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This is a forum for people with Linux problems and questions, and others willing to help them. If you have any Linux questions, or you would like to help others in need, go to the Linux message board and post a question or reply for others to read, respond to, and learn from. After posting a question, please take a moment to read other questions already posted. You may be able to help someone out there. What Is Linux? How To Say Linux - An audio message from Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux. Article: XP Equals eXtra Proprietary by Michael Tiemann, Red Hat Chief Technical Officer Another lesson learned the hard way My latest lesson involved upgrading from Red Hat Linux 8.0 to 9.0. The installation program gave me the opportunity to check my disks. All of mine, created from files on-line, failed the check. Like a fool, I tried to do the installation with those disks any way. 20 minutes into the installation, the system informed me that the installation disk was bad and terminated the installation. When I tried to reboot, a message appeared that said the file system was damaged. Linux couldn’t load. I tried the upgrade again after buying The Red Hat Linux 9.0 Bible. Aside from some great information, it contains the installation disks. Using those disks, I was able to get through the entire installation process. But, the system still wouldn’t start. The file system error message appeared again. Somewhere on the screen in the area of the message was a hint; “run fsck.” The system allowed me to run fsck from a command line (read fsck man page for details.) It found a few problems and asked me if I wanted them fixed. I said yes to all. When I was done, I rebooted the system and everything seems to be running OK. Moral of the story; check your installation disks. If the system says they’re bad, don’t bother trying to get through the installation. You will just cause yourself a lot of aggravation and possibly lose something valuable. Reinstalling GRUB I had an experience that I found out is quite common. Before I upgraded, I installed Mandrake Linux just to check it out. It unexpectedly overwrote my bootloader automatically. It set the paths of the bootloader correctly for Mandrake and Windows, but not for Red Hat. I was able to get GRUB working as I wanted it to again by using grub-install within Red Hat which reloaded my original Red Hat GRUB bootloader. Then, I edited the grub.conf file so that all of the paths for my operating systems were right.
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I bypassed certain installation issues by installing a second hard drive and putting Linux on it. I didn't think I had as much disk space as I needed to add it to my first hard drive. My second hard drive is technically better than my original. A friend suggested that I install Windows on it too. I'm not interested in doing that and it wouldn't work any way. I have Windows '98 restore disk of the pre-installed type. It insists upon taking up an entire drive. I'm not interested in buying another Windows OS disk so that I can control the amount of space it takes either. Why spend money on something I don't plan on using very much? If I install an OS in addition to Linux, it might be Solaris or something, but it won't be Windows. The only real problem I had installing it involved sound. There was none for some functions. My mother board has an integrated sound card that is incompatible with Linux. After looking at Red Hat's on-line compatibility list, I bought a Sound Blaster card, but this allowed me to hear only CDs and game sounds. I was able to get sound working completely by editing modules.conf. I recognized information associated with the integrated sound card and the new card in the file. I just deleted the integrated sound card information, rebooted, and now, I have sound with everything now.
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