No Offers yet Henry - thanks for you suggestions -being threaten with list removal in email by Peter has not enhanced my outlook much! Honestly - Tom > 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. > > -- > Henry House > OpenPGP key available from http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc > __o Traveling down _'\<,_ Life's Bike Trail... (*)/ (*) Do you like Biking? http://members.accessbee.com/hwy101
