Haste Makes Waste - Or Does It???

The debian install cd has an option with alt f2 to start a shell
prompt. You have many tools usable and can usually get most any system
up and running from that prompt. Just get to the first item (??keyboar
type??) in the install and hit <alt><f2>.

-Bill


On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 14:45, Rob Wultsch wrote:
> For me I know that windows xp does not being on the first partiton, no
> matter where you put it... (your milage may vary) Have I told you guys
> how much I wish that someone would put out a linux disk that was the
> eqivilant of the recovery console? (Though I am sure there is one out
> there..)
>
> Bryce C wrote:
>
> > Interesting. Maybe it must be primary, not secondary on a chain. I
> have
> > grub remapping the drives so it thinks it's in the primary master
> > instead of the slave that it is. :-D
> >
> >
> >
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Subject:
> > Re: Haste Makes Waste - Or Does It???
> > From:
> > Rob Wultsch <robert.wultsch@asu.edu>
> > Date:
> > Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:28:03 -0700
> > To:
> > plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> >
> >
> > I ran my xp drive as hdc for a while without incident.
> >
> > Bryce C wrote:
> >
> >> Don't know but, I do know that WinXP will puke its brains out if it's
> >> not on the first hd. Bad experience. And people wonder why I charge
> more
> >> for winBLOWS servicing?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> Subject:
> >> Haste Makes Waste - Or Does It???
> >> From:
> >> George Gambill <ggambill@computer-guidance.com>
> >> Date:
> >> Mon, 4 Aug 2003 13:42:49 -0700
> >> To:
> >> plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> >>
> >>
> >> I read somewhere that if you have a slower (ATA33) CDROM as the
> second
> >> (slave) of the same IDE controller that your higher speed IDE hard
> drive
> >> (ATA100/133) is connected to, that the hard drive will run at the
> slower
> >> (ATA33) speed .
> >>
> >> Not wanting to risk this, I bought a second cable to move the CDROM
> to
> >> the
> >> second IDE controller. However, in my haste, I moved the hard drive
> >> (HDA)
> >> to the second controller making it HDC. Everything seemed to boot
> well
> >> except for an error message (failed) about swapon: and /dev/hda3 not
> >> existing, which figures.
> >>
> >> I went into fstab and pointed swap to /dev/hdc3 and life is good. My
> >> question: Is there any advantage having the hard drive plugged into
> the
> >> first IDE connection making it hda???
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> George
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Bill Warner <wwarner@direct-alliance.com>
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