your mail

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Tue Dec 18 08:38:11 EST 2001


You should check with your ISP. It sounds like they are not dynamically 
assigning a name server so DNS is not working. Ask them for there DNS 
settings.

Robert Pope wrote:

>Hi
> 
>I realize that this is a Linux forum but .........
> 
>I recently up-graded my PC from WinMe (with Internet access) to Win
>2000. My ultimate goal is to run both Win 2000 (for school work) and Red
>Hat (for personal use) on the same machine. Before I load Red Hat
>however I need to be able to connect to the Internet. using Windows
>2000. (my wife uses Windows and is not interested in RH) and then I want
>to access the Internet with RH.. My problem is that the ISP I am trying
>to use connects my machine to its server but will not load  the Web
>site(s). The error message that I receive is "can't locate the server".
>Any suggestions ? I would really like to stay with this ISP (personal
>reasons).
> 
>Thank you
> 
>(((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((())))))))))))))))))))))))))))
>)))))))))))))))
> 
>
>	-----Original Message----- 
>	From: Robert Dege 
>	Sent: Tue 11/20/2001 11:40 AM 
>	To: Nflug (E-mail) 
>	Cc: Ron Wechter (E-mail) 
>	Subject: Re: your mail
>	
>	
>
>
>	> I  am a novice Redhat Linux 7.1 user and plan on buying 7.2 .
>I am
>	> currently duel booting 7.1 with Win 2000. Can anyone tell me
>more about
>	> GRUB and will it let me duel boot without using the lilo?
>	
>	7.2 allows you to choose between LILO and Grub as your
>bootloader.  So if
>	you're familiar with LILO, you don't have to change.
>	
>	A GRUB HOWTO:
>	
>	
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/html_sing
>le/Multiboot-with-GRUB.html
>	
>	Nice thing about GRUB:
>	You can hide partitions (3 partitions of Windows, each one will
>think it
>	is installed on C Drive)
>	You don't have to reload Grub when you modify the conf file
>	Nice GUI interface (better than the old LILO interface)
>	
>	Bad things about GRUB:
>	when doing a make install on a kernel, the last command is to
>use lilo.
>	So you get a cosmetic error message.
>	The command line interface at boot time has a higher learning
>curve.
>	
>	
>	Dege
>	
>	Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but
>	they can usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.
>	
>	
>




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