Comments on proposed partitioning scheme

2010-09-25 Thread Charles Turner
I'm a new GNU/Linux user. I've recently received a desktop with lots of disk space and I've been thinking about how to use it effectively. It will contain lots of multimedia files, and later I want to set up mail & web servers on it, primarily for edification rather than production, so these are my

Weird Synaptics Touchpad behavior?

2007-10-09 Thread Charles Turner
Hi all- I've got a weird problem with a recently acquired Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop's Synaptics touchpad I'm hoping someone can shed light on. I can provide more info on request, just the basics here. I installed the recent Lenny netinstall and immediately noticed that the touchpad was quite s

Re: Grub issues on Mac Mini?

2007-09-04 Thread Charles Turner
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:16:31 -0400, KS wrote: > I need to update the instructions too as I found some typos and that I > have a bigger 4GB USB disk to test various drivers for the MBP. Hi KS- Cleaned up my internal and got the Grub off the MBR there. (Whew!) Followed your instructions but rEFIt

Re: Grub issues on Mac Mini?

2007-09-04 Thread Charles Turner
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:35:11 -0400, KS wrote: > I installed Debian on a USB key without GRUB and without touching the > HDD on my Macbook Pro. You can read the instructions here > http://ghaint.no-ip.org/~k2/debian/mbp-usb.html if you want to try that > method. Hi KS- Thanks for this. I haven't

Grub issues on Mac Mini?

2007-09-04 Thread Charles Turner
28615 64 32 Disk geometry (-G): 3648 255 63 After grub's installed, the "geometry" command: geometry (hd1) returns 3648 255 63, but I still get my "Hard Disk Error" on boot. Any thoughts on how to resolve this? I'd be happy to supply more info; I know I've bee