Judy & Lindsay Roberts wrote:
I started with computers in 1980. DOS was an infant at the time. I started to develop software at the time using Basic, progressed to QuickBasic and now VisualBasic.
About four years ago, I put a version of Mandrake Linux on a Windows ME computer. Every knows that ME was a 'virus' of a system. About a month after putting a Linux partition on it, I got a warning that an error had occurred in Linux which could destroy my Windows partition. This had happened several times before and nothing happened when I told it to continue. Bad move. It destroyed my HDD entirely. Since then my wife has said no more Linux on your computers.
I recently hunted for a LIVE CD version of Linux and now have two. Mandrake Move - which looks really good, and Ubuntu Live, which is also great, but can access the HDD and has already changed my screen setting from 75hz to 60 and I cant change it back.
I think I'll go with the Mandrake - but - I cant get it to recognize my 56k internal Modem now my USB printer. It wont write to the USB memory stick either although it has located it. Someone gave me some instructions for finding my modem, but I'm afraid I was too 'green' to go into action. I'm going to need a 'pictured painted' for me on this. However, if I cant get the setting written to the memory stick, what is the point in trying to use the system? I will have to put in my system and internet settings each time it loads. Not practical!
Where do I start? Linz
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. 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 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 ' . 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! -- Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213