Re: Date Problems and more

[D Richards <extra@galstar.com>]

First off thanks to everyone who replied to my first problem.  I was actually trying to just change the hour and nothing else using the 'date' command.  Duh!

Ok my brother is wanting to install Debian on his home machine, after I've been telling him how great the support is from you guys and how cool and efficient the Linux OS is.

He has a old i386 with a 1mg+ HD that his BIOS and Windows doesn't see all of.  Well we ran a floppy I prepared from my machine and we quickly had Debian up and running. I tried to just use the part of the drive that Windows doesn't see and everything seemed Ok from the Linux side with fdisk.  However from the BIOS and Windows the Partition Table was messed up in such a way as to make Windows unbootable.  I had to run a rescue disk and do a fdisk /mbr to get it back to normal.  I've been following this list for a while and someone somewhere mentioned that you could write the root partition to the lower part of the HD and make it work OK.  If so can you do this without screwing up his existing Windows partition? Also his computer has a Sony cdrom (CDU-33A) which is supported by the kernal already.  But the installation program wouldn't recognize it.  I've got the hamm dist.  Any one have any ideas?  I don't think he had any problems with the cdrom from Windows although I didn't check it out while I was there.

TIA Duane

BTW  I converted from Slack to Debian after I tried to get support from them and while doing a search for some file I thought was broken ran accross this mailing list and saw a lot of my questions answered just by reading the archives.  Just one thing though. is there a way to search just the mailing list archives for answers to specific problems? That would sure be a BIG timesaver for a lot of people.