On Sat, 04 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> WHAT A WEEK--I had forgotten how EASY Linux is; it was hell until I
> installed glibc! Thanks everyone, for your patience!
>
> Thanks Richard, for your info. about my X font server FAILURE. What is xfs,
> though? I am tempted to follow your advice: as long as it works--don't mess
> with it.
I'm not being rude but do;
man xfs
> One thing I am not sure about, and I'm hoping you, or someone else
> running Red Hat 6 with X can answer my next Q: When the blue X login screen
> appears, I see a Red Hat logo. The hat on the logo IS RED--for only a
> split-second. When I see this red hat turn black/dark grey, I wonder if it
> might be due to a problem with my X server or something (or X font server,
> maybe?) Or is that just the way this logo appears? Any ideas? I wonder if
> something appears unusual, it may be a symptom of some underlying problem.
It could possably be in the font sever, that you can check in you
/etc/X11/XF86Config file, check the docs in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/*
>
> Bogdan, I did a make bzImage, because make zImage resulted in too large a
> file. What's this about zlilo, however? Where shall I go from here? BTW,
> can you explain the zImage resulting message:
> >Boot sector 512 bytes.
> >Setup is 1300 bytes.
> >System is 522 kB
> >System is too big. Try using bzImage or modules.
> Here is the relavent part of my directory listing of
> /usr/src/linux/i386/boot, after running bzImage. From what it says here, do
> you think bzImage will suffice? >
> >[root@localhost boot]# ls -l
> ><snip>
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 537853 Sep 3 18:22 bzImage
>
> BTW, I never did figure out how to install the kernel source from my
> CD-ROM. If anyone thinks they can explain that, I'm all ears (or eyes?) I
> did download the gzipped tarfile of 2.2.12 and installed it, so it's a bit
> late, but I would still like to learn how to do it :-)
>
Bogdan John and i said "rpm -i <filename>" at least 3 times.
> Now if I can finish with make zlilo, and figure out how to run my SCSI Zip,
> SCSI adapter card, and a SparQ paride.
>
> Again, __thanks_everybody__ for being patient. Wish me luck!
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Regards Richard
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