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What you need is the free tool: Ranish Partition Manager is a boot manager and hard disk partitioner. It gives users high level of control for running multiple operating systems, such as Linux, Windows 98/XP, FreeDOS, and FreeBSD on a single disk. download from: http://www.ranish.com/part/

please post your /etc/fstab file to see if your Zip drive is listed there...

On RH9, configure your name server via: "System settings, network configurator", then select the DNS tab. I have mine harcoded to my DNS server, even though I don't recall doing that... Having said that, there are 2 tools in RH9, pump (older) and dhcpcd which does the updating of...

Sounds like a bad connection (cable or hub) or misconfigured ip/netmask. Try as root "tcpdump" to see is you can see ANY network traffic (even try the ping).. Regards, Linux1@USA.COM

which commands you mean? try "cdp" or "cdplay" for console mode; xcdplayer kscd (KDE) cdplayer applet for GNOME. This is Linux! You have options.... Linux1@USA.COM

/dev/hdb1 /public ext3 defaults 1 1 >What I'm basically saying is that I want to have hdb ?>available with two directories at the root, htdos and >ftdocs. Just two dir's at the root please. :) Linux (and Unix) can only have ONE root for the entire system. If you want to create 2...

regarding the last question: where to install boot loader: 1) in the past there were bugs and many installations had problems (mostly on the Windows side) when dealing with MBR changes. New Linux distros don't have the problem. 2) when you want to hide the fact that Linux is installed! Some...

NTFS is RO by default but you can enable RW, which is dangerous because NT does not know about Linux. See the NT password changing utility at http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html as an example of a kernel with WRITE support enabled. -NTFS write support (DANGEROUS)...

To enable root FTP access to your box you need to delete the 'root' line from /etc/ftpusers which, contrary to logic is a list of users that CANNOT login! Regards, Adrian Mikeliunas.

you need to start linux in runlevel 3! At the lilo prompt, type: linux 3 If you already are running Linux, got to virtual console #2 py pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2, then type: init 3 Then run Xconfigurator to configure our video and monitor. Adrian Mikeliunas---Certified Linux Professional...

Depending on your distribution: If it's Red Hat, boot from the CD or bootable floppy, and select rescue from the menu. OR go to http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html and download this rescue disk. THEN mount your hard drive (usually: mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt) which will be in read write mode...

Hi xiskewl: Have you tried a manual mount in a DIFFERENT directory? Do you have a /mnt/cdrom ??? TRY THE FOLLOWING: mkdir /cdrom mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom ls -lR /cdrom DOES THIS WORK???? The problem is really supermount making some interesting assumptions for you. Don't forget that you're...

Based on your description, your diagnosis is correct: you have a mini-firewall--it's called tcp wrappers and it's configured via the /etc/xinetd.conf file (or dirctory). It is currently allowing local connections, but no remote ones. Look into this file and check the man page for more info: man...

Version 7 should have the report compiler component in the CD. For version 8 there is a component that needs to be downloaded from http://support.crystaldecisions.com/communityCS/FilesAndUpdates/scr8_distr_expert.exe.asp and Crystal is planning to phase out...

There is a difference between a GUI and a graphical login. to start the X GUI: type startx to start the Display Manager: type init 5