Frank!
> I'm able to signon to the internet, but when I launch Netscape, it says that
> it cannot find its home page or any url I enter. I was told that a
> resolv.conf was not created automatically. How can I create this?
No, it's not created automatically. Here is the syntax:
nameserver [SOME NAME SERVER'S IP]
nameserver [SOME OTHER NAME SERVER'S IP]
nameserver [SOME OTHER NAME SERVER'S IP]
You only need ONE of them. Naturally you should use the one that your
ISP gave you because it's considered a little impolite to use someone
else's....if you have more than one Linux will check the first one, if
that times out then the second one, if that times out then the third.
You can add more but Linux ONLY checks the first three.
> I'm a newibe<g>
A newibe...rofl - at spelling perhaps?
> Also, when LILO boots, I have a choice of linux or dos. dos was supposed to
> be my win98. The machine freezes when I choose dos, but boots ok when I
> choose linux.
Windows is TRASH. It expects to be on the primary active partition on
the first hard drive. You have a number of solutions which, depending on
how you have set things up may require a reinstall of linux and windows.
1) Chuck windows or linux out for ever
This is NOT always practical or desirable
2) Somehow manage to get Linux and Windows to sit on one hard drive
This can be quite fiddly. I don't advise it if you already have high
blood pressure. Nonetheless, if you INSIST, remember that lilo, if you
want to use it, must sit below cylinder 1024 and that DOS Fdisk (which I
consider close to useless) won't properly read your FAT (what fdisk
programs manipulate) if Linux's fdisk or disk druid have altered it. You
may see your windows partition but it's unlikely that dos fdisk will be
any use AT ALL.
Otherwise you will have to put Windows on first and use a program called
loadlin to load linux.
3) Put Linux on the Master Primary and Windows on the Master Slave
This is the easiest solution and the one I use. A later version of
RedHat will detect what you've done on a reinstall and fix it yourself.
Although Windows will only boot from the Primary boot active partition
of the master primary [heh it will be the ONLY os won't it??], lilo can
actually fool Windows into thinking it's on the master primary when it's
on the master slave. You need to adjust your lilo.conf file (in /etc).
You'll see an other with the label as dos (mine is win hence label=win -
change it if you want). Notice the map-drives. Map the various drives
like that and Windows *should* be able to boot.
Of course, I have an AMD-K6II@366 and Windows 95R2 crashes about 5 times
before it actually starts...but that is off topic!
other=/dev/hdb1
label=win
table=/dev/hdb
map-drive=0x80
to = 0x81
map-drive=0x81
to = 0x80
**
I hope this is of some help.
DL
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