First thing get a later release of Red Hat, At least 6.2 or 7. This will
help solve alot of your problems
comments in line
david
On 20 Dec 2000, syed riyaz wrote:
> Dear friend,
>
> Hi !
>
> I beleive you will be in pink of health & in good mood.
>
> I have recently installed the Red Hat LINUX 5.0 on my PC(Pentium/100-Mhz, 32-MB
>Ram,1.2-GB HDD,DCS Sound Card, JVC-3,600 bps external Modem, SVGA Moniter, mouse
>etc.).
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> After reading the HTML document instructions in the CD-Mannual, in several attempts,
>any how I colud install it and got to the root prompt. Aslo, I ran X-window program
>by typing "startx" at command prompt.
>
> My experience with the "Linux" was really 'Awfull' and painfull, it has given me too
>much trouble. May be this is due to my lack of "Linux-awareness"/Unix-awareness.
>
> I have not seen such a poor & scaled-down graphics in my life, I don't know why the
>world is overwhelming with it, while it seems me much inferior as compared
>MS-Windows. Its very complex rather difficult to configure devices on it, and
>connectivity to internet is only for me, there is no softwae on it to install. whare
>to get it.
>
> Please can any body tell me the following very basic things in a simple way:-
>
> 1. How to access floppy drives in linux ?
read the man pages on mount
man mount
First type the following command cat /etc/fstab
This list all the storage devices the system knows about.
>From my fstab file I would enter
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
"ls /mnt/floppy" would list all the files on the floppy.
> 2. How to copy Win98 files to floppies like Win98 ?
Get a handle on mount first before tackling this one. You would use the
mount command here as well
> 3. How to read from CD-ROM drives ?
same as the floppy disc
> 4. Is it possible to read DOS/Other files from Linux ?
Yes you would have to use the mount command to tell the system the drive
is a dos disc
> 5. How stablish Modem connectivity, simple way ?
> 6. Does it provide TCP/IP & PPP connectivity ?
> 7. Where to get the Int-Browser on Linux, if its fre ?
Netscape has a browser for Linux. The new versions of Red Hat CDroms have
netscape on them as well
>
8. Soundcard not detected in Linux, its PnP in Win98 ?
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> Well, I a am loosing hope of using Linux, if it is a such a great "Headeache". Is
>there any simplest Graphical-User-Interface in Linux awailable like Win98 or OS/2,
>where configuriong & using devices is a fun.
>
> Please respond my basic questions,
> I will be thankfull to you & may obliged.
>
> Suncerely Yours Linux Friend,
> (Syed Mohammad Riyaz)
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> ------------- Original Message --------------
> David Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To:[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From:David Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date:Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:43:11 -0500 (EST)
> Subject:Re: awk FS
>
> Yes the first does not give an error but treats the line as one field
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>
> david
>
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Vidiot wrote:
>
> > >Does anybody know how to set the field separator to "="
> > >david
> >
> > Did you try the "-F =" on the command line, or:
> >
> > BEGIN {
> > FS = "="
> > }
> >
> > MB
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