hello,

I just installed redhat 9 and so far I love it.
However, I got some questions:

1) I have a flat monitor (Viewsonic VP 171b) and I could'nt used it during the installation process because I could only see half of the instructions.
So I used normal screen to install everything and switch after.
Does anyone know a way of installing this distribution with this screen from the start?

2) My notherboard is an Asus A7N8X and I could'nt figure out how to install the onboard ethernet card. I read a lot about it on the internet but nothing seems to work. Then, I bought a $10 ethernet card and it's working like a charm.
Does anybody know how to make it worked?

3) I have the default bootloader GRUB. Because I'd like to be able to stay with my windows on the other harddrive until I'm able to use linux to do all my work. But I cannot mount this harddrive (hda1 & hda2). I can mount my cdrom and see my hdb1 & hdb2.
Could someone tell me what I have to do to be able to see my primary harddrive?

4) I updated the kernel, so now I have kernel 2.4.20-20.9. I installed the driver (eagle 1.0.4e) for my modem (sagem fast 800). My connection is working fine, but when I reboot, I get this errors:
insmod: a module named adiusbadsl already exist
insmod adiusbadsl failed
and the same for the acm module
Could you help a noob on this one :-)


Thanks a lot

Franck

Greetings,

As root >
Create a directory in /mnt something like this:
mkdir /mnt/wind

Edit /etc/fstab and include this line:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/wind vfat uid=0,gid=0,umask=002,exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
Be sure to adjust to your setup (device, FS type and options)

As root >
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/wind

Then >
cd "/mnt/wind/Program Files" or whatever to browse the Win partition.
Be sure to use double quotes around paths to the win stuff, this is because MS uses spaces in file/directory names.

Sorry I can't help you with anything else...

Thank you MrGreg,

I just tried, but I must do something wrong since it doesn't work.
I have 2 partitions on my primary harddrive.
hda1 with a ntfs file system
hda2 with a fat file system
so I wrote in /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windSys ntfs uid=0,gid=0,umask=002,exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1
/dev/hda2 /mnt/windData vfat uid=0,gid=0,umask=002,exec,dev,suid,rw 1 1

could you tell me what's wrong, because when I do this command:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /mnt/windSys2
I get this error message:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2,
or too many mounted file systems
(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)


Thank you for your help

Franck

I'll add now a 5th problem, I choose the Dvorak keymap layout but at boot time, I get an error message like: load Dvorak keymap failed
But it's working correctly when I log in.
??? What should I do to get rid of this error?

In Red Hat 9, you need to download the NTFS drivers so it reads a NTFS drive. You can get it from:

General Site: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/index.html
Download Page: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/redhat9.html

**Be sure you download the correct driver for your kernel version
***Just download the right RPM and install the RPM

Then you can mount the drive using this:
mkdir /mnt/windows
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222
ls -l /mnt/windows

Then you can read this about how to have it mount the NTFS partition automatically at boot:
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#4.10

*** If your Windows partition isn't had "hda1" then use the appropriate drive letter and partition # ***

Thank you mindfrost82,

I can mount my windows harddrive now and browse it:

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windSys -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222
mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/windData -t vfat -r -o umask=0222

But when I put these lines in my /etc/fstab:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windSys ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/windData vfat ro,umask=0222 0 0

I get an error message when I reboot:

wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
or too many mounted file systems

Can you give me some more input, please

Thanks

Franck

Forget about my last input, it's working fine now.
many thanks to mindfrost82 & MrGreg

Does anybody know anything about the other issues?

Franck

For Grub, you will need to add an entry for your Windows partition so it gives you the option to boot to Windows.

Go here: /boot/grub

And edit the grub.conf file.

Here's what mine looks like:

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
password --md5 *********************
title Red Hat Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
title Windows XP Pro
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

For the ethernet card, it's just a matter of finding a driver that works with it. I have Red Hat 9 on a laptop with a D-Link DWL-650+ which ALOT of people have problems with. You just have to search the internet and see if someone has a way for it to work, or if there are any linux drivers you can get to work with it. Maybe if someone else on here as that same board they can help ya out.

I have the same problem, I have Red hat linux 9 on my Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop and I have a Sagem Fast 800 modem supplied by Tiscali broadband. I have installed the eagle-1.0.4. driver but I cant connect to the internet, can anyone help. I know my modem has been installed and is recognised because when I pass the command "showstat" I get "modem operational". It is also listed under "ipcnfig -a" .my problem is that I cant dial out with it someone help?????????