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A couple of Linux newbie questions

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speed01

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First, how do I get LILO to work? I can boot from a floppy but can't from the HD. I get as far as LIL- and that's it. I've tried re-installing Mandrake about 900 times (ok, maybe not that many but it sure feels like it) and I always get the same thing. As far as I've been able to figure out, it's a geometry mismatch error but what do I do to fix it?

Second, how do I get Linux to access the shares on my network? I'm running W2k AS and two Win98 SE machines. I have internet access with the Linux box through ICS and am pulling an IP from the W2k box but I can't access any shares. Can I configure Mandrake 7.0 to see them or do I need another program like Samba?

Thanks for any help, hopefully before too long I can get rid of windoze entirely.

Also, if it makes any difference, it's a P 200 box with a 1.2G HD and 96Meg of ram.
 


<< First, how do I get LILO to work? >>

LILO and work shouldn't be in the same sentence 😉

usually in my case when i ran linux it was because that [linux] partition wasn't set active. from then on i just wrote to mbr, gave me less hassle.
 


<< usually in my case when i ran linux it was because that [linux] partition wasn't set active. from then on i just wrote to mbr, gave me less hassle. >>



I thought that when I set the mount points during install it activated all the partitions, did I not do something? If there was something else I was supposed to do, it would explain why I got the same result every time I re-installed since the only things I did was to re-partition the drive and change the partition sizes.
 


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<< usually in my case when i ran linux it was because that [linux] partition wasn't set active. from then on i just wrote to mbr, gave me less hassle. >>



I thought that when I set the mount points during install it activated all the partitions, did I not do something? If there was something else I was supposed to do, it would explain why I got the same result every time I re-installed since the only things I did was to re-partition the drive and change the partition sizes. >>



Boot to dos... run FDISK and make sure the parition you want to boot into is marked &quot;active&quot;.... its in the FDISK menus.
 
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