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[witten]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 05:10:32PM -0500, mohammad yusuf haroon wrote:

> i have specific problems.

I'll say. :)

> i get an error every time i boot: "module dependencies modprobe: reading
> ELF section data:I/O error". it lets linux load and i havent faced
> problems yet. is this serious?

I don't know. I haven't seen this one before. Hopefully someone else will
know. Try a "depmod -a" command as root.

> i have redhat linux 6.1connected on the slave hard drive of my computer.
> how do i mount the floppy just once so that i can read all formats of
> diskettes,

Edit your /etc/fstab file as root. On (only) the line that says /mnt/floppy,
change "ext2" to vfat and mounting will default to vfat (Windows) formatted
disks, which are a lot more common than ext2 formatted disks. You can
explicitly change the disk type from the default by giving mount the "-t"
option (like "mount -t minix") on a case by case basis.

> how do i mount my windows hard drive from linux so i can access
> files?

If you add the proper information to /etc/fstab, your Windows drives will
mount automatically on boot. A line for a Windows drive might look something
like this:

/dev/hda1	/mnt/windows	vfat	defaults	0 0

Note that in this case you'll actually have to create the /mnt/windows
directory (with mkdir) so there's some place for the filesystem to be
mounted. In this example, your Windows drive is /dev/hda1, which is the
first partition of the master IDE drive. If your particular situation is
different, change the device. You can add a line like the one above for each
partition.

> how do i install 3dfx drivers of my PCI voodoo3 2000 to linux.

Follow the web link that says "3dfx drivers" on the left side of
www.linux.ucla.edu

> how i would install sound card driver if i dont know what my sound card
> is?

Find out what your sound card is. If you have an ISA sound card, run pnpdump
and look through the output. If you have a PCI sound card, "cat
/proc/pci" and look through the output for a possible card name. If your
sound card is on the motherboard, well, good luck. :)

> how do i make lilo load windows 98 by default?

Edit /etc/lilo.conf as root. Move the chunk of config text for Windows
*above* the one for Linux (but not above all the initial options in the
file). You can remove the timeout delay if you like. Then save the file and
run /sbin/lilo to write your changes to the master boot record of the hard
disk.

> for all these requests plz give specific instructions because i am one of
> those rare dumb linux users. thank you.
> 

I hope some of this helped.

>     sinc.
> 
>     mohammad yusuf haroon

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