On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Rik Osborne wrote:
> Just a note to all you helpful folks - I succeeded in getting KDE
> running a few days ago :-)
>
> Still not sure though why my files are named "Xclients" and "xinitrc"
> rather than ".Xclients" and ".xinitrc" i.e., no periods in the names.
> Peculiarity of the specific distro I got?
first xinit looks for $HOME/.xinitrc, then it looks for
<xroot>/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc.
>
> I'm still having no luck configuring my networking with DHCP. So far,
> the suggestions I've gotten all involve downloading something, which I
> can't do until I get networking configured... Unless the software is
> included on the CDs that came with my distro (RedHat 5.2), I can't get
> any new software onto my Linux box. I can download to a different
> computer, but unless I can get my Mac to recognize ext2-formatted
> floppies I've got no way to transfer the files to my Linux box. (Just
> out of curiosity, why does the floppy-formatting utility in KDE allow
> me to format DOS disks when Linux apparently won't read them afterward?
It can. It is possible to custom build a kernel without msdos and vfat
filesystems, but I don't see why anyone would. It _might_ need a module
loaded or so .. vfat can be a module. Probably, you haven't got
/etc/fstab right to do it. Try, as root:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
I had to read man mount and man fstab recursively to get comfortable
with it.
Also, there is a hfsutils package I found somewhere on metalab.unc.edu
to deal with mac floppies.
> My Mac _can_ read/write DOS disks, so I thought that might be a way to
> transfer files between machines. But when I try to mount a DOS disk
> using "mount /mnt/floppy" it tells me something about an unknown
> filesystem.
>
> Of course I realize that once I get networking functioning I'll be
> okay... :-)
> ===
> Rik Osborne
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