According to Ralph Stickley: While burning my CPU.
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> Thanks to all for the help...slowly getting up to speed here..
> a couple of quick questions:
Dont try to run before you can walk.
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> >
> > lynx filename
> >
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> duh...should have thought of that..in face the first line on the man page
> suggest this...if you read it closely...
Well i dont know why they say Linux is hard to learn, a command "cant" get
any easier than that, cant it.!!.
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> /dev/hda1' and said yes to all the fixes.
> >
> > It would have been more informative to have explained what the error
> > messages were after the use of netconf.
> >
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> Hmmm...lots of stuff in there...unfortunately, when I did an fdisk to check the
> drive, the table came up empty...so I don't really trust the system right now
I have made a comment lower down about this, it would seem you are issuing
wrong commands and getting yourself all worried about nothing.
> I thought that modprobe file was the problem, but your right, the message is an
> output message from modprobe. Pretty helpful huh? If they would report the
> offending module that would be a little better.
It should be logged in your system log, i think redhat writes them to
/var/log/messages.
Use sommat like grep to look for modprobe messages.
grep modprobe /var/log/messages | more
or grep for the date
grep -e "May 6" /var/log/messages | more
^^
Please note grepping for a date with a "singel number" will ONLY work when
there are 2 white spaces between May and the single number as shown by the 2
carets in the example above.
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> What are the recommended partitions for RH ???
Realy the same as any other Linux distribution, its realy up to you and
according to what sort of machine it is, as an example, note i say example
as others might have different ideas.
/ (root) 500Mb
/usr 1Gb
/home 500 or even 1Gb
But realy an end user machine or a better word is possably singel user,
/ 500Mb
rest of the disk for /usr
Why the small 500Mb for "/" well that will over come any problems which
might occur with LILO and the 1024 cyls barrier.
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> I'm faced with a re-install (Third time this week - obvious newbie here :-),
> just to get back and working normally. When I boot now, the prompt is:
> root@pm03a11
O dear, why does everyone think they will have to reinstall, this operating
system is NOT windows related in any way.
> not sure what that means, but I think it is different from what it used to be...
> and occasionally my fdisk comes up with an empty partition table...
fdisk will "always" show a empty partition table when it is called
incorrectly, if you get a empty partition table "sometimes" then you quite
possably start fdisk as;
fdisk /dev/hda1
which will the show an empty partition table with the "p" option, start fdisk
as;
fdisk /dev/hda
do not state the partition number.
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> > cd /boot
> > rm System.map
> > ln -s /usr/src/linux/System.map System.map
> > Should do the trick.
> > You could do that before rebooting.
> >
>
> Is this recommended for a new install ? I'm looking to download the newest
> kernel and upgrading my system...any other suggestions ?
A new install will do all that for you, They say Redhat-6.0 is out and
about, you might want to try it, just one comment, the latest and newest is
not always the best.
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> Thanks for all your help.
> Ralph
> I don't know where I'm going, but I'm making good time!
>
Just plod on, dont worry to much about doing any damage to your system, take
a hint, login as a user NOT root.
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Regards Richard.
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