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just doing anything

pkmourya
i have 80gb hard drive, firstly it had 4 partition all primary, i changed one of these partition as logical and from it i made 5 gb space free for linux fedora core 2. after that i start installing linux, it shows allignment of partition is not valid? it's safe to ignore but some boot loader may have some prob.
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Need help! grub

bdog676
Hi- I had 2 partitions. 1 with windows xp and 1 with fedora. I used the loader grub. I was running out of hard drive space so I formatted the fedora partition from within windows and restarted my computer.
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Connectivity Issues with Mandriva 2006

Wint
Hello everyone, I tried to search for this issue on the forum and wasn't able to find anything, so I created this new topic. I'm new to Linux and wanted to give it a try, so I downloaded the free version of Mandriva Linux 2006.
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Complete Debain Linux Server Setup Tutorial

gg234
Debian Installation FTP Server Setup in debian Webserver Setup in Debian Samba Server Setup in Debian Database Server Setup in Debian Time clock sync for debian server Mail Server Configuration in Debian VNC Server setup in Debian Proxy Server Setup in Debian SSH Server Setup in Debian tftp Server Setup in Debian D ...
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installing madriva w/o floppy and bootable CD

rcsandovaljr
Hi. my laptop doesnt have a floppy drive but it has a pcmcia cd-rom. how can i install mandrake considering that the pcmcia cd-rom cannot be detected by the bios upon start up. I also have no floppy drive to use as a means for booting or loading the pcmcia drive.
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Dual boot Win xp and Fedora core

hariprasaad
Hi, guys please take time and read this. I hope you can help me out. I am really really new to linux. But I have friends who are linux fanatics. So as per their advice I wanted to try and familiarise myself with linux.
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installing mandrake 10 from hard disk

saura
how to install mandrake 10 from hard disk. do i just hav 2 copy the iso's or i need to extract the contents of the iso's and keep them in separate folders. . . . wil b a gr8 help if u al reply soon. thank u before hand.
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Partitioning guidelines for Linux FC4

krispenmetsa
Hello, everyone! I need help with the following. 1) I want to install Linux FC4 on my 100GB Seagate USB hard drive using my IBM T42 laptop. I don't want to use the logical volumes that come with the default partitioning scheme.
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XOrg composite

bloody
I've been playing around lately, and just got around to enabling X's composite extension. It seems to work beautifully, but I'm having one problem. It seems when I enable the composite extension it breaks OpenGL(such as screensavers, games(crack-attack comes to mind).
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dual boot win xp fedora 4 in single harddisk

ubck
sir Iam new to linux. i have 80gb harddisk and it is partioned as 10gb,10gb,30gb,30gb. In first 10gb i installed winxp sp2 and iam trying to install fedora core 4 in secound 10 gb space. what r the steps to do installation.
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Partition problem

Balandor
Ill make it quick - I installed XP Professional - I used partition disk to create the ext3 and swap partitions so I could install linux - I installed UBUNTU The I used UBUNTU for a while. . . later I wanted to check my XP.
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Triple Boot XP x64, Mandriva(Mandrake 10.2) and Fedora Core 4 x64

wolvram
.. all on one Hard drive. Yeah sounds like fun doesn't it. Well I ran into only one problem, Fedora won't boot, keep getting a kernel panic. First I installed XP, then Mandrake (with GRUB 0.95) then Fedora 4 with no boot loader, Mandrake doesn't offer the option. 2 Partitions, hda3 and 4. 3 is the 102 mb ext3. 4 is ...
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kernel update + udev killed console display

ThurstonX
Hi all. I've just installed FC 4 (for the 3rd time) in order to isolate a problem with the console display. Briefly, running up2date or yum breaks the monitor. The display is fine through the boot, even looks like 1280x1024, but when it hits the xdm (gdm?) the screen is whacked.
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playing dvd movies on totum

stargazer
just installed fc4 on an ACER aspire 3002lc everything seems to work fine exept that TOTEM movie player wont play dvd. the system has 3in1 drive. it keeps comming up with can't find url handle or somthing simila to that.
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Fedora Core 4 plug and play feature

mapleit
Good afternoon, two months ago, I have installed WinXP and then Fedora Core 4 on my PC, using GRUB as boot manager. Now, I want to install a new motherboard and video card, but I would not like to re-install both the operating systems from scracth.
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Fedora Core 4 (Grub and Windows XP)

cheprofessor
I have a windows xp system (/dev/hda) and a 250 Gig /dev/hdb on which I tried to install FC 4 - It installed FC 4 OK (so I thought) - when it installed GRUB, I asked it to put is on /dev/hda (MBR) (I know, perhaps I should not have) - at the very end of the installation, there was one complaint (forgot what it was) ...
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Driver TM U-220 in Fedora Core 3

ivan.pujianto
Hi there. I am doing my assignment about Point-Of-Sales Program right now, but i am facing some trouble here. i can't find driver printer POS for Fedora Core 3. So, anyone there could lend me a hand and tell me where i can find it ? Any help would be greatly appreciated and Thankz in advance.
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