I am installing CentOS 5.1 to a PATA drive in my Media Bay on my Dell D820. During the portion of the install where the partitions are formatted, it is taking an unusually long time. For instance, I...

Then you'll probably want to install it. Check out http://myy.helia.fi/~karte/yum-package-manager.html for instructions of how to do this.

-- Andy

There are a couple of ways you could do this. If you just install KDE (does RH 9 have yum?), you should be able to choose KDE in your session manager and run it without getting rid of Gnome.

For...

You can use whatever version of Samba you like. And yes, you can authenticate users from win2003 server. Check out the docs on samba.org. Everything's pretty well documented there.

try a fdisk /mbr, reboot, fdisk again and wipe the partition table. If this doesn't work, you could use a Knoppix cd to boot into a Linux environment and use the Linux version of fdisk which should...

Check out the knowledgebase on VMWare's website. There is a known issue with some VMWare workstation versions and RH9 which may be related to your problem. The fix is a pretty simple config file...

Not necessarily true if you are using USB 2.0

Andy

Why not write to the local hard drive and then using a shell script copy the file to the server after it is done?