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08-03-2001

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Um, this is lacking sense

Hello, and good day

I'm somewhat confused with the workings of the Linux operating system, more specifically RedHat 7.1.

The story began a few weeks ago when I downloaded SuSe 7.2, but failed at installation, then Caldera 2.4, then 3.1. Finally I landed upon RedHat 7.1--a fabulous choice.

I've run into a few dilemmas, with this OS. I've exhausted my other resources and I've not been able to understand their instructions.

My problems are as follows: Firstly, my configuration PIII 700Mhz, two 20GB hard drives, (one with Linux and windows ME, the other basically storage)

Now the problem: I can't get to Windows ME!, the boot process begins and loads RedHat 7.1, the screen asks whether I would like to boot to DOS, or Linux. The Linux boot is fine, but DOS just does not work, it just hangs and does nothing. The screen displays 'loading DOS' and that's it.

Second problem, I connect to the internet using ADSL (Bell Sympatico High Speed Edition) on my windows machines I use a PPPOE program called Access Manager, I think there is a PPPOE program bundled with RedHat. I believe I have set it up correctly, for the fact that I was able to get on the net and browse until I rebooted? I don't understand now I'm not able to!

Oh, and while I'm here, how do I install a program. I've been looking for those damn .exe files, but obviously they're nowhere to be found, and I don't know how to install a program.

Thankyou all in advance,

JD

Oh, yes, I have attempted searches for this information, but answers that I find I can't comprehend, so be gentle Smilie

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linux::distribution

Linux::Distribution(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  Linux::Distribution(3pm)

NAME

       Linux::Distribution - Perl extension to detect on which Linux distribution we are running.

SYNOPSIS

	 use Linux::Distribution qw(distribution_name distribution_version);

	 if(my $distro = distribution_name) {
	       my $version = distribution_version();
	       print "you are running $distro, version $version
";
	 } else {
	       print "distribution unknown
";
	 }

	 Or else do it OO:

	 use Linux::Distribution qw(distribution_name distribution_version);

	 my $linux = Linux::Distribution->new;
	 if(my $distro = $linux->distribution_name()) {
	       my $version = $linux->distribution_version();
	       print "you are running $distro, version $version
";
	 } else {
	       print "distribution unknown
";
	 }

DESCRIPTION

       This is a simple module that tries to guess on what linux distribution we are running by looking for release's files in /etc.  It now looks
       for 'lsb-release' first as that should be the most correct and adds ubuntu support.  Secondly, it will look for the distro specific files.

       It currently recognizes slackware, debian, suse, fedora, redhat, turbolinux, yellowdog, knoppix, mandrake, conectiva, immunix, tinysofa,
       va-linux, trustix, adamantix, yoper, arch-linux, libranet, gentoo, ubuntu, scientific, oracle enterprise linux and redflag.

       It has function to get the version for debian, suse, fedora, redhat, gentoo, slackware, scientific, oracle enterprise linux, redflag and
       ubuntu(lsb). People running unsupported distro's are greatly encouraged to submit patches :-)

   EXPORT
       None by default.

TODO

       Add the capability of recognize the version of the distribution for all recognized distributions.

AUTHORS

       Alexandr Ciornii <alexchorny@gmail.com>, <http://chorny.net> Alberto Re, <alberto@accidia.net> Judith Lebzelter, <judith@osdl.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5 or,
       at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-03-18						  Linux::Distribution(3pm)