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off the top of my head (some of this could be wrong):

the & sign tells the shell to run the process in the "background", that is, it gives you back your shell, and you lose control of the process....

try interactive boot just to see if you can get past the problem. i think in redhat there's an option to hit i right after it starts loading the kernel, and that will stop on each service and ask...

do you mean access your windows files in linux, or run windows applications?

for the former, all you have to do is mount your windows partition. man mount has all you'll need to know about that....

you might be able to, depending on how much ram you have.

but there's no reason to, other than as an academic exercise. especially if it has no NIC, then its just completely useless.

you can...

do you have a network card in the box? if yes, and its supported, a debian net install is identical to a cdrom install (booting off floppy).

just go here and get the proper disks. all the info...

in general freebsd is the best for the x86 platform. if you want to run a *nix on your toaster, try netbsd, it'll run on anything. and though they're all more secure then the NSA, openbsd goes that...

why not just:

tar -cxvf all.tar.gz / --exclude="/proc"

(i think that's the syntax)

then recreate /proc, untar the file to / of the new partition, and you should be good to go.

i recently...

are you selling only as a bundle, or are you willing to break it up? in which case, how much for the hd?

fixed it. what a pain in the ***.

i just put together a nice debian installation on an old sparc lx that i use as a web/mail server. i'm using exim as the MTA, and it works for the most part. i can send and recieve mail no problem...

look into the compact installation set. if you have standard hardware, you should only need the root and rescue disks to install. that is how i installed der deb on this machine.

swap isn't really neccessary. if you have 256 mb of RAM you might want some swap, but you shouldn't need it all that much. it depends on how you use your system.

some, like the infamous mr....

i use audiogalaxy in both windows and linux and it works beautifully. it only deals in .mp3 files, however, and use a web-based interface.

kazaa makes a linux client (only an alpha release),...

i've got me a matrox g400 dualhead card (the kind with two vga outs). i've been trying to get the dualhead working in debian (sid), and since the powerdesk utility won't compile, i was doing it the...

i haven't used java in over a year, but when i had to for class i found this very handy:
http://www.geocities.com/jdkcommander/

its a very simple front end for the java environment, lets you...

civ3 is evil. you start the game, then next thing you know its 14 hours later and you haven't eaten, urinated or studied for finals...its a damn time warp, i swear.

i find it ironic that in a thread slagging evangelism, you are the greatest evangelist of them all.

C/C++ is currently the best option for runtime performance in major applications. that is why...

I know this has likely been discussed before, but here we go again.

I just finished setting up a beautiful, perfectly working debian sid install. E
verything is configured the way i like it. ...

i upgraded to testing last week, and my mouse is also wonky, though it'll occasionally start working right. i've tried just about every protocol there is to no avail, when i get back to that box i'm...

the easiest way to switch windowmanagers, at least in my (admittedly limited) expierience, is to edit the file called .Xinitrc in your home directory. change it to:

exec gnome-session

not as a webserver, according to this:
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html

and opera?

speakers turned on?

have you tried getting to gnome manually? i.e. changing your .Xinitrc to exec gnome-session (or whatever it is for gnome).

that's definately true of FreeBSD, but NetBSD has been (and is still being) ported up the wazoo (that's the technical term).