----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Well done.. You are having to work at getting this installed ;-) It was down to working round the foibles of the Sony... > Mandrake is pretty good at detecting NIC's .. I ditched most of the NIC settings and it seems to be happier during boot. My options for a LAN are presently restricted to the desktop (via a suspect crossover cable ), or the cable modem - neither of them caused the LEDs on the NIC dongle to light up. I kinda thought something would come on even if the drivers were iffy. They come on in a w2k boot. > .. You probably just need to set up > DHCP if needed, DNS server, Default gateway, and HostName A good tool for > this is netconf. It works in X or from the command line. I'll have a fiddle next time I boot it. > The command 'ifconfig' is good for looking at NIC status and setting > it up on the fly. See 'man ifconfig' for a full breakdown Righty-ho. > Yes.. By default Mandrake will mount the first Windows partition as > /mnt/windows you can just browse there. Yup, I stumbled over it earlier. > If you have trouble writing to the > partition (and it is not NTFS) then the permissions in the file /etc/fstab > will sort you out. Time to try out the cp command. During the install, it said it had trouble with emacs. I only copied the first CD to the Win partition. Assuming the RPM thingy can be tracked down, is that a decent editor (for a Win/DOS jockey to use quickly without screaming)? If not, what would be a suitable choice? > Check out the documentation at > http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fdoc.php3 and > on your hard drive at /usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/index.html for basic > commands and the file structure. That would be handy.. :-)
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