Ok Thanks David for clearing this up. I did go a bit overboard. Its just it has been a confusing time right now. I have the phone ringing off the hook adn I am trying to keep the clients happ as I try to make plans to go Miss to help rebild and everyone here wants me to stay to help them. It is a tug of war and it is driving me nuts so I guess I ranted here. sorry for going out on the edge David A Parker wrote:
Gregory,
I did not intend to utter anything, and I am sorry if my comments offended you. I was not the one who made the "pass yourself" comment, that was another person. I was simply saying that "Certified Computer Specialist" was a vague and ambiguous title, and possibly implied more experience with this sort of thing than you apparently had. Something like "Windows Certified Computer Specialist" would have made things a lot clearer. I didn't mean to "cut your hand off" when you were asking these questions. In fact, props to you for not only giving Linux a try, but installing it on a computer for someone else, too. Personally, I've been running Linux for about four years now, at home and at work, and rarely do I have to use Windows for anything, but I know what it's like to be used to Windows and then try to learn Linux. I was dual-booting Red Hat and Windows 98 for a while while I was still getting used to Linux.
- Dave Parker
Tasana Computers wrote:
The certification is in Windows, I am just getting into Linux. "pass myself" is not a misnomer. I have had several years training in Windows and hardware I am just reaching out to Linux and run it on both of my computers in dual boot and this person did not want to buy another OS and the 98SE was needing to be reinstalled, (beyond even the "restore" for 98,) and Linux was all I had. I do not appreciate what you implied by your comments and it should not have been uttered. You must remember that 99% of training is in Windows and when someone is reaching out to something new you don't cut their hand off. I would bet that you cause more problems in trying to teach then you solve. A good teacher never implies what you just did.
David A Parker wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 11:23 -0600, Tasana Computers wrote:
I recently installed SUSE 10.0 on a Compaq PII and the client asked me to install a second HDD. I deleted the partitions that had 98SE on them using partition logic, I used this on both drives but did not format either drive. I then installed SUSE n the master and I never got the option to mount or format the second 3GB HDD. SUSE is now up and running and it sees the second drive but when I click on it I get the error that the drive is not mounted. I think since it was not formatted it can't see it. Where do I go from here to get SUSE to save to that drive????
Any OS needs to format the partition first -before- you can use it. You can use the command df to show what it mounted and space used/available.
Second issuse same computer. I downloaded audacity and it came in two packages. When I try to install either one (rpm's) i get the error that it needs the other one. How on earth do I get theis installed???
rpm -i *.rpm to have rpm work with both at the same time.
Thanks a heap
-- Gregory D. Watts Poneyboy Certified Computer Specialist
If you are going to pass yourself of as a "Certified Computer Specialist" I think you need a little more training in linux first. The two above items are actually pretty much basic items to know. :-)
In rare cases (mainly on older Red Hat installations), I have had rpm still refuse to install multiple packages that require each other using "rpm -i *.rpm". In this case, "rpm -i --nodeps *.rpm" solves the problem.
"Certified Computer Specialist"... Certified in what? Certified by whom? That's a pretty vague title. :-)
-- Gregory D. Watts Poneyboy Certified Computer Specialist http://www.tasana.biz http://www.modestneeds.org