RedHat 7.1 ... HELP! =)

[nerrollus]

Ok, I've installed RH7.1 again to give Linux another go. (all my hair finally grew back from me pulling it all out the first time.) Last time all my trouble was getting my cable modem setup. Got it done in 5 mins this time. (No idea how the heck I managed that..)

Anyways, after about 4 installs I thought I got it setup right.. Well, ok no.. I don't.. Here are my questions..

Right now I've got Windows 2k on a 40gig drive that I have slaved to a 10gig drive that linux is on. I wanted to get a duel boot setup between the 2, but I'm not having much luck. I installed LILO on the MBR of the 10 gig drive and Linux runs fine, but when I try to load Win2k from LILO (shows up as DOS in the list?) it puts "L?" in the top left hand corner and locks up my machine..

ALSO, when I installed RH I added 2 user profiles for me and my wife, but for some reason ROOT is the only one that will login. When I try to use one of the other 2 the screen goes black for a minute the returns back to the login screen with no errors. Any ideas on that one?

Oh, one more.. When installing Linux is it best to just let it automatically assign all the partions, or should I take the time to manually set them up myself? Yes, I'm a linux newbie..

Thanks

[ 25 October 2001: Message edited by: nerrollus ]

[nerrollus]

Err.. Oh ya, someone at work was telling me 7.1 had a lot of bugs in it that can cause problems. I haven't read about anything on the redhat site that can support this. Has anyone else heard that 7.1 has problems?

[linuxluis]

I'm happy to hear that you choose linux. Well to answer your question regarding your user.

First you have to add them to your passwd field. by doing this, but you have to be root ok

root:> adduser (useryouwant) <enter>
root:> passwd (usernameyouadded) <enter>

after this it will ask you for a password

you could also run the userconf thats the gui looking one.

its better for you to get use to the terminal command.

I dont know if you did this but you should run a

updatedb
rpm --rebuildb
locate -e

that will update all the switches for the command above. Its true theres alot of bug in 7.1 but you could fix them.

When creating the partions you should of done root or you could of picked on of the option that would be a server or stand alone. When choosing this option you dont have to worry about creating the partion.

If you have trouble I could help you out. I'm running rh7.1 for about 9 months . I"m about to upgrade to 7.2 dont know yet.

good lucky

Bishop :cool:

[nerrollus]

Originally posted by linuxluis:
<STRONG>I'm happy to hear that you choose linux. Well to answer your question regarding your user.

First you have to add them to your passwd field. by doing this, but you have to be root ok

root:&gt; adduser (useryouwant) &lt;enter&gt;
root:&gt; passwd (usernameyouadded) &lt;enter&gt;

after this it will ask you for a password

you could also run the userconf thats the gui looking one.

its better for you to get use to the terminal command.

I dont know if you did this but you should run a

updatedb
rpm --rebuildb
locate -e

that will update all the switches for the command above. Its true theres alot of bug in 7.1 but you could fix them.

When creating the partions you should of done root or you could of picked on of the option that would be a server or stand alone. When choosing this option you dont have to worry about creating the partion.

If you have trouble I could help you out. I'm running rh7.1 for about 9 months . I"m about to upgrade to 7.2 dont know yet.

good lucky

Bishop :cool:</STRONG>


Great! Thanks a lot.. I'll see if that fixes my user problems when I get home. I'm gonna do another reinstall tonight too and get rid of Gnome and KDE. For some reason those 2 just bug me. ;)

My main concern is to get the duel boot working with Win2k. My wife isn't very computer literate, so if I took Windows away she'd have no idea what to do! hehe.. I read a few things today that I'll check when I get home, but if you have any advice on getting the dual boot to work, that'd sure help out a lot!

Thanks again!

[SynapticBurst]

Hi, I'm gonna give this a shot...
Well, Redhat also caused me alot of problems.
For a while, I thought that a) I was incompetent, and that b) Linux and I werent meant to clash. After reading up on a couple of posts, I figured out that I should have paid much more attention during installation. Notice how RH gives you the option of dual-booting with Grub and Lilo? Well, apparently my Windows 2000 [and future releases of windows that encourages NTFS partitioning (journaling filesystem that is supposed to reduce damage during system crashes)] was very stubborn. Oh, by the way, here is an entry from my Lilo.conf:

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=NT
lba32
prompt
timeout=100
message=/boot/message

.......

other=/dev/hda1
label=NT
table=/dev/hda

Now,compare your /etc/lilo.conf file with these excerpts, and see if it is structured similarly. If so, I don't know what to tell ya..
Another reason is that you had previously used Norton Antivirus (or any other Antivirus utility for that matter,) and that somehow prompted you to discard changes made to your MBR (master boot record.) DO NOT discard changes, as these "changes" were made during Lilo installation.

Now, despite this being a lengthy reply, I cannot assure you that this is worthwhile advice. In fact, it might even just be the idle meanderings of my brain... cheer up though :)

[bdg1983]

Deleted...

I actually just found the answer for you, but upon doing so, I noticed you already posted this question in Software. I make it a rule not to respond to crossposts.

[ 26 October 2001: Message edited by: Logon Name Gone ]

[SynapticBurst]

forgot to mention...
if you're willing to reinstall, why not give "grub" a try. If so, allocate 50 megs, or so, for a "/boot" partition. Won't hurt, might even help. Cheers

[nerrollus]

my lilo.conf looks like:

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
linear
default=linux

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hda6
append="hdc=ide-scsi"

other=/dev/hdb1
optional
label=dos


Like I said, RH is installed on a 10gig drive I've got set to Primary master, and win2k is installed on a 40 gig I've got set as a Primary slave. Win2k was installed first.