[NTLUG:Discuss] Newbie - X ???

[George Lass]

First things first.....

The floppy drive on a Linux PC must be mounted before it can be used.
if you look at /etc/fstab you should see something like:

/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy  ........

if so, then put a floppy into the drive and type:

mount /mnt/floppy


then just type

cp somefile.txt /mnt/floppy

MAKE SURE THAT YOU UNMOUNT THE DRIVE BEFORE YOU REMOVE THE FLOPPY DISK:

umount /mnt/floppy

George


To: George.Lass at osc.com
Sent: 10/9/01 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Newbie - X ???

Helllo George,

I need to copy the text file on the diskette.  Can you tell me
how do I do this?

cp err.txt ????

Man I thought I knew Unix commands.  How do I refer to my A:

-Dhaval


--- George Lass <George.Lass at osc.com> wrote:
> RH6.0 is a fairly old distro, so your video may not be
> supported by 
> the version of X that was shipped with it.  I'd suggest that
> you
> go to http://xfree86.org and download the latest version.
> 
> You might also want to try to capture stderr when you run
> startx
> and post that so we can see what is actually happening:
> 
> startx 2>somefilename.txt
> 
> 
> George
> 
> D wrote:
> > 
> > Greetings folks,
> > 
> > I recently installed RH6.0 on a P133 m/c with 32 RAM.  I
> > actually bought this m/c with Win 95 on it from a complete
> > stranger and I decided to build one Linux m/c.
> > 
> > So now I have installed RH6.0 on the m/c, I just cannot get
> X to
> > run on the m/c.  The m/c has a S3 Virge video.  I tried:
> > Xconfigurator and xf86config.  None of these work.  And then
> I
> > tried XF86Setup -> This says:
> > 
> > bash: XF86Setup : Command not found
> > 
> > Can anyone through some light here?  I am totally lost, as I
> > have tried some newsgroups and manuals and have not yet
> achieved
> > any results.  Any help will be highly appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > -Dhaval
> > 
> > =====
> > "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems
> like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems
> like a minute. THAT'S relativity."
> > 
> > Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
> > 
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"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour.
Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S
relativity."

Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)

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