Thanks, I'll do that for all 10 of my Mandrake CDs. 7.2(4), 7.2-update(1),
6.5(3?), 6.x Utilities(2).
And I'll check that RPM link(s).
some things that might help:
put in a cd that has rpms. I'm assuming that the RPMS are in a directory
named RPMS. substitute the correct directory in the following. From your
home directory, enter
rpm -qlip /mnt/cdrom/RPMS/*.rpm >cdxfiles.txt
(where cdx is cd1, cd2, etc).
You now have 4 files with the description of every RPM on the 4 cdroms
that came with your kit. you can run emacs, jmacs (if you installed
joe.rpm), or other text editors to locate RPMs that contain files you are
interested in.
much documentation can be found in /usr/share/doc or /usr/doc, depending
upon your packaged version of linux.
another site is
http://www.rpmfind.net
I have found it to be very useful. Also, the command
apropos textlookingfor
will give you leads on possible man pages.
locate filenamefragment
will find files or directories that match.
All of Linux is done with volunteer help. All of it. Over 1000
programmers have contributed at last note. All of them have made at least
one mistake.
Another site of interest is
www.freshmeat.net
bug
On 18 Feb 2001, donald hinds wrote:
> I put in a standard LM-7.2 setup from a 4 CD set. I didn't know anything so
> let it install default settings for the most part.
>
> First it took two weeks to figure out what was wrong in fstab so I could
mount
> the CDROM (and Mandrakesoft couldn't help), AND finding a place to put
> mem=56K so the shared video ram would work.
>
> Still no one can tell me how to use a USB modem. The kernel supports it, my
> modem is listed as a supported modem (linux-usb org), LM-7.2 put in a huge
> amount of USB files and recognized two USB ports.
>
Don Hinds - photo, motorcycle, misc.
http://www.wyzards.com
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