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Q: Where is the control pannel to find what com port my modem is connected too?
Reformulation: How do I find out what serial port my modem is connected to?
-A: There may be a
[GUI] tool
to do this
, I dunno. I'm not a
[GUI
] kind of person
. RedHat's KudZu will auto detect a modem on bootup and create a /dev/modem symlink for you.
+A: Some distros provide
[GUI] tools
to do system configuration
, eg
[Mandriva Control Center|Mandriva
]. Many distros (eg
RedHat's KudZu)
will auto detect a modem on bootup and create a /dev/modem symlink for you.
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Q: I click on an mp3 file and it does not play?
Reformulation: How do I play mp3's? Can I make them play from some sort of file manager?
-A: If you use RedHat Linux
, see RedHatNotes for the fix
+A: Ensure that a mp3 player is installed
, such as mplayer, xmms, etc.
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Q: Where is explorer?
@@ -69,17 +69,17 @@
Q: Where is !ScanDisk and Defrag?
Reformulation: Do I need to defragment my filesystems? How about checking for and correcting errors?
-A: The Linux filesystems (such as [Ext2], [Ext3], [ReiserFS]) don't normally require defragmentation the same way windows FileSystems
do.
+A: The Linux filesystems (such as [Ext2], [Ext3], [ReiserFS]) don't normally require defragmentation the same way windows FileSystem~s
do.
-A: fsck(8) (__F__ile __S__ystem __C__hec__k__) is the program which repairs damaged filesystems. most (all?) distro's will do this on boot if a filesystem is damaged. With the recent advent of JournaledFileSystems
even this isn't required, Linux file systems shouldn't encounter corruption except for extreme hardware failure
+A: fsck(8) (__F__ile __S__ystem __C__hec__k__) is the program which repairs damaged filesystems. most (all?) distro's will do this on boot if a filesystem is damaged. With the recent advent of [journalling file systems|FileSystem]
even this isn't required, Linux file systems shouldn't encounter corruption except for extreme hardware failure
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-Q: Where is the anivirus
software?
+Q: Where is the antivirus
software?
-A: Where are the viruses? In general Linux machines don't have antivirus software because viruses are a reasonably unknown threat to Linux users. You can buy Virus scanners for Linux if you really want (usually because you want to scan emails that are being sent to Windows clients).
+A: Where are the [
viruses|Virus]
? In general Linux machines don't have antivirus software because viruses are a reasonably unknown threat to Linux users. You can buy Virus scanners for Linux if you really want (usually because you want to scan emails that are being sent to Windows clients).
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Q: Where is the Network Neighborhood?
@@ -111,9 +111,9 @@
Reformulation: Where do my applications get installed to?
A: /bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
-If you stick with a packaged distro such as RedHat, Mandrake,
or debian
, applications will be put somewhere sensible that you never need to worry about and an appropriate menu item will get added so you can run them.
+If you stick with a packaged distro such as RedHat, [Mandriva]
or [Debian]
, applications will be put somewhere sensible that you never need to worry about and an appropriate menu item will get added so you can run them.
If you really must know; "which programname" will tell you where programname is getting run from, and "locate programname" will find directories, configuration files, etc. that are probably related to it.
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A: During the install, it identified your windows partition. If you're using FAT32 and thought ahead, you might have assigned that a mount point such as /mnt/windows so you'd be able to access it from Linux.
If you forgot to do that, or if you're running a 'marginally supported' filesystem like NTFS it's still not too late but it's a bit harder to set up. Bring the box along to a meeting and ask for help.
-Alternatively; go ask some Windows people how you can access an etx3 partition from in Windows. That should be good for a laugh...
+Alternatively; go ask some Windows people how you can access an etx3 partition from in Windows. That should be good for a laugh... or you could try using [Google] to search for it ([search results|http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=ext3%20windows])
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Q: What the hell is a partition? how do I make it?
-A: Instead of treating your hard disk is one large chunk of data, you usually segment it up into smaller sections (called Partitions). Usually an Operating System
will require at least one Partition. Linux usually uses at least one extra for swap as well.
+A: Instead of treating your hard disk is one large chunk of data, you usually segment it up into smaller sections (called [
Partitions|Partition]
). Usually an OperatingSystem
will require at least one Partition. Linux usually uses at least one extra for swap as well. See PartitioningSuggestions
.
Partitions are managed using fdisk.exe under windows, fdisk(8) or cfdisk(8) under Linux.
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Q: Where is notepad! and edit!
Reformulation: Are there simple graphical and console mode text editors?
-A: gedit, and kedit
are simple text editors for Gnome and KDE respectively. nano is a simple console text editor.
+A: gedit, and kate
are simple text editors for [
Gnome]
and [
KDE]
respectively. nano is a simple console text editor.
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Q: Where is the CD writing software?
Reformulation: How do I burn CDs?
-Try xcdroast, GnomeToaster, koncd, or any of the several other GUI tools.
-None of them seem particularly good however. In my experience, it's usually easier to use mkisofs and cdrecord in a shell.
-
+Try k3b,
xcdroast, GnomeToaster, koncd, or any of the several other GUI tools.
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Q: What is all the crap that scrolls as Linux is starting, is it error messages?
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Q: What on earth is a dependency? where do I find it as lots of things complain about it when I try too install something.
-A: It's a requirement, something that is needed before this program will work. For instance, to get a [GUI] mail reader working, you'll need a [GUI] first. If a distribution says that "a depends on b" when you're trying to install "a", then it means you need to install "b" first. If a distribution says "a depends on b" when you're trying to remove "b" then you need to remove "a" first. Some distributions handle this automatically for you.
+A: It's a requirement, something that is needed before this program will work. For instance, to get a [GUI] mail reader working, you'll need a [GUI] first. If a distribution says that "a depends on b" when you're trying to install "a", then it means you need to install "b" first. If a distribution says "a depends on b" when you're trying to remove "b" then you need to remove "a" first. Some distributions handle this automatically for you (see [urpmi] or [APT]
.
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-Q: The biggy :- I ring my ISP as I am having problems connecting too the internet and when I tell them I am using Linux they tell me they do not support Linux, have you thought about using Windows? as we do support that.
+Q: The biggy :- I ring my ISP as I am having problems connecting too the internet and when I tell them I am using Linux they tell me they do not support [
Linux]
, have you thought about using Windows? as we do support that.
Reformulation: I can't get things working, where do I go for help?
A: Hey, thats why we have the LUG right? Try reading around the wiki, we may have already answered your question somewhere here. Try emailing the wlug mailing list (wlug@list.waikato.ac.nz) asking for help, or try asking us on [IRC] irc://undernet/%23wlug
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