Question re errata

2000-05-11 Thread fred smith
Something I've not seen explained anywhere, and it's puzzling me... On the RH updates site there are "anaconda" updates, and "installer" updates. Yet the anaconda descriptions talks about it being an installer. So, **what the heck is anaconda** and how, if at all, does it differ from a normal RH

NT OS Loader + Linux = how?

2000-05-11 Thread Miroslav Skoric
I just read "NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO" v.1.11 and tried to follow it in order to boot my dual system (Windows NT 4.0 Server SP6, Linux Red Hat 6.1). I haven't managed that yet but got some problems. First of all, I want to tell you that, for more than a year, I have running the system as f

Something weird about the /etc/pam.d/login in 6.1

2000-05-11 Thread Ward William E PHDN
Ok, somewhere, something has gotten wiggy (great techical term!) on one of my machines at work. The system was 5.2, now I've just done a complete rebuild and it's 6.1. Problem is, I need to be able to login directly as root to the system... no sweat, a couple of quick mods to /etc/pam.d/login to

RH on a 386?

2000-05-11 Thread Jim Baxter
Hi Gang I have been asked if RH 6.2 ( or 5.2 even) will run on a 386 with 32 mb memory and 40mb hard disk. Can't say why he wants to but I suspect it is some old junk he is wanting to get some use out of. Does any one think it can be done and still do anything like run a browser? I bet there is

Re: ORB drives

2000-05-11 Thread erik
I havent had any experience with the orb drives, but I tried the same thing with the syquest drives. They were made by a different company, but thier CEO is the same person. syquest went out of business because their drives werent that great. At first they got great write ups, and I decided to

Re: less doesnt work anymore

2000-05-11 Thread Stan Bubrouski
Check out: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9443 Describes the exact same bug and some workarounds. -Stan Bubrouski At 12:44 AM 5/9/00 -0400, erik wrote: >Hi, > >I just did a fresh install of 6.2, and now the 'less' command doesnt >work. it is there and it executes, but it

Re: Netscape starting position ?

2000-05-11 Thread Robert Fausey
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Pete Peterson wrote: This works when netscape starts up initially. However when you start a new netscape window you will get a different position. Is there any way to change this position? > Netscape understands standard X11 "geometry" parameters. > > "netscape -geometry +

Re: less doesnt work anymore

2000-05-11 Thread Stan Bubrouski
At 12:44 AM 5/9/00 -0400, erik wrote: >Hi, > >I just did a fresh install of 6.2, and now the 'less' command doesnt >work. it is there and it executes, but it does now show me the >contents of a file. The only thing it does is show me a forunte, which >I think is strange. Any ideas? Is this happe