Re: motherboard change

2003-07-19 Thread Johan Scheepers
s partition name > > At 06:19 PM 7/18/03 -0500, you wrote: > >On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 12:02, Johan Scheepers wrote: > >> May I enquire.. > >> This swapping - was the drive position always drive one? > > > >yes > >> If I swap on my machine drive

Re: motherboard change

2003-07-18 Thread Johan Scheepers
May I enquire.. This swapping - was the drive position always drive one? If I swap on my machine drive two to drive one I get a kernel panic. Are you somehow tricking linux to accept this? Enjoy Johan - Original Message - From: "T. Ribbrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Multiboot issues and GRUB

2003-07-15 Thread Johan Scheepers
Mark If you want to make a GRUB bootdisk not Redhat bootdisk then. You might find this link of some use. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/l-dw-linuxgrub-i.html You have to register (its free)but it's clear, simple and effective or at least it has been for me. Download the zip file ex

Fw: Multiboot issues and BRUB

2003-07-14 Thread Johan Scheepers
Hi to Mark Haney, This is a posting I did on another list - multiboot on multiple drives and I use it. Maybe this this will help Enjoy Johan * - Original Message - From: "Johan Scheepers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mandrake-Newbie" <[E

Re: Multi Boot issues and GRUB

2003-07-14 Thread Johan Scheepers
Hi Mark, I am forwarding you a ful posting I did on another list , the attachment there has a copy of my GRUB menu.lst. GRUB is tops - multi boot on multiple drives I use it.. If you do not receive it please feel free to inform me. I wil then copy all to your mail. Enjoy Johan *

Fw: Multiboot issues and BRUB

2003-07-14 Thread Johan Scheepers
Hi to Mark Haney, This is a posting I did on another list - multiboot on multiple drives and I use it. Maybe this this will help Enjoy Johan * - Original Message - From: "Johan Scheepers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mandrake-Newbie" <[E

Fw: Multiboot issues and BRUB

2003-07-14 Thread Johan Scheepers
Hi to Mark Haney, This is a posting I did on another list - multiboot on multiple drives and I use it. Maybe this this will help Enjoy Johan * - Original Message - From: "Johan Scheepers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mandrake-Newbie" <[E

Re: Grub won't boot after cloning drive

2003-07-10 Thread Johan Scheepers
More info needed but... This cloned drive are you using it as your second drive and "old" drive as first drive? If so the second drive will not boot - you wil have kernel panic. If you use it as first drive - menu.lst on boot does it look the same. If there is no way you can boot then you probably

Re: Antivirus for Linux

2003-07-10 Thread Johan Scheepers
I have used the following antivrus programs 1. F-prot 2. Clam antivirus 3. Antvir antivirus. (For full benifits need to install Dazuko- could never get it installed.) How good they are can not say - according to them my system is clean - can not disprove it. So I am happy. Johan *

Re: which IDE controller I have

2003-07-10 Thread Johan Scheepers
It is nice having a fast drive but if you stick it with something slow say ata66. This drive will now only work at ata66. I had these problems with older stuff. Depending on your MB bus speed ata 100 / 133 or whatever. I would seriously suggest getting a ultra dma ata ??? IDE card - IF there is roo

Re: HELP - serious hd problem

2003-07-10 Thread Johan Scheepers
Some suggestions Do you have a program to test memory? Memtest86 is on the net for free. It is very good. If you have mandrake 9.1 disc 1 in images it may be found. I also had these HD crashes and PC resets by itself. By chance I read in a magazine that flaky memory may cause HD problems and all

Re: fs corruption problem

2003-06-30 Thread Johan Scheepers
Try also rmdir xx xx x see man rmdir for options - Original Message - From: "Zoki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "rhlist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 8:56 AM Subject: Re: fs corruption problem > Le 29/06/2003 16:28, « Julian Opificius » <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > >

Installing grub on floppy

2003-06-29 Thread Johan Scheepers
Hi, I would like to install GRUB on a floppy. The command on a multiboot howto give this-- grub-install '(fd0)' GRUB not very happy with this On the GRUB man this is the command grub --install-partition=PAR I can not find the correct sequence of the option? Somewhere the floppy should be in t

Re: Optimize Redhat9

2003-06-13 Thread Johan Scheepers
Hi, I found that a certain program took 4 min to startup - then I replaced the drive with a 7200 rpm and 2mb cache on board - now it take 1 min. Same Pc same cpu. So drive performance makes a BIG difference. Johan - Original Message - From: "Marcos de Souza Trazzini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T