Table of Content
4.1 Startup issues (LILO and GRUB)
4.1.0 LILO and GRUB 4.1.1 Linux cannot detect all my memory 4.1.2 LILO displays only LI (or LIL) and hangs 4.1.3 How can I change the operating system that LILO boots on default? 4.1.4 The LILO prompt stays too short (or too long) on the screen during the bootup 4.1.5 Uninstalling Linux
4.2 Accessing my drives
4.2.1 Where are my drives? 4.2.2 How can I access my CDROM? 4.2.3 How to mount a floppy, zip drive, dos partition, or a network drive? 4.2.4 How to mount a remote MS Windows filesystem through Samba? 4.2.5 Any quick way to access a file on a DOS/Windows floppy? 4.2.6 Mounting works when I am root. Can a normal user mount? 4.2.7 Mounting command is too long, how can I simplify it with an alias? 4.2.8 Can I mount automatically? 4.2.9 How do I get my zip drive recognized? 4.2.10 Can I set 32-bit hard drive IO? 4.2.11 I reached the limit on the number of opened files (error message) 4.2.12 I attached a new hard drive. What do I do to start using it? 4.2.13 Swap space 4.2.13.1 Swap partitions 4.2.13.2 Swap files
4.3 Working with X-windows
4.3.1 How to switch between text and graphical consoles? 4.3.2 How do I set up my video card, monitor and mouse for the X-server? 4.3.3 Can I have a GUI login prompt? 4.3.4 How do I install KDE 4.3.5 How can I change my default desktop to KDE (or Gnome or yet another)? 4.3.6 Can I have multiple sessions of X running at the same time? 4.3.7 Can my sister have second GUI login prompt so she does not have to kill my X-session to start hers? 4.3.8 How to X-window remotely? 4.3.9 How do I install TrueType fonts from my MS Windows partition? 4.3.10 How do I copy-paste? 4.3.11 How do I Display and Control a Remote Desktop using VNC?
4.4 Basic Configurations
4.4.1 How to setup my soundcard? 4.4.2 How do I setup my printer? 4.4.3 Word Perfect 8 does not have a driver for my printer 4.4.4 Configuration files 4.4.5 Device files 4.4.6 Some daemons
4.5 Networking
4.5.1 Would it be worth it to set up my home network? 4.5.2 How to set up my home network? 4.5.3 I have problems configuring my ppp dial out 4.5.4 How to browse the net from my networked computer without a modem? 4.5.5 How do I use Samba? 4.5.6 Sendmail 4.5.7 Simple web server (running Apache) 4.5.8 Simple ftp server 4.5.9 How can one access my computer from the outside world when I am on the net using phone connection? 4.5.10 Can my home computer get hacked?
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