Re: [techtalk] Re; MAJOR newbie question

1999-10-13 Thread Sharon Kisel
>I'm not using X windows ... just good old command lines. from one newbie to another. When I'm using write on the command line (linux 5.2) I use ctrl-H to back up or ctrl-backspace (can't remember which from solaris, which i use at work, to linux, at home.) you can always use the sledgeha

[techtalk] linux 6.1 install

1999-10-28 Thread Sharon Kisel
I'm having trouble going through with an update from Redhat 5.2 to 6.1. I have a bootdisk, which goes through to the choice of update from Cdrom or Hdd. when i choose cdrom, and put the cd in, the drive light comes on and the screen changes to "welcome to redhat linux" on a blue screen; then not

Re: [techtalk] linux 6.1 install

1999-10-29 Thread Sharon Kisel
At 05:50 AM 10/29/99 GMT, you wrote: >On 10/28/99, 10:58:23 PM, Sharon Kisel wrote: > >> I'm having trouble going through with an update from >> Redhat 5.2 to 6.1. >[...] argh! lotsa information, more then i thought i'd get back! I'm going to work on this th

[techtalk] 6.1 install, revisited

1999-11-01 Thread Sharon Kisel
I got the same thing that Tonya did: I found when I pressed Alt F3: > > mounting hdc on /tmp/rhimage as type iso9660 > creating directory /tmp/rhimage rc=0 > calling mount (/tmp/hdc, /tmp/rhimage, iso9660, -1058209791, (nil)) > removing decide file /tmp/hdc > done here > method selection