Just to let everyone know!!!!!.......

[chops]

Well, I finally did it. Last night I said the heck with Bill Gates and MicroSoft, wiped my hard drive clean, and installed the latest version of Linux Red Hat. As a result, my web site is going to be down for a while.

I have no clue on how to use Linux as far as installing programs, or even viewing my other hard drive with all of my pictures, music, software, and a bunch of other stuff on it. Once I figure out how to do that, then I should be back up and running.

My e-mail is working however, as well as my internet, so please, if anyone here has any experience, tips or tricks on how to use Red Hat, please let me know. I am going crazy not being able to get to my other hard drive and not having my site up.

Anyway, just thought I would let all of you know.

[dhaen]

Chops,

It's a steep learning curve if you've only known micro$oft.
I'm not an expert, but dabble. And I get a lot of help from friends.
Getting a web server going is straightforward. The easiest application to run is Apache. Everything you need (actually only about 3 lines) must be typed into it's config file. It needs to know your name, domain, port, and a path to serve the stuff from. Go to the Apache site to look at the guides.
Your other drive needs to be mounted. It actually might be mounted somewhere on the directory tree. You should have been asked or told during installation where to put it!

If you haven't done already, I suggest you find a forum specialising in Linux, and RH in particular.

Good luck.

[jleaman]

Dude try www.mandrake.com the program is way nicer. and eaier to use then when yuo get the hang of it you can go to redhat i bought both Retail boxes mandrake and redhat and well my desision is mandrake totaly. Mandrake is way nicer and eaiser to use and still powerfull. : O ) nice easy graphical interface and more apps than Redhat. if yuo need any help email me i can help.

Jason

[chops]

Thanks for the offers for help! I'm sure I'll be bugging you about it soon enough.

I actually tried Mandrake a while back and didn't really care for it all that much. Maybe because I didn't just give up Microsoft, but got Mandrake to mess around with. That was also over a year ago, but all I can remember is that I kept having problems with it and gave up on it

As for Red Hat, so far I really like it, except I'm needng to learn a lot, but I think that's what makes it fun.

I know I have to mount the drive, however, that drive is formatted in NTFS, which means I'll have to hook it up to my other computer in order to convert it back to FAT32. Linux will read the NTFS format with the right RPM driver loaded, but it will only read from it, not write to it, hence why I have to convert to FAT32. That's no biggie though.

It's a good thing I can learn this stuff kinda quick or I would be in a world of hurt!

Anyway, tomorrow I'm going to do some more research on Apache. The thing that stinks though is I just renewed my service with TZO. In fact, I've been trying to install TZO in Linux, but I keep messing something up in the last part of the install. Oh well, I'll get it one of these days. In the very soon future I hope!!

Funny you should mention joining a Linux Forum, because that's exactly what I did after I installed Linux on my PC. The site is called "Just Linux", I submitted one post, and within a couple of hours, I had about a dozen replies with helpful tips and some step-by-step directions. I'm really looking forward to life with Linux!!!

[chops]

Oh yeah, almost foregot one question....

While using Apache, which Red Hat 9 comes with, do I need a DNS server, (TZO), still since my cable modem has a dynamic IP address?

And if all possible, maybe help me set it up after I get my other hard drive converted, reinstalled,
and mounted in my Linux PC??

Thanks again,
-Chops

[karma]

if you have a burner upload knoppix linux 3.0 iso. it boots from your cd rom set up the drive and internet for ya.u can look it over and get a feel for it helped me



http://thetechnozone.com/pcbuyersgui...pix_Linux.html

[Neutron Bob]

I second that recommendation! Knoppix will run right off the CD-ROM drive, pretty foolproof! It's a great way to get you going with Linux.

Next step? Download XChat and log onto irc.freenode.net

Look up the channel #knoppix

If you have ANY problems making anything work...you'll have a handful of knowledgeable chaps to help you in chat.

Compared to my experiences with Windows over the years, this is a refreshing blast of competence!

Bob

[jleaman]

I have one thing to say I-TUNES RUILES.

also mandrake is nice that is all i use. except on my G4 power book. Im looking at buying a new tower now WOOT!! First though a i-POD.

[dhaen]

Originally posted by chops
Oh yeah, almost foregot one question....

While using Apache, which Red Hat 9 comes with, do I need a DNS server, (TZO), still since my cable modem has a dynamic IP address?

And if all possible, maybe help me set it up after I get my other hard drive converted, reinstalled,
and mounted in my Linux PC??

Thanks again,
-Chops

AFAIK you don't need TZO for Apache.

I'm not aware that you can convert a drive from NTFS to FAT, without moving your data. The other way round is easy.
When you eventually mount it, you'll need to know it's logical drive name: eg HDA1, and the format: eg VFAT.

BTW RH does not come with MP3, because of their reading of the license. You'll have to add it manually.
Of the audio players, I found XMMS to be the best.

Cheers,

[Jason]

By default redhat installs hard drives in their slowest mode. Read the manual for hdparm ('man hdparm') and turn on 32bit / DMA etc. If you don't your hard drive will be running 100 times slower than it should be.