At 01:21 PM 6/19/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Yesterday I tried installing Red Hat Linux 5.2 from PCQ March CD.
>I have a 4.3 GB Hdd and have nothing installed on it. I started with
>booting from the CD itself and it booted perfectly. I continued till
>Disk Druid, and accepted to use it because PCQ recommended using it.
>Further I don't know how to use Linux Fdisk, so I continued with Disk
>Druid.
>
>My first problem started here. What is the meaning of "Mount on" ? Is it
>something similar to Drive C,D,E....etc as in DOS ? Anyway I just left it
>blank and first created a swap partition of 128 MB. But when creating
>another partition for Linux native, it did not allow me to keep "Mount
>on" blank, and said to insert some values in it and, should start with
>"/". I did so and created a Linux native with "/" of 500 MB. Then I also
>created a "/user" of 1 GB. Although I created these partitions, I don't
>know what is "Mount on " and "/" , etc.
Hi rajen,
You have got the problems what I had while installing RH5.2 (but you are
lucky I made a mess of it i had format my hard disk {it was all due to my
mistake - no intention of freightening you or any newbies in this mailing
list} ).
I have gone through the chip special on LINUX ( couldn't read it in detail
due to time constraints) found it to be very good for beginners like you
and me and it has two cds red hat 6.00 and also many other software.
Many of your doubts will be cleared by reading CHIP and you wont have to
go to any corner of mumbai to see a working LINUX machine, you can have it
in your own PC ;-)
>Next I was stuck with installing my video card. I have a AGP Trident card
>975 with 4 MB RAM. Also, I could not in make out what is "Chip Set" in
>the card. How do I find it ? The system asked me to allow auto check the
"chipset"
>but couldn't find it. I read a mail on this list that someone else was
>also having a same problem with the above mentioned card. So, for the
>time beign can I set with some other card make of Trident which are listed
on the installation ?
I think if you have the manual of your video card you can get the
information from there or you may have to open the pc (if you are not a
tech. geek your enggr can do the job).
>Last, I was stuck with LILO. I was given two option. One was to Load it as
>Master Loader and second to Load it at First Sector......etc.. I took the
>first option and continued with the remaining procedure without any problem.
>But in the end it said it was not able to load LILO. So, I re-tried it
>with the second option but still it gave an error. Can't figure out what
>the problem is.
>
>Anyway since , I had made a boot floppy (When it asked me make one during
>the installation) I was able to boot into the system and it did start.
>But since I have never ever used a unix or linux system I didn't know
>what to do .
>
>How does one run a program in Linux ?
>How does one start the GUI mode of using the system ?
>
>BTW, Can anyone out here show me a actually working Linux system . This
>will help me in seeing how one uses a linux system. I am ready to go to
>any corner of Mumbai just to see one. I know I sound like a real nerd,
>but belive me, as far as linux is concerned, I am a nerd.
>
>Hope to see a silver lining.
>
>Rajen.
>
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