Hello Roy.

01 Sep 03 04:06, you wrote to me:

 MK>> Exactly the problem!  How the heck do you get it to boot if you
 MK>> cannot get past the bios?

 RT> That part is true of *any* OS,  though.  And the workarounds are
 RT> pretty similar for both cases.

That's what the local Windows gurus say.  So far not one of them has been
able to take up the challenge, and I have dared them.  They figure if they
pack together and just shoot their mouths off that makes it real and they
save embaressment.  Mind you one of them snuck over to the cousin's to have
a 120G jobber partitioned by the Linux utility CD I made for my cousin. 
That is almost an open admission.

 RT> We know where your biases are,  eh?

I wonder how that happened?  :-)

 RT> The problem with that is losing other stuff besides,  scattered around
 RT> the HD here and there.

That happens.  There are 4 partitions on the 40G here;

/ = /dev/hda1
swap = /dev/hda2
/home = /dev/hda3
/mnt/archives = /dev/hda4

Of these 4, /home and /mnt/archives tend to get scattered but seeing thaat
I only install to /dev/hda1 theen as long as I back up the important stuff
on /etc then life is good.

 RT> Yeah,  exactly.  We had a brief power glitch here yesterday morning,
 RT> early.  It only went away for a very short period of time,  but all
 RT> three of the computers rebooted.  Fortunately,  it was done with the
 RT> filesystem checking well before I woke up.  :-)

You too eh?  The power went out here for three hours.  It happens.

 RT> Still,  the wait for that can be annoying,  if I'm sitting here
 RT> watching it,  and this is something that's only gonna get worse when
 RT> I
 RT> get into much bigger HD space here.

That would be a good reason for formatting them ext3.

Maurice

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