HedHat 6.2

[jiva@devware.com]

On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 11:59:58AM -0700, Clayton Stapleton wrote:
> Hi,
> Have installed RedHat 6.2 on a Pentium 450Mh with 128MB of RAM. It will
> not recognize the "fdisk" command either as user or root, does anyone
> know
> why?

Try: /sbin/fdisk

> The next problem is with KDE's Kppp. When selecting Kppp from the list
> it just shows a box asking for root password and when it is entered the
> box
> disappears and nothing happens. Any help would be appreciated.

Are you entering the right password?  Caps lock off and all that?

> The third problem is when typing "kppp" from the CLI there is an error
> message "pppd is not properly installed" "The pppd binary must be
> installed
> with the SUID bit set. Contact your system administrator." How does one
> set the SUID bit?

Insert your RedHat 6.2 CD, then (as root) type:

rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/ppp-2.3.11-4

When it's done, try again.  This may be the cause of problem 2 above.

> Trying to get this working so that I can try KMail.

Good luck!  There are other mail clients out there is kmail doesn't
work for you.

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