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.
>
>
Please configure up2date to use a nearest mirror. Otherwise, up2date
uses the default site, which is
fedora.redhat.com, which has been always
been busy; this way up2date has little chance to download those files
(again, I am guessing there are some problems with the downloading logic
in the code, because I have seen many excellent downloader can download
very large files on a very narrow bandwidth.).
I am a newbie myself to Linux, so I cannot give you more detailed
information. My only experience is I configured yum's conf file to use a
nearest mirror and luckily yum works fine. Google might be your best choice.
>I have reinstalled (since I couldn't get very far) but the
same issues appear.
>Any help would be appreciated.
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