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Ok, With the help from people like you, I can, finally, put my virtual machine to run. Also, I've installed an Oracle 9i under Linux and the Discoverer tools on the virtual, under win2k. The schema is running fine and fast. Great!!! My next step is to use it from …

anybody usin this new distro? good,bad,or ugly :rolleyes:

Just a poll ... where are all you linux gurus most comfortable? Where do you do most of your work? Where are you more efficient? ... Well, you get the idea ;)

What can I type to find out the total amount of space on a partition and how much free space is left?

Hello all, I'm new here and need your help for a litle thing. I'm trying to install a vmware 4 on Mandrake 9.1 Linux. But, the installation freeze after the message that show two different identifications to my kernel. One 2.4.x and other 2.4.x-mdk. IN fact I think it's the …

i just installed mandrake and when i boot my machine it jsut sits on the background of my desktop and would not load or give me the log in screen any suggestions???

use of ps command in Linux rad hat without any options (-ef, -aux or a), what is the result will be list (PID TTY TIME CMD only)? Can I use ps alone for investigate the executed machine on which the command was entered with maintenance program that been run at …

Hi guys, I am interested to run my own webserver at home, to share files with my friends and also, run my small journal on it. I searched for guides/tutorials on how to start a Webserver by using Red Hat Linux, but I can't find of any. I hope members …

Hi All, i have an AD win2k network with two redhat 8 boxes to run the intranet. all the win2k boxes can access the redhat boxes through samba, the problem i have is that a new machine running xp pro cant get in to samba. when i type in the …

I am a complete noobie. I don't know anything about Linux. Can someone please give me some tutorials?

i have a laptop wireless card and i want to use it with linux. I am sure it is a setting as it detects everything correctly. specs 650+ d-link wireless PCMCIA suse 8.2

Can someone help me install the "Vmware tools" on Red Hat 9 through VMware Workstation 4? Ok I'm only 15 this is my first experience with linux. When I start my Red Hat 9 it starts up and takes me automatically to the graphical login page, how do I log …

I have recently installed VMWare Workstation 4 on my local PC. My host OS is Win XP (Pro) and my guest OS is Lunux (Read Hat 7.2). I would llike to transfer files from my host OS to my guest OS - VMWare says this can be easily accomplished with …

Instead of using a non-root account, like ur supposed to :P

Hello all, for upgrading, installing, deleting etc without get lost with the rpms from Linux 9 (redhat), get apt-get from [url]http://apt.freshrpms.net/[/url] If you want a graphical interface to apt-get, just type in a terminal 'apt-get install synaptic' Or delete redhat and install debian unstable aka sid

Hi All, Anyone know how to change the remote login screen in red hat 8.0. at the moment i get 'login as:' where i would like to display some kind of disclamer or warning, # you are entering the systems of yada yada yada, if you dont have permision please …

What's the difference between emacs with GTK support and xemacs? I understand they are both branches from the ol' console text editor. Which one would have better support for programming in C++, for example? (i.e. syntax color highlighting, auto indent)

hiya i mucked with virtual pc 2004...tried out my redhat8,i was able to go online and yak it up with yahoo messenger for linux. thus i was definitely encouraged to go and load it on a seprate drive well.it wont work,the card that is.. it wont initialize.and i am seriously …

I installed mytop but it won't run. It gives me the following error: [font=Courier New][root@daniweb root]# mytop Can't locate Term/ReadKey.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at /usr/bin/mytop line 165. [root@daniweb root]#[/font] Apparently I don't have ReadKey installed? How can I get it? How …

Since I can access FAT32 filesystems from Linux Mandrake, I wondered if the reverse was true. I soon found out that it is (too a limited degree), with some freeware generously provided from [url]http://ext2.yeah.net[/url]. However, you will notice some limitations in writing data and that prevuiously hidden files (prepended with …

Hello, Here is the deal. I have two harddrives. One has RedHat Linux9.0, and one has Windows 2k. I used to have a functional grub install. But then I had to reinstall win2k and it deleted my grub at mbs. Now I can't access Linux. I also lost my boot …

ok. This may seem odd, but I was just looking at mandrake 9.2 on ebay, and a screenshot showed WinXP running in Mandrake. How do you do this? I'm increasingly impressed with Linux, but I want to use XP for gaming. Thanks.

I am currently in an unix sys admin class. For the most part we have to set up as many things as we can think of. I have 4 computers to work with. Currently I am workin on DHCP,Firewall/router, DNS, Terminal Server, Database server, Apache server, maybe something with samba. …

Hey folks, wonder if someone could help me here? I have a system with 3 seperate hard drives, and the first one is split in 2 with 4 GB per slice. I have windows 2000 on the first partition of that drive and was trying to install Redhat linux 9.0 …

well i am at the point where i will upgrade agian. so which distro should i try this time. currently useing suse 8.2 important features support for the 64 bit CPU's (athlone64) easy to use price or avalible ISO support stablility though easy to use is starting to fade with …

VMWare Red Hat 9 Note: I'm new to Linux. I just want to get it running initially so I can learn from it. First: I had to statically assign the DNS addresses. How do I get Red Hat 9 to detect the DNS settings for the system? Second: I decompressed …

:idea: I installed WinXP first then I installed RED HAT 9 and logical partition exists. How come it will not dual boot. I can't choose the OS on the boot loader. It only shows XP. It is weird. However, my computer is connected to my DOMAIN active directory in the …

I have Windows XP Home and Linux Mandrake 9.1 Dual Booted on one Hard drive. My Windows XP Home partition is NTFS based, but Linux refuses to remember this. When I boot Linux it tells me the partition is the wrong FS type, yet I'm sure it's set to NTFS. …

ok... here's the deal.. i have a network of about 8 computers. i want to set up server with these priorities. 1) file server (the users will be all be using a version of windows) a) need to create user names and file restrictions 2) printer server a) i have …

i get 3 choices of file sytems when i install linux ext2 ext3 riser(spelling??) anyways what are the features of each and which is better to use, meanin most stable, supported and reliable

Hey guys and gals, I have installed a standard Redhat 9 server along with webmin version 1.0, for some reason when using webmin its very very slow, i was using Redhat 7.3 before and it was fast, well normal 10/100 speed... :( Does anyone have any ideas???? Thanks heaps.

hi guys! i just want to ask if how can i get my webserver running...currently im using a linux redhat 9 and i already installed apache webserver on that machine...but the machine hasn't been connected to the internet. do i need static ip address for this machine? if it does, …

First let me say that I a newbie so forgive me for any 'faux-pas'. I'm doing some work for a youth helpline charity in the UK and they need to centralise the way they work. I've installed redhat 9 and got samba 2.2.7a working, but when trying to use roaming …

Anyone know what modems work best in SuSE Linux 8.2 Personal? or should i just go with an external?

Hey all, i am having trouble getting sendmail to work, all i need it to do is send on any mail to the main smtp server which can then send to the correct user. in the .cf file the smart host field shows 'DSmyserver.mydomain.com' which is correct as far as …

i plan to run a file server useing Linux, hey i have more luck with linux than windows. I want to know the basics of doing so. this is a home network and thus security is not a major issue of mine. What distribution should i get? i have been …

i installed my modem for dial up at my dads. however back home i still use the LAN/cable connection. now i think it made dial up the default internet connection, how do i set LAN/ cable to be default

Hi guys. I use Mandrake 9.1 in VMware 4.0.1 and it runs great. The only problem I have is that every time i suspend the virtual machine andthen resume it like the next day, the darn system clock is does not update itself to the present time. Its still stuck …

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Hey All, running vncserver on my linux box, its up and running. but when i use the win client side of vnc all i get is the gray crosshatched screen, am i expecting to much? i was hoping that i would get the gnome desktop display. can any one give …

i need to install some programs, mainly SDL_perl, for a few games. however how do i do this. i get the tar.gz file and within is many other perl script files. the readme says this and only this. installation ./configure make make install and nothing else. first off i am …

how do i use the LS-120 drive(imation 120MB superdisk) with linux. i can detect it by probing hardware but thats it. i am useing the USB version and suse 8.2. how can i use my drive.

Hey All, so here we go, i have set up samba 2.2.5 on redhat 8.0, and from a win2k server box i can see the linux boxes and i can access them, nice. c the problem is now that i am setting one linux box to be the PDC, from …

I'm using Redhat 9.0 in Vmware on an XP host, and have dedicated 92 Megs of RAM for the linux to run on. THis works just fine in text mode, but when I load the gui desktop it runs out of memory and starts paging like mad. Now I understand …

What is everyone's opinion on Mandrake (9.1 and 9.0 specifically)? I've heard opinions on nearly every other major distro but this one. How is mandrake from a newbie perspective? Thanks for any info :)

i have installed redhat 7.3 and imap was installed on the as default settings. when i point my web browser to the webmail address i get an error in the imap_general.php line 227. the error that comes up is 'erroe connecting to IMAP server.localhost 111 : connection refused??? need some …

Is there a replacement for linuxconf in the new distros of RedHat? Thanks.

Hi, could someone pls help me, i'm trying to setup a linux server. One of the requirments is that is must have a IMAP (Mail) Server. Could someone pls give me a run down on how to install a mail server on linux and what i need? or does someone …

This is just a quick question, is there any way to backing up linux a free and faster way? Thanks

where are the nvidia RPM drivers for suse 8.2 I downloaded the run file but i cant seem to get it to work. I also dont want to have to compile stuff, i am not a programmer