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Dear friends: New to Centos, DVD version 4.4. Fabulous distro, rich in features, applications, very stable and robust. My first install failed to boot up (after rebooting, switching in Bios from CD/DVD to hard drive. This was probably because I chose to install the Grub boot loader in MBR. I got the error message: GRUB, Stage 2 Loading... But it never loaded up. Nothing happened. So, I

Have just installed Centos-6 from a Linux Format DVD. The install went smoothly, although the installer inisisted that the root partition had to be formatted ext4. When my GAG boot loader tried to boot from that root partition, it was unable do so. Elsewhere I read that GAG cannot boot from an ext4 parititon. I there any way tp persuade Centos-6 to use an ext3 root partition? --

Dear friends: I've been trying for some time to install my copy of Word97 (which I own, having purchased it directly from Microsoft with my own license number). I have tried the latest Wine 0.9.14. To do this, I first UNinstalled version 0. 9.1-4 (PCLINUXOS), then installed the new wine from source. The source install asked me to install a number of font files, which I did (bison,

Dear friends: Is there a single source for the multimedia applications that are not included with Centos 5: RealPlayer, Mplayer, mplayerplug-in, Acrobat Reader, Java, libdvdcss, etc.? Would appreciate your help. Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin Sher sher07 at mindspring.com

Dear friends: [Using the Centos 4.4 DVD) I will spend the next few days reading the documentation for Centos/RedHat. But meanwhile, I would like, while reading it, to listen to my favorite radio programs which require RealPlayer. So, my question is simply: should I download the RealPlayer RPM from www.real.com or should I download it from an rpm repository source? While I am at, what about

Dear friends: I installed Sun's Java manually by downloading their Red Hat RPM. I followed instructions and the install came off fine (Done!), but when I try to play it, it won't work. I imagine that I probably need to create a symbolic link to the plugin. Here is the info: [sher at localhost ~]$ whereis java java: /usr/bin/java /etc/java /usr/lib/java /usr/share/java [sher at

Dear friends: Using Centos 5. I have two physical drives. During install, I made sure to check hdb as well as hda. Both were listed as partitions (which is correct). But my fstab file does not show hdb. How do I make sure that hdb has been formatted and is part of my file system. If hdb is not formatted, how do I format it, please. Sorry for the question. I am a newbie. d[sher at localhost

Hi to all out there using HP DL380 G4 servers, i found a way to get the Digium TE410P with older firmware running on a HP-Compaq DL380 G4 Server! Here's the step-by-step description: 1. download the latest BIOS (in my case it was 4.04 from date: 06/02/2005) for the HP-Compaq DL380 G4 using the "Systems ROMPaq Firmware Upgrade Diskette for HP ProLiant DL480 G4 (P51) Servers" Link:

I ran rm -rf~/.wine and it went through the uninstall procedure. then I did wine --version and it showed wine-0.9.56 so I did rm -rf~/.wine as root and it uninstalled drive c. then I checked wine --version and it showed I still have wine-0.9.56. how do I get rid of this so I can install wine wine 0.9l.60.tar.bz2? I checked where wine was and it does not exist unless somehow it was moved during

Hello, two questions regarding WINE 1.3 1) how can I uninstall a software ? When I chose, under WINE MENU ENTRY "uninstall", I have some screens with instructions, but the menu entry for the uninstalled sofwares remains and the software remains also... how to remove all ? 2) If I r?install my OP System (Ubuntu 10.04), and I r?install WINE, assuming of course that my "home"

Hey guys, so I have a major issue, photoshop wont load unless I delete the system settings by holding ctrl shift alt when I start photoshop, it then will boot up.. however it wont load any psd file.. and when I shut it down, it gives me the same error as when I had to delete the system settings, the error is like... sorry but this has encountered a harware or system error, the error is

I downloaded the 'seatools for DOS' diskette creator on seagate website. it's a windows program that creates the diskette; so a floppy disk must be present in the drive. running the program is ok, but creating the diskette fails, it says "the current diskette format not valid". while the diskette is blank, vfat, mounted and linked to a: in wine; so everything seems to be ok.

Originally installed Wine [9.33] from the Ubuntu repository. After adding the WineHQ repository, I was upgraded to 9.49. Since it was an upgrade, the folders installed by 9.33 were retained in place of those 9.49 would have installed if it were the first installation. I decided to make my installation more "up-to-date" by uninstalling and reinstalling. I've uninstalled and

I have been using the LEAF Bering firewall for a year or so. It boots with Syslinux 1.75. But Bering is too large for a 1440KB floppy, so it formats the diskette as 1680KB. Recently I found a small Compaq 2266 box to replace a larger Compaq 7170 to run the firewall. But when I try to boot the Bering diskette on the 2266 I get the following message: Loading Linux ............ Boot failed:

Hello, I have tried to install Wine on my mac pro (leopard 10.5.6) but it did'nt work very well. When I wanted to run a windows applications, wine told me that I had to install Freetype 2.0.5 or later. I downloaded it from this website : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3157. Unfortunately I didn't install freetype properly. As a consequence, when I try to run an

I have found something called: diskboot.img at: http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/4/os/i386/images/ But it is 6Mb large (6411Kb) instead of 1411Kb And the rawreadwrirewin program gets an error on it when run on NT. On Win2000, it makes a diskette that fails to boot.. So really, HELP!!!! I 'just' discovered that my old bootable diskette is for Centos 3.0, and my other CDs are

Hello, change the bootorder > BootOrder: 0002,3002,0000,0003,0004,0005,2001,2002,2003 your first boot is windows Am Dienstag, 28. Mai 2019, 13:29:39 CEST schrieb Gary Stainburn: > Morning all, > > I have a HP Envy dual boot system (Win8 for serious stuff, i.e. Train Sim > and Flight Sim) and Centos 7 for everything else. > > In the past I've had the occasional problem

Hi, is there an easy way to circumvent the SYSLINUX novice protection thing? intended users don't know about CTRL key to circumvent it. I'm trying to make a generic bootdisk for systems of 8086 - Pentium4. however the bootdisk is slow, so I'd like to use Syslinux + Memdisk to load a diskette image. then the text displayed to user will be: 1) FreeDOS bootdisk (accelerated, 386

I'm trying to connect to aSamba 1.9.18p10 share on my HP-UX 10.20 host, using an MS-DOS boot diskette (well, actually a Windows 95 boot diskette, but relying on the DOS-style protocol stack, etc.). When I issue the same username and password that I use to connect to that share from my Windows NT client, I get an invalid password message. Two things come to mind: is the DOS client sending my

Hi, I have HP DL 180 G6 2U Rack Server with HP Smart Array Controller Card B110i Onboard SATA Controller Chipset. This server has 4 * 500 GB SATA HDD have configured RAID 1+0 and it shows Single Logical Drive of 940 GB Hard Disk in the RAID BIOS. Have created driver diskette using dd command to enable this controller card to the CentOS 5.6 x86_64 arch and it shows HP LOGICAL VOLUME of size 940 GB