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This is a known bug. I think it may have been fixed by one of the patches already issued, but I'm not sure. A work around that I used is as follows: su to root go to system > administration > network Type in root pw again activate ETH0 file > save > quit then type in...

Congratulations, Glad you got things working. Now that you know that SUSE works on your system, you can pound your head trying to get Ubuntu working. I would say you are not only a peer, but a geek as well. Welcome to the wonderful world of Unix/Linux. One of the things I have found out is...

The three partitions would be "/boot" about 200 k in size, "/swap" about twice the size of your memory and "/" the rest of the space. Sometimes the "/" partition is referred to as root, but in reality "/root" is a super user (Administrator in Windows terms). "/" also contains a number of...

Generally speaking, the swap partition should be twice the amount of ram you have. You can use the rest of the disk for the install partition. I have a Logitech wireless mouse and all the various flavors of linux recognizes it. (Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora, and CentOS). I do now some people had to...

Wahnula, looking at the screen shot of the partition setup, it looks like the 327 K partition is the dvd drive and the other one is your new HD. The SDA (327 k) is the first drive the installer sees and the SDB (37 G) is the second drive. The installer will try to put the boot loader on the...

If you are going to install Linux on it, as a test, remove or disconnect all other hard drives and make this one primary master. Then try to install Linux. After the Linux installer loads in ram, it will see the hard drive and since you formated it, it will ask if you want to use any free...

Did you try to copy smaller chunks of data? Try something like groups of 500 files at a time. I have had trouble copying large amounts of data all at once, but could copy it in smaller chunks. Old Tech Guy

I had the same problem with my laptop with an ATI Graphics card. From what I remember, the problem appeared to be that the Xorg software was at an incompatable configuration with the graphics card. I went to FC8 and everything is fine now. Old Tech Guy

I always set up root on Ubuntu. To do that, you log in as a user, then do a "su -" and your password. This puts you in as root with full root privileges. Then type "passwd". You will get a reply of 'password'. Type your new password for root twice. Then you can log in as root and use the...

Call Partition Magic support. I had a problem when in the middle of the resizing, I lost power. The support people spent over an hour on the phone with me. They started out saying it was possible that recovery would not be possible, but with their help, I recovered a lot of data, but not all...

You might try these ideas if you haven't already. 1. Temporally turn off all security on the router and the pc. Try to connect. If this works, then it is a security problem. 2. Verify the pc is trying to connect to the correct router. Check the SSID the pc is trying to connect to and what...

MikeD2 No, I didn't resolve the problem. I find it rather frustrating; as it seems other people don't have the same problem. I am sure it is probably something simple. If I find the solution, I’ll post it here. If anyone has suggestions, I'd appreciate it. Thanks OldTechGuy

Not to be insulting or anything, but what I understood from one of your posts was you tried to install from the cd from windows. If that is the case, that is the problem. The live cd's and the install cd's are bootable cds. You put them in the cd drive and power the machine up. Of course you...

I had a old Palm that I synced with SK98 with True Sync via a serial cradle. The Palm died so I stopped syncing. I recently got a Treo and new computer. The new computer only has USB and no serial connections. I tried to sync the Treo but was unsuccessful (so I thought). I thought it was a...

Download the package knoppix-std. It is a bootable CD with a number of security programs included. Boot with the cd, mkdir /junk mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /junk cd /junk/winnt/system32/config chntpw sam * Basicly you make a directory (junk), then you mount the directory for the Hard Drive...