Re: Clarification on a few things

["Ian Wright" <Ian-at-iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

Hi David,

Comments below.....

> 6.2 showed Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot) Kernel 2.2.14-12 on a i586. By
> the way, the problem I mentioned with 6.2 is that when I type in the
startx
> command some text flashes past the screen and then the screen goes blank
and
> stays that way, the guy I had setting it up for me tried eveything he
could
> think of to remedy the situation, but to no avail. I've heard that 6.2 is
> very sensitive regarding the type of video card used, but at this point

Install the XFree86-XF86Setup-*****.rpm using the package manager or by
typing rpm -e <CD drive/Redhat/RPMS/XFree86-XF86Setup.****.rpm (check the
exact name of the file and replace the asterisks accordingly - it will
depend on the version of XFree you have - also in Linux, notice that the
slashes are forward '/' and not backwards '\' as in windoze). When you have
installed it, type XF86Setup at the prompt and you will be able to run a
setup procedure in graphics mode where you can try various combinations of
video card and monitor specification until you find one that works OK.

> My main reasons for running Win 95 was to network the EMC computer (which
will be
> dedicated purely to the workshop) with the computer in my office.  I've
been advised that sending data
> from a windows computer to a seperate linux computer is very trickey
indeed,
> but sending data from a windows computer to another windows computer with
> linux in another partition is much easier, and then shifting the data from

Linux is developed from Unix which was made for networking!!  Networking a
linux box with a windoze one is hardly any more difficult than getting two
windoze boxes to talk to each other. The first step is to make your linux
box talk to the rest of the network - check that on boot-up you see an entry
'eth0 -- OK', this will indicate that linux has found and installed the
driver for your network card. Then you need to set up the hostname and IP
number and tell the computer which other machines it is to talk to - this is
done by editing three files in the /etc/ directory (HOSTNAME, hosts.allow
and hosts.deny), check that you can PING the other machine and then install
all the Samba .rpm's (Samba, Samba-common & Samba-client). You should have
Linuxconf installed (type that at the command prompt) and this will help you
to get the basic networking going and the, if you decide to go this way,
mail me off list and I will take you through the Samba setup.

Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield  UK
www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk