Forum: Installation

I want an email autoresponder. So, I installed vacation-1.2.6.1-3.i386.rpm, created ~/.vacation.msg with the fallowing content: Subject: away...

I installed Mplayer few days ago, I built it with gui support so I added fonts and skin. It starts good and plays good audio files. But when I try to...

Hi every buddy, My problem is that i run an dual os pc with Windows Xp and Redhat linux 9 ,now i want to re-install windows XP ,since i have...

Hi, Is there a way in which, after booting, we get a customized message rather than a login prompt? Like once the linux box boots up, it should...

Hi I've got a Armada compaq laptop with 128meg ram, pentium II 333, and the best version I've tried is knoppix, but with knoppix I can't get the...

hi everyone ,im new to linux i was getting ready to install mepis so i opened qt parted and went to make my first partition EXT3 for primary root and...

I currently have Windows XP and Slackware 10.0 installed on my hard disk and dual booting them through LILO. Was thinking of switching to FC 3...

I tried to install Red Hat Linux, and it does not want to boot from a CD I've enabled this in my BIOS. This is not just the Red Hat CD, because...

I've installed these two operating systems and just about everything works correctly. I've been trying to set up the boot loader in Mandrake since...

Have just installed Suse 9.2 on an Intel D865PERL M/B 2.8P4 1024Mb Mem (Dual boot XP Pro), have DHCP, DNS & Gateway through DLink DSL 504T Router. ...

I added another OS to my system. When I did that, my SuSE 9.2 was changed from hda7 to hda8. I was prepared for this(I thought). I printed out...

I've got 2 OSs on my box already.... Windows 98 (small Fat32 partition at the beginning of the drive to host BootMagic and to run an old game that...

Hey Everyone, I am going to be installaing RH9 on some new servers that we are getting. However these new servers have no CDROM, or floppy. They...

I currently have this setup: /dev/hdb1 - /boot 500MB /dev/hdb2 - / 15GB /dev/hdb3 - swap 1 1GB and i wanted to create another / partition for...

Is there a way to configure just a bootloader, like grub and no other packages so that when the system comes up all we see is a "customized" grub...

hi, i am using lilo-21.4.4-26,to dual boot the windows98 and fc3 from the same h/d, the lilo is installed to the mbr,the problem is when booting...

Hey Everyone, I have a question. My company is getting these brand new servers that we will be putting Red Hat Linux on them. Unfortunately...

I have the .diff patch file and wine, can someone please tell me how do I install it?

I have installed WinXP and Ubuntu on one drive. Both os boot fine on the computer that i installed them on, but when I move the hard disk to another...

I want to completely format my hard drive and install Mandrake 10.1. The problem is I don't know how to format my HD since XP does not run off of...