Dell Dimension 4100 seems to contain "bleeding edge" hardware. Tried to
install
7.2 with failure at IDE hard drive configuration and repartitioning. This
one uses
the INTEL 815E chipset. Hard drive is WD 20G (nothing fancy).
Entering RESCUE mode, had a look around /proc to see how hardware
BamBam, Tarballs are collections of files, which may contain
executable files. You might try unpacking the tarball first with:
tar -xzf foo.tar.gz on the console command line.
The "-xzf" options to "tar" does extract, convert from gnuzip,
with disk file as the source.
THEN look for executables.
yes, try "./a.out"
The problem is that your home directory is not in your PATH
- Original Message -
From: "Robert Reed" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 1:52 AM
Subject: [newbie] GCC
Hello, I just installed Linux today, and then
installed the
Richard,
You must become "root" to change configurations rather than just
a regular user. Root can do powerful (and potentially disastrous) changes
to your system, so best not to be "root" all the time.
The command line:
su
which stands for super user, asks for root's login and password.
Matt,
Ok, your video card is found,
that's good. But you ALSO
need to know some info about your monitor. Most
important is the
rate at which vertical and horizontal scanning is
done. The default
VGA-type video rates are 31.5 KHz horizontal and
60 Hz vertical.
This'd give you standard
