On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 11:19 -0700, CavesOfTQLT wrote:
> Pat, just to check: I 'cd /etc/inittab' and do an 'ls' which will list
> the files in the directory. How do I then change the 5 to a 3 in the
> 'id:5:initdefault:' line? Do I just type 'id:3:initdefault:' and hit
> enter?
I don't know if you are missing a critical concept, but
this is the second time you've written about 'cd' to a file.
The correct thing to realize is that
/etc/inittab is a file. /etc is a directory
you 'cd' to a directory. you can run many commands against a file,
such as vi, cat, grep, or ls.
So you want to
cd /etc
cat inittab
You edit the file with your favorite editor. I've used 'vi' for
decades on both Windows and *nix boxes (I'm too lazy to learn
two editors for the two operating systems.) I also put ls and grep
on all my windows boxes. I don't know what the equivalent to
notepad is on Mandriva, I'm sure that there is one.
vi is a direct descendant of teco from the PDP-10 systems that I learned
on in the late 60s. It is only user friendly to people who like it.
> Also, I did notice during installation that something called shorewall
> was installed. Is your 'Also, if the box is on the open internet, be
> sure to get Jack Coates' patched shorewall. Monkeynoodle dot Org'
> reference the one and the same? I also remember during the MCC update
> package part that one of the updates was to shorewall.
Yes, shorewall is included in the standard mandriva distro, but
Jack has fixed some problems, URL is
http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/net/shorewall/
Jack is a frequent poster on other Slim lists.
> BTW the linux box is directly wired via ethernet cable to the wireless
> router, the other, currently XP, machine connects to the router
> wirelessly.
The internal wiring in your house is really not the important thing.
What is important is whether or not the box has a public IP address,
or if your cable/dsl/T1 router is doing forwarding to your
linux machine.
If your machine is not on the open internet, then it is already pretty
secure.
> The HD with my music on it came out of the XP machine so I assume it's
> NTFS. I've installed it in the old computer, making sure master/slave
> is correct for the drives, but the BIOS is reporting it as having 136Gb
> capacity and not 200. Guess the old motherboard can't read the larger
> capacity disc correctly, and I can't be bothered updating the BIOS.
That may be a problem. NTFS is not well supported in the linux world.
Lots of systems can read NTFS files, but writing to them is another
story.
Linux doesn't use (ever? never?) the bios to read disks after it is
booted up. you can use 'df' or 'du' to see how big the
linux system thinks the disk is.
But you may want to not use NTFS. I know tools like Partition Magic can
converted (on the XP side) from NTFS to fat32. You may want to consider
doing that, or copying the files over to a ext3 file system on your
MDK box.
> - it had a problem loading X with
> certain Nvidia cards, and yep, mine was one of them so it fell by the
> wayside!)
Video support is still a problem with some cheap video cards, but others
that cost no more, work fine.
> I'll now have to save all my documents, and other files, so that I can
> install Mandriva on the XP machine. I assume OpenOffice or whatever it
> is on Linux can read these Microsoft Office docs if I burn 'em to a
> CD/DVD?
OpenOffice can handle nearly all Office formats. Some better than
others. But you may have the NTFS issue even on one box.
Burn them or read them direct. Should all work.
--
Pat
http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html
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