Blood Lesson WARNING re "WARTY" Install

[vailima]

Winton;

Just recd your last and have made a hard copy of it, as you see it below.

Will give it a try ... and thanks for getting back. It's appreciated.



>Hi Vailima,

>sounds like you have a few problems,

>I have successfully installed and had a dual Win 98,
>linux sytem with Mandrake and now Warty, with no
>problems, but I first made an ext2 partition with partition magic,
>and installed Linux to that partition. am a newbie, and found the
>partitioning tool hard to understand.

>The data you lost may very well been accessable,with suitable addition to
>/etc/fstab  Mandrake mounts the Windows partition automatically, but
>with Warty you need to add line to /etc/fstab Have a look at the unofficial
>guide,  http://www.ubuntuguide.org

>I included line below, and works for me, with an icon on desktop for
>my Windows partition.

>/dev/hda1       /windows        vfat    rw,umask=000,users,auto   0       0
>
>Try setting up your modem in a terminal .

>sudo adduser "you" dip
>adduser dialout
>pppconfig
>
>enter relevant info, if your modem is a serial,  and is not detected,  
>enter the serial port
>it is connected to, ttyS0, ttyS1 etc, then try to connect from terminal with
>pon "isp entered at setup".

>Hope I have this correct.

>Take Care

>Winton