At 6:30 pm, Sunday, March 24 2002, Henry T Wijaya mumbled: > just installed mandrake 8.2 on my laptop, the furthest progress on linux > I've made so far after departing from slackware. was tinkering around > and few newbie questions that cropped up & I hope wouldn't take up much > of your time, mind you that some questions would seem trivial. > > 1) when gnome is loading, a beep is emitted. yet, when trying to play an > audio cd & a wav file, no sound is heard. peeked into rpmdrake, and > found gnome-audio package is installed. so where should I go poking next? See if: 1) a module is loaded for your sound card. (Not really needed, as I'm not sure about Mandrake's kernel config.) 2) Can you 'cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp' and hear something like white noise? 3) Is esound running? (ps aux | grep es)
> 2) There're 3 other pc's using Win2k, and had some partitions shared.
> How do I access those shared partitions? What program do I use
> specifically? Do I simply mount them just like cdrom?
Well, it depends on what kind of partition Win2k is using. If it's just
vfat, you can just mount it, but NTFSv5 is more of a problem.
> 5) how do I mount a NTFS volume created by W2k, that's residing on the
> same hdd?
Oh crap, answered my own question. You can't really, as the code for
mounting NTFS partitions is really flaky. I haven't really keep up to date
with the situation, but my feeling is that you can't mount NTFSv5, but can
mount NTFSv4.
> 6) does licq able to use the data files used by windows version of icq2001b?
No, they are completely incompatible.
> 7) does Galeon able to use the mail data file created by windows
> versionn of Netscape 6.2?
I doubt it.
> 8) I'm using a broadband router. The manual deals with Windows only and
> had instructions to fill in the address of DNS servers and the "DNS
> suffix for this connection" field under windows. Is there such
> equivalent field under linux? How do I add such entries?
The DNS servers, and DNS suffix are put in a file called resolv.conf:
steven@broken:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
search wedontsleep.org
nameserver 192.168.66.1
nameserver 192.168.66.4
> 9) Upon starting Gnome, it complains of my host isn't a valid entry.
> Does it refers the host as the name of this pc? I'd put in
> "nsw.bigpond.net.au" thinking that it's referring to "DNS suffix".
> Obviously I'm wrong.
No idea, sorry.
> 10) Lastly, installing StarOffice should be done under root, right?
>
StarOffice is a special case. From memory, you need to do an install of
StarOffice, and then install it yourself as an ordinary user.
> Thank in advance.
>
No problem!
--
Steve
<ElectricElf> Anyone have a favorite low-overhead remote filesystem protocol?
(NFS and Samba are, of course, options)
<DanielS> ElectricElf: it's like asking "what is the least painful method of
castration involving a rusty fishing wire"
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