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When I booted my laptop today, I got the following error message:

Fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. The root file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount it read-write do: bash mount -n -o remount,rw / Attention: Only CONTROL-D will reboot the system in this maintainance mode. sgutdown or reboot will not work. Give root password to log in

I logged in and executed:

reiserfsck --fix-fixable /dev/hda7

Several error messages appeared, among them in the end:

VMware W2K and W98 do not recognize my Rio500. As I run not from a physical disk, I cannot reboot into W2K or W98 and install the driver from there. I checked, however where the drivers go during the install under W98: the driver consists of two files: riousb.inf and RioUSB.sys. The riousb.inf goes to two places: to C:\windows\INF and (under the new name of RioPort.Comriousb.inf) to C:\windows\INF\OTHER. The RioUSB.sys goes to C:\windows\system32\drivers.

VMware can interfere with Samba. When you are running a samba server on your computer and install VMware, you might break your samba server. You can check that by:

sudo /etc/init.d/smb status