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| 197099 | 2003-12-24 19:08:00 | Installing Red Hat 9 this afternoon. | Jaguar (4442) | ||
| 197100 | 2003-12-24 19:54:00 | Cool, I like Redhat's set of "redhat-config-*" tools Run: redhat-config-network or click through on the Kde/GNOME Menu's for Network Setup Cant go wrong, just remember to deactivate then re-activate it when you've made changes :-) Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 197101 | 2003-12-25 20:04:00 | Before I get onto the network and all... I can't seem to get a boot loader like GRUB or LILO. When I go back into the installation and try and install one it says: No kernal packages were installed on your system. No changes were made to your boot loader configuration... Some help, please? I don't want to put in a floppy every time I want to get into the OS. |
Jaguar (4442) | ||
| 197102 | 2003-12-25 21:27:00 | Basically you've likely been choosing to Upgrade your current OS. Dont.... Do a clean install, "custom" if you feel confidant enough.. When it comes to partitioning, tell it to erase all Linux partitions, but not your Windows ones. It may pay to tell it you want to partition it yourself, then when you're presented with (A much nicer looking) Partition Manager (Compared to Mandrake), simply tell it to format each of your Ext3 (Or whatever your Linux partitions are) partitions and set the mount points for them. Redhat likes a 100mb /boot, twice your RAM for Swap (This can be changed.. I have 512MB RAM and dont want a gig SWAP file, so I made it 256MB and its only been used about twice), and the rest as / Install Grub when you get the chance :-) Hope this helps Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 197103 | 2003-12-26 02:35:00 | Have no fear, all is solved and even internet is working! I now praise Red Hat! Few little problems that need some ironing out: 1.) Changing the resolution (800x600 is horribly big). It wants me to log out and restart the X Server? Er... 2.) Want to view my hard drives and also view the network hard drives. Thanks. |
Jaguar (4442) | ||
| 197104 | 2003-12-26 03:39:00 | > 1.) Changing the resolution (800x600 is horribly > big). It wants me to log out and restart the X > Server? Er... You just need to restart X which is the graphical desktop environment within which KDE and Gnome for example run. To restart (shut down all open windows first) you can right-click on a blank area of the desktop and select "log-out", or you can just hit CTRL-ALT-Backspace to kill X. You will then be presented with the login dialog box again, so just enter in your user name and password and X will reload again with the new resolution. > 2.) Want to view my hard drives and also view the > network hard drives. Open up Konqueror or Nautilus and in the address bar type in smb://mshome/ and hit enter - replace mshome with whatever you have set up your system with. If you have a nVidia graphic card, I would install the proper drivers for it, and not the default Red Hat ones - it makes a big difference. You can find the lastest drivers at NVIDIA (www.nvidia.com). Give a shout if you decide to use these drivers and need advice on how to install them. Jen |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 197105 | 2003-12-26 03:54:00 | Yes, I will install the nVidea drivers. How can I open tar.gz? I know Linux runs them, but it asks for the app to open them with. | Jaguar (4442) | ||
| 197106 | 2003-12-26 04:13:00 | tar.gz is a compressed filed similar to zip. You can extract the contents by using the GUI and simply right-clicking on the file, and select "Extract Here". Browse to where you want the extract files put (can just be in same directory) and hit OK. A folder will appear in whatever directory you choose bearing the same name as the tar.gz file. In this folder will be the contents of the compressed file. You can also uncompress the file via the terminal using the command line. In the directory where you have saved the tar.gz, right-click in a blank area and select "Open terminal here". At the prompt enter tar -xzvf file_name.tar.gz and hit enter. Note, you may need to refresh the contents of the directory to show the new folder. |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 197107 | 2003-12-26 04:16:00 | And, logging out and logging in again doesn't seem to change the resolution: What is says is: Display settings changed You need to log out and restart the X server for the changes to take effect. Configuration was written to /etc/X11/XF86Config, original configuration saved as /etc/X11/XF86Config.backup Now, when I log out and log back in, there is no change. As for the network drives, its name is OLDDESKTOP; which I can clearly see there in the HOME workgroup. When I double-click on it, it says that I don't have the permission, though there is no password and when I was under XP, I could access it OK. |
Jaguar (4442) | ||
| 197108 | 2003-12-26 04:17:00 | Also: I have two hard drives, neither of which I can see. | Jaguar (4442) | ||
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