Hello all, My wife just picked up a sweet Toshiba Dynabook last week and (having helped pay for it) I'm gearing up to slap SuSE on part of the drive. Question. Can SuSE 7.3/8.0 resize partitions during the install? If so can it resize NTFS (that's WinXP's right?) If not what are my options (besides Partition Magic)? Also, should/can I let LILO handle the WinXP boot? or should I go with a different option (i.e., Linux boot floppy, ??)? Thanks for reading... Any advice or experiences would be much appreciated. Eric __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/
Can SuSE 7.3/8.0 resize partitions during the install? No idea...
If so can it resize NTFS (that's WinXP's right?) Users have the option of FAT32 or NTFS
If not what are my options (besides Partition Magic)? I'm not sure about it, but there's a free program called Partition Resizer (I just used it to resize my Windows partition)... not sure if it can do NTFS, but it's a free alternative to Partition Magic
Also, should/can I let LILO handle the WinXP boot? I would go with LILO. I have no idea about the XP bootloader or anything, so I assume LILO would be easier...
DoPo
I have an old Apple 7600:Sonnet G3 upgrade card to 375 Mhz w/ 688Mb RAM. Great machine.I also have a PC box running SUSE 7.3.I'd like to network these machines together. I know little to nothing about networking.I do have a hub and some CAT5e cables w/ RJ45 connectors on the ends. Please treat me like you're talking to a 4 year-old with your replies if you'd like to reply. Someone explained this a little while ago but I can't find the thread.I checked google and geocrawler. Do I use TCP/IP or Netatalk?I know nothing of each. I don't understand the lingo at the respective websites. Please help. TIA Cheers
RevRob, You will probably want to use TCP/IP since Linux is TCP/IP native. You will also want to make sure that the TCP/IP protocol is installed on your MAC. You can do this by clicking the Apple in the top left corner and going down the menu to Control Panels. On Control Panels, do you see a menu item for TCP/IP? If so, we're already half way there. Set your Linux box to let's say, 192.168.0.2 /24 (255.255.255.0) and set your MAC to let's say, 192.168.0.3 /24 (255.255.255.0) (Note that I left 192.168.0.1 out of the above plan in case you wanted to add an Internet box or router to the mix in the future.) Plug in a CAT5 cable from the Mac to the Hub and do the same with the Linux box. Make sure that everything is powered up, and from the Linux machine, try to ping the MAC. Do you get a reply? If so, both machines are talking to each other... What application are you connecting these machines together for? Thanks :-) ============================================ Drew J. Como Phone: 631-434-6600 Systems Administrator Fax: 631-434-7800 dcomo@bascom.com Web: www.bascom.com Bascom Global Internet Services, Inc. -------------------------------------------- "When quality is the goal, winning is guaranteed." -----Original Message----- From: rev rob [mailto:hd522@earthlink.net] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 3:46 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] Appletalk and Linux I have an old Apple 7600:Sonnet G3 upgrade card to 375 Mhz w/ 688Mb RAM. Great machine.I also have a PC box running SUSE 7.3.I'd like to network these machines together. I know little to nothing about networking.I do have a hub and some CAT5e cables w/ RJ45 connectors on the ends. Please treat me like you're talking to a 4 year-old with your replies if you'd like to reply. Someone explained this a little while ago but I can't find the thread.I checked google and geocrawler. Do I use TCP/IP or Netatalk?I know nothing of each. I don't understand the lingo at the respective websites. Please help. TIA Cheers -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com
What application are you connecting these machines together for?
Thanks :-)
============================================ Drew J. Como Phone: 631-434-6600 Systems Administrator Fax: 631-434-7800 dcomo@bascom.com Web: www.bascom.com Bascom Global Internet Services, Inc. -------------------------------------------- "When quality is the goal, winning is guaranteed." Thank you very much.I'll try that. I do a little graphic design w/ Photoshop but am tired of the costly updates and GIMP is pretty cool.The 2gig drive on the Mac is almost full and I have alot of work on there.I'd like to pull images from the Mac to The Linux box and Manipulate with GIMP.
Hello all,
My wife just picked up a sweet Toshiba Dynabook last week and (having helped pay for it) I'm gearing up to slap SuSE on part of the drive.
Question. Can SuSE 7.3/8.0 resize partitions during the install? 7.3 to my knowledge can not, but I could be wrong, I believe 8.0 will be able to. If so can it resize NTFS (that's WinXP's right?) There isn't a Linux partitioner out there that I am aware of that can resize an NTFS partition. In fact I am only aware of one partition tool that can resize a Windows XP NTFS partition. Partition Magic 7.0. If not what are my options (besides Partition Magic)? The only option I know if is to restore the laptop hoping that during restore it doesn't install using NTFS. Before you boot into Windows XP, resize the
On Sunday 07 April 2002 09:16 pm, Eric Pierce wrote: partition. Now boot into Windows XP. If they do what most restores seem to, they install on FAT32, then convert to NTFS on first boot.
Also, should/can I let LILO handle the WinXP boot? or should I go with a different option (i.e., Linux boot floppy, ??)?
LILO works just fine to boot WinXP. You can also go in the opposite direction and boot Linux from WinXP boot menu. This is actually better in some ways if the boot partition stays FAT32, because it gives you only 1 boot menu no matter which OS you use.
Thanks for reading... Any advice or experiences would be much appreciated.
Eric
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On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 21:54:01 -0400, you wrote:
LILO works just fine to boot WinXP. You can also go in the opposite direction and boot Linux from WinXP boot menu. This is actually better in some ways if the boot partition stays FAT32, because it gives you only 1 boot menu no matter which OS you use.
One question as XP is going on the wife's side soon. On the KDE desktop in Suse can you open up a NTFS disk on the XP side like you do in Win98 fat32? Do you just change the file type from vfat to NTFS in fstab. Sounds to easy, am I hoping to much here John
One question as XP is going on the wife's side soon. On the KDE desktop in Suse can you open up a NTFS > disk on the XP side like you do in Win98 fat32? Do you just change the file type from vfat to NTFS in fstab.
I think the 2.4 kernels have read support for NTFS, but either (a) don't have write support or (b) only have it as "experimental". As far as the behavior in SuSE, it would be the same. Please correct me if I'm wrong... DoPo
For some reason you can browse to the windows directory and the C: prompt but after that you can't go anywhere, but SuSE congifures that automatically, so that is nice. SO you can download things in XP leave them on the root and then boot in SuSE and pull them across, too bad it does not work the other way around. -----Original Message----- From: John [mailto:jfmurphy@charter.net] Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 6:08 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE + WinXP machine On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 21:54:01 -0400, you wrote:
LILO works just fine to boot WinXP. You can also go in the opposite direction and boot Linux from WinXP boot menu. This is actually better in some ways if the boot partition stays FAT32, because it gives you only 1 boot menu no matter which OS you use.
One question as XP is going on the wife's side soon. On the KDE desktop in Suse can you open up a NTFS disk on the XP side like you do in Win98 fat32? Do you just change the file type from vfat to NTFS in fstab. Sounds to easy, am I hoping to much here John -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 18:54, Michael Garabedian wrote:
For some reason you can browse to the windows directory and the C: prompt but after that you can't go anywhere, but SuSE congifures that automatically, so that is nice. SO you can download things in XP leave them on the root and then boot in SuSE and pull them across, too bad it does not work the other way around.
Why not just make a small VFAT partition? A couple of hundred megs should do it. Then, either system should be able to read from, and write to that partition. It works for me with SuSE 7.3 and Win NT 4... so far... /kevin
On Monday 08 April 2002 06:07 pm, John wrote:
One question as XP is going on the wife's side soon. On the KDE desktop in Suse can you open up a NTFS disk on the XP side like you do in Win98 fat32? Do you just change the file type from vfat to NTFS in fstab. Sounds to easy, am I hoping to much here
No, you have to tell the system that the NTFS partition is read only. Here's my /etc/fstab, note /dev/hda2; my ntfs partition where XP lives. (Don't copy it without changing it of course.) /dev/hda6 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 /dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults,noauto 0 0 /dev/hda2 /windows/C ntfs ro,noauto,user,umask=022 0 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap pri=42 0 0
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