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Okay, a bit ago, I found out why Gentus Linux (Redhat 6.0) would not run X windows! Here's what happened: In the installation process of Gentus, I selected the proper video card (generic..but anyways) and the proper monitor (generic as well) and then when Linux would reboot, and I would proceed to login. Everything was fine and dandy until I typed startx. When I did that, I would get an error message (I believe "errno 2") and I was so frusterated. I think thought about it, and decided that maybe it didn't have the proper video rpm! Well I then mounted the CD-ROM and did a find /mnt/cdrom -name SVGA* and it did a search and came up with a couple .rpm files! I quickly moved into the proper directory with the .rpm, copied it to my root directory, then did an rpm -i (filename) and tried to startx again, and it worked! So for all you people who have Gentus Linux, and can't get X windows to work, try this!

Next Topic That I will be Covering: DHCP

DHCP stands for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. Here is the basic procedure: You have a server that is running some form of DHCP-server program (Redhat 6.0+ has something called dhcpcd, type man dhcpcd for more info on that). That computer needs to be always on for DHCP to work properly (You can have more than one DHCP server). You then setup your other "workstations" to, at boot time, obtain an IP address automatically (which is DHCP!). Next week I will, hopefully, have learned how to set up a server-client setup, and I will explain step-by-step on how I did it!

Modified 5-4-2000 7:43 P.M. EST

-Kyle