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Thread ID: 41005 2003-12-26 19:10:00 Red Hat 9 tweaking, fixing, and making hospitable Jaguar (4442) Press F1
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203393 2004-01-01 19:25:00 Your Hard Drive partitions will be stored under /mnt (Stands for Mount).

In Linux, each drive must be Mounted before it can be used and UnMounted before it can be removed....
I found it a bit of a pain at the start, but in the end its kinda good.

Heres a few places that you might like to check out:
http://www.tldp.org
The Linux Documentation Project - The name says it all - Documentation for Linux

man application_name
If you wanna know more info about an Application, type man (for Manual) followed by the program name...!

http://www.google.co.nz
Google - What a place to check into when you've got a problem or wanna know about something, have a look here

http://www.pressf1.co.nz
Last but not least, here! Have a question, most people will be more than happy to go out of their way to help you :-)

There is a way to get it into the Applications Menu, but Ive forgotten.. I'll post back if it comes to me ;-)


Chill. 		Chilling_Silently (228)
203394 2004-01-01 20:04:00 That Linux documentation site is very useful! Thanks!

Yes, I've figured out this mounting business... but both hard drives are NTFS, and I don't think it reads that... I'll give it a go though. 		Jaguar (4442)
203395 2004-01-01 20:27:00 Hmmm, downloaded the rpm from http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/

First I tried the double-click... it did the prepare, told me it was queued... I clicked continue and that's the last I saw of it. Tried doing

[root@localhost Downloads]# sh kernel-ntfs-2.4.20-27.9.i386.rpm
kernel-ntfs-2.4.20-27.9.i386.rpm: kernel-ntfs-2.4.20-27.9.i386.rpm: cannot execute binary file

Remembered that from you. :) 		Jaguar (4442)
203396 2004-01-01 20:34:00 rpm -Uvh kernel-ntfs*.rpm

:-)

The 2.6 kernel should be available for download in an rpm soon from Redhat, it supports writing to ntfs :-) 		Chilling_Silently (228)
203397 2004-01-01 21:10:00 That's good, I'll keep an eye out for it.

To my horror, I found out that XMMS player doesn't do MPEG 1, 2 and 3!! DId someone want to tell me this? I mean... does Red Hat... do ANYTHING?! :S

Never mind, I'm sure there's a complicated sollution to it... :) 		Jaguar (4442)
203398 2004-01-01 21:25:00 > To my horror, I found out that XMMS player doesn't do
> MPEG 1, 2 and 3!! DId someone want to tell me this? I
> mean... does Red Hat... do ANYTHING?! :S

That is an easy fix :D

Go here (www.gurulabs.com) and download the XMMS MP3 Plugin for Red Hat Linux - grab the xmms-mp3-1.2.7-21.p.i386.rpm for Red Hat 9 (don't get the SRPM). Just run that, and try out XMMS again.

This site here is also excellent for tips on command lines things - Newbie's Top Ten Commands (www.cmm.uklinux.net)

Jen 		Jen C (20)
203399 2004-01-01 21:39:00 Wow, excellent! Those commands are bound to come in handy!

Yes, well I had found an XMMS player plug-in with similar filename minus the p.

Now the player doesn't work... is there a way to remove these packages? Need to reinstall it... or rather replace it with the one you suggested. 		Jaguar (4442)
203400 2004-01-01 21:44:00 >>To my horror, I found out that XMMS player doesn't do MPEG 1, 2 and 3!! DId someone want to tell me this? I mean... does Red Hat... do ANYTHING?! :S
Nope, better uninstall it now.

Maybe you should have gone with Mandrake ?:| 		Dolby Digital (160)
203401 2004-01-01 21:45:00 Was this plugin you found a RPM?

To remove that rpm, open up a console window, and enter this:

rpm -e name_of_rpm. Make sure you enter the full file name correctly. 		Jen C (20)
203402 2004-01-01 21:51:00 Right... I assume Linux has a reinstall feature... because I need it. That program has completely gone kaput.

After I do the remove package command, it doesn't give me my [root@localhost root] again. Just flashes there. That obviously isn't a good thing...

In fact, this Evolution E-mail seems to have died on me too. Open it up, gives me the splash screen and just sits there. I've seen ducks that are more interesting... 		Jaguar (4442)
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