[newbie] farewell for now!
Hi everyone: Although things haven't been at their best recently on your list, I have enjoyed it. Thanks John Aldrich for your help. I remade everything 3 times on different disks! nothing worked. Still could be the sequence. I'm going with the distro as it is and do fixes and rpm stuff as I go along. My local group (Victoria, B.C., Canada) didn't have much success with the boot disks either. By the way, John, you're right about list usage, I should have just read the mail only. Thanks so much to everybody and best wishes for you in this new year! Chris W.
Re: [newbie] boot disk image prob.
Happy New Year Greetings Axalon: Just sent this to a member of my local linux users group. Been working many hours trying to do this! Hi alan: Thanks for your private reply. I tried what you suggested and RedHat still loads Gnome (which is beginning to grow on me). This is the sequence that I used. 1. Downl. boot-RHEA-1999_044 from: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHEA1999045-01.html 2. rawrite the image file to a flop. 3. bios priority a: first 4. left the boot flop. in a: and cd in cdrom and ctrl-alt-del 5. linux boots, I enter: 'text' then hit enter ((even though the RedHat site says: linux updates (install stops)) 6. Gnome comes up. From the site: When booting into the anaconda installation program, type "linux updates" at the boot prompt, followed by any other installation options which are required (such as "expert" or "text"). The installation process will prompt you to insert the updates disk when it is required, and the install will then proceed as normal. That does not work. inputing "linux updates" stops the install and there are no prompt for "text" or "expert"! Unless you enter "text" first, then you will get gnome. I remember earlier in text installs (I've been working on it almost half a day) I remember seeing: insert update disk or something like that, but I can't seem to recreate the sequence. I'm going to try a straight install from cd again to see if it comes up. I'm pretty sure I've done all the sequences, but I still could be missing something. I'll keep you posted Chris W. Happy New Year.
[newbie] x-server problem
Hi all: I'm arbitrarily out of linux for the moment. My Distro's mc or bash# won't see my DOS partition. Has unformatted "empty space" on the drive at the moment (maybe that's why?) Had to use windoze to download xsis.tgz from suSE site to get my distro up and running. Can't get xf86config (or XF86Setup for that matter) to set up my x-server. I think the commands are: #tar xzvf /dir/filename -C/usr/X11R6 The problem: xsis.tgz is in DOS tried: #tar xzvf /DOS/xsis.tgz -C/usr/X11R6 and won't recognize DOS. Any help would be appreaciated, Chris.
[newbie] ques. re: downloading ftp folders
Hi! Could someone please help me configure Netvampire3.3 to download a directory or folder of files. Currently I only get a "listing" of the huge file. I can't believe that I have to individually download 1000 files one at a time! I understand from your FAQ file that it has something to do with the "path" being added to the URL. I my case the URL of the directory is: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrake/RPMS/ The next level up in the directory has 3 folders at: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrake/ The only option that seems availiable is: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrake/RPMS/AfterStep-1.7.111-7mdk.i586.rpm and there is about 1000 to 2000 of these that I need! Thanks Chris.
