Re: bloody newbies

[Ross <nospam [at] virgin.net>]

kent wrote:
> yep, thanks very much, think ill work my way through the rest of the book
> and then check out mandrake.
>
> i thought of one more question after i posted the last one.. whats a good
> (cheap) modem to use with linux? (is there no way at all to get a win modem
> working with it?)
>

I've been through this myself. the only modem i could find that made any
referance to unix type systems was a hayes accura v90 modem £70. there
are other hardware modems which are cheaper. the trouble is identifying
a hardware modem as opposed to a winmodem. i haven't found anyone yet
who will commit themselves. some people witter on about black cases and
only buy isa modems.

so you either take a chance and buy something cheap (chuck your money
away) or go for the hayes accurra! (it works as soon as it's plugged in
- no messing about - it's even easier then running it under windows)

as for winmodems, there are drivers for one make, i can't remember which
off the top of my head. but i'd recomend you forget about it for the
time being.

>>irresponsible answer:
>>'mount /mnt/cdrom
>>cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS
>>rpm -ivh *.rpm'

i hope you realise he's taking the piss slightly. a high level of
intelligence does give some people have a strange sense of humor!

even if you only selected KDE as your desktop, you should still have
part of gnome desktop installed..... click on the K menu button at the
bottom left, there should be an entry for gnome applications and a sub
entry for gnorpm. this is a bit difficult to use first time but does
work fine 'honest!'. software packages are contained in 'RPM packages' a
bit like zip files. if you don't like gnorpm, there are several
different front ends for the rpm installation program or you can use the
command line !?!?!?!? anyway, gnorpm should show you all the packages
on the disc and give you a brief description of what they all are before
you install them.

you should also find a printer configuration utility under the K menu.
if not, try looking for the package on the cd using gnorpm

>>If you go into the RPMS directory on your CD, it may possibly be where I
>>said it was just then, probably not though, you should be able to find all
>>the packages with 'gnome' in the name by issuing the command 'ls -l | grep
>>gnome'. You may want to write these down on a bit of paper at this point.

but then again..............nah, no thanks Al !!! stick with find files
(under the K menu)

stick with it though..... you will get the system running well
eventually. there's a lot of learning to be done. you will find other
distributions easier to use though (i use suse 6.3 it doesn't get much
easier £32)

good luck,
ross

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