Linux with Software Synth on Dell Enspiron2600 Laptop

[Martin McCormick]

	Well, folks, it looks like Oralux just worked right out
of the box. When I boot up the CD, the rooster wakes up without
any help needed and the system appears sane.

	I have not yet had time to install it on the hard drive
so I don't know how that will go, but first I need to tar some
files off of that drive for safety's sake before erasing all
that Windows stuff and giving it a whole new outlook, so to
speak.

	Thanks to all of you for your help and suggestions. I
will stay with the grml list in case that problem gets fixed
because I would have much rather installed Debian.

	One observation. I thought that NTFS file systems would
mount read-write these days. If I use a command like

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt

it mounts just fine and one can see all the Microsoft files,
etc. If you try to write to that drive, you get an error that it
is a read-only file system even though /etc/mtab shows it to be
mounted RW.  This is a bit off-topic for this list, but I was a
little surprised.

	My plan had been to make a tar ball of the drive on the
same drive. If you do that, tar just complains about not tarring
the archive which is a wonderful thing because that would make
an infinite loop and eat up all available space. The drive
presently is only about 30% full so the tar ball can coexist
with the other files.

	Anyway, thanks for all your help.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group