> How can i install ppp ????
This is interesting. Did your copy also come from Wal-Mart?
I have a boxed version of 7.2 Complete which, I'm told, may not be so
complete. Among other things, it's KDE 2.0 is not the final version but a
Beta. Apparently, a disk is now on it's way to amend. Thing is, I also
got the message that it couldn't find the ppp daemon (pppd) and that I
should install it. I dug out RpmDrake and found the files related to pppd
(there were 2, I think) and prepared to install them along with
Enlightenment and the parts of Gnome that weren't installed initially. It
kept telling me that it couldn't communicate with the CD ROM (though it's
actually a CD-RW and there are 2 of them in Device Manager though only one
on my machine.. in addition to a CD-ROM which appears as it should in
Device Manager). That's another issue to swim through. I may also have a
Winmodem. Rats.
In this version of LM 7.2, the KDE is in Beta as I say. I have 2 users set
up: "dave" and "root". The kicker in root works fine and looks just as it
did in the screen shots on the web tutorials. However, there is no kicker
loaded (and a message telling me so) in dave. (Side note: When does a
single user of a machine use root and, in this case, dave?) Apparently,
this is one of the issues that the update disk they're sending will solve.
More frustratingly, one of many, many points of difference between the
software and the manual included with it is illustrated on page 64 of the
manual. In that illustration, the text in the window (of available
packages from which to choose to install) shows KDE and quite a number of
others which are not evident in my installation screen and the ones both
(the manual and my software version) share in common are in a different
order. The first two times I installed Linux (never used it before Friday
night), I selected all the available options but 2; one on personal
finances and another for Palm Pilot device interfaces, neither of which I
have. <g> About 75% of the data in this 4 minute install came from the
first disk with the remainder coming from the second (of the 4 in the
package).
Below that window is a button to install all components. That choice does
install KDE and Gnome (but only 2 other desktop environments, not
Enlightenment, BlackBox or any others that looked interesting in the
tutorials on the website). Strangely, all but the last 10 seconds of data
of a 6 minute install came from the first disk.
If the manual said a particular choice detailed there might not be a choice
for either recommended or custom modes, it was not not available in this
package's custom instalation. Even if the manual warned only that it may
not be an available choice in recommended mode installations, it was not
available in the custom mode of this early 7.2 version of LM. In fact,
there were only 2 choices: 300MB minimal and custom installations. There
are many other differences, too.
What I'm going to do is to just play with what I have for now. As soon as
I can get a fully functional copy of less dubious integrity, I'll work more
diligently to make my hardware work. With this arrangement, I am thinking
it futile. Maybe what I'll do to pacify myself in the meanwhile is to buy
a modem (to replace my 33.6 winmodem) that is possibly capable of faster
download speeds, set up my download manager in Win98 and download the ISO
images for the disks from the web. I am glad to have the manual and the
books and so forth on the other 2 disks but darn-it, it sure would be nice
to have a copy that works.
I am glad to have gotten this far in one weekend, though. I delayed Linux
for close to 2 years, unsure that I'd be able to "do" it. I've read the Re
Hat newslist from time to time and it appeared as though people, much
brighter than I about computers, struggled to install and configure it.
Universally, people seem broadly satisfied with the system and so I figure
it'll be worth the effort. I was surprised at how easily I could run a
dual OS drive, the choice made with Grub at boot. I did have some
partitioning to do both before (with Partition Magic) and during
installation but they went without a hitch. I see no evidence in Windows
that Linux even exists on the same machine (and visa versa so far). My old
PM v. 3.0 had no trouble resizing and moving partions already in existence
to accomodate the Linux files.
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Emiliano Ogando wrote:
> How can i install ppp ????
> Please an easy way...
>
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Dave Burrows
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Washington, PA 15301
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