Re: Newbie needing help
On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 14:55 -0800, M A L Wraight wrote:
Sorry to bother you all, but I can't read anymore.
I am a complete newbie to Linux and trying to learn it on my own. Bought
"A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux: Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux", 2nd ed. Came with installation for 2.6 Kernel. I followed steps
except I used $linux selinux for install. Now I am having issues.
1. Can only sign on with the root account - other account "john" created fails
2. Signed in as root, I can't browse /home/john
3. Log in fine with KDE but Gnome crashes and freezes
4. up2date has lots of potential updates, but I have been unable to download or
install a single one.
I have reinstalled (since I couldn't get very far) but the same issues appear.
Any help would be appreciated.
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reinstall - format partitions to ensure that anything flaky is gone
selinux was broken on FC-2 and still buggy on FC-3 - don't encourage it
by using linux selinux for install.
1. Use simple passwords at first - caps lock OFF
2. Root should be able to browse anywhere - sounds like selinux problem
but who knows
3. GUI isn't environment for root. You need to operate as a user and
switch to root when necessary. Configuration tools in menu's will ask
for root password when necessary. Terminal windows - you can change to
root user by typing 'su -' (not the quotes) and entering root password
4 Up2date works well for FC-2 and FC-3 FC-1 is in Fedora Legacy I
haven't a clue which version of software you have in your hands but 2.6
kernel sounds like FC-2 If it is a 'testing' version, download FC-3
iso's and burn to disc's
Good luck - shouldn't be that hard at all. Methinks where ever you got
the idea to invoke linux selinux at install time was tossing you the
porcupine.
Craig