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- Mandrake10 Login
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- can't install linux *sob*
- Checklist for setting up RH9 or Fedora as server
- How to install additional packages from Fedora disks
- universal "look and feel" for gnome desktop
- Mount exernal USB drive
- Copying files
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- how and where do does the jre go?
- java jre rpm gives "not an rpm package" error
- Newbie - Need help learning Linux, suggestions on where to start?
| 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. -- John Hasler gt.org (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI |
| 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. -- Abdullah | aramazan@ | Ramazanoglu | myrealbox | ________________| D-O-T cöm | |
| 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. |
| 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) .. -- << http://michaeljtobler.homelinux.com/ >> "I'd love to go out with you, but I have to stay home and see if I snore." |
| 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. -- Rolf Arne Schulze Jobbsøkende innen IT. Spesialfelt: Datasikkerhet, antivirus, unix/linux, nettverk/datakomm Ta kontakt på no |
| 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. -- Best Regards, Jeff "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 |
| 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 -- The truth you speak has no past and no future. It is, and that's all it needs to be. |
| 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 - ) |
| 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. --8<-- -- Abdullah | aramazan@ | Ramazanoglu | myrealbox | ________________| D-O-T cöm | |
| 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- -- If you're not confused, you're not trying hard enough. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments, |
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