Questions, many many questions

[darkweb4 at totalmail.com]

hey all:

um, I guess that i'll just go ahead and make a bother of myself.  I just have a bunch of questions 
that i have been considering this last week.

-  i have a Quad boot system (win98/win2k/mandrake/slackware)...and somewhere around daylights 
saving time, my mandrake cloack got to be about 6hr. ahead of everything else.  i've tried 
resetting it, but doing that screws up the windows clock...and the bios clock.  I've also just 
reset the CMOS clock through the bios settings, but that doesn't seem to fix the Linux clock!  what 
can i do about this other than just wipin the drive and reloading everything?

- when i first (months ago) loaded mandrake onto my system, when i logged out of my WM, imandrake 
returned me to a nice little login/logout screen, and if i asked it to halt/reboot from this 
screen, i could tell it to reboot to any of my LILO entries.  How do i do this through the CLI?

- when i tell mandrake to halt, it halts, and then powers down the system.  when i tell slackware 
to halt, it halts, and then tells me that i have to manually power down.  what is the advantage to 
the way that slackware does this?  how can i make slackware behave as mandrake does in this 
situation, or vice versa?

-  also when i started out with mandrake, the nice little login screen allowed me to determine what 
WM i wanted to use...but i st mandrake to NOT start X when i booted up.  is there some way from the 
CLI, when i issue the 'startx' command, that i can tell X what WM i want to use?

-  there is a win32 app that i found on Sourceforge, named Burn to the Brim (BTTB).  what it does 
is take a user selected directory and parse the files into smaller subdirectries that have the 
files optimally sorted to fit within a 700MB space (for the purpose of later burning to a CD-r).  i 
can't get the darn thing to work, nor am i able to timely contact the authors of the app.  grrr.... 
  anyway, does anyone know of an app or script that will do this in linux?  or would someone be 
willing to help me with the algorithem ?  i know a bit of bash scripting.

thanks all

Tim Reid

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