Re: RedHat 8

2002-10-23 Thread Don Petrowski
I loaded Psyche on a Gateway Laptop 366Mhz Pentium, 96 MB Ram, 11GB Hard Drive. It's alittle confusing switching between Gnome and KDE, they look identical. I had 1 issue. Mozilla would not work with the neomagic display adapter. I went and got a beta version of mozilla, 1.2, compiled it and it

RE: RedHat 8

2002-10-23 Thread Don Petrowski
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 07:49, Ken Boyer wrote: > > No disk partition tool. > Disk Druid and fdisk are on the install as always. You have to use custom install to set them up manually, otherwise install sets it up for you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie"

Re: Laptop GUI.

2002-10-21 Thread Don Petrowski
In Suse 8.0 you can run SaX2 to configure XFree86 version 4 or SaX to configure version 3. An excellent gui config tool. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordom

Re: 2 Displays

2002-10-21 Thread Don Petrowski
I post earlier today about SaX2 on Suse. It'll work for what you want also. Setup Xinerama if you want the 2 screens as 1 desktop or you can clone the screen. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo inf

Re: Variable Quoting

2002-10-14 Thread Don Petrowski
Give this a try > string somevariable="somediretory/somesubdirectory/some\ directory\ with\ spaces/*" string somevariable="somediretory/somesubdirectory/some directory with spaces/*" > cp $somevarable $somedestination cp "$somevarable" $somedestination - To unsubscribe from this list: se

Re: beep killing

2002-10-11 Thread Don Petrowski
On the email client you could configure fetchmail to pick up the POP3 accounts and deliver it to local user mbox and then pine or mutt to read and send messages. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bash Scripts

2002-10-10 Thread Don Petrowski
Here is an example of a simple backup script I use to backup some files and copy them to another machine to be put on tape. echo $HOSTNAME > /var/log/backup.log echo "Backup Started: " >> /var/log/backup.log date >> /var/log/backup.log tar --create --verbose --bzip2 --file /root/tuxtracker.tar.bz

Re: Bash Scripts

2002-10-10 Thread Don Petrowski
1. the first value passed from the command line would be referenced as $1 the second as $2 2. run command as part of an if statement. if the command execute successfully the error result will be 0 and follow the then branch other wise the else. On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 15:34, Paul Kraus wrote: >

Re: Disk Image

2002-10-10 Thread Don Petrowski
You can use the dd comand: dd if={hard drive} of={filename} dd if=/dev/hda of=disk1.img - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read