Quoting Bruce Norby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello all:
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> I installed Redhat Linux 8.0 last night with some success using Partition
> Magic 8.0 to assist me.
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> The problems that now exist:
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> MBR for the NTFS (XP) file system is out of sequential order - How do I fix
> this?
I not quite sure what you mean by this.
> BootMagic recognizes the XP system, but fails to find Linux - Can I
> configure LILO to boot XP?
I thought that bootmagic did work with Linux, but both Lilo and Grub will work
great with dual boot systems. When you install RedHat you should let it
install Grub in the MBR. It won't have a problem with Windows XP. I sure there
is a way to get rid of bootmagic and install Grub after you load RedHat, but I
have never done it before.
> To run Linux I must use a boot disk - How do I fix this?
See above. If you have a boot loader that recognizes Linux, then you will not
need a boot disk.
> Due to some problems I had to install Linux twice and thus lost access to
> updates from Linux - I can solve this if I delete
> "/etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid" - How do I do this? - regular user login
> fails
> to give to me authority to erase this file under the graphical environment
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> and no I don't have a FM.
This is a RedHat specific issue since they don allow you to have more than one
system leeching basic updates. Goto https://rhn.redhat.com/ and log in with
the username and password that you selected the first time you signed up. Then
delete the old system and change the updates status of the new one to basic. I
had to do the same thing myself ;-). As for deleteing the file what do you
mean that you don't have a FM? You need root access to change system files, so
open a terminal and type su then enter the root password that you gave the
installed when you installed Linux. You now have to power to completely fuck
up your system so be careful. If you want a gui as root, then you can install
the midnight commander package and type mc at the command line. Or if you are
in X then you can launch any file manager that you have installed ie.
# nautilus &
or
# konqueror &
Jesse
