From: sneaker+@CMU.EDU (Manu S. Kumar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Help!! Novice here!!
Date: 23 Jan 93 11:33:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.0fMPad_00WBN43JelI
Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


Hi netters, Linux-ers and Unix-gurus,

                                    Well, I was finally tempted to
install Linux, after talking to a friend who was using it. BUT.....I am
no Unix - freak!! This is my FIRST experience with any kind of Unix. I
have worked on Unix machines before but never done any administration.
And now here I am stuck half way through installing Linux!!

    I would really really appreciate it is some one would help me out of
this mess!! Preferable like walk me through it!! I could initiate a talk
from my roomies Mac and work on my machine trying out all the stuff.
That would be really great as I can only doe all this over the weekend.
Weekdays..boy just too much work.

    Well here what I have and how far I have got...

intel 486DX33
8 MB RAM
125 MB HDD IDE(using 100 for Linux and 25 for DOS)
1x5 1/4" 1.2 MB
1x3 1/2" 1.44MB
Diamond SpeedStar Plus graphics card (God only knows which chipset that is!?)
14" 265 color 1024x768 SVGA monitor
SMC WD8003 Ethernet card.
Sound Blaster Pro 2.0

Okay so that's what I have and this is where I got....

I managed to ftp off all the disks for linux as in the
/pub/linux/packages/SLS directory on tsx-11.mit.edu

The a1 and a2 disks work. 
The fdisk and the mkefs worked OK. The doinstall proceeded well with
only one error .....something about small....something....it said file
exists. But the installation proceeded OK.
Managed to boot from the boot floppy and change the passwd for root.

Now I am stuck here.....

LILO.....whatever that is...firstly it wasn't in the directory /usr/src
but was in /etc/...something else..well I found it but can't make head
or tail out f it. All I want to do is boot from the HDD now. Well my
partition info is ....hda1(25 MB) DOS and hda2(100MB) Linux extfs. So
please tell me how to go about doing this.

Then TCP/IP.....I am at CMU and have a direct link to internet with my
IP address as 128.2.111.51, I want to use the CMU
nameserver....Nameserver.andrew.cmu.edu as the name server for my
machine also. I don't understand what is meant ny hostname...is it my
machine name, it's IP name or the name of the machine I want to connect
to on Andrew. Infact I don't quite get how to go about setting the
config for a simple telnet into my network!!

Then X....when I try running iit, the mouse llokup fails...saying no
such file or directory and even the video is not configured properly. I
have a Diamond Speedstar Plus....I don't know what chipset is on it...or
how toget the clock rate etc. HELP!!

Well if I get this far then I might try moving a step further!!

Thanks for all the help in advance. you can either e-mail me at
sneaker@cmu.edu or finger to see which machine I am on and then initiate
a talk. Please Help!!

                                                    Thanks
                                                     Manu

                                                    Manu Kumar
                                                    (Sneaker)
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