About to dive into this fun world of Linux!

[rabbit]

1. Not sure!  Sorry.
2. See #1.
3. Open a terminal and run '#lspci -s -vv 2.04' (might be 2:04)
4. The 256 drive will be /dev/hdx, where x is some letter.  It starts at a, and the progresses.  Just poke around.  If you get something like 'mount: /dev/hdx is not a valid block device', then that drive doesn't exist, and you should go back to the last one.

[CrAz3D]

when doing md fat.......i get "bash,md: command not found"

[rabbit]

It's mkdir, not md

[Sidoh]

It's mkdir, not md

Maybe it's md in FC4?

[CrAz3D]

cool!

mkdir /fat
mount /dev/hda2 /fat worked!!!

now, since system-config-boot does nothing....

[MyndFyre]

It's mkdir, not md

Maybe it's md in FC4?

Nah, it's md in DOS.  I just figured that since the *nixers finally got around to making a dir command act as a synonym to ls, md and rd might be synonyms for mkdir and rmdir.  Guess I was wrong.

Since system-config-boot does nothing, install it!  Add or Remove Programs on the Applications button, and it will be under a category like system configuration or whatnot.

[Sidoh]

Nah, it's md in DOS.  I just figured that since the *nixers finally got around to making a dir command act as a synonym to ls, md and rd might be synonyms for mkdir and rmdir.  Guess I was wrong.

And to think ... I gave you the benefit of the doubt!

Hehe, just kidding ...

I thought md was an alias for mkdir, but it's not (in Slackware, at least):

MD(4)                                                       MD(4)

NAME
       md - Multiple Device driver aka Linux Software Raid

SYNOPSIS
       /dev/mdn
       /dev/md/n

DESCRIPTION
       The  md  driver  provides virtual devices that are created
       from one or more  independent  underlying  devices.   This
       array  of devices often contains redundancy, and hence the
       acronym RAID which stands for a Redundant Array  of  Inde­
       pendent Devices.

[CrAz3D]

when clicking add/remove programs it says "unable to retrieve software info"...then it closes
edit:
crap, maybe its cuz im not online...

edit:it works now....yay ethernet cable

new: how do i make it so whenever i get on FC that i'm allowed access to /fat?
i have to remount it each time?
.....and why is my homepage mcdonalds!?

edit:(again)
w00t!
sidoh hooked me up wit da knowledge!
vim /etc/fstab
/dev/hda2    /fat    vfat    defaults    0 0

I hope it all works.
...now I just need wifi

[Joe]

Nah, it's md in DOS.  I just figured that since the *nixers finally got around to making a dir command act as a synonym to ls, md and rd might be synonyms for mkdir and rmdir.  Guess I was wrong.

sudo ln -s /bin/mkdir /bin/md

rd is harder, because of it's really odd behavior.

[CrAz3D]

Ok, who wants to help me compile/install/whatever ndiswrapper?

[Sidoh]

http://www.x86labs.org:81/forum/index.php/topic,4523.0.html

That thread has pretty much everything you should need.  Installing is easy.  You download the package, extract it (tar xzf <package>), cd <package>, ./configure, make, sudo make install and you're set.  I don't know what kind of configuring you need to do for this, but take a look at the shell script that iago linked somewhere in there.

[CrAz3D]

http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Networking/Ndiswrapper_in_Fedora_Core_5

I think this oughta help me real nice, except I can't get the 2.16 kernel to actually install.  2.16 kernel-devel installs, but not kernel.  oye, suggesttions?

[rabbit]

Kernels:
make makeconfig
make modules_install install

I love Human Readable, they have a guide specifically for updating.  Alas, you don't use Slackware, otherwise it'd be perfect, but it's a good start.

[CrAz3D]

I'm looking into "yum update kernel"...this seems to be updating me to kernel-2.6.16-1.2096
yum seems interesting

[Ergot]

Can't you grab some rpm's or something? But yea... there's several tools that are quite useful... there's another one like yum... I forget though . I personally do not suggest you try to compile a kernel at this point. Stick with package here until you get to know the system better.