Few problems with linux

[kkkumar]

I have Pentium 266 Mhz PC with S3 Trio 64V graphic card with 2 mb vram and 4.3 GB HDD.I have installed Redhat 7.0 linux and have been fiddling with it for quite some time and in process have come accross some problems

1) I got very poor internet experience using netscape as the graphics and fonts are very blocky and crude. Is there any way I can get look and feel of Microsoft Internet Explorer in linux.

2) I installed Linux 2.4 kernel source using RPM and tried it unsuccessfully. I goofed up and deleted the source directory as I wanted to reinstall the source. Now if I reinstall it says the package is already installed and if I try to uninstall it says the directory does not exist. Is there any work around for this.

3) I dual boot into windows95 and linux. I want to reinstall windows95 which will write MBR. Is there any way of installing LILO in MBR. I have boot disk.

Thanks all

[danrees]

1. There is a way to get around this - I can't remember off hand, but try searching Google (http://www.google.com/linux) for "Netscape fonts". I recommend you actually upgrade to Mozilla (version 0.9.3), which is a lot more like IE (but more stable). See Mozilla.org (http://www.mozilla.org). There is an RPM for RedHat to make things easier for you.

2. Reinstall the package with
$ rpm -i kernelpackagename.rpm --force

This should work.

3. Yes. First make a boot disk:
$ dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192.

Then use this to boot in to Linux, and rerun Lilo:
$ /sbin/lilo

This should put Lilo back on to the MBR.

[ 13 August 2001: Message edited by: danrees ]

[Silent Bob]

Check out the TrueType fonts NHF available at this website.

You just need to be able to copy your Windows fonts over onto the Linux portion of the HD.