Thanks to all for the info on info and other info from my previous request!
But...
The 'man ls' or several such commands says something like this:
"This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be inaccurate or
incomplete. The Texinfo documentation is now the authorative source"
Which I took to mean that the information was obsolete (my assumption). If I do
'info ls', the file displayed is the same, with the same disclaimer. How do I
access the authorative source files ?
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Which of the 255 or so options for lynx allow me to open a .html file that is
already on my hard disk ? Since I'm no longer on the net (see below), I can't
access these files from some other computer...
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I had a working network card and set it up using 'netconf'. No problem, well, ok
a few problems, but I got them fixed.
Then I decided to upgrade to a newer, better, faster card :-0
I then installed the new network driver module (gcc, install, insmod commands).
When I ran 'netconf' and quit, I got some error messages all over my screen that
didn't look to healthy, so I did an orderly shutdown <ctrl><alt><del>. As
requested, I did the 'fsck /dev/hda1' and said yes to all the fixes.
Now, when I did a reboot, I noticed that the modprobe file was not there and
several messages were left in /var/log/messages file. Soooo...I copied the
modprobe file from my RedHat disk and at boot up I get the message:
modprobe is not an ELF file
Ummm...I only have one distribution CD, and this file worked when it was
installed...
What magic is the install program doing that a simple copy doesn't do ?
Is there any way to determine which other system files were also corrupted ?
Are there other commands required to update the system ? (Just what does that
map file do anyway?)
Hopeless lost again, Thanks for any help,
Ralph
Using Red Hat 5.1 V2.0.34
