Am 31. May, 2006 schwätzte FoulDragon@aol.com so: > In a message dated 5/31/2006 1:58:29 AM US Mountain Standard Time, > PLUGd@LuftHans.com writes: > >> Ah, well we need to fix it not being able to access the Internet :). > >> You mention a dialer below. Dunno about getting it to work under >> GNU/Linux. Maybe you can get GNU/Linux working in xen or something on the >> m$ side and allow GNU/Linux to access the Net. > > I recall there were attempts to make a workalike dialer long ago, but it > looks like the development got stopped. I see reports of a "give us the domain > name before we sue you." The tutorials I see make it look like less of a > nightmare, but that says little. Ah, doing business by suing others. Wonderful :(. > However, even then, it's still a lot of stuff on the far side of a 56k > connection. I should either get a disc set of slamd64 (since there's no Official > 64-bit Slackware) , or a DVD of something else. I like BSD inits and > nongraphical boot. Set it up to download while you're sleeping. If it's not done when you get up, interrupt it. Start it up again later. *NIX tools have handled that smoothly for years. I believe m$ download tools will also restart downloads from the point of interruption rather than from the beginning. If they don't, get a Free Software tool that will. >> dev tools haven't disappeared. You just can't fit everything on one CD. >> I'm amazed by how much does come on one CD. > > They should put the dev tools back and dump that prissy GNOME stuff. I only > like fvwm anyway. :D > >> How about shrinking the m$ side down to less than the limit, then at least >> the start of the new partition will be in space it can see? > > Somehow, resizing a "live" NTFS partition seems a recipie for disaster. Got > a suggestion for a disc imager that can make a nice pretty restore disc, cos > I'm not spending all evening rebuilding TWICE in one month? ntfsresize, I believe, is the name of the tool to seek out. system rescue CD might have it. System Rescue CD might also be one of the presentations for next week :). There have been some bugs in ntfsresize, so check the site for how to aquire a working version. I think the bugs were for specific weird conditions, but I have no idea as to whether or not your system might be in such a condition... >> I'd think it would just ignore the extra partitions in a Schulzian "I see >> nothing" way. That's how it normally treats ext?, reisers, ufs, etc. >> partitions. > > That's what I figured when I put the partitions in the spare 30Gb. Maybe something's horked on the m$ side? > Aside: The Win2000 install disc is the STUPIDEST installer in the universe. > > I had an 80Gb drive. I set the "Limit to 32Gb" partition because it was > crammed onto an old Celeron which didn't know better. It booted and said "We've > got a 32Gb drive with an (old) 80Gb partition." Delete the 80Gb partition and > it will try and create another 80Gb one, only it will mangle the partition > table to the point there are several random "free space" blocks totalling 500Gb+. > I had to dig out Mandrake 9.1 disc to fix the partition table. > > The recovery mode is worthless; you can't even copy files to a floppy. I > doubt fdisk /mbr is available even. :/ > >> Run m$ from within a virtual machine on GNU/Linux :). > > Are those any less sucktacular lately? I recall the hope for > freemware/plex86, how they got to a point where it would boot a Win95 install, albeit very > slowly, but then they decided "ah, let's just use it to virtualise Linux on > Linux" I have no idea what works for people running virtualized m$. I do know people are doing it. I don't think they're all using vmware, but I get the impression that vmware is still the best functioning virtualization tool when running m$ stuff. wine and qemu might allow you to run just the parts you need. I think qemu will also run the whole OS. ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.CiscoLearning.org/ # Join the League of Professional System Administrators! https://LOPSA.org/ # Dissent is patriotic.