Where on Usenet should we announce the next meeting apart from uk.comp.os.linux and pcplus.linux? There seem to be so many new Linux newsgroups out there I'm not too sure where is appropriate.
Cheers,
BJ
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 09:31:15PM +0100, John Woodard wrote:
Where on Usenet should we announce the next meeting apart from uk.comp.os.linux and pcplus.linux? There seem to be so many new Linux newsgroups out there I'm not too sure where is appropriate.
uk.local.east-anglia and comp.os.linux.announce (this last is the definitive source, I think, but make sure to prefix the subject line with LOCAL and you have to email it (like, now!) to the moderator, I think.)
The following sent to:
comp.os.linux.announce uk.comp.os.linux uk.local.east-anglia pcplus.linux
ANNOUNCE: Anglian LUG June 18th
The next meeting of The Anglian Linux Users Group will be on Sunday 18th June from 2pm - 6.30pm at Syleham Village Hall as guests of the Syleham and Wingfield Computer Club
Details at http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/meetings.html
Travel map at http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/alug5.html
BJ
Hi there,
You won't have heard much from me, but I have been following the mailing list for a while and now I have a question.
I have recently purchased Linux Mandrake 7.0 and am trying to install Lnx4win on my E: partition. I tried to install Linux as a dual boot option but it causes my Windows partition to becom i n c r e d i b l y slow and unuseable. Since I am using the computer for my doctorate I cannot afford to let this happen (I had to re-install everything after the last crash - caused by Linux) but if there is a way of installing Linux on another partition without it affecting the performance of my Windows system then I would dearly love to know how. I think my Windows partition needs to know that a UNIX drive is attatched to the system and live with it (which seems like a tall order to me!)
When I try to install Lnx4win however, it gets as far as detecting RAID arrays and then I get the following lines:
autorun: DONE VFS: Cannot open root device 08:01 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
Aaaaaaaah, Help me, I am new to all of this.
Ed
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 08:49:54AM +0100, Edward Kelly wrote:
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
There's the problem. It can't find your linux filesystem. I'm guessing that lnx4win is started from a batch file which expects it to be installed on C: (usually /dev/hda1), while you've put it on E: (which is /dev/hda3 if it's the third partition on the first IDE hard disk). So you need to open the batch file and edit any "hda1" to "hda3".
If it's second partition on second disk, it's "hdb2" or first partition on second disk "hdb1" (see a pattern?). You might even find some documentation in the comments in the batch file on how to do this if I've got it wrong.
Hopefully then, you'll be able to run Linux without panicking. ;-)
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MJ Ray