Many questions.

[Dave Andruczyk]

--- frank at mogosystems.com wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> Hello Everyone. 
> 
> I am posing here because you have always been a wealth of information in the
> past.
> 
> How does one learn about all the packages one has installed and what
> dependencies

"rpm -qa" (redhat/suse) will give you a list of all installed packages. 
"qpkg -I -v" (gentoo) will do the same

I forgot the command under debian/lindows 

For dependancies, I think gentoo is the best (for installing) as installing a
package automatically installs dependancies (debian is just as good, and better
at uninstalling)

> exist? I have been trying to install MadWifi into RedHat 9 and have had no
> success for three weeks. Should I just go back to XP and forget about linux
> or is this common?
> 

This can be common when using hardware that the mfgr has decided to ignore the
Linux market.  I alway do research to make sure the product I buy is linux
supported.  XP the hardware will usually work.  but enjoy the viruses and
servicepacks.

> I have made some .wav files that I would like to burn to CD as CD Audio but I
> cannot get the Gnome Toaster Beta to comply. Are there other CD Audio
> creation
> programs out there?
> 

The best I've used is k3b (k3b.sf.net).  Its interface is the best I've seen
and you just drag/drop the files to the CD window and it handles conversion for
you and makes a perfect CD. I did it with mixed .OGG and MP3 files and it
burned in flawlessly,  even detected my firewire burner with no issues...


> How does one restart the X11?
> 
If you are setup to boot into X11 on power up (init run-evel 5),
ctrl-Alt-Backspace will RESET X11 (it kills it, but xdm/gdm/kdm will restart it
and present the graphical logon box).  If you do NOT want to stay in X (and
normnally boot into it, run "telinit 3" as root and it will switch to text mode
and kill X11. (editing /etc/inittab and setting the default runlevel to 3 will
make all future bootups be text mode...


> Grub will not boot to my XP partition. Any suggestions on getting that to
> happen?

Read the docs that come with GRUB,  they have examples on setting it up to do
exactly that... ( run "info grub" from a shell to see the info (manual) pages
for it)




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Dave J. Andruczyk


		
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