RE: [Sheflug] couple of things

["Dean Rickles" <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

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From: sheflug-bounce@vuw.ac.nz [mailto:nospam [at] vuw.ac.nz]On
Behalf Of Peter Smith
Sent: 19 July 2000 21:11
To: Sheflug
Subject: [Sheflug] couple of things


I now have my super new box set up. Just stuck a newer m/board under the old
one really :)
Now have " boot from cd/+ m/board has a scsi adaptec built in, a bit faster
than my old one to I think, but that could be imagination.
So on to todays problems,oops sorry "evenin all". I have Mandrake 7 set up
set it up to use a boot disk as I have had probs while getting to grips with
linux installation before & always seemed to blow away my Win partition too
if I tried to put lilo in mbr,

	your win partition will still have been there. Just type
		"fdisk /mbr"
	at a dos prompt and bobs your uncle. Also, Mandrake 7.1 has a 	new
ridiculously easy installation program with the option to 	dual boot on
large hard drives so you wont have this problem if 	you reinstall with that
version. Make sure you select GRUB as 	your bootloader tho'.


Anyroad the thing is either I used a duff
disk when setting up or it is dying. But whichever it takes about 5 minutes
to boot linux, so I need a new one. I have tried simply copying it but Limux
nor win & not even my trusty old atari will even read the boot disk let
alone copy it.
I have spent 2 nights trying to find docs in mandrake about making a boot
disk but to no avail. Can you help.

	Mandrake 7.1 = no more bootdisk problems!

Other problem.
I am trying to get to grips with installing software,practising on the linux
format disk, Using rpmdrake I can find and install the rpms but where does
linux put em ?

	Of course you must be root to write to the RPM database. The 	executables
are then written to /usr/local/bin (or /usr/bin).
	KPackage is easier to use and then you can see exactly where all 	of the
files have gone and also which programs (RPM's) you have 	on your computer.


I have used "find" & still can't figure out how to run the programs. I would
like for instance to make a link from "downloader" to the desktop & run from
there.

	You must make sure the directory containing the binaries 	(executable
programs) is in your search path. So, if you have a 	program you want to run
in /usr/local/bin just bring up a 	terminal and type in
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin and Linux will 	search for the program in there.
Then just type in the name of 	the program you want to run).

	To make a link from a program to your desktop I suggest going 	into KDE
bring up your Home folder look in the directory 	containing the program
binary (probably /usr/local/bin or 	/usr/bin) and drag the program you want
to link to onto the 	desktop. Then you will be prompted to copy move or link
to the 	program, so just pick "link".


Hope that sorts everything out,

Dean


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