similar to: Via C3 and CentOS5

Dear friends: Just installed Centos 5. Very impressed but as a newbie I am a bit confused about the the role of the Software Updater vs. Add/Remove and Yum(ex). Which one do I use to update the installed programs, please? Thank you. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin Sher sher07 at mindspring.com

Dear friends: Using Centos 5. I have two physical drives. During install, I made sure to check hdb as well as hda. Both were listed as partitions (which is correct). But my fstab file does not show hdb. How do I make sure that hdb has been formatted and is part of my file system. If hdb is not formatted, how do I format it, please. Sorry for the question. I am a newbie. d[sher at localhost

Dear friends: Is there a single source for the multimedia applications that are not included with Centos 5: RealPlayer, Mplayer, mplayerplug-in, Acrobat Reader, Java, libdvdcss, etc.? Would appreciate your help. Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin Sher sher07 at mindspring.com

Dear friends: Thanks to Ekkehard, I found out how to launch Word97. I went to the .wine/drive_c directory and then (using quotes around "Program Files" and "Microsoft Office") I cd's to where Winword.exe was and then typed, within this subdirectory: wine WINWORD.EXE. That launched Word97 at last. But when I try to save a document, all I get is the first letter of the file

Dear friends: I created a symbolic link from /usr/bin/java to ~/.mozilla/plugins/java but still Java does not work. Please see data below. Thank you so much. Benjamin [sher at localhost .mozilla]$ ls firefox mozver.dat plugins [sher at localhost .mozilla]$ cd plugins [sher at localhost plugins]$ ls flashplayer.xpt java libflashplayer.so [sher at localhost plugins]$ ls -l total 6892

Dear friends: I installed Sun's Java manually by downloading their Red Hat RPM. I followed instructions and the install came off fine (Done!), but when I try to play it, it won't work. I imagine that I probably need to create a symbolic link to the plugin. Here is the info: [sher at localhost ~]$ whereis java java: /usr/bin/java /etc/java /usr/lib/java /usr/share/java [sher at

Dear friends: I decided to go out and buy the latest issue of Linux Format with the FreeBSD 6 CD. I am very glad I did. FreeBSD is tough to install, but after spending several hours I finally succeeded in doing a perfect installation. ONE BIG PROBLEM: When I removed the CD and rebooted, I got into my Windows XP (I have two separate disks, one for Windows, one of FreeBSD). There was no way to get

I tried installing with several options (noacpi noapm; noprobe; noprobe skipddc noacpi noapm nodma). Always I get the same error. BUT this is not in fac a CentOS problem at all, because I get the same error always when I boot from hd (Fedora Core), IF there is a CD in the CD-ROM drive. (I tried with CentOS 1/4, CentOS 2/4 and a HP printer software CD.) It must be something with the CD drive!

When I am looking for a package that does not exist under rhel5, is it better to get rhel4 or fc6? -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work

Dear friends: I am using PCLINUXOS version .92. My problem, simply put, is that I cannot SAVE or LOAD documents in MSWord97 using the older Codeweavers Crossover Office Wine 1.3.5. Thinking the problem might be resolved in the latest Crossover Office 5, I downloaded the Tryout version but the same problem occurs (i.e. at least for me) in this latest version. In fact, it wouldn't even

How difficult will it be to move from a server from FC6 to CentOS? No X needed, it's a server. -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work

Dear friends: Forgot to include three more data files: http://www.websher.net/tmp/user.reg http://www.websher.net/tmp/system.reg http://www.websher.net/tmp/userdef.reg Thank you again. Benjamin I've been trying for some time to install my copy of Word97 (which I own, having purchased it directly from Microsoft with my own license number). I have tried the latest Wine 0.9.14. To do

I have the 6 CDs for CentOS 5, and I have installed it on a couple of computers without any problem. I just tried to create a virtual machine under VMware 5.5.4, it goes through the 1st CD without problem, and crashes on the 2nd CD for Xorg. Any suggestion? -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work

I am trying to install Centos 4 on an Asus terminator c3 with the via chipset. It keeps on rebooting. It won't install. It's a P3 800Mhz made by Via with 512Mb RAM. I have searched and found nothing about it. Any suggestion? -- Thanks

Dear friends: I have been trying to install MSOffice using Crossover. I have an old license from 2002, which entitled me to install the Crossover Plugin and the CrossoverOffice Set up. Support for them has expired, but both programs uinstalled fine into their own directory in KDE. But I do have a problem installing MSOffice. I keep getting the error message "Unable to get a list of

Dear friends: I've been trying for some time to install my copy of Word97 (which I own, having purchased it directly from Microsoft with my own license number). I have tried the latest Wine 0.9.14. To do this, I first UNinstalled version 0. 9.1-4 (PCLINUXOS), then installed the new wine from source. The source install asked me to install a number of font files, which I did (bison,

For those of you who are going to do the update from the centos5 beta to centos 5 proper despite the warnings, this is a(n incomplete) list of instructions for how to accomplish this 1. Get yourself into runlevel 3 (telinit 3 from terminal) as the dbus update will die if you're in X. 2. Setenforce 0 # turn off selinux as there have been some unconfirmed reports that it will interfere with the

I am trying to run Excel 2000 with wine-0.9.37. I need excel for some graphics that look terrible in OO. If I run: $ wine excel.exe I get: wine: could not load L"c:\\windows\\system32\\excel.exe": Module not found If I run: $wine .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Microsoft\ Office/Office/excel.exe Nothing happen, only the wineserver shows up in the system monitor. I have googled around

Hi all, Somebody knows where I can find yum-arch for CentOS 5?? I need to generate rpm headers for my rhel3 and centos3 based servers ... Many thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

Jim Perrin wrote: > For those of you who are going to do the update from the centos5 beta > to centos 5 proper despite the warnings, this is a(n incomplete) list > of instructions for how to accomplish this > > 1. Get yourself into runlevel 3 (telinit 3 from terminal) as the dbus > update will die if you're in X. > 2. Setenforce 0 # turn off selinux as there have been