I successfully installed Linux today. Had to drag my other computer out to do so, but I did it. /me let's ou an ear shattering whoop [addsig]

but you must be aware of the fact that you can't use VB in linux
but well, congrats, and welcome to the linux world
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Wine -> VB???
(-;

wine actually runs vb5 (at least)... however i haven't used an emulated vb, so i dunno if you can actually program anything with it... but the ide does run...

according to the wine app db you can also use VB6 with wine.
(http://appdb.winehq.org) [addsig]

I'll stick with Windows for VB at the moment. I'm going to use Linux to build up my C skills and for the cool games that come with KDE. [addsig]

you can still use some other basic langs in linux there are lots like wxbasic [addsig]

I've heard of QBasic for Linux. But I'm not going to use any form of BASIC in Linux, I hope soon it'll be C from there on out. [addsig]

KDE?
/me shudders
well, but in the end it's up to you
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That's all I have. And can't even get XWin setup, may have to download a new version. [addsig]

what thing of distro do you use? :/
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Beats me! I got it from some guy's site. [addsig]

uuuuhuhuh
that's always scary Maybe you should use some very well know and widely spread/used one for now
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I'm going to download a distro from one of the official mirrors this Saturday. [addsig]

Okay, I have a new problem. I got a book from the library that came with RedHat 7.3. I got everything installed without too much of a hitch. But when everything rebooted X decided to use a higher resolution than what my monitor can support, even the Dell monitor can't do whatever it's trying. The book said to use Xconfigurator but I have no earthly idea as to where that is. And is it possible to bypass booting to the X and just to text? [addsig]

Okay, I got things working. I had to reinstall and select a different monitor. BUt now I am truely in the heart of Linux Land.

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When I got VB, i could have flown without thrusters and shot down TIE Interceptors just by spitting at them.

[ This Message was edited by: dxprog on 2002-11-22 03:53 ]

hehe, good luck and loads of fun on your "joourney"!
We'll be here anytime you need a helping hand
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I've been having loads of fun with the games and the GIMP. I even downloaded a CAD medeler for my younger bro. Oh, and I'm using GNOME, KDE was really slow. But I do have a couple of questions.

1) How do I set things up to automatically mount a hdd at boot up? I have a Linux\Windows partition to share files between the two OSes, and I don't want to have to manually mount it every single time I boot up in Linux.

2) How do I set file\folder permissions? Even when I mount the partition I can only save stuff to it when I'm logged in as root, and I want to have a normal user name so I don't mess something up .

Thanks in advance!! [addsig]

1) To automatically mount hdds at boot up you have to modify your fstab (filesystem table, usually /etc/fstab ). You will probably have to read up on that topic, but it's not that difficult. Basically it simply contains all your drives, their filesystems and information about how and when they should be mounted.

2) You can set file and folder permissions with the command chmod. e.g.

chmod a+rw

sets permissions of so that all users have read and write access. Type man chmod to find out more, you will probably want to use that command several times in the future. To change the owner of a file, use chown. Only the owner (and root of course) of a file/folder can change these settings. Here again, man chown will help a lot.
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Thanks! [addsig]

dxprog:
hey, I think you might wanna go check out my 2 bash tutorials! They cover everything for the everyday use. Svara's Linux tutorials are also cool, explaining stuff like compiling a new kernel etc. I also have a tutorial up here about XFree86 and how to set it up, and how to get stuff working with "Wine"
enjoy
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Oh believe me, I am enjoying myself. Maybe a bit too much . I'll check out the tuts. [addsig]

I hate to tell you this KaGez, but AOL isn't letting me look at your tuts. /me wants to wring their scrawny little necks. [addsig]

WTF?! it doesn't allow you to look at the tuts?! wtf is that :/ maybe they locked hypermart because many warez pages were there before, when it was still free...
I'll try to find some sort of solution for this...
[addsig]

You could e-mail them to me or you could put them on your other server (the one with partyfish). [addsig]

well, my own machine will be up for most of the time, but I maye loose stuff
I'll send them to you tomorrow I'll look up your mail addy in your profile.
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Sounds good to me. [addsig]

ok, g'mornin
I'll send them in a few mins. Gotta go DL them myself first
[addsig]

Good morning? Over here it's 8:00PM But I got the e-mail and thanks!

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When I got VB, i could have flown without thrusters and shot down TIE Interceptors just by spitting at them.

[ This Message was edited by: dxprog on 2002-11-24 11:11 ]

OKay, I'm having some problems. I still can't get non-root users write\execute access on the shared partition(hda5), and I was wondering where I can get a window theme maker, so to speak, for sawfish. I got a Luna theme and it's in a newer format, so I want to port it. Thanks! [addsig]

Never mind. Figured out both myself. [addsig]

What did you do? Sawfish rocks!

killall sawfish && metacity &

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Actually, I thought I solved the hdd sahring prob, but I didn't. And as for the sawfish thing, I was browsing through the installed packages and found the theme maker, but I haven't found it on the hardrive yet. [addsig]

well, I belive you gotta install it
anyways, what is that HDD sharing prob you're talking about? Sorry, still couldn't figure what you mean
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Okay... I have a partition set aside to "share" files between Windows and Linux, but only the root user can write to it. I've tried chmod,chgrp (my bros names and mine are in a group called Dudes ), and chown. I tried to change my non-root name to the owner, but it still didn't work. I can only set properties when the drive is not mounted, and I'm not sure wether all this is considered null and void when I mount it. So there's the deal about as good as I can explain. [addsig]

oohhh, ok
that's normal afaik. The FAT driver inside the linux kernel normally doesn't let anybody read or write to these windows FAT partitions. You can only access them as root, which is indeed a good idea, because the FAT driver might not be bugfree, and could scandisk your whole FAT drive. That's why only root has access to it. To keep the percentage of scandisking it down
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That stinks! I guess I'll live without it . [addsig]

I don't know, but before I was able to _read_ as any user from my FAT drive. Now I can't... don't ask me why
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I can read it well enough, I just can't write

ok, that makes more sence
no idea how to fix that tho.... probably some kernel options for some stuff in /etc/fstab?
[addsig]

I've tried messing around with fstab and I don't want to go messing with kernel stuff, not like I know how anyways. I'll just live with it [addsig]

by "messing with the kernel" I've meant to mess around with the kernel options before you compile the kernel. It's quite easy and straight-forward. But well, if you can live with it
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