PHPDUMMY
1st February 2008, 11:41 AM
First off , I'd like to say : I absolutely love the Linux O.S. thus' far and have kicked myself several times over the last few days for relying on the Windows O.S. after so many years , after so many years of repeatedly loosing all my data , programs , between $3,000-$4,000 of software I've purchased over the internet and failed to make back-up disks ( My fault I suppose ) . Perhaps It's a pay back thing here with Fedora , In a strange sense , the Free O.S. makes up for and gives me hopes of a more reliable O.S. ( although I probrably should still take an initiative to back-up from time to time ) . I've seen Red-Hat in Office Depot and thought strongly about paying the $400-$500.00 for the O.S. but never did ... Finally , my H.ard drive finally gave up and has no hope , a buddy of mine give me a tiny little 6.4 G.B. H.D. so the objective was to get an O.S. on it and the choice I preferred was Fedora.
So to the point at hand.... I installed from the Live C.D ( I tried several times with the Live DVD , no go , and I know how to make an ISO DVD ) .So after I fought off and on for 2 days with the network device control panel which kept changing my lan ip to 169.***** . I finally found the config file ( ifcfg-eth0 ) , after trying back and forth between activate / deactivate , it would finally take my internal ip# addressing of 192.****** . but only after it would quit wiping the DNS settings. so i figured i'd download and install updates , it ended with success and i have no problems with the updates . my problems do lay within the network configurations though and i'm not going to blame the updates on it as the problems existed prior to the updates.Another problem is i can only log in under root and connect to the internet , which i dont think is good . i checked the ability to allow other users to make changes yet its not allowing user to change anything in the panel , thus leaving root to connect .
MY questions are:
1> why is it wiping my ip configurations ? and how do i stop it and leave my ip settings?
2> why cannot the user make changes if the root has permitted such ?
3> why does the O.S. not recognize my floppy drive ? [ out of subject headline ]
I know my post is a little long , sorry.
Thank you for your attention!
-Danny
So to the point at hand.... I installed from the Live C.D ( I tried several times with the Live DVD , no go , and I know how to make an ISO DVD ) .So after I fought off and on for 2 days with the network device control panel which kept changing my lan ip to 169.***** . I finally found the config file ( ifcfg-eth0 ) , after trying back and forth between activate / deactivate , it would finally take my internal ip# addressing of 192.****** . but only after it would quit wiping the DNS settings. so i figured i'd download and install updates , it ended with success and i have no problems with the updates . my problems do lay within the network configurations though and i'm not going to blame the updates on it as the problems existed prior to the updates.Another problem is i can only log in under root and connect to the internet , which i dont think is good . i checked the ability to allow other users to make changes yet its not allowing user to change anything in the panel , thus leaving root to connect .
MY questions are:
1> why is it wiping my ip configurations ? and how do i stop it and leave my ip settings?
2> why cannot the user make changes if the root has permitted such ?
3> why does the O.S. not recognize my floppy drive ? [ out of subject headline ]
I know my post is a little long , sorry.
Thank you for your attention!
-Danny
