Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-29 Thread Andrew Biggadike
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 22:01, Alex Malinovich wrote: > parted is very safe. And it's actually quite easy to use. If you can use > ftp (or any other pseudo-shell program) you'll be right at home in > parted. And if you want to learn more about linux, using a Windows > program such as PM won't help ma

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-28 Thread Andrew Biggadike
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 12:46, Alex Malinovich wrote: > Sorry I got into this thread a bit late. Since it looks like you're > already using Partition Magic, just an ethical heads up for future > reference. With the exception of working with NTFS partitions, GNU > parted, in my experience, works much

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-27 Thread Andrew Biggadike
Ah, yes, I did forget to mention: I am using NT Loader to dual boot, so I believe lilo is on /dev/hda3 (though I'm still not exactly clear about everything). Using the Windows loader shouldn't complicate matters at all, should it? Thanks for the information! Andrew On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 18:28,

Re: Resizing partitions..

2002-06-27 Thread Andrew Biggadike
ow if it is possible to shift the /boot and beginng of / down into the free space (thereby increasing the size of /)? Thanks for the info, Andrew On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 00:59, Travis Crump wrote: > > > Andrew Biggadike wrote: > > I have a laptop that's dual booting Windows 200

Resizing partitions..

2002-06-26 Thread Andrew Biggadike
I have a laptop that's dual booting Windows 2000 and Debian (woody), and I want to resize my partitions so I can give some of the space on the Windows partition to Debian's /. Does anyone have any recommendations as to the best way to go about doing this? If I use a Windows tool, such as Partiti

hostname in dhcpcd

2002-06-19 Thread Andrew Biggadike
I am running Woody and kernel 2.4.18 and installed dhcpcd from potato (because it was recommended). I am properly pulling an IP from my DHCP server, which is nice, but now I cannot use an entry in /etc/hosts to map my IP to my hostname (since it's no longer static). When I try to ping my hostname

Re: Solutions for booting dual OS (separate HDs)

2002-06-19 Thread Andrew Biggadike
Regarding your third question, there's a mini HOWTO on how to use the NT loader to boot Linux that still applies to Win 2k: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html >From reading this, I have been able to use the NT loader to boot Debian on a different partition -- I'm not sure if havi

XF86Config-4

2002-06-12 Thread Andrew Biggadike
I initially configured X to use a mouse type of ImPS/2, which caused some strange behavior, so I changed it to PS/2 in the XF86Config-4 file. It works well now, however when I did an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' it reverted back to the initial debconf setting and I had to go back and change the config f