Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2

[Rick Stevens]

Pedro Morales wrote:
> --- Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> 
>>Pedro Morales wrote:
>>
>>>>>	# cd /mnt/cdrom/images
>>>>>	# dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k
>>>>>	# cd /root
>>>>>	# umount /mnt/cdrom
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks so far guys, specially Rick, so guess final
>>
>>try
>>
>>>before I jsut stay with 7.2 and just stick to text
>>>mode...
>>>
>>>I got the boot disk to work, when the FC1
>>
>>installation
>>
>>>starts it asks me for the Core files, I told it to
>>>check on the cdrom, it couldn't find it, so I
>>
>>quitted
>>
>>>the installation and made a Fedora directory in my
>>>/root, copied all the files from all 3 cd's in
>>
>>there,
>>
>>>tried to install again and selected that pathname
>>
>>for
>>
>>>the directory with the core files(/root/Fedora),
>>
>>still
>>
>>>couldn't find it, but then I noticed that it was
>>>asking for the "image", so I'm wondering, have I
>>
>>been
>>
>>>doing everything wrong? should I have burned the
>>
>>image
>>
>>>itself into the cd and not open the image and burn
>>>it's contents?
>>
>>You do not burn the contents OR the image.  An ISO
>>image is an image of
>>the CD.  It can be mounted just like the CD itself
>>could.  Your software
>>should have an option like "Create a CD from an ISO
>>image", but since
>>you haven't told us what software you're trying to
>>use, we can't help
>>more than telling you that.  Again, do not burn the
>>.iso image as if
>>it were a file and do not burn the contents of the
>>.iso image, but
>>find the option in your software to create the CD
>>FROM an ISO image
>>and use that.
>>
>>As far as the boot floppy is concerned, it is
>>intended to be used with
>>a system which either cannot boot CDs or doesn't
>>have a CD drive.
>>In the latter case, you can install from a network
>>drive or another 
>>partition.  When you do that, the .iso files MUST be
>>where you tell
>>the installer to look and MUST be named
>>appropriately, e.g.
>>"yarrow-i386-disc1.iso" or whatever.  Each installer
>>is different, so
>>a network or foreign filesystem install using the
>>RH9 installer will
>>NOT work for a Fedora install--you must use the
>>installer appropriate
>>for your distribution.
> 
> 
> Ok guys, FC1 is live and running in our classroom, we
> did it on my computer first for testing, it
> autodetected everything, and managed to discover how
> to get my DHCP, DNS, Proxy and well, everything I
> needed for my college LAN, I have to say I love the
> security on Linux.
> 
> Now we have a new bump, we need to conect to our
> server which is running Windows 2003 Server wich has a
> MSCHAP V.2 encryption, couldn't find any option in
> Linux (so far) that allows me to connect to a Windows
> server using this encryption mode.
> 
> I found out in the internet that Linux needs a patch
> to allow this, but I'm wondering, since FC1 is a
> Project and it's newer, does FC1 has this option
> somewhere or do I have to do it on text mode?

You'll need to do it in text mode.  FC1 doesn't have a GUI-based patch
or tweak tool.
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