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Everyone: I don't know what to do with this. The long and short of it is this: The HD keeps on flairing up intermittently. Sometimes for short bursts, that is, the light is on for a short time, sometimes though keeps on grinding for longer periods. When I make fairly fast circling movements on...

Thanks, guys. I knew about fdisk /mbr in DOS, I just was curious about the command in Recovery Console. John.

Greetings to all and Happy Thanksgiving! I lent the manuals to a friend so can't look for a long forgotten solution. Only remember that in the manual there's a solution for repairing the Master Boot Record after installing Linux on a drive with Win2000 Server already installed. Anyone...

Hello, Years back when I programmed data bases I was doing something with Excel and remembered that somehow the A1, B1, C1, etc. column headers could be changed into captions to better illustrate what the data in that column are about, just like in Access. Anyone know how this is done...

All right, guys, I'll submit, and hope it'll never happen. Cheers, John.

Eric, I have installed Debian and SuSE on two of my servers. SuSE's YAST is great, I even got a full desktop from the get go, without much config. Not so with Debian. It took quite lots of fiddling between Debian's config parameters and the monitor and video card's drivers. Debian will have to...

Well, it's no cakewalk to be sure, but it's getting better. If only Debian would improve its installation. They are working on an interface (has a code name, I forgot). As far as Linux's desktop... Although it is the logical and desirable development, I am not very enthused about it. The main...

Well, it's no cakewalk to be sure, but it's getting better. If only Debian would improve its installation. They are working on an interface (has a code name, I forgot). As far as Linux's desktop... Although it is the logical and desirable development, I am not very enthused about it. The main...

Correct, Mark. When I installed and ran Debian 3.0r2 and SuSE 8.2, I had to give it to Linux that it is developing and advancing by leaps and bounds. Windows is a good system, but extremely expensive, by that I especially mean its Server variants. But because Windows is all pervasive at home...

Thank you all. Being a newbie (spending all my life with Windoze) I need to find out more technical traits about linux. These may be trivial to you, and hope it'll become so for me too, sooner than later. John.

Hello again Stefan, Maybe my question wasn't that clear. What I meant was Linux file systems that can see Windows and MS-Dos files (partitions) when the computer is running Linux. That is, for example, seeing and editing a text file in a Windows or DOS partition. I know ext2 file system can...

Hi all, What are the Linux file systems TRULY Windoze and MS-DOS compatible? John.

Stefan, I am not at coding yet. Yours helps, since I had C in college and I became sort of half adept at it. Shell writing will come, but I still have to tend to my Windoze obligations. I've been told about the modem drivers by someone who had a a linux tech website, but who and where has...

Hello, Stefan. Being an eternal experimenter, I thought trying to work the two together. So far I'm out of luck. But whith LiLo they work quite well. I know that in 9.0 SuSE has legalized their Win Modem drivers. I also know they already had these drivers out in 8.2 but don't know what files...

Another Q: Is anyone running this combination (or anything similar) on the same disk? Win98 in first partition + SuSE 8.2 and Debian 3.0r2 in the extended partition. Can't make SuSE's GRUB work with Debian's LILO. Thanks, John.