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    Well, on Darwin you use:

     

    %: tar -xvzf filename

     

    The -x flag indicates that you wish to x-tract the file(s)

    The -v flag means "verbose"

    The -z flag ****omit this flag if the file is not compressed****

    The -f flag tells tar to extract from a file and not a tape archive

     

     

    w/ secure shell I assume that you just use the above command, given that the computer you are interacting with is Unix based.

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    I have a dual boot Fedora Core 4/Windows XP SP2 Dell Dimesion 4400 w/ a Pentium 4 (bought around 2002). My apt has one cable outlet on the other side, and its on the oppsite side of my room, so I set up a wireless network for my laptop. Anyways, I want to get my Dell machine hooked up to the Internet and I was just curious if there are wireless cards that play more friendly with Linux than others. Thanks for any suggestions.

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    However, relating to this thread, I set up Windows on one hard drive and Fedora Core 4 on another. When I set up XP I made its hard drive master, and then when I set-up Fedora I made its respective hard drive master (with the other set as slave in both instances).

     

    The problem now is that I need to change the hard drive hierarchies to load the respective OS's (big pain in the butt). How does one consolidate?

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    I have a NVIDIA video card, and on a side note, I successfully installed Fedora Core 3. However, I prefer Mandrake somewhat to Fedora, and if we can get it to work, I'd rather use that OS. If not, oh well, Fedora still kicks @$$. Also, I'm still left wondering why Mandrake isn't taking to my computer. I'll try your suggestion, thanks for the assist.

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    I slowed down the burning speed to 4x and the install still suffered the same error. Thinking that it may be the burning software, I downloaded Dragon Burn and tried that, still the same error. I then thought to try a different source for the iso download, and again had the same error. Windows XP and Linux Live OSs run fine, what is it w/ Mandrake? I think I'll give Fedora Core 3 a try. Any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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    To start off, I have read the other posts on this subject, but they didn't help too much. I have two Western Digital HDDs, one 40GB and one 250GB along with a 2002 Dell Dimension 4400 box w/ DVD and CD drives. I have a few apps that I need XP for, but would like to make Mandrake my primary operating system. So I downloaded a 2GB 3-disk version of Mandrake 10.1 from linuxiso.org.

     

    Next, I set up XP on the 40GB HD, letting this hard drive be master for set-up purposes and am now trying to install Mandrake. I have tried two approaches with both hierarchial configs for the HDDs:

     

    1. Install from XP....Problem: Disc loads the graphics, but the install graphic does not respond to mouse clicks.

     

    2. Boot from CD....Problem: Graphics load, allows me to select install, searches for USD devices, searches memory, then encounters a fatal error and initiates a termination sequence.

     

    Oh, forgot to metion that I used OS X 10.4 Disk Utility to burn the ISO images to disk.

     

    Thanks for any help or references.

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