confusion regarding install-time boot options

2002-10-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Appendix H of the RHL installation guide is not consistent with the release notes. the release notes suggest that an option for the boot prompt is boot: linux askmethod while the IG suggests that boot: askmethod is sufficient. in fact, appendix H of the IG kind of suggests that the prefix

RE: Pysche and DVD

2002-10-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote: > OK, let me step back a sec...here is what i have done so far: > > 1) rebuilt/reinstalled ogle and ogle_gui > 2) rebuilt/reinstalled libdvdread and libdvdcss > 3) rebuilt/reinstalled xvattr > 4) built/installed mpeg4 (mad) and ac32dec > 5) i have

more 8.0 docs confusion

2002-10-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
official RHL customization guide, "adding swap space", reads in part, to add a swap partition: "The hard drive can not be in use (partitions can not be mounted, and swap space can not be enabled). The easiest way to achieve this it [sic] to boot your system in [sic] rescue mode." say what?

Re: more 8.0 docs confusion

2002-10-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Steven Rubenstein wrote: > Yeah, but changes through fdisk on a mounted volume don't take effect > until reboot, no? (Swap space can certainly be enabled while mounted.) > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > official RHL customization guide, "

Re: Hard disc re-partition question

2002-10-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Stephen, > > In response to your mail of Monday, October 14, 2002 7:21:18 AM: > > SL> 1) How to display the existing partition in full detail > > I always just use the command-line 'fdisk', issue a p (for print

Re: more 8.0 docs confusion

2002-10-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
n Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 04:33:10PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > official RHL customization guide, "adding swap space", reads > > in part, to add a swap partition: > > > > "The hard drive can not be in use (partitions can not be > > mou

Re: Setting up NFS for first time

2002-10-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Gene C. wrote: > /etc/exports file. Once you have that created, then do "service nfs" and # service nfs start rday

Re: media players

2002-10-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:34:28 -0700 (PDT) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > # > # There seems to be a lack up media (mpeg, vcd, dvd, etc) players out > # there that install without screaming for deps. Does anyone know of > # anything that installs and runs

with CUPS, is LPRng redundant?

2002-10-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
if one plans on using CUPS for printing exclusively, is there any reason not to remove RPMs associated with LPRng? from the dependencies list, to remove LPRng, one needs to first remove redhat-config-printer, but this is just for LPRng config anyway, no? so, any problems with getting rid of

<    1   2   3