On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 04:03:26AM -0700, Tom wrote:
> Eric said it better than I Peter -but then you want everyone to go through what you
>did
> (some kind of initiation) - Have Read what I have - what part of a Book
> in Davis does me no good in Sacramento don't you understand Peter?
I'm the LUGOD librarian, and I don't have a car either. I will be happy to
bring the book of your choice to the next meeting (hopefully the carpool can
get organized enough to get you a ride from Sac to Davis before then). I
recommend ``Running Linux'', published by O'Reilly.
> I can only hope to know something you want to some day peter so I can
> tell you to RTFM (since I did)
Thank's great. Some suggestions on how to help others to help you:
* When something doesn't work, tell us exacly what you did and how it failed.
If you were working on the console or in a terminal window, copy and paste
the error messages and your preceeding input. If you were using a graphical
interface, describe exacly what you did and what happened next. Vague
statements don't help at all.
* since you are trying to run the Loki demo, try running 'ls -l /mnt/cdrom'
in a terminal window (assuming the cd is mounted at /mnt/cdrom). This will
show all the files (including executable files) in the cd.
* It is not unheard of for a screensaver to lock up the X server (the
graphical screen manager), since some of them are written using potentially
unsafe programming practices (why such programs are included in Red Hat's
stable distribution is a legitimate question). You can almost always switch
to the console (press control-alt-f, must be keft alt key), log in as root,
and either kill the messed up screensaver or reboot.
> Greatly Dissappointed - Tom
Please don't think poorly of Peter. He spends countless hours helping new
Linux users.
> > > And how do I get Book from the Lugod Library with No Car?
See above.
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