[Glastonbury] New to it

[peter cole]

On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 11:19, mauricemail wrote:

> 
> Kelvin McNulty introduced the topic of disk partitioning. After several
> years of costly mistakes I do seem to have sorted that problem. Until the
> next mess-up, of course. I decided to install a Linux distro on a separate
> hard drive partitioning the drive in such a way that I had some fat32 space
> for temporary m$ backup from the other drive. I unplugged the other drive
> for belt and braces security. Now I use a bios facility to select the boot
> drive from a menu which comes up if  you press F8 at boot up time.
> 

Yes i have done it that way as well but before i realised you could
switch over in the bios so i was unplugging cables !!! this was when i
first started out using Linux

I would not recommend using the mbr on the first disk toinstall lilo or
grub to carry on booting the second disk with linx ( i know you have not
done this) 
I did it this way for a while but the windows  hard disk ( disk one
died) and it screwed the access to the second drive for booting even the
floppy boot disk did not work as it was looking for the first disk.  

> So I have the 10.1 Mandrake distro successfully installed. Now here begineth
> the real head-aches!
> 
> We have a broadband router/modem. Has four network connections plus one usb.
> One of us connects using an Ethernet cable, I use the usb. I also have an
> Ethernet card and for Linux thought it better to connect that to the router
> too. M$ has always performed perfectly through the usb (honest). Mandrake
> didn't connect. After lots of tweaking it did and then after a period of
> time (5 to 15 minutes) disconnects all by itself. Will often work again if I
> re-boot. The Ethernet connection is being used. Any thoughts on what may be
> causing this problem would be welcomed.

Not sure on that one but form what i have read most recommend sticking
with ethernet access not usb 

> 
> And hurrah. The connection was maintained just long enough to download the
> Firefox browser. I used Ark without knowing why. Happily Firefox  installed
> itself without a problem and launched automatically at the end of the set-up
> process. By that time, of course, the internet connection had gone down.
> Re-booted to see if the connection would re-establish and couldn't find
> Firefox. I've found a Firefox folder but cannot discover an executable file.
> Any assistance would be welcomed.

I am sure that you have tried what every one else has offerd in the way
of searching. the executable file may be in /usr/bin Justa thought

> 
> Once again, thank you to all who responded to my cry for help.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ian Dickinson" <ian_j_dickinson at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: "The Linux User Group of Glastonbury (LUGOG)"
> <glastonbury at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Friday, 17, December 2004 10:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [Glastonbury] New to it
> 
> 
> > In case anyone doesn't follow the discussion at
> > Slashdot [1], IBM have posted a free pdf guide [2] to
> > migrating from Windows desktops to Linux.
> > Particularly aimed at business users, I think, but I
> > expect there's useful stuff in there for home users
> > too.
> >
> > The abstract:
> >
> > """
> > The goal of this IBM Redbook is to provide a technical
> > planning reference for IT organizations large or small
> > that are now considering a migration to Linux-based
> > personal computers. For Linux, there is a tremendous
> > amount of "how to" information available online that
> > addresses specific and very technical operating system
> > configuration issues, platform-specific installation
> > methods, user interface customizations, etc. This book
> > includes some technical "how to" as well, but the
> > overall focus of the content in this book is to walk
> > the reader through some of the important
> > considerations and planning issues you could encounter
> > during a migration project. Within the context of a
> > pre-existing Microsoft Windows-based environment, we
> > attempt to present a more holistic, end-to-end view of
> > the technical challenges and methods necessary to
> > complete a successful migration to Linux-based
> > clients.
> > """
> >
> > Ian
> >
> > [1] for those that don't know it, it's a very busy
> > tech-oriented discussion board with a wide range of
> > topics and a highly variable quality of discussion!
> >
> > http://slashdot.org
> >
> >
> > [2] "Linux client migration cookbook"
> > http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246380.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ___________________________________________________________
> > ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun!
> http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Glastonbury Linux User Group mailing list
> > Glastonbury at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/glastonbury
> >
> > User group website: http://www.lugog.org.uk/
> >
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Glastonbury Linux User Group mailing list
> Glastonbury at mailman.lug.org.uk
> http://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/glastonbury
> 
> User group website: http://www.lugog.org.uk/