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I'm going to assume you have only 98 installed on master drive and only Fedora on slave. Boot up Knoppix (or any other live cd) and mount the linux partition(s) if they aren't auto-mounted. Check if they are mounted with the 'df' command. After the drive is mounted, mount /proc to the drives FS mount -t proc none /<MOUNT_POINT>/proc then chroot into the drive (changes / to the root on the hard drive (can't think of a better ay to explain it)) as root: chroot <MOUNT_POINT> /bin/bash I would then run env-update && source /etc/profile, but I'm not sure if they are Gentoo spe

I figured that it was the problem as the same thing has irritated me in the past. I always turn off auto session saving although I do see alot of usefulness in th feature.

Fixing grub (and most bootloaders for that matter) is usually fairly simple and doesn't require reinstallation of the OS. PLease describe your hard drive and partitioning scheme, what OS's you corrently have installed and on which drive/part.

thats exactly what happened. I know I can make Gnome boot into tty1 by booting to the Recovery Mode, but this was the standard boot process, booting to the GUI, and before I shut down Linux to boot to windows there were no Terminals open that I know of. No there were no upgrades or software updates In gnome close all open windows save the session, log out and then log in again then uncheck save session. I should have put that in my previous post.

Maybe he means a terminal is opening on startup of gnome. If thats the case you probably shutdown with the term open, I believe gnome dfaults to saving the session, so when you log back in it starts the previous session again. If you wont to stop this go to desktop>preferences>sesions uncheck save changes to sesion. If Im off base please clarify what you mean.

I haven't used knoppix in a while but, I believe on the knoppix menu you can get a root terminal without a password. According to AbsoluteValue that card has a broadcom chipset. AFAIK there are no linux drivers for any Broadcom wireless adapters, but ndiswrapper may work, I use it on my girl friends laptop with a broadcom chip. I think knoppix comes with ndiswrapper installed so what you need is the windows driver for the card, in my case its bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys. While in windows get any info you may need like your gateway, dns servers, and the wireless encryption key. To load the windo

What is the model number and revision (if applicable)?

To become root type su then enter root password. To install cedega change to the directory where the file is then as root run tar xzf cedega_4.4.1-1.i386.tgz -C /

I don't think one will be easier than the other (install process should be same for both), I think you should use the open source driver because it's a newer version than the Ralink driver and is actively developed. What distro you use is entirely u to you. I don't have any experiance with Fedora so I don't know if it comes with kernel sources. I would just stick with whatever you have installed now (assuming you do). Both are user friendly distros. Uhh yea what does that mean? Sorry if I am asking some really stupid questions but i truely dont know anything about linux. <{POST_SNAPBACK

I don't think Ubuntu defaults with the nessesary libraries to build that driver. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-<KERNVER> where <KERNVER> = the output of uname -r should solve that. Or is there somethng else that driver requires?

Are you trying to install the tarball or rpm?

Ubuntu really is one of if not the easiest, but Fedora, Xandros, Vida, Suse and Mandrake are all geared toward being userfriendly. I would suggest sticking with Ubuntu if you still have it installed. To get windows to boot first all you need to do is edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and change the default 0 line, change the 0 (meaning the first boot entry) to the corresponding windows entry(count the title= lines). The driver that Honda_Boy linked to should work, but its over a year old. There is an open source project for your wireless card here that looks actively developed. Download the driver an

Download the tarball (if you haven't already). change directory to where you downloaded then tar xzf firefox-1.0.7.installer.tar.gz then cd firefox* then run the installer. ./<installer-name-here>

I use ClamAV, I know Avast and AVG have linux versions but I dont believe they are free.

You may just need to unmute the card, run alsamixer in a terminal. It should show your card and its chipset,use the arrow keys to switch items and m to toggle the mute on and off.

I've only used OSX a few times (brother in-law has a powerbook, I love that freaking thing), but this how-to MAY help. To stray off the topic a second, with MAC laptops an x86 laptop just doesnt make sense. You can actually put a PowerBook on your lap without fear of never being able to father children, not to mention an incredible OS.

Yes you can log on as root on most distros, some like Ubuntu (and OSX)disable the root account (cannot log in as root until its enabled). Those distros you use sudo for root tasks. Try not to gt into the habit of logging in as root it's just dagerous, use su (switch user)instead, just be carefull in either case ROOT=GOD.

Apt seems to be really anal about dependencies. While trying to install Varicad (didn't need it, just wanted to try it) a few weeks ago an apt-get -f install after an attempt to install a dependency Varicad reqiured failed (I forget the package name) uninstalled more than half the installed app's. Was pretty funny nearly every KDE app was removed from this Kubuntu install (girlfriends laptop). I'll admit I have fairly little experience with debian (based) distros, I prefer Gentoo to all others which by the way installed Varicad with no problems although it wont run due to a missing 32 bit lib

Aren't they still using a 2.4 kernel by default? I know I accidently downloaded 3.0 and it used 2.2. I see there point to using stable versions, but IMO thats more dangerous as some of the software must have vulnerabilities that get patched with new releases.

Both still have free versions.AVG, Avast

It's probably a function in McAfee to prevent conflicts. I have had both AVG and Avast installed simultaneously with no visible problems.

Never tried that, definately good to know. Kinda makes you wonder why theres root permisions at all. Nevermind, I most be too tired. Forgot the first byte is the file owner not root.

Hmm, thats pretty odd. Root should definately have write permisions to the file. Check the permisions of the file with ls -l /boot/grub/menu.lst if it doesnt show rwx for root chmod 755 /boot/grub/menu.lst

Evil gets boring after awhile (as does good) Thanks Hitest, it's definately nice to feel appreciated every now and then.

Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst, change the default line to whatever number Fedora is ie: if its the first OS (probably the case) the line should read default 0