Hi,
Recently bought a new computer... Installed XP, Vista and Linux (in that order). Linux is Vector Linux SOHO from recent PC World DVD (originally tried Ubuntu but the install CD had some problems).
1. During bootup, GRUB gives me error -
2. I have SATA HDD and SATA DVD-Writer. The NTFS and FAT32 partitions are to be mounted at every bootup - forgot what config files to modify - please help.
3. By mistake, I clicked on Pidgin icon and it asked for setting up account. I said cancel, but now it asks me at every login. How to stop it from startup?
4. I remember long ago when I used linux, I would set up that using ls would automatically use the -l parameter. I have forgotten how to do it... Please let me know what I have to do...
5. When I was installing Vector Linux, even though I asked to setup Swap partition, it skipped the task... Now how do I configure it? I have left some unformatted space in the HDD for this.
Thanks in advance,
Arun
Recently bought a new computer... Installed XP, Vista and Linux (in that order). Linux is Vector Linux SOHO from recent PC World DVD (originally tried Ubuntu but the install CD had some problems).
1. During bootup, GRUB gives me error -
- Originally, it was (hd0,1) which I edited to hd0,11 because the Linux partition was there, but this still gives error, and ends up going to a text-based boot loader... Any idea why? And what is meant by overify?Failed to read splash image (overify (hd0,11)/boot/bitmap/boot.xpm)
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2. I have SATA HDD and SATA DVD-Writer. The NTFS and FAT32 partitions are to be mounted at every bootup - forgot what config files to modify - please help.
3. By mistake, I clicked on Pidgin icon and it asked for setting up account. I said cancel, but now it asks me at every login. How to stop it from startup?
4. I remember long ago when I used linux, I would set up that using ls would automatically use the -l parameter. I have forgotten how to do it... Please let me know what I have to do...
5. When I was installing Vector Linux, even though I asked to setup Swap partition, it skipped the task... Now how do I configure it? I have left some unformatted space in the HDD for this.
Thanks in advance,
Arun