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Installing Linux "more or less from scratch"

Posted: 15 Aug 2004 08:00 AM PDT

Abdullah writes: 

You don't need to apply any of those patches.
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Mandrake10 Login

Posted: 14 Aug 2004 02:54 PM PDT

"Rich Barry" <rr.com> dedi ki:
 

I agree with other posts that a user shouldn't login to GUI as root. You
can use root privileges from within a normal user session for *most* of
the tasks. One notable exception is being able to use Konqueror file
manager in root mode, without having to open a konsole, "su -", and run
konsole from within that session. Later on I will suggest a way to
streamline this in a normal user session.

However I don't find it appropriate too, patronizing a user and hiding
root login. You can "unhide" root from within KDE Control Center (System
-> Session Management : Users tab) but I don't like the idea of exposing
root user to public. I prefer another way: From Mandrake Control Center
(drakconf) -> System -> Display Manager : Choose KDM instead of MdkKDM.
This will bring up the original KDE display manager (so your adjustments
in KDE Control Center like showing clock, font sizes etc will take effect.)
Both KDM and MdkKDM won't show the hidden root user, but KDM will have an
input field for user so that you can manually enter an arbitrary username
there. This way, both you can hide critical userids fron the public at
large, while still being able to login into them when you need it.

For using Konqueror in root mode from within normal user account: Make a
copy of the Konqueror desktop item in your desktop, right click it and get
into properties dialog, change its icon to something different, get into
the "application" tab and there click on the "advanced features" : There
you will find a "Run with a different user" option. Enable it, and set the
user to root. Now, whenever you click on this icon on your desktop, kdesu
will pop-up and ask for root password, and you will be using Konqueror in
root mode. You can also do a similar arrangement in your KDE menu.

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Mandrake Move

Posted: 14 Aug 2004 06:59 AM PDT

kellnerp <com> writes:

]Thanks.

]Would have been nice if they made that a little more obvious during startup.
]My first impression was that it was broke which would hardly lead to a
]sale. :(
There have been other posts bemoaning the non-obvious nature of feature,
and others then argued that Mandrakes wording of this feature was
sufficiently clear. Any time consumers get confused, the description is not
clear enough-- this should be an attitude of any doc writer.

]>
]> ]Mandrake move is supposed to find the USB memory stick and use user
]> ]information during second and subsequent usages. It doesn't, at least not
]> ]on the two systems I tested it on. Any thoughts?
]>
]> That is only on the ones bought from Mandrake, not the freely downloadable
]> versions.

can't install linux *sob*

Posted: 13 Aug 2004 09:17 PM PDT

george wrote:
 

.... my suspicion is this is video related, seeing
as the system 'quiets down' after a short time.
if you were to hit the <enter> key, i'll bet you
get activity again.

either do a text-mode install or try another distro
or even KNOPPIX (that RH distro is rather dated now)
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Checklist for setting up RH9 or Fedora as server

Posted: 13 Aug 2004 12:00 PM PDT

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:59:34 -0400, Michael W Cocke wrote: 

I do not agree. I have been running and hosting webservices on a
P3-600MHz system with Fedora (CR1) for a year now. It has never caused
any trouble at all. Stable as granite. I updraded to FCR2 a week ago,
so it remains to se if the stability is worse, but so far it looks
very good.
 

Not to forget Debian. Debian is the free linux distro I would choose
for a business critical webserver, simply because of the stable,
testing and unstable-system and the apt package management.

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How to install additional packages from Fedora disks

Posted: 13 Aug 2004 06:47 AM PDT


Lots of ways, thanks. I'll try them out.
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"tim wunder" <net> wrote in message
news:oG8Tc.11$abs.net... 

universal "look and feel" for gnome desktop

Posted: 13 Aug 2004 03:05 AM PDT

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Joe Beanfish wrote:
[..] 

I find that I use different user accounts for different "roles," depending
on what I'm doing. thanks for the start.




Thufir Hawat

Mount exernal USB drive

Posted: 12 Aug 2004 04:12 PM PDT

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:12:57 -0700, Minh
<statgen.washington.edu> wrote: 
/dev/sda1 /external ext3 noauto,suid,rw,usrquota 1 2


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Copying files

Posted: 12 Aug 2004 03:12 PM PDT

com (John Bahran) wrote in message news:<google.com>... 

The simple answer is to use a gui file manager. Drag and drop works.

The other answer is:
1. Mount it
- let's imagine it ends up on /media/cdrom
2. Make the target directory.
e.g. mkdir /home/john/cd
3. copy recursively from one to the other
cp -R -p /media/cdrom/* /home/john/cd

man cp is your friend.

There is a bit of an issue over symbolic links. Most versions of cp
will create a second copy of a file rather than a link to it. It's
normal to add -P and then create the symlinks by hand.

Another technique instead of using cp is to use tar. The idea is to
create an archive onto a pipe and then expand it again. The details
are in some instances of the man page for tar. This has often been
used to deal with the symlink issue. Something like, if memory does
not fail me:
tar cf - /media/cdrom | (cd /home/john/cd ; tar xf - )

ADSL & Switch

Posted: 12 Aug 2004 02:09 PM PDT

Ernst Schmidtmann <owl.de> dedi ki:

-8<--
 

But prpbably those modems will only have UTP ports, no BNC. Also it is
very difficult, if at all possible, to find a multi-port modem with more
than 4 ports, so you would need a regular hub/switch anyway (if not today
then tomorrow). I guess it could be more convenient to get a single-port
modem and a basic 8-port 10 Mbps hub with a BNC port, so you won't have to
change anything in your current LAN setup. Otherwise, without a BNC hub
you would either need to convert your LAN from BNC to UTP, or use yet
another hub with a BNC port to connect the BNC and UTP segments together.

P.S. Lately, some 10 Mbps hubs don't have a BNC port (as nobody uses it
they try to cut costs). But older ones all have a BNC port without
exception.

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how and where do does the jre go?

Posted: 12 Aug 2004 07:53 AM PDT

com wrote: 

Sorry, I didn't realize that wat your problem. The binary installation
I did asked where I wanted it. Alternatively, all you'd need to do is
move the files from wherever it was intstalled to wherever you want.

java jre rpm gives "not an rpm package" error

Posted: 11 Aug 2004 11:23 PM PDT

com wrote:
 

make the bin file executable:
$ chmod +x jre-1_5_0-beta2-linux-i586-rpm.bin

and then execute it:
$ ./jre-1_5_0-beta2-linux-i586-rpm.bin

It will present you some kind of license agreement, and will produce a real
rpm file.

Newbie - Need help learning Linux, suggestions on where to start?

Posted: 11 Aug 2004 03:22 PM PDT

On 11 Aug 2004 15:22:56 -0700, com (L) wrote:
 

The first thing you need to learn is the difference between
multiposting and crossposting. You have several answers in another
newsgroup where you multiposted this.

And the chance of getting a linux system _running_ in a week are
decent. learning what you're doing? Not likely. Think years to get
a good grasp of linux.

Mike-

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