[Wylug-help] Re: Wylug-help Digest, Vol 35, Issue 1

[James Gregory]

Hi Glenn,

I don't remember seeing your previous message, but your problem sounds
somewhat similar to the problem I experienced installing XP. Firstly,
as far as I am aware, fdisk is available under Fedora by default, but
you need to be logged in as root (it is a superuser command for
obvious reasons). A slightly more helpful tool might be parted
(qtparted and gparted are the graphical versions) - these can be
installed using "yum install qtparted" or "yum install gparted"
depending on which GUI you are using.

I have also experienced the same mysterious XP boot issue. I think it
possibly stems from either having Linux partitions on your hard drive,
or the Linux partitions being ahead of your Windows partitions in the
partition table. The only solution I found to fixing this problem was
to reformat the drive and install Windows first (I was rebuilding my
PC at the time, so this may not be feasible to you now).

Regarding the USB modem, I don't think Fedora supports many (if any)
USB modems by default. Depending on what kind of USB modem you have,
you may be able to find firmware on the Internet (for some Speedtouch
modems, there are tools available to extract the firmware from the
modem and use that).

Feel free to email me back if you need more help.

James

On 04/02/2008, wylug-help-request at wylug.org.uk
<wylug-help-request at wylug.org.uk> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Schultz Glenn DWP LEEDS NORTH" <GLENN.SCHULTZ at DWP.GSI.GOV.UK>
> To: <wylug-help at wylug.org.uk>
> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 10:57:43 -0000
> Subject: [Wylug-help] (no subject)
>
>
>
> Howdy!
> I sent a communique last week about installing Fedora on my computer and it
> spannering up the Windows stuff.  Over the weekend I tried various other
> things but nothing works.  I tried to run the 'fdisk' command to find out if
> the XP's still on there but hidden and it gave me an error message which was
> 'command not found'  when I typed just 'fdisk' I got a list of commands with
> various switches but none of them worked.  The USB light on the modem
> doestn't light which my ISP claims is because the USB drivers aren't
> installed properly and I can't get the XP disk to boot and re-intstall -
> when I put the disk in the machine and re-boot I get a message saying that
> configuration information is being collected and then the screen goes blank
> and nothing happens.  At the moment I've got a machine with a semi
> functioning o/s and no internet connection which I need for various things
> as a matter of urgency, does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Help!!!!!!!
>
> Glenn Schultz
> Accuracy
> 0113 3824011
> mailto:Glenn.Schultz at DWP.GSI.GOV.UK
>
>


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James Gregory
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