Trouble configuring Red Hat Linux 7.2

[Pedro Morales]

--- Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
> 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.

how do I do this?



	
		
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