Linux-Misc Digest #17, Volume #25 Sun, 2 Jul 00 13:13:01 EDT
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Re: A Newbie Question: How To Upgrade XFree86 ("Matt Ebb")
Re: Mounting from rescue disks (Dan)
Re: file system type for audio cd ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Matt Ebb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A Newbie Question: How To Upgrade XFree86
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 01:33:14 +1000
Hi,
Depending on what version of Redhat you are using, you may not need to
upgrade.
Redhat 6 comes with 3.3.3, Redhat 6.1 comes with 3.3.5 and Redhat 6.2
comes with 3.3.6.Apparently the only version that you can RPM-upgrade to
is 3.3.5 so only bother with this if you are running Redhat 6 or earlier.
Xfree86 4.0 has been released, but as yet it still has a few problems
with driver support, and so I would adivse against installing it for now.
Anyway, if you are running RH6 or earlier, then the best way to update is:
Go to the redhat updates FTP site at ftp://updates.redhat.com . If you
bought the redhat CD box set you can use the redhat priority FTP service,
but I won't go into that here. Alternatively, for best performance, you
should find a local FTP mirror to visit. I know that one local to me
(Australia) is at ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au .
Anyway, navigate through the relevant nested directories (for example
redhat / updates / 6.1 / i386 etc. etc. etc. etc.) until you come to a
directory with lots of .rpm files. Make sure that it is the correct
directory for your version of redhat. In this directory there should be a
whole heap of files that look like: XFree86-XXXX-3.3.5-1.6.0.i386.rpm .
Download XFree86-3.3.5 , XFree86-SVGA , XFree86-VGA16 , XFree86-libs ,
XFree86-XF86Setup , XFree86-devel , Xfree86-xfs, and XFree86(fonts to your
choosing) and XFree86-(the brand that corresponds to your video driver).
Once you have downloaded these, open a terminal, 'su' to root, and change
to the directory to which you downloaded the files. Then type
rpm -Uvh XFree86*.rpm
This means to upgrade the rpm packages of all the XFree86 files that are
in the directory. (make sure that there is only one version of the files
in that drectory! :).
Restart X, and you're done!
-Matt
> Hello all,
>
> I have a newbie question on how to upgrade xfree86.
>
> I have Linux on my computer, which I installed from the Redhat CD. Since
> I am using the Redhat Linux version, do I have to get the xfree86 files
> from Redhat? Mixing different distributions together is a bad thing to
> do? Is it okay to just follow the following instructions below? Since I
> am very new to Linux, I would appreciate any help. Thanks.
>
> aleatory
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From: Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting from rescue disks
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 16:30:04 GMT
Philip A. Chapman wrote:
>
> Dan wrote:
> >
> > I am tryig to mount my hda5 root partition from a boot disk since I
screwed
> > up my XF86 config files and now can't log into my computer. When I try
to
> > mount it from my rescue disk it says, "couldm't mount RDWR because of
> > unsupported optional features".
> >
> > Has anybody got any ideas what this means and how I can mount this
partition?
> >
> > --
> > Posted via CNET Help.com
> > http://www.help.com/
> Unfortunately, I do not know the answer to your specifig question.
> However, perhaps you can try linux 3 or linux single at the lilo
> prompt. linux 3 should start linux in init 3 (terminal login). linux
> single should start linux in single user mode where you will have root
> access to your system. In either mode, you can fix your XF86config so
> that when you next boot into init 5, it works.
Typing "linux single" at the lilo prompt worked a treat, thanks for your
help.
Dan
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: file system type for audio cd
Date: 2 Jul 2000 12:31:01 -0400
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any quick pointers on how to mount 'em ?
You don't. Audio CDs do not have files. They have soundtracks. You play
audio CDs, you don't mount them.
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