I have printed out the below to try and follow.
Well I'm only four years with Linux also and allocated WinMe to the slave HDD after having partitioned that HDD enough with Mandrake9.1.
I am now running Mandrake 10 Official on the primary HDD and when needed can boot into WinMe.
For you to either partition your existing HDD to take both Mandrake and WinMe you need to install the one using the 2.6.3-7 kernel to recognize your memory stick efficiently. ( I assume you are using a USB type stick?)
When using the LiveCD only you may need to access your memstick as root. Try the following: - ( having booted with the memstick installed ) within the command console.[ konsole ] :
$ su Password: # cd /mnt # ls -al At this point you ought to see an entry something like " removable " with owner and group being " root:root " If not then your livecd might be only the 2.4.x kernel variety and we will need to approach things differently.
Ok. I find a program on Madrake Move called Konsole. and I type in the above (including the $ and #?)
Go this far and let us know what you have found. You might want to try the following as well and post here the answer:
# lsusb
Then I do the same here - right?
Depending on you configuration there are many ways to proceed and I would care to find the one that most suits your needs.
Another point, you ought to be able to copy files, save files, to the hard drive without changing it in any way. Simply open a Folder somewhere within your windows system and save things directly to that. Your windows system ought to show up within the /mnt directory and be listed with the above mentioned command also. [ Let us know if you have problems mounting the windows ' partition ' .
Mandrake Move is not supposed to be able to access the HDD, as I understand.
One last thing for now, to prepare to get the modem working do a search for [ from within windows is fine as you will need to download a file ] " scanmodem " . Along the way you will discover www.linmodems.org - please join the mailing list and download the scanmodem file and save it onto your harddrive - possibly within the same folder you ought to create for your linux stuff.
Lets get your system working!
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