Re: Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR.

1997-11-02 Thread Mike Orr
On Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 01:15:06PM +1100, Dale Harrison wrote: > Until it came to LILO. Installed LILO, booted Linux fine. Added the lines > to boot Win95, it took 2 goes for it to install the new record [it never > complained the first time about failing]. Problem is, it simply doesn't > boot Win9

Re: Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR.

1997-11-01 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Where can one find information about /sbin/activate? I have it > on my system (Debian 1.2.18), but no man pages, How-To, or other > documentation. It does not give any meaningful response to activate -h > or activate --help. What does this program do? According

Re: Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR.

1997-10-31 Thread Adam Heath
-Original Message- From: Dale Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, October 29, 1997 9:26 PM Subject: Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR. >Hello. > >I had a weird problem last night, installing Debian 1.3* on a friends PC. >F

Re: Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR.

1997-10-30 Thread Paul Miller
I don't have an awsome computer like that, but I experianced problems when installing LILO on the MBR with win95. Win95 lost all its long filenames! I'd would try installing LILO on the root partition of Linux. -Paul On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Dale Harrison wrote: > Hello. > > I had a weird problem

Re: Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR.

1997-10-30 Thread hilliard
Where can one find information about /sbin/activate? I have it on my system (Debian 1.2.18), but no man pages, How-To, or other documentation. It does not give any meaningful response to activate -h or activate --help. What does this program do? Bob On 30 Oct 1997 Carey Evans <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR.

1997-10-30 Thread Carey Evans
Dale Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > Ok, a bit of a hassle. He needs his Win95 stuff more than Linux, so I'll > just remove LILO and figure out something else later. lilo -u, lilo -U > both complain that theres no LILO boot signature on /dev/hda. Hence > nothing is removed. IIRC (s

Re: Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR.

1997-10-30 Thread Ben Pfaff
Dale Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, I guess I'm throwing this out to you guys, is this a Windows problem? > A Debian problem? A LILO problem? A FAT32 problem? I can't point out a solution but I can tell you that it's probably not related specifically to Debian or to Linux, as I have h

Linux, FAT32 and a mighty odd MBR.

1997-10-30 Thread Dale Harrison
Hello. I had a weird problem last night, installing Debian 1.3* on a friends PC. For what it's worth, it's a PentiumII/266, some hideous amount of memory, some hideous amount of HD space. Aside from the SuperMicro motherboard bug [Which has been reported, I'm fairly sure..], you know, the one whe