matttah

just use the -Uvh command and it should go well, i'm surpised you managed to install xine without those codecs, usually it won't install xine unless you ahve the libdvd codec, but the uvh command as i said should do fine, then just open xine and try again...if ya get error post back. Daum

ya you are giong to have to have the isos extracted from the images...it would be worth it to try to find a friend to burn them if you don't have a burner, it is gonna be a pain trying to install from the harddrive is my guess. Daum

uh in regards to the fedora...just download it off redhat.com then just do update...i havn't had any probs with the newer version, but wasn't too picky in my linux, and never tried other distros. Daum

uh, not sure if this will work, but make sure you burn the iso's as images, then just mmake your cd drive as one of the first boot devices and it should auto read to the installer... Daum

I tried to mount it, and nautalius always has erro,b ut it then puts the icon on my desktop, it reads it, but when i try to get the icon to go away via eject it says: Nautilus was unable to unmount the selected volume. So? Daum

There are a few basic ideas for ou for reference...one is there are a few websites that you should know..rpmfind.net and freshrpms.net both are good for red hat users....when you search on rpmfind just make sure oyu get the rpm file not src one...and the correct one for your system...in mine it is always highlighted...it would be called Red hat 9.0 under the sytem...also here are some basic commands...all in terminal su -makes you root rpm -i [file name] -makes it install rpm -Uvh [file name]- make it update yum check-update -checks up dates and list them for your system, use this instead of up2date yum update -updates all the available packages yum install -y [package name] -installs the packages with answering yse to all install questions the package name is obtained from the get update list i think that is some of the basics.....i'll work on getting a few post to a large tutorial of commands for you but atm not spending much time on web, on vacation at whistler. oh and fedoranews.org has some nice tutorials Daum

Hey guys, I have a quick question....i hhave heard you can connnect to the internet through another comp....how do i do it? Sadly its between two windows xp laptops..they internet is wireless(one of the laptops doesn't have wirelss card)....do i need progs or what? Thanks Daum

k got ti working....i knew about the routers..maybe i misunderstood the reply or maybe i misstated...i meant one comp was on the internet and one had to connect to that comp and use its internet...but anyways solved the prob...i'll be back to linux when i get home hopefullly if the new dvd drive solves my prob=0 Daum

uh not sure if oyu mean you want tos ee if they are mounted...download xine and you can watch dvds, just make sure you change the path to the drive to be correct(i believe its /dev/cdrom(# if you have multi cd drives)...or its /mnt/cdrom(#). To check if you can mount them open a terminal and do mount /mnt/cdrom(#) and it should mount them and pop a disk up on your desktop showing the cd....you can use gnome toaster to burn some cds and such...just download the mpeg123 if you are going to be burning mp3 cds...you need that rpm file to burn those types....its not that ahrd t ofind... Daum

well, i can just give you a few pointers on things i learned, if mandrake is like fedora then some of these might help...chmod a+x make the file executable..if it is a bin, you may have to this to run some bin files for installation...to run programs you installed either a. try the run prompt first and type n the name, it may put it there...if that doesn't work try going into the folder and finding a file along the names of the program, then open that file in a terminal... thats some of the basic stuff... Daum

As many of you know, everythign that could go wrong went wrong..i finally got xp installed...but i wanted linux but couldnt' due to my cd roms being so bad...so, basically i called dell and they like fine we will send a technician to your place...and i'm like ok..then they go k your contract says no...so we will send you a dvd drive...so i guess i get a new dvd drive=) hope it will work..if so i'll be back in linux soon! Daum

can't atm...just was posting to tell some people..not that anyone cared just felt like it=) Daum

if you mean like on my comp it was that it wouldnt' read disk unless i messed aroudn the the drive for liek 10 min inserting and ejectin the disk...if you mean in linux..right now i don't have any..and if oyu mean where is hte problem that i did not install linux it is becuase my cd rom couldn't do the 3 disk installation becuaes it wouldn't read the disk=) Daum

Ok, I need to get my system into windows now...sadly i have to leave linux for a while...my prob is linux like locked my harddrive...here is my prob..i had to reinstall linux and my cdrom drives were dying so i had to do miniumu....now when i try to get into my windows cd...i have to use a win 98 boot disks o it gets me to dos mode with a:\ after it cant find my win cd..then i switch to e:\ drive since my d:\ died...and when i run setup...it says if there is hfts or nfts i have to create dos partition..when i installed linux..i had it delete all other partitions...right now i don't hae any gui(graphical interface) on linux....help please? Daum

Anyone know how to fix this prob...whenever i go to change cd roms during installation, it says the new cd rom can't be mounted....the fricking work...and if i use my second cd rom drive it will auto change to that one but when it is done witht hat cd it says it can't unmount it even though i can open the cd rom drive....help? Daum

woot, found out win 98 boot disk came with fdisk...workin on creating dos partition..this might work out... Daum

Ight, i got vnc to work throughout my lan network(well minus getting my linux to work as a remote desktop, but i can connect to other comps on my lan)...so now i'm trying to get it work to liek my friends networks...but i don't know how to connect to them...internal ips wouldnt' work...so i had friend go to whatismyip.com get his ip that way, then i trie dto remote connect to that..but no luck..anyone know how i connect over the internet? Daum

Ok, well, i can remote connect to another person...i need to get this up and running..the person is on SBC Yahoo! DSL and I set up a vnc server on her comp...it gave me two ips a 69 one and a 169 one(when you held the mouse of the icon)..the latter was what registered as her ip when i did winipcfg(the 169 one)...and when i tight the 169 ip into my remote desktop connection it immediatly says there is no vnc server at the location..when i do the 69 oen it just takes forever...soemone please leave me a read me or im me at matttah if you know hwo to get this working... oh and...she is not on a huge network, it goes from the yahoo's dsl box staright into her comp. also about how the icon will display the two ips..why is it doing this..on mine it is only showing the local ips. Daum

got it up and running...the have the jvm as a different download for some reason..thanks Daum

uh the sdk doesn't exist with the netbeans..thats only the second part of the download section...which oen do you want me to install? i think you cut off the j2 off your post? Daum

doh yeah=p Daum

http://www.ubergeek.tv/switchlinux/ Its amazing...humorous...=p Daum [/url]

The printer prints extremely slowly(even on fast function)....how do i fix this? And is there any prog i can get that will support the scanner on it...i use fedora....currently sane doesn't support it, at least i looked and didnt' see it. Daum

Been having a prob with my yum updater... [root@localhost daum]# yum check-update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core Null - i386 - Base retrygrab() failed for: http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-Null/headers/header.info Executing failover method failover: out of servers to try Error getting file http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-Null/headers/header.info [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found Thats been happening to me when i run it as a root... and this when i run it as a user... yum[daum@localhost daum]$ yum check-update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: Fedora Core Null - i386 - Base Server: Fedora Core Null - i386 - Released Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Cannot download http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-Null/headers/fedora-release-0-1-3.i386.hdr in caching only mode or when running as non-root user. Deleting entry from Available packages What is wrong ? lol Daum

I am pretty new to linux...and while a lot of my probs have just been my own retardedness, Fedora treated me well, I havn't really tried any other distros though...go with dapper dan, he has helped me out before and claims he knows what linux is=p Advantages to linux... well there are many, i have yet to actualyl get my system to freeze, and i'm good at that...um more freedom...ii just started using it over the past month..so not too familiar... Daum