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lazygamer:
I hope you guys never turn on me one day and say "Your too stupid to be a Linux dude, go back to Windows!".  ;)

Ok so I decided not to go with Redhat after all, and to QUIT jumping my fucking distro around. Pick one, and stick with it. So I decided it's time to take a stand against Linux and my cowardice and use Libranet. After all Libranet is susposed to be rather user friendly.

So I guess if I wanna see the beauty of Linux, I should probably spend one hour per day on it, likely doing manual reading.

Ok now some questions.

1)I use the grub bootloader, the Windows XP dual boot option does not work. I know Mandrake dual
booted just fine. This is the commands list for the Libranet Windows boot option:

root (hd 1,0)
 Filesystem is fat, partition type 0xc
makeactive
chainloader+1

All it does is list those commands, and attempts to boot. It obviously attempted to boot because I can't go back into the bootloader, I can only reboot.

2)During my Linux boot up, there is a part that takes 20+ seconds. It basically is a page filled
with numbers(with the odd letter mixed in) in the format of

, XXX:XX/XX, (repeated 5 times)

At the bottom it says "Not automatically fixing this". I haven't been able to read out any possible description of what the problem(?) is. Any ideas? Where would I read a log of my boot on Linux? Total boot time, around 140 seconds.

3)How would I go about backing up my Linux, so if it won't boot or work correctly, I could simply
solve the problem by overwriting the system files with an older, properly working backup? I do
have a CD burner...

4)I also have a bootdisk(made during install) that works fine, would that allow me to get into
Linux if I fucked it up so it woulden't boot via the harddisk? What if I fuck something up more
worse then the boot?

5)How do I get Libranet to reboot or shutdown without having to log off first?

6)It appears Libranet is a profit distro, and doesn't offer 2.7 free for download. How do they
work, do they offer a pay version for free after they put out something more modern?

Calum:
4) yes, that's what its for

5) type "shutdown -r now" for an instant reboot, type "shutdown -h now" for an instant shutdown. also "man shutdown" for more options.

TheQuirk:
As for backup, look into the "mkisofs" and "dd" commands. You can easily make your computer do regular backups and upload them to another computer/hard drive/partion

voidmain:
And if you are fortunate enough to have a DLT tape drive like myself you might want to check into "Amanda". Of course you can also just use tar or cpio to do backups to tape as well. Amanda is a really good backup system and will do remote backups of your clients, and do full/incremental backups on schedule. It can even handle a robotic tape library but I doubt you have one of those (I do at work).

choasforages:
i would rather support a dumb dude with linux, then a bright one with windows/*not that your stupid*/ just practice, it takes time to learn how to play with the iner workings of linux. infact im doing it right now, and redhat has me pissed, and so does rpm. im trying to install gnome2.0.2 and running into rpm files that i have to remove

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