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Application Notes

  1. Getting Star Office to work (takes you away from this site)
  2. Installing Star Office 4.0 on Red Hat 5.1 (takes you away from this site)
  3. Getting Netscape 3.01 to stop crashing (takes you away from this site)
  4. Another way to fix Netscape 3.01 (takes you away from this site)
  5. Where can I find a program that does.... (takes you away from this site)
  6. Installing Netscape Communicator 4.01b6
  7. Stopping Netscape 4.04 from crashing on Java applets
  8. How do I properly install Communicator 4.04?
  9. How do I make my [Swedish] national characters working?
  10. What is IRC, and how do I use it?
  11. How do I install and use the mtools package with my floppy drive?
  12. More on installing and fixing Netscape 3.01.
  13. Notes on Netscape 4.03 problems.
  14. How do I install and configure slrn (includeing score files)?
  15. Using Netscape for Mail
  16. vi is a two letter word.
  17. Running MS-Windows Applications
  18. Fixing Netscape Communicator 4.05
  19. upgrading rpm breaks netscape ("An error occurred running and (kein)/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator.")
  20. Postgresql Setup

Booting Problems

  1. Getting rid of sendmail delays at bootup.
  2. How to remove LILO from your boot sector.
  3. How do I view the boot messages/errors that scrolled by?
  4. "RUN FSCK MANUALLY"
  5. Partition Magic working with LILO.
  6. With multiple partitions, how can I boot after an install?
  7. It wont boot it just comes up with LI and stops.
  8. On booting I just get LI1010101010101010101010101010 ...
  9. How do I run linux from the hard drive?
  10. FAT bread failed
  11. How do I mount my cdrom/zip?
  12. How do I install the LILO onto the hard disk?
  13. Boot error during install: VFS: Cannot open root device
  14. How do I get Linux running to fix a problem if it won't boot?
  15. Custom Kernel Configuration and SCSI Boot
  16. Did 'shutdown -F now' and now only comes up in Read Only Mode (even in single user mode)
  17. Booting without installing LILO.

Common Problems with Linux\Unix Commands

  1. I made a directory with a dash in its name and can't delete it.
  2. How to stop Linux from blanking the screen.
  3. How to get Linux to recognize more than 64MB RAM.
  4. Help with some general Unix commands\concepts.
  5. How do I copy directories/filesystems?
  6. Finding open files using 'Lsof'
  7. The 'makefile' and converting a .cpp file
  8. The 'Whatis' Database
  9. The Memory and Swap Space How-To
  10. Modules and the file /etc/conf.modules
  11. How do I find someone's domain if I have their IP number and vis-a-vis?
  12. Why is 'whatis' not working?
  13. Control-panel broken with GTK+-1.0.0
  14. How do I increase a file system size?
  15. Fixing the backspace and delete keys in applications (takes you away from this site)
  16. What is a Tarball? How do I extract it?

Compiling Programs

  1. General information on compiling programs.
  2. Perl Sys::Syslog module won't compile. Something about h2ph...

Documentation

  1. What are good resources for learning Linux/UNIX?
  2. How can I print man pages?

Email

  1. How do I setup POP and IMAP e-mail services?
  2. Majordomo Mailing List Info
  3. How do I retrieve my POP or IMAP email?
  4. How do I filter my incomming email?
  5. How do I setup Fetchmail to retrieve my POP mail?
  6. sendmail: "address@server.com, we do not relay"
  7. E-Mail and dynamic IP PPP
  8. Email on a small Lan between machines ?

Error Messages

  1. I compiled a program. When I try to run it, I get: "command not found"
  2. During boot-up I get the error "modules: Can't locate module net-pf-4"
  3. How do I get rid of the deprecated error in ps?
  4. Error opening terminal
  5. kernel panic : VFS : unable to mount...

Hardware Issues

  1. How can I get my WinModem\Rockwell RPI\LTWIN modem to work under Linux?
  2. WinModem FAQ
  3. How do I format a floppy disk?
  4. How do I find out what interrupts I'm using?
  5. How do I install and configure a new logitec mouse?
  6. How do I install Linux using EZ-drive software?
  7. How do I enable plug and play device to work with RedHat 5.0
  8. Does Linux support USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports?
  9. How do I high-level format a floppy (or other disk)?
  10. How do I use a floppy?

Installing Issues

  1. On install, what partitions should I create, and why?
  2. Creating the Red Hat Installation Bootdisks
  3. How do I turn off the NFS service?
  4. How do I make room for Linux with Windows 95 installed?
  5. Installation bombs with Cirrus PCMCIA controller error in Red Hat 5.1
  6. Simplest way to upgrade my machine from Win95/Linux to WinNT/Linux?
  7. Disk Partitioning - Primary and Extended combination
  8. Possible work a round for installing with adaptec aic7xxx
  9. Booting without Lilo AFTER you have installed redhat 5.X
  10. I'm trying to install redhat linux but can't get system to identify my cd rom drive
  11. Signal 11 while upgrading to 5.2
  12. Installing with an LS-120 drive
  13. Installing from a FAT\FAT32 partition on the hard disk
  14. Installing aic7xxx support with 5.2 update

Networking & netcfg

  1. How to get a second network card working.
  2. What are some resources for getting PPP running on Linux?
  3. How can I start PPP without netcfg or starting X Windows?
  4. Modems and Setup
  5. How do I change my hostname without netcfg?
  6. How can I write a chat script by hand that invokes my firewall?
  7. Allowing users to manage network interfaces
  8. How do I setup networking without netcfg?
  9. What is the format of /etc/sysconfig/static-routes ?
  10. How do I configure a network card to have multiple IP addresses?
  11. What are some resources for networking Linux OS and Mac OS via an ethernet card?
  12. How do I install after installation a Intel ethernet card?
  13. root can surf net but no one else can
  14. FTP, HTTP, and Telnet are all slow immeiately after initial connection.
  15. seeing Novell 4.11 file server files with ncpfs
  16. How do I enable IP masquerading and forwarding?
  17. Setting up a DNS server.
  18. Howto configure linux for dialing and callback into a NT 4 Server with MS Chap ?

Newbie Questions

Printing & Printers

  1. Network Printing and LPD Access Problems.
  2. Getting printers to work with Ghostscript 5.0 and greater. (takes you away from this site)
  3. How can I use my Epson Stylus or HP Deskjet printer with Red Hat Linux?
  4. How can I print jpeg's gif's etc automagically?
  5. Printing from Lyx problem
  6. Updating printtool to work with GhostScript 5.50
  7. graphics - enhancing resolution?

RPM & RPM's

  1. How can I determine what package a file belongs to?
  2. RPM complains about different architecture.
  3. I want XXXXX, but how do I get it? -- 2 answers!
  4. What is RPM?
  5. Installing an RPM package gives "failed dependencies : /bin/sh"
  6. Upgrading packages
  7. How do I resolve errors with "glint" or Control Panel's "Package Management"?

Security and Encryption

  1. Why you shouldn't place "." in your path
  2. Getting ssh, PGP, and CFS (Cryptographic File System) for Red Hat
  3. How do I get SATAN to compile\run on Linux?
  4. I was hacked! What do I do now?
  5. Red Hat IP Masqurade Email Summary
  6. What's the best way to incorporate ipfwadm commands into my startup scripts by hand?
  7. How do I enable long passwords?

Serial Communications

  1. In need a us robotics 33.6 initialization string for rhl 5.0

Sound and Music

  1. Setting up sound in Red Hat 5.x
  2. Some good music/sound apps
  3. Sound and Netscape

System Services & Daemons

  1. How do I set-up a TFTP server?
  2. How do I get Linux to talk to my Windows peer-to-peer network?

Tips and Tricks

  1. How do I change the icon ical show while minimized?
  2. How do I make Linux treat Java binaries as ordinary executables?
  3. Viewing manual pages in a web browser
  4. Using RedHat 5.1 to Start an ISP
  5. How do I increase performance on my Redhat box?

User Management

  1. How to create a ftp-only user and limit them to one directory.
  2. How to recover a lost root password.
  3. How do I install personal homepages?
  4. How do I change the default shell?

X Windows

  1. Getting Backspace/Home/End to work "properly" in X Windows.
  2. How to have X Windows start up automatically.
  3. How do I turn off the screen saver in X?
  4. Where can I get Enlightenment/E and help installing it?
  5. How do I get rid of/change the virtual screen size in X?
  6. How do I configure my window manager in X?
  7. How do I replace my window manager in X?
  8. I edited inittab to boot into X but now I can't log in at all. Help!
  9. How can I get X to work with ATI All-in-wonder card?
  10. How can I switch the <CAPSLOCK> and <CONTROL> keys?
  11. Getting a X server for your Permedia 2/Glint based card
  12. I installed x-windows with the install program, but I can't get it to run!! (Answer #1)
  13. I installed x-windows with the install program, but I can't get it to run!! (Answer #2)
  14. Where can I get a driver for my i740 based card?
  15. Where can I get a driver for my Matrox G100 or G200 card video card?
  16. Notebook PCs in 800x600 mode (NeoMagic X server)
  17. I installed x-windows with the install program, but I can't get it to run!!
  18. Changing XDM's graphic
  19. How do I add applications to my X windows menus?
  20. The Joy of X and Sound!
  21. Installing Jaton 61-3D video card
  22. After installing X-Windows and configuring it, when run no clients show up.
  23. Getting AfterStep to work after upgrading to RH 5.2

General Issues

  1. How to get german umlauts in bash?
  2. After shutting the system down & restarting it, you can't login as a normal user.
  3. How do I allow ftp access for our RHL 5 server?
  4. How can I get a rebate for the Microsoft OS that was pre-installed on my computer?


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