Gordon, Being rather new to this as well I am not going to try and give you any answers, but what I will do is let you know of a great book that I have just gotten. I got Teach yourself linux in 24 hours. This has been a book of good reference for me. I got the book for around $30 with shipping from www.readmedotdoc.com it took about 2 days and comes with a copy of RH 5.0, that ticked me off since I paid RH $50 but such is life. enjoy Jeff >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/05/98 04:44am >>> Hallo, sitting at my newly installed RH5 computer the other day I realised how little I really know about this and how many questions I have that aren't easily to be answered by man'ing all over the place. maybe someone will take mercy on me and answer at least some of them. 1. In X why does the default menu offer me New Shell and give me only an xterm? Is this right? I would have expected to get a submenu displaying other shell names to be installed. 2. Is there a mode in which I can see and possibly confirm the files read and loaded during booting. Something like 95's confirm mode, I mean. 3. When I start xfm a second window containing the text No configured applications appears. I can't get rid of it without closing xfm. Aslo in xfm the View menu item doesn't work, even with files I know to be text. 4. Can the control panel be resized so that all buttons are visible at once? On a 15inch screen they're much too large and quite ugly. 5. Is possible to place the scroll bar at the right of the emacs screen? 6. On calling up X I get a message X Banner message "Your text is probably too wide" What does this mean? and how can I get rid of it? 7.Why do I get an x-console and what is it good for? Where can I switch it off? 8. When I'm in X and use xfm to cd to a directory why isn't my open xterm also in the same directory? and finally the most frustrating one of all,as it means I can't install anything from the "outside world". 9.In the User Mount tool (Start ->Programs->Administrator-> Disk Management) trying to Mount floppy (is type ext2 correct?) gives "wrong fs type, bad block or too many mounted file systems". I get the same message when I mount by hand from an xterm with mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 and when I remove file systems from the dialog box. Also although /dev/cdrom is given as type iso 9660 and mounted I still can't ls it. It gives with ls /cdrom "no such file or directory" man, have I got problems !! Any nice person know any answers? thanks in advance Gordon Filby
Hallo, sitting at my newly installed RH5 computer the other day I realised how little I really know about this and how many questions I have that aren't easily to be answered by man'ing all over the place. maybe someone will take mercy on me and answer at least some of them. 1. In X why does the default menu offer me New Shell and give me only an xterm? Is this right? I would have expected to get a submenu displaying other shell names to be installed. 2. Is there a mode in which I can see and possibly confirm the files read and loaded during booting. Something like 95's confirm mode, I mean. 3. When I start xfm a second window containing the text No configured applications appears. I can't get rid of it without closing xfm. Aslo in xfm the View menu item doesn't work, even with files I know to be text. 4. Can the control panel be resized so that all buttons are visible at once? On a 15inch screen they're much too large and quite ugly. 5. Is possible to place the scroll bar at the right of the emacs screen? 6. On calling up X I get a message X Banner message "Your text is probably too wide" What does this mean? and how can I get rid of it? 7.Why do I get an x-console and what is it good for? Where can I switch it off? 8. When I'm in X and use xfm to cd to a directory why isn't my open xterm also in the same directory? and finally the most frustrating one of all,as it means I can't install anything from the "outside world". 9.In the User Mount tool (Start ->Programs->Administrator-> Disk Management) trying to Mount floppy (is type ext2 correct?) gives "wrong fs type, bad block or too many mounted file systems". I get the same message when I mount by hand from an xterm with mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 and when I remove file systems from the dialog box. Also although /dev/cdrom is given as type iso 9660 and mounted I still can't ls it. It gives with ls /cdrom "no such file or directory" man, have I got problems !! Any nice person know any answers? thanks in advance Gordon Filby -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
