install on NTFS

2001-07-09 Thread Greg Partin
Hi folks, Is it possible to install Mandrake 7.2 on a system with NTFS as its file allocation method? If not, is it possible to switch to FAT without having to reinstall everything? Thanks and much obliged. Greg ___ Send a cool gift

chat installation

2001-06-04 Thread Greg Partin
Hi folks, I'm sort of new to understanding what port binding means and because of this lack of knowledge i'm having a hard time getting a java chat server/client to work. I'm running RH 6.2, I have the server installed in /usr/local/chatserver and the client classes are in the html directory wit

question about ftp commands

2001-05-24 Thread Greg Partin
Hi folks, I have a question about FTP...hope this isn't too much off topic. I am able to connect fine and cd to all directories except the one that has a space in the name (ie i can 'cd music' but i can't 'cd other files'. Does anyone know how I can do this? Much obliged. Greg __

Linux vs. The World

2001-04-12 Thread Greg Partin
Hi folks, Being a newbie, i've wondered why Linux OS is more reliable and stable of a platform then, say, Windows. What makes a Linux system able to run for years on end without crashing, but my PC running Windows 2000 seems to crash once a day? Is it the fact that there are so many 3rd party ve

My first Linux installation

2001-03-29 Thread Greg Partin
Hi folks, I'm just getting ready to install my first version of Linux on my PC that i'm hoping you guys will help me pick. I'm familiar with Berkley Unix, I have a programming background and i've done easy tasks such as installing mySQL, drivers and API's onto RedHat. What version of Linux do yo

.htaccess

2001-03-06 Thread Greg Partin
Hi all, Newbie hereso please bear with. I have .htaccess in my cgi-bin/admin directory of my web site and .htpasswd in a directory (it doesn't matter where it's at as long as I path it correctly in .htaccess,right?). Here is the file: AuthUserFile /home/httpd/.htpasswd AuthGroupFile /dev/

make file

2001-02-27 Thread Greg Partin
Hi all, i'm very new to administrating Linux. Actually, I just got some contract work doing Perl with MySQL (which I have done before). But the guy i'm working for gave me a box that just had Linux installed on it. I'm trying to install some software on it but the 'make' command cannot be found