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Postby Village_Ideot » Jul 30, 2002 @ 9:06pm

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Postby R0B » Jul 30, 2002 @ 9:31pm

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Postby R0B » Jul 30, 2002 @ 11:10pm

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Postby Mike Bannick » Jul 31, 2002 @ 12:22am

Hey rob you should subscribe to linux format (www.linuxformat.co.uk). They include the latest mandrake distro in their magazines cd. They also have some good articles. Btw I can get into x at 1024x768.
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Postby Mike Bannick » Jul 31, 2002 @ 12:23am

There is also a project called lindows (www.lindows.org) and a few others. But wines been around the longest i think.
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Postby Mike Bannick » Jul 31, 2002 @ 12:26am

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Postby R0B » Jul 31, 2002 @ 1:44am

how do you uninstall red hat? I decided to just format the harddrive, but then lilo caused the comp to freeze ever time I started it up. So, I had to reinstall red hat in order to get into xp.
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Postby BurningSheep » Jul 31, 2002 @ 1:56am

You need to restore the original bootsector.

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Postby R0B » Jul 31, 2002 @ 3:29am

Well, guess who messed up the master boot record. Yep, me. Being the intelligent guy I am(:oops:), I assumed that lilo -u (which I read about in Red Hat Linux for dummies) uninstalled lilo completely (not just revert to an old save state). So, I ran it again to make sure it was gone, and was informed that I have to run lilo -U if I know what I was doing. Well, I though I did. Long story short, I didn't. Now, I can't get into XP at all. Also, when I installed redhat, I used to get the option to have "dos" as a bottable option, but that no longer appears. Is there any way to fix this, or should I scrap everything (both harddrives) and start over from scratch. I was planning on doing a fresh install of xp soon (but not this soon). Also, I made a backup cd of everything I could think of that might need to be saved incase linux screwed something up (or rather me messing with it), but there are a few things that I would like to check, to ensure that they are saved on the disk. Is there any way to view my xp hard drive from linux?
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Postby R0B » Jul 31, 2002 @ 3:35am

btw, feel free the laugh at my own stupidity, I know I am.
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Postby sponge » Jul 31, 2002 @ 3:40am

Since your on XP, your screwed. But, if you can, get a bootdisk: http://www.powerload.fsnet.co.uk/bootdisk.htm and try fdisk -mbr
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Postby angedelamort » Jul 31, 2002 @ 4:13am

Hmmm, boot sector... what great memories...

But if you are looking for a interface like XP, you should have a look to this ditro:


Look how close it looks like WinXP ^_^
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Postby sponge » Jul 31, 2002 @ 4:47am

Huh? How could have MS not attacked that yet?
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Postby Jadam » Jul 31, 2002 @ 5:14am

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