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From: Bill Turner on 27 Aug 2006 05:41 ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 07:19:41 GMT, Al Smith <invalid(a)address.com> wrote: >Interesting idea. It would be like having two separate computers. >Do you use a fixed hard drive for data storage that is shared >between both OSs? ------------ REPLY FOLLOWS ------------ Yes, exactly. I have a 160 GB HD as my second HD which is permanently mounted as the "D" drive, and a swappable tray which is my "C" drive. -- Mr Bill
From: mike on 27 Aug 2006 07:07 "humphry" <humphry(a)i.com> wrote in news:44f0ed1c$0$8875$88260bb3(a)free.teranews.com: > of course you can.. that is a feature of kde.... > the taskbar is called "panel" in kde linux.. right click on it and you > will see the > Configure Panel option. Then you will see a window that has some small > rectangle buttons in a square formation.. this shows where you want to > place the > "taskbar". See screenshot Very nice, too. Of course, this is one of the things that drives me nutty about trying to use linux - it's all so nice if you can speak the language. What we get is a few fine chaps like you and Mark who answer specific questions - and there's not all tha many who do, in English at any rate, and you try it - (I just have), and you think, what a cracking OS, if only I could find out which one was the OS, and the instructions weren't written in Klingon. Oh well, we shall win, if we faint not ;-) mike
From: Whirled Peas on 27 Aug 2006 08:51 On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:23:22 -0400, Mark Warner wrote: > Agreed. I suspect there was an update to GrUB that somehow glitched and > overwrote the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. I've noticed this happening too, on the last two kernel updates. I dual boot ubuntu 6.06 / arch 0.7.2. The last two times ubuntu has done a kernel update, it has overwritten my /boot/grub/menu.lst file and I've had to edit it to add the entry for Arch again. To Harvey: it may be too late, but if you have not reinstalled windows, you might try this: Open a terminal and type 'sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst' hit enter and put in your user password. Then add the following below the last entry in the menu: title Microsoft Windows XP Professional root (hd0,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 assuming you have a standard XP install. You *should* be able to boot back into windows once again. --
From: Roger Johansson on 27 Aug 2006 09:13 Daze N. Knights wrote: > Sounds like a good option for experimenting with Linux without risking > one's Windows. Have *you* had any experience with Kingwin brand, perchance? I bought a very similar product and could not make it work. Later I found out that I had to use the key that comes with it and turn it to enable the hard disk in the drawer unit. I don't know if all such units work that way but it can be useful to know if it doesn't work for that reason. I thought the key was there to stop people from stealing the hd so I did not realize that it had to be used to enable the hd. Another way to have exchangeble hard disks is what I am using now. I don't have the cover on my computer on it, so I can move the contacts to the hard disks between different hard disks. I have not mounted the hard disks as usual. I'm too lazy for that. It is easier to just place a new hd in the computer and connect it without pushing it into a compartment often hindered by cables. Instead I have them standing vertically at the bottom of the inside, so I can easily disconnect and connect any hard disk I want to use at the moment. It doesn't matter for the function of a hard disk if you use it vertically or upside down or any way you want it. -- Roger J.
From: HVS on 27 Aug 2006 12:04
On 27 Aug 2006, Whirled Peas wrote > On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:23:22 -0400, Mark Warner wrote: > > >> Agreed. I suspect there was an update to GrUB that somehow >> glitched and overwrote the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. > > I've noticed this happening too, on the last two kernel > updates. I dual boot ubuntu 6.06 / arch 0.7.2. The last two > times ubuntu has done a kernel update, it has overwritten my > /boot/grub/menu.lst file and I've had to edit it to add the > entry for Arch again. > > To Harvey: it may be too late, but if you have not reinstalled > windows, you might try this: Open a terminal and type 'sudo > gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst' hit enter and put in your user > password. Then add the following below the last entry in the > menu: title Microsoft Windows XP Professional > root (hd0,0) > savedefault > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > assuming you have a standard XP install. You *should* be able > to boot back into windows once again. Thanks for that; I've printed it off and saved it for future reference. (At the time, I'd been dual-booting into Win98SE; I finally went over to XP (Pro) this past spring, and haven't put a Linux distro on since then.) -- Cheers, Harvey |