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Operating Systems Linux Windows 2000 to Linux Post 41280 by Rawdawg on Wednesday 1st of October 2003 10:24:10 PM

10-01-2003

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Windows 2000 to Linux

I currently have windows 2000 installed on a 38 Gigabyte HD. I recently picked up a 'Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours' book. The book comes with a copy of redhat 5.0 (hurricane). I tried reinstalling windows with a partition of 10 GBs with a fat32 file system. That left me with roughly 28 Gigs of unallocated space. I copied the boot and supplimental disks from the Redhat cd. In the book it says I would have trouble using the 'fips' command (on the boot disk). So I downloaded Partition Magic (like the book says to). It didn't even recognize my partition. It just showed 1 Primary Partition the whole size of my HD. I tried adding a logical partition (to install linux to). 1024 MB in size with a ext2 file type. Also a 516MB swap partition. It logged off and proceeded to make the partitions. When i got back to windows PM (part magic) showed my primary (C Smilie

1.5 gigs less (36.5GB) than the size of my hd (38GB). Which makes sense cause i just made the two new ones. But which also doesn't make sense because my C: is only 10GB in My computer. PM also showed the new extended partition with the two logical partitions. So (thinking the new partitions are there) i pop in the boot disk and reboot. setup start so far so good. When i get to Diskdruid. My 10GB Partition is there but no swap or linux partitions. So i went back to windows deleted the extended partion . now i am getting delaid write failures. wtf is going on?
what did i do wrong?

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vboxbeep(1)						    Linux System Administration 					       vboxbeep(1)

NAME

       vboxbeep - isdn voice box (beeper)

SYNOPSIS

       vboxbeep [OPTION] [OPTION] [...]

DESCRIPTION

       vboxbeep is a daemon, that watches several message directories. If new messages are found it will beep. Vboxbeep does not use vboxd, it can
       only watch local directories.

       Vboxbeep is also used to stop this annoying beep.

OPTIONS

       Without any options, vboxbeep will signal an already running vboxbeep to stop its beep. Only root can start it as daemon.

       -s, --sound HOURS
	      Hours to play beep signal. Use 24 hour format, like 0-23. Multiple hours can be given separated by commas, a "*" is used for always,
	      "-" for never.

       -m, --messagebox DIR
	      Message directory to scan. You can use this option several times.

       -p, --pause SECS
	      Time to wait between every check. Default is 5 seconds.

       -k, --kill
	      Kill a running vboxbeep. This option can only be used by root.

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

       -v, --version
	      Show version of program.

NOTE

       vboxbeep  will  only work if it is installed suid root. This may be a security hole, so many distributions do not install it suid root, and
       thus it's useless. If you want to enable vboxbeep, please read the distribution-specific documentation how to do  that  (e.g.  with  debian
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AUTHOR

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ISDN 4 Linux 3.1pre4						    2000/09/15							       vboxbeep(1)