Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-05 Thread Peter Whysall
ben wrote: > On Saturday 05 October 2002 03:20 am, Peter Whysall wrote: > [snip] > >>Excuse me, but I think that preventing someone from inadvertently nuking >>their whole Debian installation might have something to do with Debian. >> >> >>>do i have to wait for someone else to invoke godwin's

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-05 Thread ben
On Saturday 05 October 2002 04:44 am, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 04:38:53AM -0700, ben wrote: > > On Saturday 05 October 2002 04:14 am, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 03:53:21AM -0700, ben wrote: > > > > btw, you're (moc)ked return address is more than half wa

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 04:38:53AM -0700, ben wrote: > On Saturday 05 October 2002 04:14 am, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 03:53:21AM -0700, ben wrote: > > > btw, you're (moc)ked return address is more than half way to spam > > > rejection by my very liberal filters. > > > > I as

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-05 Thread ben
On Saturday 05 October 2002 04:14 am, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 03:53:21AM -0700, ben wrote: > > On Saturday 05 October 2002 03:36 am, ben wrote: > > > On Saturday 05 October 2002 03:20 am, Peter Whysall wrote: > > [...] > > > btw, you're (moc)ked return address is more than ha

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-05 Thread ben
On Thursday 03 October 2002 08:38 pm, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 03:36:35 -0700 > > ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 05 October 2002 03:20 am, Peter Whysall wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > Excuse me, but I think that preventing someone from inadvertently > > > nuking thei

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 03:53:21AM -0700, ben wrote: > On Saturday 05 October 2002 03:36 am, ben wrote: > > On Saturday 05 October 2002 03:20 am, Peter Whysall wrote: [...] > btw, you're (moc)ked return address is more than half way to spam > rejection by my very liberal filters. I assume you're

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-05 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 03:36:35 -0700 ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 05 October 2002 03:20 am, Peter Whysall wrote: > [snip] > > > > Excuse me, but I think that preventing someone from inadvertently nuking > > their whole Debian installation might have something to do with Debian. > > >

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-05 Thread ben
On Saturday 05 October 2002 03:36 am, ben wrote: > On Saturday 05 October 2002 03:20 am, Peter Whysall wrote: > [snip] > > > Excuse me, but I think that preventing someone from inadvertently nuking > > their whole Debian installation might have something to do with Debian. > > > > > do i have to w

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-05 Thread ben
On Saturday 05 October 2002 03:20 am, Peter Whysall wrote: [snip] > > Excuse me, but I think that preventing someone from inadvertently nuking > their whole Debian installation might have something to do with Debian. > > > do i have to wait for someone else to invoke godwin's law, or is this > > e

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-05 Thread Peter Whysall
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 09:45, ben wrote: > On Saturday 05 October 2002 12:32 am, Peter Whysall wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 19:43, Kourosh Ghassemieh wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 07:30:47PM +0100, jerry k wrote: > > > > Kourosh wrote: > > > > > One thing you may want to try is to use W2

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-05 Thread ben
On Saturday 05 October 2002 12:32 am, Peter Whysall wrote: > On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 19:43, Kourosh Ghassemieh wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 07:30:47PM +0100, jerry k wrote: > > > Kourosh wrote: > > > > One thing you may want to try is to use W2K's disk management > > > > tools to delete the la

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-05 Thread Peter Whysall
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 19:43, Kourosh Ghassemieh wrote: > On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 07:30:47PM +0100, jerry k wrote: > > Kourosh wrote: > > > > > One thing you may want to try is to use W2K's disk management > > > tools to delete the last partitioan, i.e. G:, then reboot > > > so that it is no longe

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-04 Thread Russell
jerry k wrote: > > I'm new to GNU/Linux & Debian and am having a problem with installing to a > system running Win2k... You should just get a cheap/free second pc to play with. No need to worry about crashing and reinstalling windoze then. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-04 Thread Kourosh Ghassemieh
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 07:30:47PM +0100, jerry k wrote: > Kourosh wrote: > > > One thing you may want to try is to use W2K's disk management > > tools to delete the last partitioan, i.e. G:, then reboot > > so that it is no longer recognized as drive G: in Windows. > > That should clear up the p

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-04 Thread jerry k
Josh wrote: > I have had a similar problem when dualbooting with XP. The problem is when you > create partitions within Windows Windows thinks that the said partitions are > Windows native so it goes and tries to "mount" the partitions even though they > have an ext2 filesystem. What you need t

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-04 Thread Matěj Hausenblas
On Friday 04 October 2002 19:47, jerry k wrote: # I'm new to GNU/Linux & Debian and am having a problem with installing to a # system running Win2k. I've done a lot of reading on the dual-boot subject # but haven't seen anything to make me believe there's anything wrong with my # setup. Basicall

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-04 Thread jerry k
Kourosh wrote: > One thing you may want to try is to use W2K's disk management > tools to delete the last partitioan, i.e. G:, then reboot > so that it is no longer recognized as drive G: in Windows. > That should clear up the problem with Explorer trying to > read the G: drive. This won't affec

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-04 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 06:47:39PM +0100, jerry k wrote: > I'm new to GNU/Linux & Debian and am having a problem with installing to a > system running Win2k. I've done a lot of reading on the dual-boot subject > but haven't seen anything to make me believe there's anything wrong wit

Re: Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-04 Thread Kourosh
Jerry, One thing you may want to try is to use W2K's disk management tools to delete the last partitioan, i.e. G:, then reboot so that it is no longer recognized as drive G: in Windows. That should clear up the problem with Explorer trying to read the G: drive. Then you can go ahead and use cfd

Slow Win2k after Debian install

2002-10-04 Thread jerry k
I'm new to GNU/Linux & Debian and am having a problem with installing to a system running Win2k. I've done a lot of reading on the dual-boot subject but haven't seen anything to make me believe there's anything wrong with my setup. Basically, my partitions looked like this: Primary: C: / hda1