der.hans

[Michael Havens]

Hans,
You are awake? I wish I wasn't! How do you make it so it will noit disconnect 
from the net so I can go to bed?

On Tuesday 22 October 2002 01:57 am, der.hans wrote:
> Am 21. Oct, 2002 schwätzte Ed Skinner so:
> > WalMart / Lindows Evaluation
> > Ordered from walmart.com 10/02/02
> > Shipment Received 10/18/02
> > Evaluation Written 10/21/02
> >
> >      "mount -t nfs xxx:/opt/music /music" took several minutes to
> > complete. Not sure why but, once it finished, accesses to /music appeared
> > to go normally with no untoward delays. (System xxx runs RedHat 7.1 with
> > a 2.4.9-34 RedHat built kernel.)
> >      Netscape 7.0 and Konqueror x.x appear to hang in similar manners.
> > Because of the commonality, I suspect the problem is not in either tool
> > but in some other "common" point. Copying 8+ Gigabytes via ftp over the
> > network went smoothly, however, so the basic network seems to be Okay.
>
> NFS and browser issues points to a DNS issue. Konq and Netscape were having
> problems going to web sites in general or just to the NFS server?
>
> Look at /etc/resolv.conf. Check that your hostname is with 127.0.0.1 and
> localhost in /etc/hosts. Check that you have a proper reverse DNS entry.
>
> >      Automatically logs the user in as "root" upon powerup.
> > (Mega-dangerous for newbies!) No apparent mechanism to change this.
> > Considering my spouse's
>
> Ugh, arghh, gack, adsfajsdkl*#@$#dfs#$%$asdf
>
>
> ah, the men in the nice white coats showed up, I'm feeling much better
> now...
>
> >      Although I rarely use floppies anymore, and therefore I didn't think
> > I would care that there isn't one, there *is* a /mnt/floppy mount point
> > and, when browsing through /mnt on my way to an NFS mount (/mnt/music) I
> > had added, XMMS's file open window got "stuck" presumably trying to scan
> > the non-existent hardware device. (I have *not* verified if adding a
> > floppy drive will solve this annoyance -- the WalMart shipment includes
> > the necessary signal cable and I'll be adding a floppy drive shortly just
> > to avoid this nuisance.)
>
> Is it using automount or something like that? Based on the behavior I would
> say it is. Remove the floppy entry from there. Removing the /mnt/floppy
> directory might work as well.
>
> >      Printed documentation consisted of a "Microtel Computer System"
> > installation ("plug the keyboard here") guide [a 12 page booklet
> > containing 2 pages of "meat"], a WalMart.com "Return Label" (for return
> > shipment if needed), and a User's Manual for the motherboard (GA-6VEM
> > series, GBT Technology, Hamberg Germany).
>
> German mobo, that's good. Ja, da läuft 'was. ;-)
>
> >      Lindows is a Debian derivitive. I'm more familiar with RedHat and,
> > from
>
> It is? Cool. Didn't know that. There's hope for them yet :). I'll probably
> still install debian from scratch.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans

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