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Thanks to the unusal randomness of the drawings last thursday, I now have a copy of Red Hat PowerTools. And I installed it. Now I know that I should have picked up the boxed version because there are a lot of little things which puzzle me and are not well covered by the installation screens. Maybe some of you have advice. I have a copy of 'Linux In A Nutshell' and a copy of Sams 'Slackware Linux Unleashed' (don't ask) for reference. Installation was uneventful. Fdisk works better than Druid. More control. LILO overwrote the OnTrack Disk Manager in the MBR. I need the disk manager to access my large D: drive. Oddly enough, Linux reaches all of the D: drive without the OnTrack. I have a hack to reach it when I run under DOS. But that's not the real problem. I am having problems with Xfree windows. I have a ViewSonic 4e monitor and a generic ET4000 based card with 1 meg DRAM. I made the best guesses I could based on the information I had. The result is that when I start Xwindows using xinit, I get a 1/4 sized window in the upper left hand corner of my screen. When I quit Xwindows using Ctl/Alt/BS, the character screen is very dim. I started to reconfigure using XF86config, but the questions were daunting, so I quit. If anyone has any suggestions, contact me offline so as not to bore the rest of the list with my special problems. Thanks, Karl -------------------------------------------- Karl Hergenrother imagelab at world.std.com Image Labs (978)244-0509 67 Old Stage Rd. Chelmsford, MA 01824
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