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Acronis Utility Exposes Contents of Your Entire Hard Drive
By the time you consider the savings from dropping back to a single cable modem ($40-$50/month), you can pay for a P5-90, 32MB, small hard drive, two cheap ethernet I was ftp'ing files last night at over 160KB/s, which is astounding for $50/month! :-) I'm thinking of getting Mediaone intenet access myself.

Using Slackware Linux as a Live CD Toolbox
NOTE: Before attempting to install 386bsd on a computer with an active DOS partition, ALWAYS back up your hard drive. No one on the net, no matter how ..... The disadvantage of this method comes from the kernel 'sync'ing after all NFS writes. This can slow NFS accesses considerably. As with most generalizations,

How to do system backups?
I do think that the problem comes from that f...ing Windows... Try to change the location of your swap file from your C drive to another (less full) drive. drag-n-drop, zip-n-unzip, uninstall/re-install) but I must be doing something wrong. Some programs just seem to INSIST on being on C drive.

Can't boot DOS from 3.6GB HDD
WHAT @#@^ING ERROR?!!! could you be just a ***little*** more specific?!!! so thats great. exit the install and it wont boot from the linux partition. wonderfull. "an error ocured" the boot loader install tells me. (find solid object, kick it some to ease the frustration) rip 2.1 gig hard drive out of another

Why the heck is the Mac FAT so bad?
My point is, for your "most users" group it's a thoroughly non-trivial exercise to install a new hard drive and successfully transfer the OS, If the user was so f'ing rich, Dont need to be fucking rich to buy a Maxtor 30G Diamondmax 7200 RPM. Even you should be able to manage it. maybe they'd just buy a new

Install Linux with NVIDIA RAID Driver
From the website: http://www.shaysnet.com/~pjaques/copying_win95.html Copying Windows 95 to another Hard Drive If you are upgrading to a larger hard drive and don't want to go through the process of re-installing Windows95, it is very easy to copy your existing version to your new drive. The first steps are to: 1.

Slave hard drive install probs...
9) Decide to install shiney new XP on to 2nd drive, keeping operating sys as normal on the other. For emergencies, see. 10) Give up for now. Put everything back as normal. However you find you now can't play games, hear sounds, and various programs don't quite seem the same. The HD could do with another month or

BNR/2 derived BSD for PCs FAQ (Part 7 of 10)
I'll be installing a new 8.4 GB UDMA hard drive soon. Here's how I'd like to set up the partitions: Partition 1: First 2 GB FAT16 (Win98 boot, OS, cand. ing. Fabian X. Robok _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ Institut fuer Kommunikationsakustik _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum _/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Phone: +49

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I am trying to install LILO on the MBR, but it only gets to the "LI," and then just stops. I have 2 hard drives. Windows 98SE takes up the first one (30GB). LILO on the 2'nd HD's MBR (ignoring the warnings), dd-ing it to a file on the "C" drive, then setting NT's boot manager to use that file as an option.

lilo and moving IDE drives for dual booting?
If you can re-install this backup, after re-formatting and Fdisk'ing the drive as FAT16, you can probably un-install. If you have two hard drives in your computer, you can also Xcopy32 the entire drive to another drive. And make this drive you bootdrive and un-install from there. This is better than tape backup,

MagiC 4 WON'T install! PLEASE help!
I've chosen to install win98 so that I can dual boot. I've installed Win98 on a second hard drive that I installed as the IDE master after unplugging the As it stands, I can boot Debian or win98 by jumper'ing the appropriate drive to the IDE master. I'd rather be able to boot either one by selecting at the boot

Rhapsody Due in 1998 - Joe Ragosta
If ME was installed clean or came preinstalled on the PC, then your only uninstall is to format the hard drive and then install another OS. Boot with your bootable floppy disk and make sure you have access to all drives that you will need to install a new OS. Once you are sure of that, use format.com on the floppy

(OT) I didn't send that spam!!!! - any ideas DoN?
In windows95 you need to defrag your hard drive and make free space at the end of your hd for the linux partion. If you have system files near the end of When you install LILO.... I installed on MBR and then added the dos partion first so that it goes into win95 by default and if i want linux I just press the

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Dimitris Magarakis d...@ath.forthnet.gr I recently added a new Maxtor 7gb hard drive to my Quantex P133 computer (original HD = Western Digital 1.7 gb) After xcopy-ing the entire contents of D: to C:, I booted and the process takes me thru the preliminary windows screen, then leaves me at the DOS c:> prompt.

Active Partition Definition.
Not how to install Windows in a RAID-0 set. I'd like to get a 2nd hard drive so I can boost performance by using striping in a RAID-0 setup. However, for all the effort, there is still the question of whether or not RAID'ing my hard drives will actually effect a significant speed boost in hard disk performance.

Upgrade Help Requested
Another issue is with filenames. GS/OS programs which assume ProDOS naming conventions will have problems with AppleShare or HFS volumes. ProDOS-8 programs have more problems: unless the file server hard drive or shared folder (and all relevant subfolders and files) are named using ProDOS-8 naming restrictions,

ntldr is missing even after re-install
NOTE: Before attempting to install *bsd on a computer with an active DOS partition, ALWAYS back up your hard drive. No one on the net, no matter how ..... The disadvantage of this method comes from the kernel 'sync'ing after all NFS writes. This can slow NFS accesses considerably. As with most generalizations,

How to install NT 4.0 (can't use floppy drive and CD drive at ...
I need to install Linux on 200+ machines. Is it alright if I do a standard install on one machine, then tar-gzip everything on the hard drive, do a very minimal (possibly kernel+network only) install on another machine and gunzip-untar a copy of the image? I'd do one complete installation (as you mentioned) and

DOS hard drive limits
Daniel Ogorchock ogorchoc...@corning.com comp os linux setup Hi, I'm pretty new to the linux scene and would like to know how to create and Redhat 5.1 installation CD. I tried by simply FTP'ing everything to my hard drive and then I burned a copy of the directory structure to CD. Looked great from Windows NT.

Question about install. (two hard drives, install freebsd on ...
The Hard Drive Category does not show up at all, and neither does the Yamaha CDR burner under CDROM category. Tech reps' last words were 'motherboard probably failed'. For Jim: Perhaps I ought to do yet another clean install after DELTREE-ing out the 'new' windows 98 directory..... with the flat available,