[newbie] Patch
Hey all, Well here's another newbie question. What is a patch and how is it installed? TIA Rick Keefer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] Book?
I've found the "Running Linux" by Matt Welsh is an excellent book to both learn linux with, and to use as a reference when the usual problems arise. Bill -Original Message- From: Paul A. Bernicchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 1999 6:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Book? I would recommend "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Linux" -- I don't have a ISBN or anything, but it's a very well-written book. Unfortunately, it concentrates on the Caldera distribution, but there are very few differences between that and Mandrake; and focuses mainly on KDE and basic commandline functions. It is part of the "Complete Idiots" series (a la '... for Dummies'). Even comes with StarOffice (as well as Caldera OpenLinux 1.3, which you can forget about) g Paul - Original Message - From: Shawn M. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pierce To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 1999 7:39 PM Subject: [newbie] Book? What book does everybody recommend for running Red Hat/Mandrake, that also is more general to Linux as a whole. I just started learning this, and I need to find a good book. Shawn Pierce
RE: [newbie] Before I Start:
Dave - I have an older system running 95, and I was unable to upgrade to 98 and get everything working. I ended up reformatting the 95 partition, and doing a clean install of 98. In regards to linux, The mandrake 5.3 install was simple (since I chose a default install), worked well with my 98 dual booting, and linux 2.0.36 handles the fat32 quite well. I found that the Running Linux book, by Matt Welch, an excellent reference, and it has helped me several times. Bill -Original Message- From: Pat David Leathers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 07, 1999 4:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Before I Start: Hi: Right now I'm running win95. Within the next week or so I plan to upgrade to win98. I have also ordered a disk with mandrake-5.3. What I would like to do is to set these up so I can dual boot into win98 or linux. My question is where can I go or how can I get all the information that I will need to do this? What information do I need to have before I start the installation of linux? Does Linux support fat-32? I will end up with two separate hard disk one 3.2 gig and one 3.2 or 6.4 gig. Would it be better to put win98 on one and Lunix on another? After I get win98 up and running good, will it be possible not to mess it up when I install Linux--So I can ask questions online if I need too? One thing that bothers me is that most folks seem to have big problems getting Linux installed. I have been reading some news-groups and there are numerous horror stories. But from what I have heard it is very hard to install Lunix. I thought that it would be best to prepare as best as I can. Thanks David:
Re: [newbie] Klogin?
Steve Philp wrote: Lawrence Sayre wrote: I've just switched to Mandrake 5.3 from SuSE 5.3, and in SuSE my computer auto-launched into KDE (bypassing command line log-in), passing through 'Klogin' (at least that's what I believe its called) for loging on the user and password How do I do this in Mandrake? Type: /opt/kde/bin/kdm_on and you should be all set! If this doesn't work, and I haven't tried it, drop another note and I'll post the instructions for editing /etc/inittab. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] This did work! Thank you, Lawrence Sayre - "Man's mind is his basic tool of survival!" (a quote from the famous 'John Galt' speech in the equally famous book "Atlas Shrugged") Lawrence Sayre [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Re: [newbie] Slackware upgrade
Mark Lyon wrote: Does anybody know of an "easy" way to upgrade from Slackware to Mandrake. I need to keep the existing configuration as it is a printserver. I doubt you're going to have too much luck trying to slowly move things into your Slackware installation. Personally, I'd take note of how things are setup now, make a full backup, make another full backup, then take the plunge. Mandrake installs exceptionally easily, so there shouldn't be more than an hour of downtime on the whole thing. Setting up printers (both remote and local) can either be done at installation time (via the textmode tool), or after installation (through the control-panel application in X). If you come up with more specific questions, drop a line to the list. -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] cd rom problems
Tim Wojtaszek wrote: When ever I try to access my cd rom, i get an error message: file:/dev/cdrom%3a%20Input/output%20error%0Amoun...ou%20must%20specify%the%20filesystem%20type%0A. how do I do that. Is that a data CD in the drive? By default, Mandrake is setup to auto-detect the filesystem type for the CD. Check /etc/fstab and see if it looks like this: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 The underlined part there should match. If that's an audio CD in the drive, you can't mount those. :) -- Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[newbie] INFO: PowerPack 5.3 available in the USA
Hi there, it has been awaited for a long time, the PowerPack 5.3 (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fpowerpack.html) is finally available for a few hours in the USA at: - Circadian Software http://www.ccsoft.cc/linux/ - LinuxCentral http://www.linuxcentral.com Other distributors should follow soon! :) Greets, Gael. -- Gael DUVAL - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://linuxmandrake.com QPL : "With the release of this license, KDE and the Qt Free Edition are truly Open Source(tm)". Bruce Perens, Opensource.org.
