Well, I am finally at university now :)I can't connect to IRC as I am waiting

for Internet in my room but the speeds I get of the internet here are great (janet)

dont you think znx ;)

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Now, SuSE Linux 9.0 is pretty good as a distro, but I was slightly miffed by default of text-only boot screens and wanted to have a flashy bootsplash logo and stuff. So, I looked on www.kde-look.org and found the Aqua bootsplash screen (here).

 

After many tries and tries to get it to work, I finally realised what was wrong and I want to save another newbie all the trouble I had. :)This might work for other distros, but I wouldn't know.

 

First step:

 

First of all, download the theme of your choice. I'm writing this guide for Aqua 1280x1024, so you'll need to substitute your theme name and screen resolution where necessary.

 

Log in as root. Now, unzip the whole file you downloaded to the location /etc/bootsplash/themes. You should get a folder called Aqua or whatever.

 

Second step:

 

You need to edit the /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash file. You can browse there in KDE from K menu > Quick Browser > Root directory > etc > [more if necessary] > sysconfig > Open In File Manager. Open the file bootsplash in a text editor. If you don't know what to do at this point, you can right-click the file, choose Open with... and type kate in the box. Click OK.

 

Find this line of code:

 

I seemed to have messed up uberly whalst making a partition with Ubuntu and Fedora on it. Kernel 2.6.12-1 (I think) gets a kernel panic and stops booting. After fiddling with menu.lst many, MANY times, I decided to just start over.

 

Wht I did this time was installed Fedora first, and then thought about having another OS. I didn't partition until I had put in the Ubuntu installation cd. When I did the partitioning, I split the hd directly in half (or as close as it would allow me), and it automatically created a swap partition.

 

Here's what I want to do: I know I can't have Ubuntu and Fedora share stuff since they are different OS, and they have different bases, Fedora is rpm and Ubuntu is debian. Even though they'll be separate, I want them to access each other's filesystem. So if I go to "Computer" there's be a little icon labeled with the other OS, and I'd be able to click it and access it's filesystem.

 

I'm really new to partitioning, so I'm not quite sure how I must go about doing this. I was suggested to, not only have a boot partition, but a root partition and a swap partition. How would I go about doing this with either Ubuntu or Fedora (I think I'm going to install Ubuntu first)? He told me how much each partition should get, and told me to look for some guides.

 

When I searched for some guides, I got this. Hopefully that'll help me out. If someone could help me out throughout this whole process that would be great. I won't start doing this until Monday.

all of a sudden after the thunder and lightning were gone

 

*boom*

 

the sound your house makes when all electricity is cut off.

 

kind of like a nuclear plant shutting down..... anyways, the result of that strike (which lasted a few seconds) meant that

 

* the firewall went down

* the linux-noob.com server went down

 

because both of them are not UPS protected, that meant i had to spend the next two hours resolving the issue,

 

actually the first hour was spent finding out why the fuse continued to blow (6 fuses).

in the end i disconnected everything electrical downstairs and shut off the electricty myself. I then re-inserted the fust that went bang and turned on the electricty again, this time all was ok.

 

after reading the smoothwall logs i could see this and that and this and that, what i couldnt see was that the linux-noob.com server was in fact not booted at all because it was 'waiting' at a bios boot screen

 

Quote:the electricity cut caused it to loose its time/date thereby [prompting]it to ask me to fix it.

You might remember my previous thread about having had a problem with X after YaST Online Update. :)Well, I want to try updating the drivers again (I want to try some of SuSE's 3D games) and I still can't find Xorg.conf or any Xfree86 config files. I'm not even sure which one I use (I am new to the Linux scene).

 

Could someone please tell me what I should backup in case X goes wrong again?

 

Thanks :)

You can add your own fonts and sharing them by putting them into /usr/local/share/fonts/truetype. You need to run a couple of commands to make them available to X:

 

# cd /usr/local/share/fonts

# mkdir truetype

# chmod go+rx truetype

# cd truetype

# wget [/url][url=http://www.children2children.net/promos/fonts/kidprint.zip]http://www.children2children.net/promos/fonts/kidprint.zip

# unzip kidprint.zip

# rm kidprint.zip

# mkfontscale (or ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale ?????)

# mkfontdir

 

 

You need to add the path to the catalogue entry in /etc/X11/fs/config:

 

/usr/local/share/fonts/truetype/

 

 

 

A couple of other paths that should also be included there for the defoma package managed fonts to be available are:

 

/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID/

/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/

 

 

enjoy,

to bee continued B)

 

johnny06

Ok, those of you who read my Linux is Slow thread know that I had a lot of fun getting linux to run at a decent speed. But IT WORKS!! Well minus reader rabbit in wine. But not a big deal. I'll probably try again some time.

 

New project, and this is going to be harder. I'll do it in DOS if I have to, but I'ld rather do it in linux. The nice thing is I CAN do it in Dos. So if all else fails, that's where I'll be going. Anyway here goes...

 

I've got a 486 laptop with 16 meg of ram. All I want to do with it is run a slideshow. That's it. Boot up and slideshoow starts. Nothing else. To get the pictures on the system I will be taking the hard drive out, putting it into another machine, mounting the drive and moving them over. So I don't need networking, I don't need a keyboard, mouse, anything but the slideshow.

 

Here's what I'm thinking. I need a very stripped down version of slackware(or maybe RedHat 7.x?), svgalib instead of X and ZGV.

 

Nothing is ever that simple. So here go my questions...

 

1. How do I get rid of all the stuff I don't need to make my linux distro lean lean lean, like as in lean enough to run on a 486 with 16 meg of ram.

 

2. How do I boot directly into the slideshow bypassing the login altogether?

 

3. What other problems am I going to run into.

 

Thanks in advance...

Zane

linux-noob is expanding it's reaches, and is not only a web presence but on IRC,

 

most of you are familiar with the EFNET server, and the #linux-noob channel

 

well, there's a new one now to add to that, it's UNDERNET and of course, the channel is #linux-noob

 

I encourage you to check it out ! :)

 

cheers to yarddog for setting it up

 

anyweb

hi guys

 

just to let you know that the site has 2 new additions in case you didnt notice :)

 

the linux-noob.com logo rotates every hour on the hour to one of 8 random logos

the favicon.ico also does the same (one of 10)

 

just to add a bit of newness to the place

 

thanks to z0ny and znx for their help with the script to do it

 

[/url][url=<___base_url___>/index.php...wtopic=1793&hl=][/url][url=<___base_url___>/index.php...wtopic=1793&hl=]https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/index.php...wtopic=1793&hl=

 

cheers

anyweb

go downlaod jre-1_5_0_04-linux-i586.bin from Sun ; just google jre-1_5_0_04-linux-i586.bin & you will get the result with the download center-downlod from javashoplm.sun.com.

 

scroll down & Required: You must accept the license agreement to download the product.

 

choose the .bin file

 

choose the Linux Platform -& choose the Linux self-extracting file jre-1_5_0_04-linux-i586.bin save it to your /home/* for the moment.

 

 

 

as root su -

 

cd /home

 

&

 

mv * where your bin is /opt

 

hit enter & cd /opt

 

chmod +x *-linux-i586.bin ( if you just type chmod +x (space) jre- with tab you will get the rest)

(try to use the tab instead of typing out every single letter).

 

 

Hit enter. Type:

 

./*.bin (or ./jre(tab) & it will give you the rest

 

 

Hit enter. Hold the enter key down until the yes/no line appears to allow you to agree to the license agreement. Type "yes" and hit enter. Wait for the installation to complete.

 

 

Type:

 

 

rm *.bin

 

 

Hit enter. Type "y" and hit enter.

 

 

As root su -

 

 

ln -s /opt/jre1.5.0_04/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so

 

Hit enter. Close the terminal. Reboot your machine and restart Firefox to enable the java plugin. You could go to [/url][url=http://www.dslreports.com/stest?loc=97]http://www.dslreports.com/stest?loc=97 and click the start button to test your java plugin installation.

 

 

hope it was clear enough,just use your imagination & try to show the path,take em by the hand & it should be installed.

 

 

johnny06

to be continued :)