Sunday

[JJ Neff]

>  I have to spend a lot more time reading or asking very direct
> questions on IRC (it's amazing what people will help with when you 
> don't open with,"I know nothing help me!" but instead "THis is what 
> I've tried and this is what I think might be causing it, any 
> suggestions?"  
> 
> 	I don't have IRC, but I do spend time in the news groups. In 
> some groups, I can often answer 2 or 3 questions before I post 
> mine, if I don't find an answer already. But some times, the stock 
> answers aren't enough. It took me 14 months to get my CD-ROM 
> to work, because "just plug it in set to slave" and "you need to 
> change your BIOS values" weren't the solution. It turned out for this 
> 1993 Mother, I needed a secondary IDE control board for the CD-
> Rom, and it's only recognized in Windows, not the DOS 
> environment. I went to MUO to find out how to access floppy dives. 
> The basic answer was click on the icon and change properties. I 
> didn't even have a desktop icon ! After a few days of digging, I now 
> grasp [I think] the rudiments of mount points and links, and I have 
> icons for fd0 and fd1. 
>

Do you mean you don't have an internet connection, or IRC?  IRC is merely a
service that runs on a server that you connect to with a client.  I use BitchX
but Zircon or Xirc are some.  When I had only a dial-up on my windows box I
chatted in IRC on the windows box and made the changes and reboots on teh Linux
box, I was half-way there!  Now I have a Linux server in console to caht in and
a Linux gamer to make changes in , all good things come to those who take the
time and effort to learn something new (what is this wait stuff anyway?)


 

> 	I'm still planning on coming early. I figure I can ask a few 
> questions while helping set up. If some one can tell  me where boot 
> log, system log, detect log, and error log are, how to view them, 
> and what should and shouldn't be there, I can pursue that end while 
> you all are Quaking. I'm sure it's there; just a missing program mod 
> or a switch set wrong. 


/var/logs/* <--look her and cat [file] |less to view it
also use Mandrake Ctrl center (if ou are in Mandrake and go down to System/Logs
for graphical stuff.

JJN

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