Re: [techtalk] LI error and getting back into Linux....

2000-07-22 Thread Beverly Guillermo

If you have the bootdisk from when you installed linux, use that
disk.  Then you should be able to probably type 
"mount boot=/dev/"

Then you want to make sure that in lilo.conf have:

boot=/dev/hda (or the harddrive that first boots)

Save it.  Type 'lilo'. Restart and it should bring up lilo and what OSes
you have installed.

Beverly

On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Megan McGuire wrote:

> I just installed Mandrake 7.1 and it loaded and everything but when it
> restarted my puter it gave me an LI so I just used a dos startup disk and
> did fdisk \mbr so I got back into windows is there any way I can get into
> linux now?
> thanx
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[techtalk] LI error and getting back into Linux....

2000-07-22 Thread Megan McGuire

I ended up just reinstalling linux but not formatting like Alex Yan
suggested, thanx Alex! So I can get into linux using my boot disk now, thank
you everyone who emailed back all the bits and pieces helped!
Megan

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Re: [techtalk] Gnome and Redhat 6.1 woes

2000-07-22 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick

On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 05:19:56PM +0200, Britta Koch wrote:
> I installed Redhat 6.1 on my computer at work today - yay! But since I
> haven't dealt with Redhat for a time (only Debian), and don't use gdm,
> I've got a few questions:

[...snip...]
(somebody already answered the first question.)

> b) What is the file where I tell gdm (or x) what programs to start? Is
> it .Xclients, .xinitrc or .xsessionrc? And can I stop it from starting
> gnome-session?

The file you want is either .xsession or .Xclients in your home directory. If
you have both, then .xsession is run (only). Be aware that this file
(whichever one you choose) has to be executable by root for things to work.
the last statement in that script will almost certainly be of the form
"exec ", since when the .xsession script ends, you go back
the login screen --- and typically you would like this to happen when you exit
your window manager.

Just to clear up what's going on here, after you have logged in via gdm, it
runs the script 

/etc/X11/xdm/Xsession

(don't get thrown off by the fact that you are running gdm -- it still runs
the script from /etc/X11/xdm. :-) ) Way down the end of that script, there is
a comment that says

"# otherwise, take default action"

and that is where it decides what file to execute.

Hope this helps,
Malcolm

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