As linux...the cartoon one says, Arrgh! I forgot!
Twill see asap, when she wakes.
--- "Eric \"Shubes\"" <
plug@shubes.net> wrote:
> Just a thought: is there a filesystem on hde1? After
> you make the
> partition, you need to mkfs to make a filesystem,
> similar to a dos
> format. I don't know what knoppix allows/requires,
> but I presume ext3
> would work ok. (I'm assuming that knoppix requires a
> pre-existing
> filesystem).
>
> An example of the mkfs command might be:
> mkfs -t ext3 -c /dev/hde1
>
> ec wrote:
> > Continued from previous message re.
> >
> > I just used kwrite on this other machine and saved
> a
> > test message, shut down, reopened kwrite and went
> to
> > it and opened it. But the other machine..the
> > reformatted on, gives errors when attempting to do
> > that..
> >
> > So I think something in the 'setup' of the hd' on
> > reformatting it, is messed up, but what??
> >
> > I have tried 3 different programs to reformat and
> save
> > the new partitions and it still wont write to that
> hd.
> >
> > 1. The gui based one in Mdk9.2, but shutdown when
> it
> > gets to the install point. Done that before to
> > 'splitup' existing hd's with no problems.
> >
> > 2. Qtparted...reformatted and saved...I think
> >
> > 3. Fdisk, which I have used before.
> >
> > ???
> > --- Mark Jarvis <mark.jarvis@pvmail.maricopa.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>Have you tried Mepis?
> >>
> >>-mj-
> >>
> >>ec wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Wife wanted me to wipe out the hd. We copied
> >>
> >>(twice)
> >>
> >>>to cdrom 'her files'.
> >>>
> >>>I used three different partition managers and
> >>
> >>cannot
> >>
> >>>get even Knoppix to write to them.
> >>>
> >>>Knoppix will 'save config', make swap file, but
> >>
> >>will
> >>
> >>>not write from OO.o or kwrite.
> >>>
> >>>This is a Gateway kludge in that apparently there
> >>
> >>is a
> >>
> >>>secondary disk controller similiar to this
> >>
> >>machine. It
> >>
> >>>is built in whereas this one is an addon card for
> >>
> >>a
> >>
> >>>modern hd (not one of the old pio3/4 types). the
> >>>reason I believe it has a secondary controller is
> >>>several fold.
> >>>1. First drive (primary) is hde1 not hda1 and all
> >>>'logicals' are hdeX also.
> >>>2. That is the way this ole 350 denotes drives
> >>
> >>also
> >>
> >>>with its secondary controller. (like that promise
> >>>ultra 66 card that was given away at eastside
> >>>thursday.)
> >>>
> >>>Well, 'the power to be', er, the wife, doesn't
> >>
> >>want an
> >>
> >>>installed system, but rather a 'poorman's
> install'
> >>
> >>of
> >>
> >>>knoppix.
> >>>
> >>>Knoppix boots from cd, but wont copy to hd.
> >>>
> >>>Strange that BEFORE I resized and reformatted the
> >>
> >>hd,
> >>
> >>>she had no problems booting to Knoppix3.6
> >>
> >>'poorman's
> >>
> >>>install' version. It had a crippled w98 on hde1
> >>
> >>and a
> >>
> >>>one disk Suse 9 on one partition.
> >>>
> >>>I cannot get it to reinstall even that 'poor
> >>
> >>man's'
> >>
> >>>mirrored iso image! It just skips the 'knoppix
> >>>cheatcode' to do so!
> >>>
> >>>Strange!
> >>>
> >>>May have to drag it down to ASU Saturday, but
> >>
> >>would
> >>
> >>>love to fix it here.
> >>>
> >>>Cyclists should expect and demand safe
> >>>accommodation on our public roads,
> >>>just as does every other user.
> >>>
> >>>Nothing more is expected.
> >>>
> >>>Nothing less is acceptable!
> >>>
> >>>Long live Knoppix!!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> it is a collectivist myth.
> There are only individual citizens
> with individual wills
> and individual purposes."
> -William E. Simon (1927-2000),
> Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
> "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237
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