drive. (I do not believe in partitioning) I...
Dennis
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Oct 10, 2007
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129270
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:39:59 +0100 Neil Bothwick <neil@...> wrote: Hello Neil, ... It wouldn't be as simple as disconnecting either 12V or 5V, either. ...
Brad Rogers
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Oct 10, 2007
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129271
Hello Dennis, ... It does exist, I can assure you, I've seen it with my own eyes :) You may not like it, but you use it. You have at least one partition on ...
Neil Bothwick
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Oct 10, 2007
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It does exist, I can assure you, I've seen it with my own eyes :) You may not like it, but you use it. You have at least one partition on each drive and will...
Dennis
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Oct 10, 2007
9:21 pm
129273
... One thing you may want to try - http://wubi-installer.org I`m giving this a try atm and it works a treat. One thing I like is you can still access your...
Steve Evans
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Oct 10, 2007
9:54 pm
129274
Hello Dennis, ... Yes, but a Linux installation works best with more than one partition. At the very least, you want swap on its own partition, I'd also...
Neil Bothwick
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Oct 10, 2007
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129275
As I said before, they do exist, I've seen them. Multiple partitions make a lot of sense, not only for segregating data from the operating system. What have...
Dennis
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Oct 10, 2007
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129276
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:22:47 +0100 Neil Bothwick <neil@...> wrote: Hello Neil, ... AIUI, swap can be created as a file as well. IOW, Dennis /could/ have ...
Brad Rogers
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Oct 11, 2007
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129277
Hello Brad Rogers, ... It can, but it shouldn't, and many distro installers won't even give you that option. There was a long thread on one of the Gentoo...
Neil Bothwick
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Oct 11, 2007
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129278
Hello Dennis, ... It's got nothing to do with backups, although backing up to another partition on the same drive does give some security; it protects against ...
Neil Bothwick
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Oct 11, 2007
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129279
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:34:15 +0100 Neil Bothwick <neil@...> wrote: Hello Neil, ... It's not something I'd opt for myself, so was unaware that you're often...
Brad Rogers
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Oct 11, 2007
8:56 am
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Hi Dennis, ... Personally the boot loader approach seems the most sound. I don't know if you are inviting problems by having the IDE interace still connected...
Kulwant
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Oct 11, 2007
10:30 am
129281
... <SNIP> ... I decided to download version 10.3 and try and install it. I had already created two linux partitions that I was going to use for Knoppix but...
Andy Knight
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Oct 13, 2007
6:11 pm
129282
... why filesystem did you format them in partiton magic? Suse picks up ReiserFS and ext3 filesystems as linux partitons. If you formatted them as ntfs or...
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