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post #21 of 31
2/12/03 at 7:07pm

triple, quadruple....

Lilo, Grub can handle lots of different boots, you are only limited by the number of primary partition your hard drive can handle (4) considering any OS will require one. The most capable boot loader IMHO is the FreeBSD bootloader....There was this guy on an article in slashdot who was running somit like 39 OS plus somit like another 20 different DOS versions. Or was it 300 OS total ?

One more day passing, lappy will arrive ...soon
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post #22 of 31
2/12/03 at 8:23pm
Yeah, tonight I'm going to re emerge qt and kde, which should fix all my problems... I talked to a local gentoo head.

As for the pcmcia stuff... I'm a little unclear of how to get to use the yenta_socket module... I'm guessing I'm not configuring my kernel quite properly. What and where are the options you are selecting dirtboy?


Sorry about sounding naggy! I'm just at the end of my rope with my senior design class.
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post #23 of 31
2/12/03 at 8:32pm
Enable PCMCIA support, then enable Cardbus support. That should compile the yenta_socket module. Also go into network adapters and select the module you need for your card under PCMCIA network adapters. Then, after it boots, you can do these commands:

modprobe yenta_socket
modprobe ds
cardmgr -f

If that works and your card gets detected and all, you can add yenta_socket and ds to your /etc/modules.autoload file.
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post #24 of 31
2/12/03 at 8:37pm
Now THAT makes alot more sense! Thanks dirtboy! I'll give it a try after work today.
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post #25 of 31
2/13/03 at 10:35pm

primary....

well, when installing mandrake, it reqs 2 partitions..wich will give me 3 total (win/mandrake) the mandrake asks for the /home and /boot..err is it the swap...my hangup i think is trying NOT to make the other linux partitions primary...thats what im trying to solve. I dont mind lilo being my boot manager at all. I just want to run win/man/suse. But, the systems requirements are asking for more..unless theres a way make more partitions without them bieng primary (i really dont want to use partition magic) except for the linux one.
cus normally, i just run a dual boot. triple is new.
Any takers on this?
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post #26 of 31
2/14/03 at 8:02am

Partitions..

The rule is as follow. 4 Primary partitions per hard drive, 5 extended in each primary.

The soluce is to do:
/dev/hda1 NTFS WinXP Primary
/dev/hda2 ext2/ext3/reiserfs /(mdk root)
Primary
/dev/hda5 ext2/ext3/reiserfs /(suse root) Primary

all necessary /home, swap and other /usr partitions should be assigned under each primary root as EXTENDED partitions. Hope that help
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post #27 of 31
2/15/03 at 12:54am

well...

the diff file systems are pretty overwhelming on mandrake when you first install, the default is cool, but i dont want to go that route.
so

/dev/hda2 ext2/ext3/reiserfs /(mdk root)

okay, could you expand on this a little further? Saying, my root is the riser file system?

thanx muchos
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post #28 of 31
2/15/03 at 12:15pm

Partitions

Well basically, declare a partition as primary ( / ), then make an each other partitions as extended ( home, user, var etc ).

So it will look like this:

<hda1> primary <hda5(home), hda6(usr), hda7(var)>
Next Primary partition will be hda2. Hope that help.
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post #29 of 31
2/16/03 at 4:54am

good but...

It went well, i actually got away with a /(boot) part and a /(root) part for drake...but now when i try to install suse, i get that 1024 error...my partition for suse is above that limit, and offers me a chance to change it. Should i wipe all or attempt to fix it? Now, i did not install lilo yet cuz i was going to install it with suse so that it would be able to read all my 0ses. What do you think laclasse (btw, the other tips helped biggs, thanx!)
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post #30 of 31
2/16/03 at 5:34pm

SuSe

icefluxx,

Which Suse are ya trying to install ? 8.0, 8.1 ?
You must have an option to 'NOT TOUCH THE BOOTLOADER', so use it

Install and run lilo from Mandrake. Close your comp, halt it, then put the SuSE CDs, install but DO NOT INSTALL a boot loader. Once installed, re boot in Mandrake, edit as root /etc/lilo.conf, add an entry for SuSE ( man lilo.conf will explain you the syntax to use ), save the file then run '/sbin/lilo' as root. It Sould say, Added Linux, Windows, Suse ( or whatever ya named it in lilo.conf) and return the prompt. If no mistake, you are mint. Now ya can reboot and choose SuSE , win or MDK
Remember, ALWAYS run /sbin/lilo after changing the /etc/lilo.conf file, otherwise your changes will not be taken into account. Hope that helps

Ps: Ya managed to create somit like :
hda1 Windows
hda2 Primary Mandrake
-hda5 /home ext
-hda6 /usr ext
-hda7 /var ext
hda3 Primary SuSE
-hda8 /home ext
- hda9 /usr ext
- hda10 /var ext

i hope so Let me know
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post #31 of 31
2/18/03 at 7:34pm

Its

Suse 7.0...but in suse, now im getting an error...the over 1024 error...
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