quite please ... mucks is upgrading

[tjm4fun]

I have 6 os's and 2 data partitions on a 60 gig drive. that answer your question? hehe

w2kpro, slackware10,yoper2.1, dsl1.5, suse10,pclinuxos, 10 gig fat32 data to share linux and w2k, and a 5 gig for linux only share.

I would say in any layout, min 10 gig for the os, and create a larger data type drive(s) to store your data you want to keep and share on. no reason while normally running you can;t cahnge os's on a whim

which os do I use? well, was yoper, but that's now old, and no updates, but it is very fast and plays videos well. DSL is there for ref and emergency work, a sweet little os. Slackware is where I play, compile kernels, build stuff, it is a simple almost build everything you want os, tho it does support and use packages.
PClinuxos has great online multimedia support, but could be faster, I use it alot while surfing. Suse is on to see where it is and see if I can build a workable os for the kids that is safe from being hacked.
Overall, suse seems to be the most useable for a windows user, as fars a click and run.
it is also the ONLY distro to date that has sucessfully printed to my w98 server that has the printer attached.

ok, off to the airport, any post later will be from Atlanta GA for my 2 weeks of hell,err school for work.

 

[muckshifter]

See ya later, tjm4fun.

Well I'm in Mandriva, but haven't a clue where Suse went, can't even see the HD.

 

[tjm4fun]

when you installed mandriva, did you do any partitioning? formatting? if not it is likely still there. BUT if you don;t mount it, you;ll never see it in mandriva.

I can help ya if it;s still there to add it to the bootmenu, or you can drive yourself batty (er) trying to figure out.

you can open a terminal window and run cfdisk and take a gander at what your partition list looks like, post the general info back here for some hints...

 

[muckshifter]

[mucks@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost mucks]# cfdisk
Segmentation fault
[root@localhost mucks]#


... I knew I messed up.

 

[tjm4fun]

hmm, eithery try su - to get full pathing.
if cfdisk doesn;t work, try fdisk.

if not, look in their control panel apps for a graphical partitioning tool, it may be there. Sorry, I never used mandriva, so not sure where they put stuff and what it has installed....

 

[muckshifter]

hmm, eithery try su - to get full pathing.
if cfdisk doesn;t work, try fdisk.

if not, look in their control panel apps for a graphical partitioning tool, it may be there. Sorry, I never used mandriva, so not sure where they put stuff and what it has installed....

Oh they have a very nice pretty 'thing' that shows me lots of information and allows a lot of ... err, to fecking it all up.

You see there is a big problem here ... 400+ versions of Linux, and nobody has your version.

However ...

[mucks@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost mucks]# fdisk

Usage: fdisk [-l] [-b SSZ] [-u] device
E.g.: fdisk /dev/hda (for the first IDE disk)
or: fdisk /dev/sdc (for the third SCSI disk)
or: fdisk /dev/eda (for the first PS/2 ESDI drive)
or: fdisk /dev/rd/c0d0 or: fdisk /dev/ida/c0d0 (for RAID devices)
...
[root@localhost mucks]#

...


And these dam fonts for these web browsers are CRAP ...

I'M GOING BLIND

... OH, THAT'S BETTER

I'LL LEAVE CAPS LOCK ON ... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[tjm4fun]

you use ide, try fdisk /dev/hda.
at least see how many partitions it reports.

 

[muckshifter]

Password:
[root@localhost mucks]# fdisk /dev/hda

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 14946.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): l

0 Empty 1e Hidden W95 FAT1 80 Old Minix be Solaris boot
1 FAT12 24 NEC DOS 81 Minix / old Lin bf Solaris
2 XENIX root 39 Plan 9 82 Linux swap / So c1 DRDOS/sec (FAT-
3 XENIX usr 3c PartitionMagic 83 Linux c4 DRDOS/sec (FAT-
4 FAT16 <32M 40 Venix 80286 84 OS/2 hidden C: c6 DRDOS/sec (FAT-
5 Extended 41 PPC PReP Boot 85 Linux extended c7 Syrinx
6 FAT16 42 SFS 86 NTFS volume set da Non-FS data
7 HPFS/NTFS 4d QNX4.x 87 NTFS volume set db CP/M / CTOS / .
8 AIX 4e QNX4.x 2nd part 88 Linux plaintext de Dell Utility
9 AIX bootable 4f QNX4.x 3rd part 8e Linux LVM df BootIt
a OS/2 Boot Manag 50 OnTrack DM 93 Amoeba e1 DOS access
b W95 FAT32 51 OnTrack DM6 Aux 94 Amoeba BBT e3 DOS R/O
c W95 FAT32 (LBA) 52 CP/M 9f BSD/OS e4 SpeedStor
e W95 FAT16 (LBA) 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux a0 IBM Thinkpad hi eb BeOS fs
f W95 Ext'd (LBA) 54 OnTrackDM6 a5 FreeBSD ee EFI GPT
10 OPUS 55 EZ-Drive a6 OpenBSD ef EFI (FAT-12/16/
11 Hidden FAT12 56 Golden Bow a7 NeXTSTEP f0 Linux/PA-RISC b
12 Compaq diagnost 5c Priam Edisk a8 Darwin UFS f1 SpeedStor
14 Hidden FAT16 <3 61 SpeedStor a9 NetBSD f4 SpeedStor
16 Hidden FAT16 63 GNU HURD or Sys ab Darwin boot f2 DOS secondary
17 Hidden HPFS/NTF 64 Novell Netware b7 BSDI fs fd Linux raid auto
18 AST SmartSleep 65 Novell Netware b8 BSDI swap fe LANstep
1b Hidden W95 FAT3 70 DiskSecure Mult bb Boot Wizard hid ff BBT
1c Hidden W95 FAT3 75 PC/IX

Command (m for help): m
Command action
a toggle a bootable flag
b edit bsd disklabel
c toggle the dos compatibility flag
d delete a partition
l list known partition types
m print this menu
n add a new partition
o create a new empty DOS partition table
p print the partition table
q quit without saving changes
s create a new empty Sun disklabel
t change a partition's system id
u change display/entry units
v verify the partition table
w write table to disk and exit
x extra functionality (experts only)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 131 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda2 * 132 14946 119001487+ 83 Linux

Command (m for help): q

[root@localhost mucks]#

... as I said before ... I aint got a clue.



Window Key + E ... right-click properties

 

[tjm4fun]

Disk /dev/hda: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 131 1052226 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda2 * 132 14946 119001487+ 83 Linux


Window Key + E ... right-click properties

ok, one disk, 2 partitins. hda1 is swap, hda2 is the remainder of the drive, mandrivel.
Suse is gone. no multiboot for you!

later dood! lunch time!

 

[muckshifter]

oh bugger

Thought so ... still I can always do another install.

I was thinking of trying that new one from Microsoft ... XP I think its called, see how I get on with that one. Wonder if they have any good fonts.