Greetings, I am having problems trying to save to a zip drive. I am using a IBM Thinkpad 770z with a external zip drive. What i am trying to do is save my email to the zip drive for back ups. I am trying to copy from /home/mark (the mail folder) to the zip drive. It will put the folders on the drive but none of the email messages. It tells me it can not copy them. I have also tried to archive them but am having no luck at all. Any ideas? Thanks. -- Mark H. Bowersox CO-GEN PLANT OPERATOR
On Sunday 16 November 2003 10:53, Mark H. Bowersox wrote: I use tar did you try that? joe budd
I'd like to put linux on a separate setup entirely after having tried a dual boot and can't figure out how I'm supposed to get XP's boot loader back in and GRUB out. Partiton Magic 8.0 doesn't see any changes and I don't know enough to try any other Boot Alteration tools (Ranish comes to mind, intriguing but I don't know anything about it and I don't know anyone who does) so any/all help will be appreciated. I already tried an ASR (Automated System Recovery) in XP Pro and it won't do it. Help an idiot, you'll feel better for having done it. 8-{> T H A N K Y O U James R. McKenzie jimmckenzie@earthlink.net
On Saturday 15 November 2003 21:48, James R.McKenzie wrote:
I'd like to put linux on a separate setup entirely after having tried a dual boot and can't figure out how I'm supposed to get XP's boot loader back in and GRUB out. Partiton Magic 8.0 doesn't see any changes and I don't know enough to try any other Boot Alteration tools (Ranish comes to mind, intriguing but I don't know anything about it and I don't know anyone who does) so any/all help will be appreciated. I already tried an ASR (Automated System Recovery) in XP Pro and it won't do it. Help an idiot, you'll feel better for having done it. 8-{>
T H A N K Y O U
James R. McKenzie
jimmckenzie@earthlink.net
I don't use XP at all but if the system is booted into rescue mode, there is a command called fixmbr or something similar. It is also possible to create XP boot disks to achieve this, but at present this is not a possibility. Another alternative is possible if there is a dos or Win95 / Win98 boot disk. Boot the pc with this disk and type in the command "fdisk /mbr" at the prompt. This should remove GRUB or any other bootloader. Remove the disk and reboot. The M$ link in respect of this is shown below: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/en/default.asp?url=... WINDOWSXP/home/using/productdoc/en/bootcons_fixmbr.asp However, a word of caution. *DO* make a *BACKUP* of any important files. Please also do some research on this subject as the potential for disaster is significant if these tools have not been used before. You have been warned. LW999
The Saturday 2003-11-15 at 16:48 -0500, James R.McKenzie wrote:
Subject: [SLE] How do I remove SUSE's GRUB on a dual boot Win XP Pro system?
Grub does not have an uninstall facility. Lilo did. Grub manual says to simply install some other boot loader manager: ie, it is windows who must solve their problem. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On 11/16/2003 05:48 AM, James R.McKenzie wrote:
I'd like to put linux on a separate setup entirely after having tried a dual boot and can't figure out how I'm supposed to get XP's boot loader back in and GRUB out.
Personally, I don't understand why you want to do this. Does grub not boot your WinXP? IMHO, you should let WinXP be a grub choice and keep GRUB, but if you REALLY insist on booting into WinXP via no choice, use the WinXP CD, go to the recovery console, and enter fixmbr. This will replace GRUB the the XP bootloader, but will make it harder to get to Linux.
Partiton Magic 8.0 doesn't see any changes and I don't know enough to try any other Boot Alteration tools (Ranish comes to mind, intriguing but I don't know anything about it and I don't know anyone who does) so any/all help will be appreciated. I already tried an ASR (Automated System Recovery) in XP Pro and it won't do it. Help an idiot, you'll feel better for having done it. 8-{>
I don't feel better. I would still suggest a correct entry in grub to load WinXP, even if you want to by default boot into WinXP, but leave Linux as an easy choice. Use Linux for a while, and you may be wiping the whole WinXP partition. HTH -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
The Sunday 2003-11-16 at 10:53 -0500, Mark H. Bowersox wrote:
I am having problems trying to save to a zip drive. I am using a IBM Thinkpad 770z with a external zip drive. What i am trying to do is save my email to the zip drive for back ups. I am trying to copy from /home/mark (the mail folder) to the zip drive. It will put the folders on the drive but none of the email messages. It tells me it can not copy them. I have also tried to archive them but am having no luck at all. Any ideas? Thanks.
What type of external zip is it? usb, parallel port? Did it ever work? Tried another OS? Can you copy single files? error messages in kernel log or other? -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
How old is that laptop. If the parallel is not ecc/epp it can not talk
to the zip drive.
Did you have the zip connected when you did the install so it would be
found automatically.
CWSIV
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 10:53:44 -0500 "Mark H. Bowersox"
Greetings, I am having problems trying to save to a zip drive. I am using a IBM Thinkpad 770z with a external zip drive. What i am trying to do is save my email to the zip drive for back ups. I am trying to copy from /home/mark (the mail folder) to the zip drive. It will put the folders on the drive but none of the email messages. It tells me it can not copy them. I have also tried to archive them but am having no luck at all. Any ideas? Thanks. --
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