[techtalk] HELP! Recovering MBR for dual boot system..

2000-08-25 Thread Michelle Sims
Hi All, I'm here at a clients ste trying to get a system dual booting... They had already installed RH 6.1 on the first SCSI drive (/dev/sda), and WIN98 (/dev/sdb) on the second drive. lilo wasn't working, so they have been using the adaptec scsi utility to switch between boot dr

[techtalk] XFree86 Configuration problems

2000-08-24 Thread Michelle Sims
Hi all. I'm beating my head agains the wall here - someone please stop me! Our client has a Mac G4...installed yellow dow linux which aparrently went fine. Have yaboot configured. But startx hung forever, and when it did finally start the colormap was all messed up...and it promptly crashes.

[techtalk] not neccesarily linux ? - seting up mail list, problems w/perl

2000-07-11 Thread Michelle Sims
I'm attempting to set up majordomo for a mail list; when I send test subscribe messages, it complains about not finding certain .pl modules in the @INC list...my question is where exactly do you set what paths @INC has? I have the appropriate modules on the system, just not where it thinks they