On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> I am getting ready to install Linux on my PC. Last time I installed
> Linux it was on a PC I was putting together a PC for a friend. I tried
> to install linux usisg the CD to boot up, but it didnt. I had to use me
> Win98 startup disk to load drivers for the CD-ROM. I forget the command
> to load Linux. Anybody know what it is? I forget where I found it and
> where I wrote it down.
>
Go to the /dosutils directory on your Mandrake CD and copy the
program "rawrite.exe" to your harddrive. Then, run rawrite and select
the file "boot.img" in the /images directory (command line would be
somthing like "rawrite d:\images\boot.img".) Then, boot from the
floppy that rawrite makes and say you're installing from CD. It
should be pretty easy from there.
>
> Another question.....How do I install a program in Linux. I have TRIED
> to read a book, but I cant learn that way. I will need to get files for
> my ISP (Roadrunner) and I need to know how to install it so I can get it
> to work. I know this is something I should know.....but I dont.
>
Depends. If it's a tar.gz or .tgz file, you'll need to run it through
the following command (or some variant) "tar xzvf <filename.tgz or
filename.tar.gz>
If it's just a tar file use "tar xvf <filename.tar>". Chances are this
will create it's own directory off the current directory, so you MAY
want to run these commands while in your /usr/src directory.
There should be some instructions there in a file called README or
something similarly self-explanatory. :-)
If it's an RPM file (doubt it in this case) you'd run RPM -i. Oh,
yeah... I forgot to mention all these commands should be run as
"root."
