On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 09:24:30PM -0400, AIRPLANEIT at aol.com wrote: > I am pleased to announce that this is my first e-mail sent through the Linux operating system (Redhat 7). After a week of "small problems" and a lot of perseverence (sp?), I am now able to connect with my cable modem and Netscape (web based e-mail). We are pleased to hear that! Welcome! > The challenges I overcame (probably seem miniscule to many of you) were: Indeed. We were born with osciloscopes in hands... > Manually partitioning the Linux Drive. > An out of sync monitor. > configuring the monitor settings to anything other than 8 bit color and 640x480. > Finding out how to setup my network card. > > Looking back, I don't see why it seemed so hard. Ahh well... Isn't that the most important reason to love it? > I'm sure I'm going to hit a few more roadblocks before feeling comfortable with wiping my system clean of Win98 (my eventual goal). > > My next challenge is getting Windows to boot through LILO, and (probably at the same time) getting Linux to mount my Windows harddrive. Wish me luck! Don't bother :) If you cannot follow the previous advice: 1. add the following two lines to /etc/lilo.conf other=/dev/<windows boot partition aka C:> label=winblows 2. add the following line to /etc/fstab /dev/<windows partition> /mnt/<mountpoint> vfat defaults 0 0 repeat as necessary florin PS. I hope I have not spoiled your fun :) -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011022/0a8a2414/attachment.pgp