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| 177130 | 2003-09-22 21:44:00 | I have recently installed Linux Red Hat 9 on my computer, and am within a gnat's cock of telling Mr Gates bye bye. However there are a couple of things I need to iron out to perfect the system to my liking. Here goes. Firstly, I am unable to create text boxes in Open Office. I have followed all the instructions in Help, but seem to end up with an object box every time. What's the secret? Secondly, there seems to be no clip art collection with Open Office. I can get the XP Office clipart OK, but it is not catagorised, so finding a specific picture is almost impossible. Is there a collection of clip art and a subject retrieval system available for Red Hat? My Speed Stream 3060 modem is not yet operational in linux, but they say a driver is under development. My only access to the internet is through XP, save to CD, and then import to Linux. Any help would be appreciated. Many thanks, Phil. |
pburt (1226) | ||
| 177131 | 2003-09-23 01:57:00 | > I have recently installed Linux Red Hat 9 on my > computer, and am within a gnat's cock of telling Mr > Gates bye bye. Good on ya, I remember the day.... *Wanders off into dream-land* > However there are a couple of things > I need to iron out to perfect the system to my > liking. > > Here goes. > > Firstly, I am unable to create text boxes in Open > Office. I have followed all the instructions in > Help, but seem to end up with an object box every > time. What's the secret? What version of OpenOffice are you running? It may pay to grab (I think its the latest) PCW Mag and get the latest OpenOffice off the CD for Doze and Linux! > Secondly, there seems to be no clip art collection > with Open Office. I can get the XP Office clipart > OK, but it is not catagorised, so finding a specific > picture is almost impossible. Is there a collection > of clip art and a subject retrieval system available > for Red Hat? Sorry, cant help there... > My Speed Stream 3060 modem is not yet operational in > linux, but they say a driver is under development. > My only access to the internet is through XP, save > e to CD, and then import to Linux. Try mounting your Doze HDD Partition. Is it NTFS or FAT32? If its FAT32 then you're going to have a real easy time doing this. NTFS is pretty similar, but you'll need an rpm first, and you only get Read-Only support. Try google'ing for drivers for your modem, even non-official ones would suffice :-) Post back with the info about your partition Hope this helps Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 177132 | 2003-09-23 02:21:00 | Search for NTFS for Linux, there's a sourceforge project with it. NTFS read only, well they tell you that as you have to watch out with MS as they can and will terrorise the linux community. The RPM can be altered to allow writing to NTFS, but the risk is the same with any software. I've used NTFS with writing capabilities, and it works fine. There's also a Windows Driver for reading/writing to Linux Partitions. Again the same clause is used with, use it at your own risk, but it too works fine. I can't remember the name of it, but I know it was a driver and not a program. |
Kame (312) | ||
| 177133 | 2003-09-23 02:27:00 | > Search for NTFS for Linux, there's a sourceforge > project with it. > > NTFS read only, well they tell you that as you have > to watch out with MS as they can and will terrorise > the linux community. The RPM can be altered to allow > writing to NTFS, but the risk is the same with any > software. I've used NTFS with writing capabilities, > and it works fine. Really? You reakon I should create a small NTFS partition with just random files on it to play with then? > There's also a Windows Driver for reading/writing to > Linux Partitions. Again the same clause is used > with, use it at your own risk, but it too works fine. > I can't remember the name of it, but I know it was a > driver and not a program. Explore2fs is a program that'll do just that with a Drag-And-Drop interface between itself and Windows Explorer. I havent heard of a driver though (But again, Im interested... ;-)). |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 177134 | 2003-09-23 02:28:00 | I haven't tried NTFS write support myself (as I don't even run windows :) ) but last I heard, it could corrupt your NTFS partition so use it with extreme caution. But read-only should work fine and do everything that you need. | segfault (655) | ||
| 177135 | 2003-09-23 04:43:00 | It always safest to treat any partition owned by one OS as a read-only one to any other OS . Especially when the proprietary OS keeps the details of its file system secret . The NTFS handler is reverse engineered . Reading is always non-destructive . When you write, you are into the danger area . BTW, the current APC magazine has a couple of free (commercial) programmes: one which makes Ext2fs and Ext3fs accessible to windows (98 to XP), and one which makes NTFS accesible to W98 . The safest way to work would be to make a FAT partition, which both Windows and Linux can share (and read and write to) . That way, any accidents will only hurt that, and a quick reformat will fix it . Can you not find a cheap modem card (or the preferable external serial modem)which is supported? |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 177136 | 2003-09-23 04:45:00 | Go here to get ntfs file system working under redhat linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html |
rsnic (3780) | ||
| 177137 | 2003-09-23 06:25:00 | >>Secondly, there seems to be no clip art collection with Open Office. I think you will have to use the "internet" clip art collection. Star Office may have one but you have to pay for it. >>gnat's cock of telling Mr Gates bye bye Mr Gates might be monitoring this forum :D |
Dolby Digital (160) | ||
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